The Mud Pit > Wrenching
High Steer for Dana 30, both YJ and TJ
kirksjeep:
I found this site tonight and would like to get some opinions. For $25 including shipping, plus some work, I could flip the tie rod to the top of the the king pin which will "help" keep it away from rocks. With anything there is always a comprimise, but I'm not sure what it would be in this case except I would have $25 less in my pocket.
http://www.goferitoffroad.com/products.htm
PaulW:
"weld the lip and you are ready to go."
I'd be leary of this, steel doesn't weld to cast to well.
kirksjeep:
So I did some more research last night and here is what I found:
The sleeves are more of a press fit and the welds just are tacks to make sure they don't come out. This set up helps restore almost stock steering geometry and I would have to put the stock pitman arm back on. Some of the guys that installed this, had to either ditch the steering stabilizer because they had no room, or run it at an angle. Some guys that installed it used 4 insters, two for the tie rod ends, one for the drag link to tie rod connection and one for the steering stabilizer to tie rod connection. Other just used two and rotated the ends of the tie rod and didn't have to change out the drag link and stabilizer connections. All the posts of other forums that have installed this have had all positive comments.
My first priority is to get these new axles in, but this might be my next project.
PaulW:
Pics dude.
kirksjeep:
Here is a link to a guy that did the swap with pics and his comments:
http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=610438&highlight=tie+rod+flip
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