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Track Bar Axle Mount
calvynandhobbs:
The guys at EVB found what looks to be the main culprit in why my Jeep is not tracking right, understeering and is downright squirrelly on the road. The hole in the track bar mount on the axle side is wallowed out and you can see where it is moving what appears to be over 1/4". They said it is too far gone to try to weld washers on it so I'm looking at replacing the mount. I've found one from RE and from Rustys, but they say they are for a TJ and do not mention XJs at all and that may be what I need since I have a XJ axle in the front end.
Nate, can you look at that TJ axle that I have at your place and compare the track bar axle mount to the one in your XJ and see if there is any difference? If there is I may need to switch to a TJ style mount. Thanks
gearhead1985B:
as long as your trac bar is parall to the drag link you will be fine i see no reason why a trac bar mount from i tj would not work on an xj the tubes are the same so as long as the angles are the same you will not have a problem
And if your angles are wrong that may be part me the reason your hole got messed up
calvynandhobbs:
--- Quote from: gearhead1985B on June 14, 2010, 03:41:40 PM ---And if your angles are wrong that may be part me the reason your hole got messed up
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That's what I'm thinking. There may be a slight difference in the mounting positions between the XJ and TJ and that difference is what has messed up the hole in the XJ axle under my TJ.
calvynandhobbs:
I found this thread over on Jeepforum for repairing the track bar mount on the axle so this is probably what I'll do. I'm going to try unbolting it later this week to see how bad the hole looks and make sure the bracket isn't twisted at all. Ed or Nate, since we have activities this coming Saturday maybe I can schedule with one of you two for the weekend of the 26th to do some welding. I don't want to let it go too long since it is progressively getting harder to keep on the road and between the lines.
http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f9/broken-front-track-bar-bracket-905624/
gearhead1985B:
--- Quote from: calvynandhobbs on June 14, 2010, 04:12:58 PM ---
--- Quote from: gearhead1985B on June 14, 2010, 03:41:40 PM ---And if your angles are wrong that may be part me the reason your hole got messed up
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That's what I'm thinking. There may be a slight difference in the mounting positions between the XJ and TJ and that difference is what has messed up the hole in the XJ axle under my TJ.
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also what style of trac bar are you running does it have hiems on one end and a bushing on the other if it does i would possibly concider changing the trac bar out for one that has bushings on the ends because they will absorb an impact a lot better that a hiem joint will aka not break stuff
i would not buy a the mount from what i saw in the pics that would be pretty easy to fab and since you are making it you will not have to modify a pre bought bracket to make it work i would make some thing similer to this
don't laugh at my ms paint drawing
but i would add some gussets to the tube and do any thing you could to beef it up from all that i have seen on xj and tj brakets trac bar brakets and lca's are real weak
--- Quote from: calvynandhobbs on June 14, 2010, 06:21:16 PM ---I found this thread over on Jeepforum for repairing the track bar mount on the axle so this is probably what I'll do. I'm going to try unbolting it later this week to see how bad the hole looks and make sure the bracket isn't twisted at all. Ed or Nate, since we have activities this coming Saturday maybe I can schedule with one of you two for the weekend of the 26th to do some welding. I don't want to let it go too long since it is progressively getting harder to keep on the road and between the lines.
http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f9/broken-front-track-bar-bracket-905624/
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that works to is it fram side or axle side that is bad
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