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WJ steering setup with drop pitman arm?

gorman

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South Africa
I'm in the process of doing the WJ knuckle swap with all the required steering setup changes. Seeing that I'll be fabbing a new mount onto the frame trackbar bracket as well as the OTK trackbar bracket on the axle side, I have the opportunity the "adjust" the trackbar to virtually any angle I'd like. Is there anybody that runs a dropped pitman arm (from a ZJ or similar) together with the WJ setup. I thought doing that would give a very nice close to parrallel draglink setup and I can match my trackbar angle with that during the fabbing of the brackets. Would you guys consider this or would a dropped pitman arm together with the flipped TREs and draglink end be an overkill? I'm running a 6" lift.
 
It was over kill on mine. 6.5" springs with 1" spacers/shackles.

I put in a D-44 with high steer, moved the track bar frame side bracket aft 2 inches, and made an over the axle track bar mount. The 4 inch drop pitman arm was too much. Swapped it out for a stock arm.
 
I didn't need it, but I did use a Waggy pitman arm to make my turning radius better. It is slightly longer than stock, putting the DL back to the correct angles.
 
I used a stock pitman arm with mine as well.
 
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