Bad track bar??

[MikeD]

I have a 2000-XJ with a 3" skyjacker lift on it. i have had the kit on for about 30,000 miles and now every time that I turn the wheel left or right while driving down the road, there is a delayed pop that comes from my front end that follows the steering wheel by about a 1 second. It also pops when going into parking lots where the axle has to shift to accomidate changing levels. I have had my friend turn the wheel left and right while crawling through a parking lot with me inspecting the front end while he is moving. I did not see anything shift then. But sure enough when I am driving down the road, it pops the wholeway down the road. The top joint on the track bar lookes pretty flexed but so does the pitman arm/drag link connection too. Has anybody ever experienced this natural degration of a track bar? Are these the symptoms?

[RTicUL8]

Are you using the stock track bar (budget Skyjacker kit), or did you get their adjustale bar? If you installed their adjustable bar, make sure that the tightening nut is secure. Also - the bolt that holds the bar at the top comes with a cone-shaped slieve that fits around the bolt. This is used becase the hole in the mounting bracket is narower at the top than at the bottom. If you did not install the slieve, it will pop. One last thing that could of have happened is that if you took off the mounting bracket, you might not have tightened the bolts back tight enough. Good luck!

[MikeD]

Actually the track bar that is on there is the stock track bar. I just went out to the parking lot and looked at it and found that if i grip it close to the frame connection and try to wiggle it there is some play. I went ahead and ordered the skyjacker adj. track bar with steering stabalizer. If that does not fix it than Mine was tweaked pretty bad anyway and could use one. Did you have any problems getting that tapered bolt out when replacing the stock one with the skyjacker one? i remember that when I pulled the track bar in my old wrangler to replace it with an aftermarket one, i think that I had to get a gear puller to get it unseized...I know that it was a beiotch anyway..

[ChiXJeff]

You can always try a pickle fork. When I put my adjustable trackbar on, I burned off the top nut and then used a pickle fork on it.

[MikeD]

What? me no understand...please explain...