BrokenSockets
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Ayr, Ontario
96, 4.0 AW4 242 3" RC lift - Mainly DD, some light wheeling but none in the last couple of months.
OK, I can't belive the problem is my installation - it's too damn easy. One nut and a cotterpin. But I don't know what else to think.
Two months ago I got the RC adjustable track bar with the TRE Frame end that goes into the stock bracket. The PO had tried to re-drill the axle side mount, but put a couple of holes in the wrong places and gave up, making it not an option to drill a new hole in the right place and I don't have a welder to patch the mistakes. The RC seemed like a reasonable replacement for the stock bar.
First install - centered the axle, bolted it all up and moved the wheel back and forth. Back/forth & Up/Down movement in the TRE body under the frame bracket. Feeling inside the bracket while moving the wheel, could detect NO movement of the ball stud or nut. It was tight in the bracket. The bracket itself has no movement on the frame. Called RC, they sent me a new part.
New TRE - put it on, seemed tight.
Today (three weeks later) clunking when turning the wheel side to side. It's the TRE again with the same symptom. TRE body screwed into the track bar seems to be moving all over under the frame bracket but no movement of the ball stud/nut in the bracket.
Could this be me? Could this happen if I cranked it down too tight? Could I really have gotten more than one bad TRE?
What could be happening here?
OK, I can't belive the problem is my installation - it's too damn easy. One nut and a cotterpin. But I don't know what else to think.
Two months ago I got the RC adjustable track bar with the TRE Frame end that goes into the stock bracket. The PO had tried to re-drill the axle side mount, but put a couple of holes in the wrong places and gave up, making it not an option to drill a new hole in the right place and I don't have a welder to patch the mistakes. The RC seemed like a reasonable replacement for the stock bar.
First install - centered the axle, bolted it all up and moved the wheel back and forth. Back/forth & Up/Down movement in the TRE body under the frame bracket. Feeling inside the bracket while moving the wheel, could detect NO movement of the ball stud or nut. It was tight in the bracket. The bracket itself has no movement on the frame. Called RC, they sent me a new part.
New TRE - put it on, seemed tight.
Today (three weeks later) clunking when turning the wheel side to side. It's the TRE again with the same symptom. TRE body screwed into the track bar seems to be moving all over under the frame bracket but no movement of the ball stud/nut in the bracket.
Could this be me? Could this happen if I cranked it down too tight? Could I really have gotten more than one bad TRE?
What could be happening here?