Banchewell
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- CA
Hi there, been on this forum quite a bit for help which its been abundantly useful, finally made an account as I'm at my wits end and hoping someone can help. Had a 1992 xj 4.0HO for a few years now. When I bought it the guy ripped me off, didn't make it home and he told me to go f*** myself. A couple thousand later I got the overheating taken care of and can pass smog again. At this point it has a approx 3 inch add a leaf rough country lift drom previous owner (real crap job), and i swapped the rubber band 33s for some real 33s on steel rims stock size. Ran great for a couple years, lightly wheeled, still been my daily and only had one issue. Only once or twice a week when it was cold in the morning I'd go around this sweeping left hand turn at 40mph and it's start to wobble, felt like front left tire was bouncing. Slowed and straighten out and it'd go away, no further issues the rest of my ride. Did that off and on for 2 years until one day it goes through that just fine but later on in the day randomly goes into DW hard. Can barely go 25 without it shaking my teeth out. Thankfully I had just bought all bee suspension the week before since I hated the lift. I've lifted one before so I was familiar with the process. Lifted It onto DPG extreme lift with 4.5 inch OME leafs and shocks, new coil springs, new HD currectlync track bar, the whole kit. He sold me on the currectlync system as well, despite the price being "300% strength" or whatever. Whole new steering linkage down to HD TRE. Took it to 4wp had them throw on ACOS upper coil mounts as mine were shot and they checked the whole lift out to be safe. They aligned it. Got wheels rebalanced at firestone. At this point there's a wobble anytime I go 45-55mph. Kind of evens out after, worsens in left hand turns. I can look out the window and watch the tires shimmy. Still pretty bad but getting better with the new parts. Got it realigned at firestone. No fix. Now comes the painful part. I replaced the front wheel bearings, front rotors, calipers, ball joints to HD ball joints, new knuckles, everything new down the axle housing. It would slightly improve but never go away. No specialists in my area, finally got a recommendation from a distant one, hes okay, worked on a few cherokees. He goes through it and fins the only 2 bushings not replaced on the front, think we found a fix but no improvement. Then he rebalances the tires. Said they were way out and no one had put outside weights on. Maybe better but no fix. He replaced steering stabilizer from the new one with maybe 20 miles on it, still no fix. He says track bar mount looks okay, he put on a drop bracket for track bar. No fix. I doubted it was a good mount from what I saw so I went to a different mechanic, he said its utter crap so I got a custom fab kit for HD track bar mount. Got that welded on, no fix maybe slightly better. Still vibes in steering wheel that then travel to the rest of the car if it goes on Long enough in that 50-60mph range now. I can see the tires shimmy significantly less after all this but not gone. I know it'll continue to wear on everything until I find the fix. Can anyone help? Any new ideas? Last mechanic said replaced both front axle u joints but the shop he recommended is out of business and I can't find one to do them yet. I was told my steering box is shot so I have the AGR powerbox coming with a new steering selector as well. Anyone think that will help? Any ideas are welcome, thanks.
will definitely head to the store to grab a new card and try this again though! I'll update this thread with the angle of drag link/track bar as that seems to be a common response. I'll look into the Kevin's offroad parts as well, that seems like a good idea, im wondering if anyone has ever welded the unibody side track bar mount on? The one that that last lift got scrapped so it does have a new one I put on but they both did not conform to the unibody as closely as a hand made part seemed it should...
