WJ steering

[garr]

+100

For most the WJ knuckle swap is 90% about the big brakes & 10% steering.

Except the upgrade is not primarily about moving up your tie rod up. It's more about the brake upgrade which you won't/can't get with a stock XJ knuckle (unless you do a vanco setup). The upgrade steering (and ditching the stock inverted Y) is a happy byproduct of the brake swap.

 

[98cherokeedriver]

Before w/ stock xj brakes, stock xj steering, zj box and pitman arm, procomp trackbar with TNT bracket:

After w/ WJ brakes:

Knuckle comparison, WJ on top:

 

[98cherokeedriver]

The brakes are a world apart from the stock ones. They were bordering on unsafe, and now, especially after bedding them in, they are impressive. Sometime down the road I might convert to crossover steering and with a new trackbar mount, but I have the 90% right now