Smokehouse_83
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- New Mexico
I bought a nice cheap little 89 a year ago that had a Rusty's long arm kit, 8.8, 35's, 4:88's, ect for 2500 bucks. Nice little beater/crawler. Well it has been nothing but problems. First was the death wobble I finally fixed it with a Iron Rock track bar upgrade for the shit rusty's track bar, New spicer ball joints, new timken wheel bearings, new spicer ujoints. I welded the rear diff and added a Lokka to the front and started wheeling the piss out of, worked great, had alot of fun, burt up a stock pump, added a Grand Cherokee withhydraulic fan pump, broke one of the nipples off swithed to the other nipple, broke the bolts holding the box to the frame, replaced those and wheeled the piss out of it about a month ago and thats when my now problem started that I am asking about now.
I high centered the jeep on a rock and after I got off and hit the forest road the thing was all over the road the steering box bolts had loosed up. I tightened them to no avail and it also wouldnt steer to the left at all. I ordered a new box and the steering box brace from Iron man offroad that took a month to come in thinking the box had let go internally. The next weekend I Put the new box in and test drove it late at night and it was good. Got up the next morning to go wheel and it was donig the same shit, but was steering from lock to lock now but it felt like the jeep wanted to go straight with the wheel turned, ended up taking a stock ass Explorer on 31's that killed it. Left the jeep siting up there for 2 weeks waiting on Iron Man to get off their asses and send the brace thinking the frame was flexing and fixed the axle side track bar mount in the mean time cause it was shot. So the kit came in and it installed it and it drove like a dream for about 5 miles and started doing the same shit and the box wouldnt turn lock to lock. Ordered another box from Rock Auto and put it in last Friday and it drove great again for a few miles and then bam jeep would keep going straight with the wheel turned and was hard to steer. Figured I would put another pump in since it was leaking from the broke off nipple anyway Put that in this morning drove it to lunch felt great fixed on the way back from lunch here we go turned into the lot and it pushed though the turn. Feels like when you have the brakes locked up trying to turn, the body is turning with the wheel but the jeep wont turn. What the hell is going on with this thing, can anybody give me some pointers on what the hell it could be? I tightened all the bolts checked for broke frame rails or broke links and found nothing. I am gonna drive this bitch off a cliff soon.
I high centered the jeep on a rock and after I got off and hit the forest road the thing was all over the road the steering box bolts had loosed up. I tightened them to no avail and it also wouldnt steer to the left at all. I ordered a new box and the steering box brace from Iron man offroad that took a month to come in thinking the box had let go internally. The next weekend I Put the new box in and test drove it late at night and it was good. Got up the next morning to go wheel and it was donig the same shit, but was steering from lock to lock now but it felt like the jeep wanted to go straight with the wheel turned, ended up taking a stock ass Explorer on 31's that killed it. Left the jeep siting up there for 2 weeks waiting on Iron Man to get off their asses and send the brace thinking the frame was flexing and fixed the axle side track bar mount in the mean time cause it was shot. So the kit came in and it installed it and it drove like a dream for about 5 miles and started doing the same shit and the box wouldnt turn lock to lock. Ordered another box from Rock Auto and put it in last Friday and it drove great again for a few miles and then bam jeep would keep going straight with the wheel turned and was hard to steer. Figured I would put another pump in since it was leaking from the broke off nipple anyway Put that in this morning drove it to lunch felt great fixed on the way back from lunch here we go turned into the lot and it pushed though the turn. Feels like when you have the brakes locked up trying to turn, the body is turning with the wheel but the jeep wont turn. What the hell is going on with this thing, can anybody give me some pointers on what the hell it could be? I tightened all the bolts checked for broke frame rails or broke links and found nothing. I am gonna drive this bitch off a cliff soon.