DIY Heim joint steering?
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From: Soddy Daisy TN
Year: 97
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0L
If you're running the stock location for the track bar and a stock pitman arm and you put it on top your drag link will be at more of an angle and increase the chance of bump steer. You want them on the same angle. You also take a chance of the heim hitting the pitman arm when turning when it's on top.
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From: near Chattanooga, TN
Year: 1995
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0L HO
You'll want to double check your track bar/drag link "parallelness" once you get it together. In stock form, the drag link terminates at a point below the knuckle, if you mount your drag link rod end above it, you'll be about 2" higher. That's why someone suggested mounting above the pitman arm, to match that difference in height. You're track bar bracket though may be different, so mock it all up, then see if it'll work. Make sense?
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From: Chicago IL
Year: 1997
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0 Straigh 6
You'll want to double check your track bar/drag link "parallelness" once you get it together. In stock form, the drag link terminates at a point below the knuckle, if you mount your drag link rod end above it, you'll be about 2" higher. That's why someone suggested mounting above the pitman arm, to match that difference in height. You're track bar bracket though may be different, so mock it all up, then see if it'll work. Make sense?
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From: Chicago IL
Year: 1997
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