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Suspension and steering stabalizer ?

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#1 ·
im lost ive heard that when installing a lift I need an after market steering stabilizer but my stock 1 works great. then I heard you can use your stock one but after installing the lift I torqued everything down to the specs required and every time I hit a bump something rattles cant figure it out btw I installed a 2inch coil spacer lift on my 2010 jk 2 door sport what do yall think on this? love the ride of the lift kit rides smoother than factory :beer:
 
#2 ·
You don't need a new steering stabilizer.

Most likely, what happened is you did not loosen every control arm and trackbar bolt during the lift install and wait to retorque the bolts until after the full weight of the vehicle was on the axles at the new ride height.

If this is the case, then the relatively soft rubber stock control arm bushings are twisted/pre-loaded/binding to the wrong ride height, and this results in a jittery ride and premature bushing failure.

The fix is simple. With the full weight of the vehicle on the ground, loosen all control arm and trackbar bolts, vigorously rock the vehicle side to side and forward and back to unbind the bushings in the brackets, then retorque everything to spec.

If you did do everything correctly with loosening and retorquing and are still having issues, then read my Diagnosing Death Wobble write-up thread and watch the 2 YouTube Diagnosis videos.


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