As you can see here, these bars are not parallel, we would have bumps steer if we were driving down the road in this configuration, you would either need to raise this side of the track bar or drop this side down to get these back into parallel. You want the track bar and the draglink to remain parallel or you're going to end up with bump steer.
But do keep in mind that you shouldn't change just the mounting point of your draglink without also changing the mounting point, at least one, of your track bar. So, that's going to help change up your steering geometry a little bit, it's going to help provide a little bit of additional clearance when you're off-road.
And you're also going to get a draglink flip out of this draglink where normally the draglink is mounted on the bottom side of the steering knuckle, now it's on the top side. I'm gonna show you this in comparison to the factory one in just a second, this is much much bigger.So, on top of being much larger, this also has a few additional features like I mentioned before, this attenuator is designed to dampen a lot of the stressthat you would otherwise feel through the steering wheel when driving. Or maybe you just want to eliminate the possibility of bending yours by getting something that's much beefier. You might have already bent your factory one, you may have a little bit of a loose or wobbly feeling because yours is bending on the road.
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Stay tuned for the installation, I'm gonna walk you through it and show you exactly how to get it done.Now, when you're looking for draglinks, there's gonna be a couple of reasons that you might want to buy one. This is going to be a two out of three wrenches for the installation, not because it's overly difficult, but because getting these factory tie rod ends out of their tapered fit joints can be a little bit difficult. Also, we did a DIY steering alignment using some new alignment plates also from Steer Smarts.The Steer Smarts Yeti XD No Drill Top Mount Draglink with the Griffin XD Attenuator and Red Bellow is for those of you that have a 2017 to 2018 JK that are looking for a new draglink that's going to be much stronger than the factory one and also have a lot of additional features built right in.
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So with a drag link, tie rod, sterling stabilizer, and front and rear adjustable track bars in hand, we took a few hours one day to install all these darn near bulletproof parts. EIther way, the Jeep needed some love in the steering and axle centering department before Eric and his family undertook a cross-country overlanding vacation in the new JKU. We're still not exactly sure how the previous owner of Eric's new-to-him 2018 Recon Rubicon JKU bent the generally unbendable tie rod, but somehow they did. So when our buddy Eric bought a new and well-built JK for a family wheeler and daily driver, we knew just what to recommend when he noted that the JK's aftermarket aluminum tie rod was bent (truth is, he told us these are the parts he wanted, and we agreed). That system, the one on the UA CJ-6D, has stood the test of time with no issues whatsoever despite years of on- and heavy off-road use. That means well-engineered and strong parts that fit as they should. Steer Smarts doesn't skimp on the material, and rumor has it the parent company is a genuine OEM steering component manufacturer. When we installed these parts back in 2017 we were gob-smacked at the size and beef that you get with these steering parts.
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Namely the Yeti XD Series JK tie rod and drag link system on our 2017 Ultimate Adventure Vehicle Build, the UA CJ-6D.
We've used Yeti Steer Smarts steering parts before.
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