New ball joint wander

CalSgt said:
Maybe take it down a wasboarded dirt road at a decent speed

I just did spicer HD ball joints and didn’t really notice any difference in handling with exception to how it handles with a broken ball joint
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Pretty easy to find them here in NY 😂 I’ll head down a couple tonight after I do a check over/retorque and recheck the toe.
 
Little update:
Tonight I checked the toe with my bleepinjeep plates, I was getting 0 toe. So I toed it in approximately 3/32 or so. Hard to tell as my tape measure only reads in 16ths. I went just under and 8th and just over a 16th.

Test drive and no difference. So I moved on to my other part that could affect it, the sector shaft brace. I pulled the brace off and realized I must have applied too much loctitie to the new pitman arm nut because there was dry loctite in between the nut and bronze bushing. This was causing the nut and bushing not to move as fluidly as they should. I left it off and test drove again. The driving is much better. There is a slightly amount of steering memory and stiffness but it’s greatly improved.

I’m going to leave the brace off for a while, work on cleaning the loctite out of the bushing or buying a new bushing and will reconsider reinstalling it at a later date.

I will update further as time goes on and I get more miles on the jeep.
 
13jkjunky said:
Little update:
Tonight I checked the toe with my bleepinjeep plates, I was getting 0 toe. So I toed it in approximately 3/32 or so. Hard to tell as my tape measure only reads in 16ths. I went just under and 8th and just over a 16th.

Test drive and no difference. So I moved on to my other part that could affect it, the sector shaft brace. I pulled the brace off and realized I must have applied too much loctitie to the new pitman arm nut because there was dry loctite in between the nut and bronze bushing. This was causing the nut and bushing not to move as fluidly as they should. I left it off and test drove again. The driving is much better. There is a slightly amount of steering memory and stiffness but it’s greatly improved.

I’m going to leave the brace off for a while, work on cleaning the loctite out of the bushing or buying a new bushing and will reconsider reinstalling it at a later date.

I will update further as time goes on and I get more miles on the jeep.
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No Problems... Just Solutions. (y)
 
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