Attention: TDR Forum Junkies No, this isn't about how fast the track bars wear out, I'm well aware of it, with my changeout interval at every 20,000 miles or so (200+ on truck now).
What I'm seeing occur on my truck is an elongation of the bolt hole down on the axle. When this started, I can't honestly say, but it's been since December. I have developed an almost permament bumping in the frontend every time I turn my wheel, at first I thought it was a bad trackbar (I'd just replaced it less that 1400 miles before), so I swapped it out with my spare I keep at the house, and that didn't solve the problem. Finally got my 9 year old to turn the wheel of the truck back and forth a couple of weeks ago and saw where there was an 1/8th to 1/4 inch play in the bolt hole. I pulled the bolt out and sure enough, the hole is stretching open from the crappy roads here in Bikiniville (did I mention it's spring and the short skirts are shorter this year?).
I put it back together as there wasn't anything I could do about it at the time, and tightened the **** out of it. It stopped for a few weeks and is starting to come back when I hit the hard holes around here on the roads.
Any suggestions on fixing it? I'm thinking probably reinforcing the front with a washer welded in place, but the back side is another matter altogether, as you wouldn't be able to get a washer in there and weld it up, and there isn't enough space on the inside to do it and get the track bar back inside it too.
Open to suggestions
Morph
What I'm seeing occur on my truck is an elongation of the bolt hole down on the axle. When this started, I can't honestly say, but it's been since December. I have developed an almost permament bumping in the frontend every time I turn my wheel, at first I thought it was a bad trackbar (I'd just replaced it less that 1400 miles before), so I swapped it out with my spare I keep at the house, and that didn't solve the problem. Finally got my 9 year old to turn the wheel of the truck back and forth a couple of weeks ago and saw where there was an 1/8th to 1/4 inch play in the bolt hole. I pulled the bolt out and sure enough, the hole is stretching open from the crappy roads here in Bikiniville (did I mention it's spring and the short skirts are shorter this year?).
I put it back together as there wasn't anything I could do about it at the time, and tightened the **** out of it. It stopped for a few weeks and is starting to come back when I hit the hard holes around here on the roads.
Any suggestions on fixing it? I'm thinking probably reinforcing the front with a washer welded in place, but the back side is another matter altogether, as you wouldn't be able to get a washer in there and weld it up, and there isn't enough space on the inside to do it and get the track bar back inside it too.
Open to suggestions
Morph
