2nd Gen Non-Engine/Transmission Steering problems

[TJMIV]

Steering link ball joint is worn out, so I bought a Lukes Link kit & installed as per instructions & phone conversations. Driving this monster like this is like riding a pig in the mud, you fell like you are along for the ride Anyone got a better product , or should I just buy a new Mopar part & lube it every 5000 miles? TIA

 

[CSnyder]

My first guess would be that you have something else wore out and second guess would be that you may have installed it wrong on your track bar because I have personally installed about a dozen Luke's Links on my trucks as well as friends and it has cured the steering wobbles. I know of one local guy that bought a new OEM Dodge trackbar and it was shoot within the first 2500 miles. Sure they will warrantee it but do you feel like being under the truck twice for each oil change swapping out trackbars? I do not represent Lukes but I do have GREAT faith in his product. Best of luck!

 

[Bart]

Good luck on anything you try. Sorry to say it but two things Dodge's don't do well, one is steer and the other is stop. The rigs with drum brakes in the rear need constant manual adjustment. I've tried everything and the only thing that works great is an exhaust brake with the foot brakes for the last 20 mph.

Back to the steering. I put on a new adjustable (DTT?) track bar; didn't help. Alignment doesn't help either, different tires doesn't change anything. Loaded (19K#), unloaded makes no change. Over the years I've just come to realize that when you drive a Dodge truck you have to be at attention ALL the time.

If anyone has figured out a correction, I'd like to hear about it. I don't understand how D. C. has been allowed to get away with the two most important items in a vehicle being, at best crappy, at worst lethal.