well last night i cralwed under the bitch to adjust the track bar. well i didnt get it adjusted enough but i was like its closer so ill see if that corrects some of the problems.. WEEELLLLL!!!!!

i hop in and drive it down the road and PING!!! steering goes BYE BYE!! luckly i was right next to the shop and was somehow able to pull up onto the curb and back into the lot and park it there last night.

What happened was the hiem threads isnt long enough.

anyone know where i can get a longer heim joint. or know the specs on the the skyjacker hiem so i can see if i can find something.


thanks

DP

call skyjacker...get the heim size and raise some hell....unless of course it was your fault.

hunter

Didn't you have a similar problem a long time ago with your
trackbar falling off? What in the Hell are you doing with that thing :confused::flipoff2:

RESPECT... i just get NO RESPECT!!!! :flipoff2:

well what happened before was with a differnt track bar. the shop screwed with it and i lost the axle end. This time i lost the frame end. whipppy skipy.

im going to call skycraper today and see waht i can find out.


DP

It's a 3/4" reverse thread - or left handed thread.

ok, i gotta ask..... youdidnt realie it was hanging on there by a thread? it didnt cross your mind to see how much you had to make theses adjustments?

Dust Puppy, sounds like you might not have the track bar mounted in the correct spot.

The skyjacker track bar is kinda weird where it mounts on the axle. My suggestion is by a RE and be done with it.

If you have the track bar mounted too far to the passenger side then the treads wont be long enough to hold it on.

If memory serves, the Skyjacker bar mounts to were the stearing stablizer used to go. Am I correct? did you not have to move the stearing stab. to mount the Track bar? Or am I thinking of something else?

Originally posted by BellyUp


The skyjacker track bar is kinda weird where it mounts on the axle. My suggestion is buy a RE and be done with it.



DP, Yeah, listen to the man! *slap, slap* :D

I had to ditch my RE trackbar because it wouldn't let the passenger side of the axle droop far enough. With the 6" lift, the rod end was at it's full capability of "flex" before the axle was allowed to drop to it's lowest point. I was afraid that either the rod end itself, or the mount at the frame would break from too much stress.

yeah what he said.


same problem. with the skycraper its in a different place.

im going to have to build one i guess.

One note on the skyjacker... If you are running alot of lift, with a large Rancho steering stab (5401, it's the big one), you will seriously fawk up the 5401 when you try to mount it using the relocator bracket that comes with the trackbar. It will hit and dent, so you need to relocate it higher. Plus, you cannot use tera discos with this bracket, since you need a bolt there. So rather than use this nifty right angle bracket that comes with the bar to relocate my stabilizer, I welded on a little 1/4" plate extension, perhaps 3 inches long, which is what the stab bolts to, well out of the way.

Oh yeah, and the bushings you get are total junk. I will be trying to swap in some real bushings in a bit, since I've carked out two bushings already with that bar.

Bob