Msmitty
Member
- First Name
- Matt
- Joined
- Apr 2, 2019
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- Location
- Cumming, GA
- Vehicle(s)
- 2019 Wrangler Unlimited
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OK, I had mine completed yesterday. Here are my observations as a guy that generally does all my own work. First I have a 2D sport that has a 4d rubicon suspension on it and I put on the Mopar longer lower control arms - Which by the way helped overall with return to center issues (read wandering). I am running 6.2 degrees camber now with the longer control arms. I gained a tad over 2 inches lift using the 4 door rubi take off suspension.
So, even before I did the lift I was noticing that each day driving the reverberation in the steering going over bumps was getting a tad worse over time. A month and a half after install I got the V41 notice and by that time, it was getting very close to full death wobble. Not fully but on certain types of uneven pavement at high speed, I was feeling sustained harmonic frequency issues in the steering.
So I have the V41 done, and yes correctly - but while I had it in the shop, since it is easy for them to do on a lift, I had them check each and every part of the front suspension system for tightness - including lower and upper control arms, drag, pitman, steering box itself, ball joints, sway bar links upper and lower, tie rod, and track bar.
So the difference so far has been surreal. First of all, the steering is about 35% tighter overall. I have 4 other cars and it's tighter than any of them (I love it). Secondly, center play (deadness) is mostly eliminated (It was already tracking very straight with 6.2 degrees camber and returning to center quickly). And lastly the reverberation over those same bumps is all but eliminated. It is so much better than even my JK was (Not to mention my ages ago CJ5 , lol). It really feels like a different Jeep now. Will this last? I am not sure, but if it doesn't I'll be going with a different stabilizer. Was it the new steering stabilizer or them going over the entire suspension that made the huge difference? Again, I'm not sure but glad I had them do both.
Question, did they charge you to spec up all the suspension bolts? I would like them to do that since I put my lift on a few months ago. The SS is on backorder here so they can't even do it yet...
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