EDH_JL
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- May 21, 2019
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- State of Jefferson
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- 2018 JL Sport
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Bumping this after a year, steering has been awful for the past few months and feels like it's back in the red area of the graphic I made. I've been living with it but will now push for the TSB 08-074-20 since this thing is dangerous on the narrow winding highways we have up here.Back from the dealer, only 15 miles on the new steering box but already seems way better. The results of the torque over-center test showed 8 in-lbs when the spec is 1.3-5.8 in-lbs (seems like a big spread!).
I made the attached graphic to show my steering journey so far, the Jeep being able to wander between either side of the red area was seriously dangerous especially under hard braking. Track bar replaced first removed the wander from the red area, then the new steering box reduced play from the yellow to the green. If it stays like this, I will be very satisfied. Request the torque over-center test, its the only objective way to know if your steering box is bad or not and eliminates the "seems normal" or "they all do that" subjectivity.
Edit: V41 steering damper recall was performed before I test drove and bought the JL, so I don't know how that impacted the steering.
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