Mine rubs a little bit, just installed it last night. It looks like your's might be too, on the bottom left corner of the steersmarts logo you can see on your photo some color change. Are you sure it didn't rub?
You are correct! I practice an ancient hillbilly mantra of - respond with certainty first, then go check it out a few hours later. It is as you describe - slight rubbing.
I’m going to grind mine a little this weekend. It’s very very minor.
We recently noticed the difference in how the outer end of the rubicon sway bar tapers vs all of the other sway bars and have seen that there is a slight rub between the Rubicon sway bar end and our bracket. We have already kicked off the engineering team on correcting this issue and we will have a V2 run that will eliminate the slight clearance issue you're seeing currently. We have adjusted the information on our side to specify that this specific bracket is for non-rubicons only for the time being, and for anyone with a Rubicon who has an interference currently with our bracket, we will be happy to send you the revised bracket once we have completed the production run. If you want, send me an e-mail with your information and I will put that in a folder and will be sure to send the new bracket out as soon as it's ready. Include your order number if direct - if through someone else, include a copy of the invoice and shipping information.
Sorry, this just lost any and all future business from me or anyone who is willing to listen to me.....
You’re going to have to report a lot of companies in the Jeep world for having to revise parts.
It's not a safety concern, it's a fitment issue with a specific package that has a slight rub. Most companies wouldn't have even said anything and would blame the customer - which would you prefer?
Nice ! Was your rub about the same as mine? Looking at how much you took off, looks like yours may have been more? I’m gonna ask the shop if they did some clearancing already at install. Looks like mine just barely touches, but can fully pass the rub point. I’ll put some paint on it, but not sure grinding would be necessary, unless the sway bar has lateral movement (?). I haven’t ran it offroad or disconnected since installing the bracket, this amount of wear/rub is road miles and back country gravel roads only.So I took to the grinder yesterday to shave off a little bit of that Steersmarts bracket to clear the Rubicon sway bar. I took a video halfway through to show how much I took off. Basically I just used a paint marker to trace the area I need to take off, hit it with the grinder, and repeated until it was good. Didn't touch the welds so I think im ok. I cleaned up the lines after I took the video and then dabbed some black touchup paint. This will work great until the revision comes in.
mine looked like yours but I needed to keep going. I could have done a little less possibly but I wanted to have more than 1/16” just in case the bar moves in a tad for some reason during flex.Nice ! Was your rub about the same as mine? Looking at how much you took off, looks like yours may have been more? I’m gonna ask the shop if they did some clearancing already at install. Looks like mine just barely touches, but can fully pass the rub point. I’ll put some paint on it, but not sure grinding would be necessary, unless the sway bar has lateral movement (?). I haven’t ran it offroad or disconnected since installing the bracket, this amount of wear/rub is road miles and back country gravel roads only.
I’m looking at the instructions now they look differently than the one you posted.The brackets pictured with the rubbing marks seem to appear different from the Steer Smarts bracket that Steer Smarts pictures in the Steer Smarts 2018+ JL Jeep WranglerYeti XDFrame Side Track Bar Reinforcement Bracket install instructions:
Are the brackets different or am I just confused?
The track bar reinforcement bracket is a different design than the sector shaft brace w/ track bar reinforcement.The brackets pictured with the rubbing marks seem to appear different from the Steer Smarts bracket that Steer Smarts pictures in the Steer Smarts 2018+ JL Jeep WranglerYeti XDFrame Side Track Bar Reinforcement Bracket install instructions:
Are the brackets different or am I just confused?
