After lifting my yj with 4"sua and a couple trips to the cliffs. My steering has been sloppy to say the least. My theory in building my yj basically is: when it breakes or gets to the point of needing replacement, UPGRADE. Hopefuly over time I will have a very capable rig.
I jacked up the front of the yj so the wheels are in the air. grabbed the tire and yanked side to side. A considerable amount of play. So rather than replacing stock tre's. I started researching steering upgrades.
In the end I wanted to go with full size chevy tre's and dom links. I plan on staying sua and never going bigger than 35's. High steer kits put the drag link too high in my opinion for sua. You would have to use some serious bump stops and to me bump stops defeat the purpose.
I was looking at rugged ridges hd steering. I know someone that runs it and loves it. However big turn off for me is if you break a tre you have to order a new one from rugged ridge. Doesnt make for a quick trail fix.
The other set ups were the currie and the jcroffroad. While asking around on 4bangerjp.com I came across a fellow jeeper that had gone to a dana 44 with histeer. So for $68 there were dom drag links and center link dropped at my door by the big brown truck.
Looking around on the net it seemed the going rate for tre's was $120-$140 not including shipping. A quick stop to orieleys and I scooped up the tre,s for $85.
part numbers es2234r,es2027L,es2026r,es2233L.
In order for this to work I will need to ream the stock pitman arm,passenger tre, and the knuckles.
After shopping around Ichose the remer from completeoffroad.com. $69 free shipping. Pleasant to deal with and fast delivery since they are in Iowa.
This puts me at about $225. Not bad considering currie and jcr are a bit over $300 not incuding reamer or shipping.
Sunday oct 11th The reaming Begins.I will do my best to take photos and walk thru this.