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Jeep Wrangler YJ
YJ General Discussion
OEM (stock height) springs
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<blockquote data-quote="machoheadgames" data-source="post: 432976" data-attributes="member: 18789"><p>Nobody truly knows the official reason Jeep added the track bars. Everybody loves to say it was Jeeps way to respond to the rollovers that caused them lawsuits in the CJ days, but that doesn’t really make sense completely because they don’t help with that. The YJ comes with an inferior steering linkage design (inverted T) compared to the CJ. So the CJ steering is pretty responsive while the YJ has some dead spot. The track bar helps with the YJs dead spot in the steering. This is why I don’t always recommend people yank off the front TB. If you start lifting higher then the bar is hard to keep unless you get an adjustable length or a relocation bracket, but the relocation bracket doesn’t always work perfectly and the adjustable length bar doesn’t work right if you use a drop pitman arm because the difference in angles between the two will cause bump steer. </p><p></p><p>But then they added a TB to the rear too, and there truly is no purpose for that. Even modern day and age, leaf spring trucks don’t have track bars on the rear axle and they never did. So maybe it was some government influence on Jeep’s part. So I always suggest removing the rear. </p><p></p><p>I always suggest keeping the sway bar and using disconnects for offroad. People say leaf springs don’t need them but I certainly like having them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="machoheadgames, post: 432976, member: 18789"] Nobody truly knows the official reason Jeep added the track bars. Everybody loves to say it was Jeeps way to respond to the rollovers that caused them lawsuits in the CJ days, but that doesn’t really make sense completely because they don’t help with that. The YJ comes with an inferior steering linkage design (inverted T) compared to the CJ. So the CJ steering is pretty responsive while the YJ has some dead spot. The track bar helps with the YJs dead spot in the steering. This is why I don’t always recommend people yank off the front TB. If you start lifting higher then the bar is hard to keep unless you get an adjustable length or a relocation bracket, but the relocation bracket doesn’t always work perfectly and the adjustable length bar doesn’t work right if you use a drop pitman arm because the difference in angles between the two will cause bump steer. But then they added a TB to the rear too, and there truly is no purpose for that. Even modern day and age, leaf spring trucks don’t have track bars on the rear axle and they never did. So maybe it was some government influence on Jeep’s part. So I always suggest removing the rear. I always suggest keeping the sway bar and using disconnects for offroad. People say leaf springs don’t need them but I certainly like having them. [/QUOTE]
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