January 19th Hamom Burt88's Garage

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You fellas seem pretty confused about the alignment and wandering after installing that lift. Here's my experience with sandy. When the rear was slightly higher than the front i had quirky steering and a bit of wandering at any speed. It was annoying but not scary. When i leveled off the ride height with weight in the back the steering improved noticeably. Now, since i completed the lift and leveled the truck out my steering is consistently better overall.
I concluded that if my truck is riding with the nose down the steering is not on a level plain and is at such an angle that opposes forward momentum when turning. Like my toe is off. If the alignment is slightly off the result is compounded.
Ryan, your truck is riding with it's arse up and you need to get it level. Also i think you're a little scared to drive such a real truck alluvasudden . Oh, and my couch ate your flashlight.
 
Burt88 said:
You fellas seem pretty confused about the alignment and wandering after installing that lift. Here's my experience with sandy. When the rear was slightly higher than the front i had quirky steering and a bit of wandering at any speed. It was annoying but not scary. When i leveled off the ride height with weight in the back the steering improved noticeably. Now, since i completed the lift and leveled the truck out my steering is consistently better overall.
I concluded that if my truck is riding with the nose down the steering is not on a level plain and is at such an angle that opposes forward momentum when turning. Like my toe is off. If the alignment is slightly off the result is compounded.
Ryan, your truck is riding with it's arse up and you need to get it level. Also i think you're a little scared to drive such a real truck alluvasudden . Oh, and my couch ate your flashlight.
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Touche mike. I agree with this. I guess I'm gonna need to add weight in the rear. Damnit I need to win the lottery..

Got any time next Wednesday or Thursday? Would you be in the mood to re-route my exhaust, and weld some sliders?
 
alamance mufflers does good work too if you end up at a shop for exhaust....not sure where in Btown you are
 
I would recommend having a shop do the exhaust. Bending the pipe to make it right is worth it. Just get them to tuck it in tight to make as much room as possible. I'm available to help with your sliders any time. And we can load your rig with bricks till the rear end levels out.
 
Leveling the rear out is easy, just add some tube work :)
 
Coming back into this tread from a while back. I went down to see the tre job on charity fj40. After getting back I was delayed a bit due to a hardwood floor project in the house.

Well here is the before and after.... The ones on there were pretty bent up from the PO so it is steering a lot better now although my steering wheel is 90 deg off now, but ill take the tighter steering anyday. Any tricks on straightening the wheel out? It was the only way I could get the alignment set reasonably right, but I'm sure it can be fixed: I'm just wore out now and not a huge priority.

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The drag link that goes up to the pitman arm/ steering box is your steering wheel adjustment.
It doesn't affect toe.
 
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