[MudderChuck]

Tug has a gift with words. All I was trying to say, was that raising a Jeep can cause more problems than it fixes, a little can only hurt a little, alot can cause more problems. Some of the mods. I´ve heard mentioned can´t help but cause problems, like the one guy that removed the sway bar and track bar (panard) for more articulation. It will articulate better alright, about 360 degress.

I get mental pictures of some of my happenings, like sliding down an ice covered hill for about a quarter of a mile (not chit) between a ditch and a mound, with a rather large frozen fish pond at the bottom. I made it. Then I try to imagine doing it with a 6 inch lift.

In a couple of my engineering folies, I´ve learned a thing or two and dislike to sit by an watch somebody make the same dumb mistakes I´ve made. The engineers make more than there share, they have recalls and modify vehicles all the time.

My thinking is, I raise them the absolute minimum I have to, to accomodate the tires I´m going to be running. Keeping in mind, most of my driving will be done on the street, but it´s a long walk out if it breaks.

All in all, I´ve rarley seen a vehicle raised over about 4 inches (less is better) that got farther than a stock vehicle consisitantly (without breaking). Heck the salesman will sell you anything, making it work is up to you.

A few years back, Jeep Europe, set up a 3/8 mile driving course, the finish was a 25 meter mud pit, foot and a half deep. It was no cake walk. A six inch over Bronco was the first to break. We paid our parking fee, and all jumped out of the XJ (mostly stock), told my wife to follow the parking signs which ended with a checkered flag (prior planning adds to the fun) and she was on her way. To make a long story short, she stuck about 15 feet short of the finsh and was one of only two vehicles to come closs to finishing the course. All you could hear was cheering from the women in the stands, the guys were shocked into silence.

Of course the joke was on me, I spent months wrenching on that sucker, cleaning and washing.

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	Swaybar A sway bar (also stabilizer bar, anti-sway bar, roll bar, or anti-roll bar, ARB) is an automobile suspension device. It connects opposite (left/right) wheels together through short lever arms linked by a torsion spring. A sway bar increases the suspension's roll stiffness—its resistance to roll in turns, independent of its spring rate in the vertical direction.

	Track bar A track bar is a component of a car suspension system that provides lateral location of the axle. While the purpose of the rear suspension of an automobile is to allow the wheels to move vertically with respect to the body, it is undesirable to allow them to move forward and backwards, or from side to side. It is this latter movement that the track bar is designed to prevent. It is a simple device, consisting of a rigid bar running sideways in the same plane as the rear axle, connecting one end of the axle to the car body or chassis on the opposite side of the vehicle. The bar is attached on either end with pivots that permit it to swivel upwards and downwards only, so that the axle is, in turn, allowed to move in the vertical plane only.