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    How adjust front sway bar links ?

    How adjust front sway bar links ?

    How much do you tension them ?

    Do you tension them at all ?

    What ?

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    Re: How adjust front sway bar links ?

    No tension in the sway bar links.
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    Re: How adjust front sway bar links ?

    If you have tensioned your sway bar links, then what handling/riding characteristics would that produce?
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    Re: How adjust front sway bar links ?

    your rig would tend to lean towards the side that is shorter. For instance. If you make the drivers side shorter it will pull down on the drivers side frame while pushing up on the pasenger side.
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    Re: How adjust front sway bar links ?

    You are correct--no adjustment on sway bar links.

    Have a vibration that seems like wheel hop.
    Changed wheels/tires front to rear, same vibration.
    Replaced all 4 tie rod ends, same vibration.
    Am stumped.
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    Re: How adjust front sway bar links ?

    What do you have for tires. Even an unbalanced or wrongly balanced tire on the back can make it shake.
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    Re: How adjust front sway bar links ?

    Quote Originally Posted by steady.foot View Post
    What do you have for tires. Even an unbalanced or wrongly balanced tire on the back can make it shake.
    BFG 31x10.50 A/T; Ranchos & 2" Teraflex lift.
    By "on the back", do you mean rear tires ?
    Asking, because, while steering wheel has some wobble,
    the big majority of the vibration seems to be coming from the rear.
    Have attached pics of rear control arm bushings.
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    Re: How adjust front sway bar links ?

    Have the tires checked for balance, rotating them might shift the "bad" tire around but still a slight vibe is hard to track down without first eliminating the tires completely. If once they are checked its time to lift the jeep and start prying on upper and lower control arms and ball joints and tie rod ends looking for play. The jeep has to be off the ground, wheels removed and suspension floating, supported by the frame only. Don't forget to check track bars. Once all steering components have been check, its drive line and u-joints...fun fun.

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    Re: How adjust front sway bar links ?

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    By "on the back", do you mean rear tires ?
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