Kind of hard to explain what is going on. But its as if when I hit a small imperfection in the road my front end starts hopping.
I'm running a dual set of shocks up front. Two sets of OME shocks. Plus HD Front springs with a Terrafirma axle spacer. Its giving me about 3 inches of lift, because I have a 6.2 GM diesel engine, RTE Front bumper and a winch.
I replaced the track rod bushings about 500 miles ago as well.
Everything was fine, but my old tie rod ends were toast. I replaced everything with new Terrafirma HD steering parts, including the steering dampener. I just had it aligned yesterday hoping that was the problem. It didn't fix anything. Well, that's not true, by steering wheel is lined up right again.
I also checked the pitman arm, and its tight as can be. I even took the nut off and put some lock tight on it when I reinstalled it.
I've been told to throw some new radius arm bushings on it, and also to set the pre-load on the swivel balls. If I'm going to do the swivel balls, I might as well go with a rebuild kit. All those are pretty inexpensive things to fix, if I do it myself.
A picture of my beater.
I'm running a dual set of shocks up front. Two sets of OME shocks. Plus HD Front springs with a Terrafirma axle spacer. Its giving me about 3 inches of lift, because I have a 6.2 GM diesel engine, RTE Front bumper and a winch.
I replaced the track rod bushings about 500 miles ago as well.
Everything was fine, but my old tie rod ends were toast. I replaced everything with new Terrafirma HD steering parts, including the steering dampener. I just had it aligned yesterday hoping that was the problem. It didn't fix anything. Well, that's not true, by steering wheel is lined up right again.
I also checked the pitman arm, and its tight as can be. I even took the nut off and put some lock tight on it when I reinstalled it.
I've been told to throw some new radius arm bushings on it, and also to set the pre-load on the swivel balls. If I'm going to do the swivel balls, I might as well go with a rebuild kit. All those are pretty inexpensive things to fix, if I do it myself.
A picture of my beater.