Greetings everyone! First post here, but been browsing awhile, and have already found lots of helpful info and advice all over.
I bought my first Wrangler (2000 4.0) about a month ago and have been trying to fix as many things on it myself as I can. It came to me with some steering problems I'd like some advice on. There's some bump steer I'm fighting as well as just generally sloppy/loose and floaty steering. There's also a bit of a deadzone when turning right but turning left is very sensitive.
I read some other threads on the subject and first looked at setting my toe-in and adjusting my tire pressure. I couldn't break loose the stock tierod, so instead of forcing it and risking bending it, I went ahead and swapped it out for the rugged ridge tierod and tierod ends. When doing so, I think I have my toe-in pretty close to what it should be. I also let some air out of my tires going down from 33PSI to about 28PSI. I think this helped, but there are still issues.
What else should I be looking at? I see my Draglink grease boot is busted. Can I replace just the boot or should I consider replacing the entire drag link?
Other info: the previous owner has it set up on what looks like 3 inch coil spacers on stock springs, with 33in tires. My goal is to remove the coil spacers and install 2in suspension lift all around. (feel free to throw out some recommendations on that too!!)... Will that change any of my steering components? Should I do the 2in suspension lift before messing with any other steering components?
I bought my first Wrangler (2000 4.0) about a month ago and have been trying to fix as many things on it myself as I can. It came to me with some steering problems I'd like some advice on. There's some bump steer I'm fighting as well as just generally sloppy/loose and floaty steering. There's also a bit of a deadzone when turning right but turning left is very sensitive.
I read some other threads on the subject and first looked at setting my toe-in and adjusting my tire pressure. I couldn't break loose the stock tierod, so instead of forcing it and risking bending it, I went ahead and swapped it out for the rugged ridge tierod and tierod ends. When doing so, I think I have my toe-in pretty close to what it should be. I also let some air out of my tires going down from 33PSI to about 28PSI. I think this helped, but there are still issues.
What else should I be looking at? I see my Draglink grease boot is busted. Can I replace just the boot or should I consider replacing the entire drag link?
Other info: the previous owner has it set up on what looks like 3 inch coil spacers on stock springs, with 33in tires. My goal is to remove the coil spacers and install 2in suspension lift all around. (feel free to throw out some recommendations on that too!!)... Will that change any of my steering components? Should I do the 2in suspension lift before messing with any other steering components?