Hope you all don't mind me hijacking this thread, I have what is probably the exact same problem, '99 Wrangler Sport 4.0 with power steering, just bought it (my first Jeep) so I'm new to 4-wheeling/off-roading. Going down the road it constantly drifts back and forth laterally, almost feels like it's skating back and forth, dips in the road make it worse, it never yanks hard on the wheel but it pulls it side to side. Local alignment shop has checked over the front and and aligned it twice, swears the geometry is all good (did add some caster angle to smooth out the road driving), front end was rebuilt by previous owner and alignment guys says it's all good, no bad ball joints or bearings or anything.View attachment 61537 View attachment 61538 View attachment 61537 Tires replaced (they were bumpy bad like they were flat-spotted, I thought that might be causing the steering problem like maybe the steel belts had slipped, the new tires smoothed out the bumpies but still have the steering problem, now I'm wondering if this issue caused the other tires to go bad?), still the same thing. I've thought all along that something in the lift kit must have changed the geometry or suspension and caused this. But after seeing this thread, I checked and mine also has the drop arm. Is that all that it needs to fix it is the stock Pitman?
same thing you have a dropped pitman arm and need to remove it. I would also say do the dry steer test and look for movement that shouldn’t be there. If you don’t have someone to turn the wheel then set up your phone and record you turning the wheel. It’s what I did and how I found out I needed to swap drag link and tie rod.
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