Ok, so today we’re replacing the steering stabilizer.
Basically, we’re underneath a Jeep Grand Cherokee and the steering stabilizer is this
guy right here.
This kind of attaches to the middle of this bar and then on the frame right here as well.
It’s right above the track bar.
So mine is uh, it’s one of the death wobble fixes you can say.
Usually it’s the track bar, also the steering stabilizer; sometimes an alignment can cause
it.
Basically anything that has play in it.
Like you can see the track bar sometimes has some play here in this bushing.
In my case this was not the cause.
Sometimes play here in these arms can cause it.
Over here with the pitman on, that can cause it.
Sometimes the steering gears can do it.
So we’re just kind of narrowing it down with the options.
The most common options I guess you should say.
Anyway, so to take off the steering stabilizer, this bolt right here is a 15mm and the one
right here is a 19mm.
And I already took out the cotter pin.
So this bolt right here is completely stuck onto this bar.
Right here the only place with threads so it’s not threaded inside of this.
So what I’m going to do right now is I’m going to take a torch and heat it up a little
bit.
The WD40 didn’t do anything to it.
One more reason it makes me suspect this is going bad up here is that it’s starting
to leak, well, it’s been leaking the fluid that’s been inside of it.
So once that happens you know the shock itself is shot.
So hopefully a new one will fix the death wobble.
Ok so the heat was pretty much useless so what I have right now is a pitman puller.
So what I’m going to do is I have it tightened around the edges right here and then this
bolt right here pushes against that one and hopefully we can get the bolt out of there.
It’s bound pretty tight.
Anyway, so this one is a 17mm and you just basically tighten it down until that one pops
off.
So that’s what the bolt looks like when it’s stuck down in there.
Like I mentioned before it doesn’t have threads on this part of it so it was just
basically bound inside of that.
I also forgot to mention I did use a couple squirts of that PB blaster stuff.
That stuff is amazing.
I was using WD40 before that and I don’t know if it was the pitman arm or the PB blaster
but hey we got it out.
You can see where it’s been leaking all that hydraulic fluid or whatever else they
put inside these things.
So with the new arm it’s pretty much just plug and play.
You just slide it in there and then I believe this bolt on this end is a 15mm and the other
one is an 18.
And then with this end right here, I went ahead and put the top on first of all just
so I wouldn’t have to deal with it up inside the car.
And then I just slipped this end down into it.
And it’s pretty easy.
You know, it’s all, now that I got the other bolt out this one just slides in and out.
Pretty simple.
And then I just need to put the bolt on this end with the cotter pin.
You can see the bolt has the little ridges on it so the cotter pin can slide inside.
Bolt just goes on like that.
There you go.
I believe that this nut needs to be tightened to 35 pounds of torque and then the top one
as well.
So that’s how you install a steering stabilizer.
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