Hello all my son recently bought himslef a 96 ford bronco 6in skyjacker suspension 36 in nitto mud grapplers i know in my experience with that much lift it wont ever ride like stock but i need to tighten it up seems to have alot of play in it and when you hit dips in the road you feel it we will get a stabilizer but i need to make sure there isnt any other problems any suggestions short of replacing everything thanks.

 

For a 6 inch lift a tie-rod flipped helped me an insane amount with bumpsteer, I get less than I did stock. I definitely recommend it for anyone with over 4'' of lift.. you basically drill out the top of the knuckle with a reamer and attach the tie-rod to the top instead of the bottom. Even 4 steering stabilizers aren't going to get rid of bump-steer with a 6'' lift.

For the play? Just have someone move the wheel back and forth, get underneath it and see where the play is coming from.. it could any one of the 350,000 different steering and suspension parts (maybe exaggerating a tad) Ford uses with these Broncos. Basically anything from the steering wheel to the tires could be the cause.. then on top of it, non-steering parts could be the cause like pivot arms and radius arms.

You have at least 3 spots in the steering shaft that are known to wear and cause play two sets of ujoints in yours I think, one in the column and one in the engine compartment in the on the steering shaft, the slipshaft area. oh yeah, then the ragjoint,
the steering box itself, all tierod ends of course, ball-joints, wheel bearings..

it will also never perform super-tight because of the 36'' tires, you will get flex in your steering rods that make it feel like frontend play because of the weight, plus they're just not really road-grippy tires, even on a truck with 100% new parts the frontend will feel a tad mushy with those tires, which is what I think you were talking about knowing it will never be perfect.

 

Depending on the lift brand used, you could maybe upgrade to the Super-runner steering set-up. That is supposed to help. ErrorS said everything else perfectly.

 

Thanks for the response guys. Do you have a pic of the tierod flipped thanks

 

here is basically the writeup on the procedure.

http://www.fullsizebronco.com/forum/...d.php?t=174477

only thing that sucks is the $80 reamer. I have one for sale if you wanna buy it though. I will say, i waited too long to do it. Couldn't stand the idea of paying $80 for a tool I'd only use once, but it made a massive difference in the bumpsteer on my Bronco. It doesn't help with play at all, I thought it would for me and it didn't.

 

Yeah I think there is a bent tie rod the one going to drivers side is it suppose to have a bend. Thanks again.