This Rough Country steering stabilizer with relocation bracket will fit your 2007 and
up JK and it's going to move your steering stabilizer out of harm's way.
Now, it's very important to know what a steering stabilizer is and what it does.
A steering stabilizer, or more accurately a steering dampener, is there to alleviate
some of the shock that you might feel when you're driving down the road and you hit a
bump with a big tire.
That shock can be transferred through the steering linkage, up into your steering wheel,
and feel a little bit uncomfortable, so the dampener is there to eliminate some of that.
A steering stabilizer is not going to eliminate a vibration, or bump steer, or any other sort
of wobble that you might have from poor steering geometry.
If you have any of those issues, diagnose them and fix them, don't just throw a steering
stabilizer at it, because all you're gonna end up doing is blowing out your brand new
steering stabilizer and still having the same issue.
Now, with all of that being said, if you have a bent, broken, leaking, or otherwise steering
stabilizer that does need to be replaced, I like this kit.
I think it's an inexpensive but still well-built steering stabilizer that comes with this little
bracket that will help to move the steering stabilizer up out of harm's way, so the next
time you hit the trails, you're not going to go ahead and bend up your new stabilizer.
This is exactly how a steering stabilizer should be built and also priced, in my opinion.
A steering stabilizer is just a 50/50 valve shock, it's nothing fancy, it should not be
nitrogen charged, and that's exactly what this is.
You have a hydraulic shock, it's gonna be well-built, it's gonna hold up over time,
but it's not way overpriced or overmanufactured for its purpose.
And this bracket, for as simple as it is, does a lot to protect your steering stabilizer
when you're off-road.
Again, it's going to rotate your stabilizer up so it's in a much safer position and isn't
going to as easily get bent on the rocks.
This install is a very simple one outta three wrenches, definitely under an hour to get
this bolted up.
All you're going to need to do is unbolt your factory steering stabilizer, set it aside.
You're also gonna have to remove your axle side front track bar bolt.
Go ahead and bolt up your relocation bracket that will go on your factory stabilizer mount
hole, as well as the track bar bolt.
You will have to loosen up your steering stabilizer mount that goes on the drag link and rotate
that 90 degrees.
And then you can bolt up your new shock body, bolt up your new steering stabilizer on the
factory mount, and also on your new relocation bracket.
As long as you don't move that relocation bracket up and down on the bar that it's mounted
on, just rotate it 90 degrees, there isn't a lot of adjustment that you need to do.
However, if that does move inadvertently, if you move it, you can go ahead, leave that
bolt just tight enough that it'll hold in position but that it can also slide a little
bit when you put some tension on it.
Turn the wheel all the way to one side and then all the way to the other to ensure that
your steering stabilizer isn't going to bottom out one way or the other, and then torque
it down again.
This stabilizer comes in at $70, including the bracket, and I think that is a really
fair price.
I think you're gonna get a quality part, you're gonna be able to protect your stabilizer against
future damage thanks to that relocation bracket, and I think all of this is appropriately priced.
You can probably find a cheaper steering stabilizer, but the seals aren't going to be there, it's
gonna start leaking, it's not going to hold up well over time.
And there are stabilizers that are over $400, which for what 99.9% of us do with our Jeeps,
are incredibly overkill, completely unnecessary.
In fact, a steering stabilizer in general is more of a luxury item than it is a necessity
item if you have a properly set up suspension system.
So I think this is very fairly priced, it's gonna get the job done.
So if you're looking for a new steering stabilizer that comes with a relocation bracket, I definitely
recommend taking a look at the Rough Country steering stabilizer with relocation bracket,
for your '07 and up JK, that you can find right here at extremeterrain.com.