Jeep Wrangler JK / JKU Draglink End Removal and Replacement - It's a Jeep World (DIY)
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Tools and Step by step video to change your stock drag link end on a 2007-2011 JKU.
This procedure is very similar for all years of Jeep Wrangler
MasterCraft TieRod End - Part #: ES3624
15mm socket or wrench
22mm socket or wrench
Crowfoot wrench to turn the adjustment sleeve on the draglink
Small grease gun w/grease
Pliers or diagonal cutters for the cotter pin
Small hammer
Pickle Fork or Pitman / Tie rod end puller
Liked the video. Pretty informative.
Just put the wheels straight. Keep tapping on the pitman arm as you tighten the ball joint press and it came off pretty easy. Replaced with Moog replacement end. Didn’t even need to adjust the steering wheel. Steers like a dream now.
Thanks for the vid.
Awesome!! Glad it was able to help you out!! Things are easy to do but scary if you don’t have something to go by... I like to be detailed
I appreciate your feedback
Thanks for the video. Have some play in my passenger-side end of the drag link and will be replacing the longer end. Getting the joint out of the steering knuckle should be much easier than the pitman arm! Should be a pretty quick job. Appreciate you sharing your experience.
Thanks for this video. Doing mine today
Awesome!! Good luck
Thanks. Easy video to follow as always.
Thanks, I’m glad it was helpful
Amazing ty
You’re welcome
turn your ignition on to free up steering wheel THEN adjust the center ing
The Dog Tutor Thanks for your suggestion
Thanxx for posting. Great video done right.
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Thanks, very helpful and well paced.
bkell1011 Thank you very much! I appreciate that
I can feel a shimmy in the wheel when it corrects after completing a turn, more pronounced at low speeds. Would this fix it?
It would be a good place to start inspecting
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Thanks for sharing👍
you got rid of the clunck noise when hitting a pot or when off roading?
Clunk noise could be other things. Ball joints, sway bar links, trackbar bushings or even control arm bushings. This helped the loose steering
We have the same issue on dual stabilizers, it rubs like on the same place. Was it normal? How to fix it?
If you rotate the hold down brackets on the Drag-link sleeve it will give you more clearance. I should have done that during this repair, but I didn't. That should help with rubbing on the stabilizer.
Get rid of drop down pitman arm go back with factory and adjustable track bar....drop down is. Putting to much leverage on your ball joint
Thanks for your comment
The other side of the shaft is the same way right cuase both ball joints are warn
I don’t understand your comment or question.
@@ItsaJeepWorld he's asking whether the passenger end of the draglink is the same process because both of his ends are warn out.
The other end of the draglink cannot be changed the joint is built into the bar
@@angelbelman5639 thank you for the clarification
@@ItsaJeepWorld if the drag link on the passengers end doesn’t have a grease fitting to be maintained or the boot is damaged in any way then the whole drag link should be replaced along with the tie rod end that goes to the pitman arm. So yes It can and should be replaced..
Take the bolt off the pitman arm side and get the ball joint popped out of the arm. Don’t untwist the tie rod end yet, move on to passenger side of drag link, take the nut off, pound it out of the knuckle, then measure middle to middle of the joints on the drag link for baseline measurements for the new parts. Then take the tie rod end off, after it’s off twist the adjuster off the drag link. Throw away old link/tie rod end. Keep the adjuster and two clamps (if the adjuster is rusted and clapped out then get a new one for 30-40$) Reassemble with new drag link/tie rod end with baseline measurements from old setup and bolt it back to the Pitman arm and knuckle. Re-center the steering wheel afterwards with the adjuster collar if need be.
Porque realizo el cambio? tenia algun problema
Did you need to realign the Jeep after installing?
waterfoul.king No realignment after drag link end replacement.
Yes alignment after replacing an end on the Tie Rod.
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I followed this video to try, and my steering wheel is now off center around close to 25 percent. I tried rotating the drag link both ways and one way my wrangler barely turned because it was pretty far backed out but it definitely had enough thread to grab to the drag link. I did it the other way, and it centered with the Jeep turned off and once I went to test drive it is like 90 degrees off. Not sure what more to do to get this right. I replaced the pitarm tie rod and ever since it had been doing this. Not sure if getting it aligned will fix this problem. Any advice would be highly appreciated.
Glo go what did you do? I'm running into the same problem
Why not cut it ? isn't that faster ? instead of using that tool, since your just replacing it.
They are hard to cut and you run a chance of cutting something you shouldn’t
Tie rod ends not the drag link. So many miss titled videos
Just because the draglink end is the same as the drivers side tie rod. It’s still the drag link end. So thanks for the comment, you are right and wrong
8:00 painful. Hit the pitman arm with a hammer and pull down on the tie rod. Done....
You went 2 more to line it up perfectly? Hmmmm..no.
You should have put it in the same amount of turns then you should have the Jeep front end off the ground. Then you just turn the passenger side wheel until it goes in.. this way it's lined up straight.
There's no point in taking it out the same number of turns to put it back in the same place it was if you're just going to "make it fit"...
RainbowSixThree Enlightened Everyone has their way to do things. I appreciate the input. Maybe I’ll try that next time.
The end he replaced wasn't OEM. It's entirely possible the threaded end on the replacement part is slightly different and therefore requires more or less turns. It's nothing that can't be fixed by seeing how the steering wheel is lined up when the job is done, and turning the adjustment sleeve if necessary. If you care to publish a video of you doing the job yourself I'd be more than willing to check it out!
@@markclaypole1573 feel free to send me a nice heavy duty drag link for a 2014 Wrangler and I'll be more than happy to put it in and show you how it's done.
As for your comments about OEM, it doesn't matter who makes it. If the vehicle is straight to begin with all you need is the measurement.
Cavat: that will put you in the ballpark however I would always realistically recommend going to a shop that's going to laser alignment within millimeters.
I'm sure you know that already and you just felt the need to chirp like a bird but unfortunately you should have kept the chirping to yourself because it doesn't make you look intelligent at all.
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Greased ball joint not u joint
Ok, thanks
I don’t think this has anything to do with alignment
Alignment of the steering wheel
draglink does not effect alignment, only steering wheel center, smh…
Rickey Hurst You are correct. Draglink only effects Steering wheel alignment. Did I say in the video it effects wheel alignment? I know in the video I discuss tie rod ends and that does effect wheel alignment.
Dude Seriously 🙄 you have that Nice lifted modified Jeep ' and you put that Weak ass Stock Crap back on It? that's just going to Prematurely WHERE OUT! When you could have got the Unbreakable Chrome Molly SYNERGY Manufacturering Drag link and Tie Tod ...... And NEVER Have to Change it AGAIN 😉
It was not my Jeep. I was working on a friends Jeep. All that was explained. I have 3/4" Heim Steering Components in my personal Rig.
"wear" out; "manufacturing"; "moly". Why do you randomly capitalize words? Synergy is too expensive.