I've had a Gen 3 track bar and conversion bracket on the shelf now for over 10 years, originally bought for my 3500 but never got around to it

I've been getting more and more ~~~~ed off with steering wander on my 2500 recently so decided to bite the bullet today and fit the 3rd gen bar and bracket as there is a tad of wear in the ball joint end as per usual.

Axle end bolt seized solid in the steel sleeve in the bush then stripped the welded nut in the steel plate keeper GGGRRR, ended up drilling the bolt out, luckily I got it just right and didn't even damage the bush sleeve or the bolt holes in the axle bracket. All off and on the floor ready for tomorrow

Got to find a replacement bolt and make a new captive nut tomorrow but it looks like at first glance that a 3rd gen bar has a bigger bolt at the axle end anyway will know better tomorrow when it's light.

Job should have taken a couple of hours max, took 6 hours to drill the bolt and split the ball joint, slowly slowly catchee monkey, no broken drills, smack in the centre of the bolt and to make matters worse just as I'd gone past the point of no return the phone rings and a job on a bobcat skid steer 45 miles away... oh well that can wait till truck is done

On 5/25/2021 at 8:03 PM, Evan said:

If you could hold a blum bob through the ball joints. String going through each at the center. Thats castor at zero.

 

Lower ball joint forward is positive castor good driving characteristics. 

 

Lower ball joint to the rear is negative castor and shitty driving characteristics 

 

Something I should look at on Thor (2006 Dodge). Being its got a leveling kit in the front end and no other supporting mods like adjustable track bar or lower control arms that are adjustable. Handling is OK but kind of darty and already experience death wobble once! As you lift these trucks the axle moves down and the caster becomes more negative. Then the thrust angle is typically altered because of the track bar is now to short. 2 inch leveling kit.