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Steel boxes still wear out. The shaft diameter isn’t up to the forces of larger tires and lifts without a brace. I’m aware that any box can wear out. But that’s usually internally in the splines and such. I thought the brace was mainly designed for the flex that the aluminum box inherently had...

I put the Senergy steering brace in. What a difference. The stock steering has flex in it. I installed steersmart drag link and tie rod. No play at 75mph The only thing I don’t have is a steering brace. I have heard they only really made a difference with aluminum boxes so I didn’t install one.

The problem is there dead space in the steering. You move the steering wheel and the pitman arm is not moving. Indicating there is slop in the box. Tightening the nut seemed to help some. Not perfect, but I doubt it ever could be

Mine was the driver side outer bolt. The nut inside the frame broke the weld that was holding it and allowed it to wiggle around and clunk.

Hey Rausch isn’t too far from me! About 3 hours iirc

I get that but every video I watched on install, as soon as you disconnect the one side the axle moves. Once the bracket is installed they all had to move the tire back and forth quite a bit to get the holes to line back up. This is without adjusting the arms at all. But that indicates to me...

I guess I don’t follow how you adjusted the arms to center the holes. Once you disconnect both control arms the axle is going to move to a new position so how do you know it’s in a correct position?

Did you readjust caster after the brackets? Or just throw them on and deal with whatever it was after?

Did you already have a lift and proper caster prior to adding them?

The ground clearance issue doesn’t bother me a bit. I don’t notice virtually any brake dive currently. But it is slightly harsh over bumps, but the bilstein 5100’s I have don’t help in that regard.

This probably has been discussed a few times, and I know some of it has been touched on buried in other threads I’ve seen. But I’m genuinely curious how much of the benefits of drop brackets comes from the addition of caster vs lowering the control arm? A lot of people report better stability...

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Normal yes, to a degree. Pretty much every vehicle I’ve driven doesn’t have as much movement in the wheel as this gladiator during winds or road crown and I’d say its ever so slightly better than a 2nd gen dodge HD with arguably the worst steering of any vehicle in the last 30 years. I will add...

Mine is center if the ground is flat and there’s no side wind. If a side wind comes along or the road crowns I have to move the wheel to correct it. Bumps there is no issue for me.

Yeah winds and crown definitely throw my steering wheel off center. More than I would like. Not sure how much is normal as no other vehicle of driven was this bad. We have super duty fords and dodge 3/4 tons at work and they don’t have this much play.

I ended up deciding to try and move mine 1/8 turn. I’m a little worried as I’ve read that the nut is initially hard to break free due to the loctite. Not sure if someone has messed with it before or not. I also didn’t have any paint marks like I had seen in some videos. I put a breaker bar on...

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I’ve replaced the tie rod, drag link and ball joints within the last 2-3 months. Nothing helped the play so far. The pitman arm nut is 100% tight, as I had it off when I installed a sector shaft brace (I have since removed the brace, red loctited and torqued it down). The only thing left in my...