moohart
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I'm having issues with the Electronic Stability Control. Here's the backstory. This will be for the more experienced suspension/steering gurus here.
2021 Gladiator Rubicon
I recently installed some HD ball joints and to be expected it was tracking funny while they broke in. Fast forward a thousand miles and the tracking dissipated but it seemed very divey on corners (in the steering sense). I thought it was about time to go back to high steer and so I reinstalled the Synergy riser and the high steer flip. Obviously this uncentered my front axle and so I measured the difference from side to side and ratchet strapped the axle to center, adjusted the track bar joint and pinned it in place. The tracking on the road is terrific now, but now the issue is the ESC light is on and the steering feels very vague. The understeer is really bad now. Going around very shallow corners, the steering wheel has be at a full half turn whereas it should be about 1/8 of turn on this corner. Subsequently, when you complete a full 90 degree turn, if you were to straighten the wheel to original position to auto-unclick the blinker, you'd run into the left lane. So basically I have to go about a 1/4 turn to the left to get the wheel straight after a right-hand turn.
Synopsis: Steering is very vague, ESC is on, and just now got DW at 20mph on a roundabout.
The ESC light is typically when the Jeep isn't happy with something in the steering positioning or overall geometry of the steering. Any help or suggestions I may have forgotten would be appreciated! I'm pretty savvy on this stuff and this is the first high steer configuration where I've ever had an issue that I couldn't figure out. The DW did it for me, and so I reach out to the masses.
Thanks in advance.
2021 Gladiator Rubicon
- 4.5" Lift
- 2.5 ton steering w/trackbar riser bracket and high steer knuckle configuration
- Axles are perfectly centered
- Tie rod, drag link, and track bar are very close to parallel
- Steering wheel is centered
- Everything is torqued to spec and double checked. Zero slop when the wheels are in the air and turning back and forth.
I recently installed some HD ball joints and to be expected it was tracking funny while they broke in. Fast forward a thousand miles and the tracking dissipated but it seemed very divey on corners (in the steering sense). I thought it was about time to go back to high steer and so I reinstalled the Synergy riser and the high steer flip. Obviously this uncentered my front axle and so I measured the difference from side to side and ratchet strapped the axle to center, adjusted the track bar joint and pinned it in place. The tracking on the road is terrific now, but now the issue is the ESC light is on and the steering feels very vague. The understeer is really bad now. Going around very shallow corners, the steering wheel has be at a full half turn whereas it should be about 1/8 of turn on this corner. Subsequently, when you complete a full 90 degree turn, if you were to straighten the wheel to original position to auto-unclick the blinker, you'd run into the left lane. So basically I have to go about a 1/4 turn to the left to get the wheel straight after a right-hand turn.
Synopsis: Steering is very vague, ESC is on, and just now got DW at 20mph on a roundabout.
The ESC light is typically when the Jeep isn't happy with something in the steering positioning or overall geometry of the steering. Any help or suggestions I may have forgotten would be appreciated! I'm pretty savvy on this stuff and this is the first high steer configuration where I've ever had an issue that I couldn't figure out. The DW did it for me, and so I reach out to the masses.
Thanks in advance.
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