Mojave sway bar bushings

[ScottMc68]

I just looked at my 21 Mojave with 15000 miles on it and my bushings look about the same as yours. I doubt it's the bushings giving you troubles.

Thanks.

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[ScottMc68]

Did you lift it?

No lift

 

[j.o.y.ride]

Hard to explain but it feels like the tires are waaay over inflated (right now cold that are 30 psi) so you feel every little bump and if you hit say a transition, like when the road crews shave the road down, they make a sharp edge, if you know what I’m saying. Hit that sharp edge and there is a sort of afterbounce.

FWIW cold I run my 35s are about 27 and they warm to 29-30. If they get over 30 it gets to be noticeably worse ride. Dunno if it'll fix it for you but on mine the last 2 psi mattered a lot.

 

[dcmdon]

I just looked at my 21 Mojave with 15000 miles on it and my bushings look about the same as yours. I doubt it's the bushings giving you troubles.

That is a perfect example. What you have just described has nothing to do with sway bars. When both wheels move up together like in a pavement transition the roll bar, by design, offers ZERO resistance. Think of the roll bar as a torsion spring. If both ends of the roll bar are pushed up, then it just pivots in the bushings. No resistance. But if the vehicle is rolling to the outside in a turn, then the outside wheel is pushing up on the bar and the inside wheel is pulling down. The roll bar resists the roll by its torsional strength.

So this is not a roll bar issue.

I just looked at my 21 Mojave with 15000 miles on it and my bushings look about the same as yours. I doubt it's the bushings giving you troubles.

I thought this, but don't know enough about Jeeps specifically to really push it. I'm glad 2 others have said it looked normal.

 

[ScottMc68]

That is a perfect example. What you have just described has nothing to do with sway bars. When both wheels move up together like in a pavement transition the roll bar, by design, offers ZERO resistance.

So this is not a roll bar issue.

I didn’t think so either but I’m no suspension guru. I still think there is something wrong with the shocks but they look fine and no way to check the pressure in the remote res. I dont think its the tires, I’m down to 28 cold now and still same feeling is there. I may try to test drive a new one and see how that feels. All I know is my gf is clueless when it comes to cars.., when this first started she got in and said.., “why is this riding like shit?” So even she noticed the differance.

 

[Zswickliffe]

I didn’t think so either but I’m no suspension guru. I still think there is something wrong with the shocks but they look fine and no way to check the pressure in the remote res. I dont think its the tires, I’m down to 28 cold now and still same feeling is there. I may try to test drive a new one and see how that feels. All I know is my gf is clueless when it comes to cars.., when this first started she got in and said.., “why is this riding like shit?” So even she noticed the differance.

I would always start any suspension diagnosis with re-torquing everything (including wheels). You can rule out sway bars by disconnecting them and carefully driving in similar scenes to see if the "clunk" is still there.

 

[dcmdon]

Do you still have the original tires and wheels?

If so, try putting those on.

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