bouncy front end

Coasty, the clueless Bill is now recommending double-shock steering stabilizers... which anyone with serious offroad experience would have known that all double-shocking does is cause the power steering pump to work twice as hard when steering and likely boil over on a tough trail. Plus they simply place more stress on the front-end steering components to overcome not only the big tire's increased steering effort but the doubled resistance to steering input caused by the double-shocked steering stabilizer. Street cruisers or offroad wannabees run double-shocked stabilizers because they look cool but only those running HUGE tires like 38 or 40" and bigger really need double-shocked stabilizers. No, they're not likely to cause the power steering fluid to boil over on the street, the comparatively tiny (compared to what is common today) tires Bill used on his CJ, or on a gentle trail because there are not the number of repetitive tight turns as there is on a really tough trail.

Seeing a Jeep with normal trail-size (like up to 35" or 37" tires on the trail with a double-shocked stabilizer is generally a good clue the driver doesn't really aware of the problems that such a stabilizer can cause. A single normal heavy-duty shocked stabilizer like is sold by a dozen offroad companies is fine... double shocked steering stabilizers are just a bad idea for the majority of us.

Bill, you're so short > You're just telling me you don't have oversized tires on your car.

Jerry, I can't believe you still bother to respond to our resident know-it-all. To the extent that he's always going attack anything he doesn't agree with, whether right or wrong, he's very much like a troll sometimes. I figure he should be treated accordingly.

Cheers,

B

I am a police officer, and used to have a "little" respect for bill, but only because he is a veteran, but after seeing the stupid and unpatriotic posts he has made in this thread, I can say I have no respect for him, and actually feel sorry for him. Sure there are a few bad cops, and some bad soldiers also, but focusing on the negative is what as got the world into the shape it is in. If we would quit ignoring the positive, life would be better all around. If a thousand people send in letters of thanks, not much happens, but one letter of complaint can lead to reprimand and possible loss of job. enough rant for now,

Patrick

just another Patriotic Police Officer in America

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All views in this post are solely mine and not necessarily those of my department or fellow police officers. If this in any way offends you, then you can pucker up and kiss my @$$.

Where I work, we only have one car, our radio doesn't work everywhere, and there are alot of back roads. Our backup can be 30 minutes away, so we have to be paranoid. They (criminals) are putting weapons in everything, including cellphones that shoot bullets, putting razor blades in pockets, as well as bulbs that they crunch before being searched. They also have armor piercing bullets, so we have to watch out for that too. If you pull a gun, or something that looks like one, you will probably get shot. If you have

10 officers out somewhere, and the criminal gets shot 70 times, that seems in excess, however, it is only 7 rounds per officer. My duty weapon holds 16 rounds when I have one chambered, so 7 rounds isnt many, especially when it could mean the difference between life and death. When a person is high on any type drug, they feel things differently. You can shoot someone 5 times, and they can keep coming at you. When you put people in prison, you have to watch your back. Say you arrest somone for selling drugs. Most of the time, they got the drugs from someone else to resell, and didn't buy them to begin with, makeing them the middle man. If I arrest someone for selling, then they are upset with me, as well as the supplier, for taking their profit away. I hope I never have to draw my weapon, much less shoot someone, but if I do, I will know I did it so I could keep my promise to my wife, that I will come home at night. All you do bill is avoid giving a direct answer to most posts, you do give some good advice sometimes. People don't come here to get a link to google, they might have tried that and couldn't find what they were looking for. They might also be looking for multiple opinions from people who have experienced the same thing. When I got my Jeep, after about 12k miles, the front end started bouncing at about 55 mph. I found out that it was caused by the tires being out of round. You shouldn't generalize about someone because of a bad experience or what you see on tv. My grandfather is the mayor of a town other than the one I work for. Some people don't like him, so they take it out on me just because we are related. I could be out makeing a Whole lot more money working on computers, but would rather help people by keeping drunks off the road and anything else to keep people safe. My cousin is a Marine, when he came home from Iraq a couple months ago, he watched 5 minutes of news, before he got mad about how wrong they were showing everything, and turned off the tv. Just because it is on the news, doesn't mean they are saying everything. If someone runs from me they will get chased. I don't know if they are just scared, or just killed their family, but in my eyes, if they are willing to run, it is too dangerous for them to be on the road and they need to be stoped. I don't mean to aim this at just you, bill, but you are the most verbal on here, which isn't a bad thing, as long as your answer stays on topic and provide some good advice. You have some good links, but when you say get a real jeep and just show a pic of your old one, most people would prefer you kept quite. There are more people here that do the same thing, but it is not as often.

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"L.W. ("ßill") Hughes III" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@cox.net...

Everytime I hit a bump it would almost wreck me if I was going close to 55 or so. He can rotate the tires for free and see if that makes it better, also can jack up all 4 corners, and put in 4 wd and let idle in first. if the wheels bounce, they are the problem. They replaced my dampener and it didn't help any. rotate fixed it for a while, but still had to get new tires. had bf goodrich a/t instead of goodyear gsa, cheaper, and they still look new after over 20k miles on them. I will not use goodyear again if i can help it. I will see how the mtr's work on the rubicon when I get it.

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just give it time bill, twice a year jerry gets mad and says hes never coming back and then we wont hear from him for a month or so. :-)