Over the weekend I decided to put new bushings in the wife's 07.5's trackbar (and build a dual steering stabilizer setup) since it was starting to get wobbly on bumps at speed. I fought death wobble in my 95 dually for a while and absolutely do not want her to have to worry about that.
As been said before, the Moog 2 piece bushings, and also all the 1 piece bushings, don't fit. They're too small. Some people have said you have to burn out the stock 1 piece bushing and reuse the steel sleeve, while others said nothing worked for them and they just spend the insane amount of money on an adjustable trackbar.
Well I picked up the 2 piece Moog bushing set and decided to give it a go. After getting the track bar out and the stock bushings burned out, I kept the steel sleeves in the trackbar and put the Moog bushings in: ~1/8" of room left for the bushing to slop around, the anti crush sleeve is 1/8" too narrow, and the ID of the sleeve is too small for the stock bolts. So obviously without that steel sleeve there would now be ~1/4" of room for the bushing to wobble around in as well as nothing to hold or support the bushing as the trackbar is only ~3/4" wide. The bushings need that outer steel sleeve.
The OD of the bushing is 1.5", which happens to be the same as the ID of the tube I use to build roll cages. The trackbar's ID of where the bushings press into also happen to be 1.75", which is the OD of the tube I use.
So I built my own sleeve. I cut a length 1 1/8" of 1 3/4" OD DOM and pressed it into the trackbar. Now this is a very loose press and not something I'd trust as is. I then preheated the trackbar (it's cast steel so it doesn't require preheat) and welded the steel sleeves into the trackbar (this is on both ends) and after it cooled down, I pushed the bushings into the sleeves I built (fairly tight fit).
Now the next issue to tackle was the anti-crush sleeve from Moog being the wrong width and ID. I liked that the stock anti-crush sleeve had knurling on both ends that contact the trackbar bracket, so I decided to reuse it. The issue was the ID of the bushing was 3/4" while the OD of the stock anti-crush sleeve was 1.054". (I torched out the bushings, that's the only way to get the stock anti-crush sleeve out) So out came the 1" drill bit. I drilled the ID of the bushings to 1" and pressed the 1.054" anti-crush sleeve into the bushing (this was a tight fit). So now I had a complete bushing setup on both ends that were tight with confidence of a lasting setup.
After another 20 min I had the trackbar in the truck and on a test drive. Between the new bushings and the dual steering stabilizers, there was a decent difference in the wobble, but it was still there, it just became under control very quickly. I'll max the caster out next weekend to assist in eliminating the wobble.
I don't have any in progress pictures of what I did, but if anyone's interested I can get a picture of the frame side end of the trackbar to get a loose visual of what I did. I figured that since I couldn't find any good information on how to re-bushing a trackbar for these trucks I'd toss this on here. But for $14.99 of bushings, 2 pieces of scrap tube, and 5 min with the torch and welder, I saved myself from buying a new trackbar, an insanely priced aftermarket adjustable, or from just building my own trackbar from 2" OD DOM with 1.25" heims.
As been said before, the Moog 2 piece bushings, and also all the 1 piece bushings, don't fit. They're too small. Some people have said you have to burn out the stock 1 piece bushing and reuse the steel sleeve, while others said nothing worked for them and they just spend the insane amount of money on an adjustable trackbar.
Well I picked up the 2 piece Moog bushing set and decided to give it a go. After getting the track bar out and the stock bushings burned out, I kept the steel sleeves in the trackbar and put the Moog bushings in: ~1/8" of room left for the bushing to slop around, the anti crush sleeve is 1/8" too narrow, and the ID of the sleeve is too small for the stock bolts. So obviously without that steel sleeve there would now be ~1/4" of room for the bushing to wobble around in as well as nothing to hold or support the bushing as the trackbar is only ~3/4" wide. The bushings need that outer steel sleeve.
The OD of the bushing is 1.5", which happens to be the same as the ID of the tube I use to build roll cages. The trackbar's ID of where the bushings press into also happen to be 1.75", which is the OD of the tube I use.
So I built my own sleeve. I cut a length 1 1/8" of 1 3/4" OD DOM and pressed it into the trackbar. Now this is a very loose press and not something I'd trust as is. I then preheated the trackbar (it's cast steel so it doesn't require preheat) and welded the steel sleeves into the trackbar (this is on both ends) and after it cooled down, I pushed the bushings into the sleeves I built (fairly tight fit).
Now the next issue to tackle was the anti-crush sleeve from Moog being the wrong width and ID. I liked that the stock anti-crush sleeve had knurling on both ends that contact the trackbar bracket, so I decided to reuse it. The issue was the ID of the bushing was 3/4" while the OD of the stock anti-crush sleeve was 1.054". (I torched out the bushings, that's the only way to get the stock anti-crush sleeve out) So out came the 1" drill bit. I drilled the ID of the bushings to 1" and pressed the 1.054" anti-crush sleeve into the bushing (this was a tight fit). So now I had a complete bushing setup on both ends that were tight with confidence of a lasting setup.
After another 20 min I had the trackbar in the truck and on a test drive. Between the new bushings and the dual steering stabilizers, there was a decent difference in the wobble, but it was still there, it just became under control very quickly. I'll max the caster out next weekend to assist in eliminating the wobble.
I don't have any in progress pictures of what I did, but if anyone's interested I can get a picture of the frame side end of the trackbar to get a loose visual of what I did. I figured that since I couldn't find any good information on how to re-bushing a trackbar for these trucks I'd toss this on here. But for $14.99 of bushings, 2 pieces of scrap tube, and 5 min with the torch and welder, I saved myself from buying a new trackbar, an insanely priced aftermarket adjustable, or from just building my own trackbar from 2" OD DOM with 1.25" heims.
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