Homemade steering stabilizer

[cswanson]

I found a website that has a sweet picture on steering stabilizer brackets. Very simple to make your own brackets!
Monroe has stabilizer shocks for $28. I plan on building some, so I'll post some pics.
Heres the website: http://www.explorerprocomp.com/PDFs/is/2513.pdf
Go to the bottom of page 3 for the pic.

 

[MAKG]

Jeez.

Steering stabilizers are CHEAP. And even so, they are a bad idea.

They are very seldom necessary with power steering, even with enormous tires. They don't help "bump steer;" that's a geometry problem. And they can mask serious safety hazards such as bad balljoints.

 

[cswanson]

"Pot Hole"

I'm not so much worried about it balancing my steering. I'm more worried about it taking out some of the grab of when you hit a hole, that way I don't break my arm.

 

[samsonitesamsonite]

they won't do that either.

 

[AlienBronco]

I put one on my rig when I first got it because it steered like crap off road. Then I got smart and replaced every bushing and bearing in the front end and it rides like new without the stabilizer. Total cost was about $150.00 and a couple of Saturdays in the shop.