The Mammoth Adjustable Front Track Bar is for those of you that have a 2007 to 2018
JK that are looking for a track bar that's going to allow you to completely recenter
the front axle underneath the Jeep after a lift kit has been installed.
As you know, when you lift your Jeep, that will shift the front axle a little bit.
There are some brackets that you can use to help shift it back, but they're also going
to change up your suspension geometry by changing the mounting point of one end of your track
bar.
That will also force you to change the geometry of your drag link in order to eliminate any
sort of bump steer.
So using a adjustable track bar that will mount to the factory mounts, leaving the factory
drag link as is, is going to ensure that you don't end up with any bump steer or any other
weird suspension geometry issues.
This is going to be very, very easy to install, definitely a one out of three wrench installation,
and we'll talk a little bit more about that in a just a second.
So, when you're looking at adjustable track bars, you're really going to find two main
categories.
One is going to be a style like this, that has factory style rubber bushings on both
ends.
And the other is going to be a style that has a heim style joint on one end.
That spherical style joint is going to provide a little bit more articulation.
So if you're somebody who has control arms that have spherical joints on them, you're
trying to get maximum articulation, maximum independent movement of either side of your
axle, then maybe you want to take a look at one of those other options.
However, they are gonna be a little bit more expensive.
If you're somebody who isn't really looking for maximum amount of travel, just want something
very strong, a little more budget-friendly, this choice from Mammoth is gonna be an excellent
option.
As for the construction, this thing is really all about strength.
It's going to be a nice beefy track bar.
It does have a bend and a flat spot here that's going to make sure that it's gonna clear the
front pumpkin [SP] no problem.
A little bit of a twist at the end here, just to make sure that everything fits and lines
up in all of the factory mounts as it should.
I already mentioned that it has a factory style rubber bushing here.
It also does have a steel crush sleeve, because as you may or may not know, a loose track
bar is one of the leading causes of wobble and especially of death wobble.
So you do wanna make sure you get this thing torqued down nice and tight.
In order to ensure that you're not going to squish the bushing, causing any sort of damage
to it, you do have a crush sleeve inside of that bushing, so very, very well-designed,
and they are gonna be matching bushings on those sides.
As far as the adjustability, this is adjustable while it's mounted on the Jeep, which is pretty
important.
It can take forever to adjust, measure, pull one end of this thing off, adjust, measure,
rinse and repeat the process trying to get the axle completely centered.
This way you can get this bolted up onto both ends here, loosen up the clamp, spin the adjuster,
and it will recenter the axle for you, making things a lot easier and a lot quicker to make
that adjustment, then you just have to tighten down your clamps.
This comes in at $130.
I think that's a really fair price for what you're gonna get here.
Again, if you want a track bar that has a spherical joint on one or both ends, you have
those options.
They are going to be a little bit pricier.
If you're not going to take advantage of the additional articulation you can get from one
of those styles of the track bar, then I think this one is going to be just fine for you,
and save you some money.
Now I'll have a member of the install team show you how you get this bolted up.
First thing we wanna do is support the front axle.
I'm gonna use some pole jacks here.
If you guys don't have pole jacks, you can use a jack and some jack stands.
All right, next we can start to remove the track bar.
There's an upper bolt and there's a lower bolt.
We're gonna need a 21-millimeter socket and a 21-millimeter wrench.
All right, we're gonna start off with the bottom bolt here.
Now, the back side of this bolt does have a flag nut on it, so we don't have to hold
it with the wrench.
We can zip it out with the impact gun.
And again, this is a 21-millimeter.
Okay, now we can remove the upper bolt, and we're gonna have to hold the back side of
this with a 21-millimeter wrench, and 21-millimeter socket.
And we can remove our stock track bar.
All right, now before we install our new track bar, we wanna take a measurement of the stock
track bar, and make it as close as possible to our new track bar.
So we wanna go center of the bolt hole, to center of the bolt hole, and that's gonna
give us 32.5 inches.
So we can measure our new adjustable track bar, and we're about 31.75 of an inch, so
we need to extend it a little bit.
All right, that looks good.
Yep, we're now ready to install our new track bar.
We're gonna get our new track bar installed now.
We're gonna start off with the upper bolt.
Get my nut started on the back.
All right, we can get our bottom bolt installed now, with our flag nut.
All right, we get these tightened up now.
And now we can tighten up the upper bolt.
And after you've adjusted your track bar to where you would like it, we can tighten up
the adjustment clamps here.
It's a 15-millimeter bolt.
All right guys, that's gonna wrap up our review and install of the Mammoth Front Adjustable
Track Bar.
Be sure to check out more at extremeterrain.com.
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