Re: Steering box brace: Tomken or Currie?
 

I don't know why you should shoose one over the other, but I have a Currie
that seems to work very well.




"Ken Finney" <kenneth.c.finney@boeing.com> wrote in message
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> After exhausting all the other possibilities, I've decided that to cure my
> steering "problems", I'm going to try one of the steering box braces.
Does
> anyone here have experience with either the Tomken or Currie braces, or
why
> I should choose one over the other?
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Re: Steering box brace: Tomken or Currie?
 

"J Strickland" <crwlr@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:vj2j1t8deh3n11@corp.supernews.com...
> I don't know why you should shoose one over the other, but I have a Currie
> that seems to work very well.
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> "Ken Finney" <kenneth.c.finney@boeing.com> wrote in message
> news:HJ7HB8.6Cp@news.boeing.com...
> > After exhausting all the other possibilities, I've decided that to cure
my
> > steering "problems", I'm going to try one of the steering box braces.
> Does
> > anyone here have experience with either the Tomken or Currie braces, or
> why
> > I should choose one over the other?
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

What "problems" were you having that it fixes?

Re: Steering box brace: Tomken or Currie?
 

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> What "problems" were you having that it fixes?
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It was on my Jeep when I bought it. I have a CJ5, and the steering box is
known to rip the frame apart during heavy offroading, particularly
rockcrawling. The brace secures the steering box to the passenger side frame
rail and adds another direction of support.

I was on the trail one day with a TJ, and the steering box physically broke
of. It had apparently broken a bolt at some point, and the remaining bolts
finally gave up. We were able to salvage a bolt, and pulled another from the
parts bin of another in the group, but the third bolt could not be saved and
used again. We secured the steering box to the frame with a length of chain
and tightened with a bolt. We basically made a clamp from a lenght of chain
that held the steering box on very well. The guy that owned the TJ drove
home from San Diego County to north of Los Angeles.

His steering box was broken because he did not have the brace we are talking
about here.







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