When outfitting a 4×4 machine to handle the rough Arizona Backcountry, Its imperative to equip your 4×4 vehicle with the highest quality parts for safety and reliability. The most common upgrades, not only make your vehicle functional under extreme conditions, it also ensures your machine doesn’t suffer a catastrophic failure, putting you and your passengers in a dangerous situation.
Unlike the cheap knock off track bar mounts you find on Amazon, the CavFab frame side track bar mount is laser cut, CNC bent, welded, and powder coated right here in the U.S.A. out of 1/4 inch thick mild steel. The CavFab frame side track bar mount is perfect for our 1990 Jeep XJ and works great with my Rubicon Express adjustable track bar. The bracket is designed to move the upper track bar mount forward to clear the differential and features a 2 inch wide mounting surface that will accept Johnny Joints or traditional heim joints. The track bar mounting hole comes in 1/2 inch but can be drilled out to accept a larger bolt. I ended up drilling mine out to 5/8 to accept the trough bolt for the adjustable Rubicon Express track bar.
The CavFab frame side track bar mount is a direct swap with the factory track bar mount and no drilling or fabrication is necessary. It uses the existing factory track bar mount bolts which makes things easy. The mounting holes are oblong which allows for variations in the OEM mounting hole patterns. The upper mount comes with a powder coated finish or raw steel depending on your preference. It’s also available as unwelded raw steel if you’d like to save a little money and weld it up yourself.
The CavFab frame side track bar mount for the Jeep XJ also comes as part of a complete kit that includes everything you need for an aftermarket track bar system. The kit includes the frame side track bar mount, a frame rail brace, a passenger side mount, an axle housing mount, an adjustable track bar, and all of the necessary hardware.
My setup uses the CavFab frame side track bar mount with the factory axle housing mount. I have an adjustable track bar made by Rubicon Express and I’m sitting at around 3.5 inches of lift. Although the track bar heim joint has more shank exposed then I would like, there’s plenty of contact with the track bar. With this setup, the front axle is right on track, there is no bump steer, and everything functions correctly.
Even with an aftermarket drop pitman arm, the factory Y link steering system is nearly maxed out so that’s next on the bucket list.
