ECOTRIC Steering Box Brace Compatible with 1984-2001 Cherokee XJ Steel W/Sector Shaft Support Steel Powder Coated Black

1997 Jeep XJ. XJ's tend to wander side to side when travelling straight along a road. Since the XJ is uni-body and there are no solid frame rails to secure these components to. This results in varying flex between the sway bar, the steering gear and the pitman arm. They are not acting in unison which results in erratic responsiveness, what could be described as loose steering. This brace physically connects the components together and to the frame where the sway bar mounts. Any flex from the body is transmitted to the individual components collectively as a single part, which resolves the sloppy steering issue. The kit does not include new sway bar mounts which will need to purchase separately if you wish to retain the sway bar, which I recommended strongly for on road handling. The whole reason for the kit is better handling on the road; why take the sway bar off? I don't believe this is an oversight on their part. Rather than try to guess your configuration, they save you the cost of including one you may not need. They have left that to the consumer to decide since the kit will vary based on the amount of lift, type of sway bar etc. There are a lot of options available for the XJ. I used the one from Rough Country (also available on Amazon) for ~$35 (part 1073) which worked great on my stock lift height. Everything else needed for the install was included and of high quality. The included instructions didn't help. There were none that I recall. There are some videos available on YouTube that might be worth watching to get an overview before getting started. The only real frustration was figuring out if it mattered which direction to put the bolts in, what had to be completely tightened, and what had to be left loose until it was in place. Expect to remove it and put it back on several times to figure that out. Some bolts are inaccessible to tighten once it is in place. Notably the brace for which the pitman arm bearing mounts. The two longest bolts should be used for the steering box clamps. The next two longest are for the bearing mount. Detailed instructions would have saved some trial and error but overall, I'm very satisfied.

Perfect fit , came with all hardware and a nice black finish . Although we painted ours blue it was an easy install and major improvement !!!!!

I don’t do reviews often but I hope I can save someone the guesswork, I wasn’t sure if this setup would work with my anti rock sway bar, figured if it didn’t I could return it but it was a perfect fit. Couldn’t be more pleased, the install takes some back and fourth getting it all dialed but all in all it seem to be top notch

Pain in the butt to Install but works great.

95’ Cherokee sport. Really solid piece of steel and tightened up my steering quite a bit. I no longer feel the unibody flexing and pulling my steering left or right as I go down bumpy roads. Cured a lot of my wandering issue (still have a little, it is a 30 year old jeep) loving it so far install wasn’t hard just tedious at times, you will need a sway bar drop bracket if you’re running the stock sway bar like I did I can still fit my rough country quick disconnect links with it as well but will probably get shorter ones at some point. Very pleased with this purchase!

Will not fit a stock xj.

Definitely not the easiest upgrade to install but everything was built well and bolted in. No instructions but its pretty self explanatory when you lay it out and start putting it together.

2000 XJ. Stock height. 235/15 tires. I'm not a wheeler. But I do go boon dock camping. I fabed a new spacer between the steering box and frame. Old aluminum one broke. Decided to put this on. Since the XJ frames tend to crack there. I used the stock sway bar by fabing some 2 inch spacers.

It works well had to redrill every hole bolts wouldt fit and it took almost a month to get here but it does work