9000 Front Replacement Heavy Duty OEM Steering Stabilizer (9009) by Skyjacker®. Quantity: 1 per Pack. Steering Stabilizer is a dampening shock for your steering system. It dampens out the harshness of the highway, the ‘shimmy' from running the additional weight of larger tires and wheels and places control back into the driver's hands. Stabilizers also reduce the fatigue of the driver on a personal level by reducing the amount of physical strength it takes to guide those larger tires on and off the road.
The shock itself is great and of good quality. The problem I had was with the mounting stem; the threads of the nuts (2) and both ends of the stem itself had excessive electro-plating on them and would not thread together without galling. I had to use taps and dies to rethread them before I could assemble the stabilizer. That, in and of itself, took some of the shine off an otherwise very good steering stabilizer. Until corrected, you will need a 7/16"-20 TPI tap and die and also a 1/2"-20 TPI tap and die to rethread (chase) the parts. Pity the poor person that does not have the necessary tooling to accomplish this. I hope his review is helpful to anyone considering this part.
Semper Fidelis.
Overall great part but bolts didn’t fit my 2004 Wrangler X. I had to use old bolts from my old stabilizer and I had to run down to the local hardware store to buy another bolt shim or spacer to mount the shock.