Repalcement struts recommendation

[lekmedm]

I'm guessing that with an adjustable rear track bar you wouldn't need to trim the gas tank skid plate.

Sent from wherever my Jeep takes me.

[1USMC]

I'm guessing that with an adjustable rear track bar you wouldn't need to trim the gas tank skid plate.

You bring up a good point that I didn't know about until I finally had a chance to do some good wheeling and put my Commander to the test. I didn't know there where TWO gas tank mods! I had only read about the notch that would help keep the drivers side rear upper control arm from being limited in articulation by the rear gas tank shield. Mine was one of those that was limited by the shield.

The other mod that you are referring to is the one that made a racket when traversing some terrain that I didn't think could be traversed with my XK (LOl). It also pulled down my shield and could have caused a lot more damage.

I learned the hard way about the side gas tank mod, that helps with the drive shaft hitting the shield. Here is a link to my question and photos after this happened to me, >

http://www.theultimatejeep.com/showt...highlight=tank

I have also picked up an adjustable rear track bar and of course have not had time to install it yet or brush off my trigonometry to try and figure out how much longer to make it to give an extra 1/4 to1/2 inch-ish at the closest point between the drive shaft and the shield.

So hopefully this will help others like my myself, that where not aware there are TWO common gas tank mods that owners have come up with..

[07JeepXK]

I'm guessing that with an adjustable rear track bar you wouldn't need to trim the gas tank skid plate.

Sent from wherever my Jeep takes me.

I have an adjustable track bar and still had to do the second gas tank skid plate mod because the drive shaft was still hitting the skid when flexed out off road

[1USMC]

I have an adjustable track bar and still had to do the second gas tank skid plate mod......

Looking at the witness marks on my actual gas tank, after my drive shaft had pulled my shield down , it looked like it was barely rubbing. But still, I am not feeling that comfortable with it rubbing on the actual gas tank itself. So I want to give it an extra 1/4 to perhaps 1/2 inch clearance.

07JeepXK when you installed your adjustable track bar did you make it longer than the stock one and if so by how much ? Otherwise some day I will have to measure and try that trigonometry stuff. LOl

When mine was rubbing I did have both my front and rear sway bars disconnected.