Jaff Bade and his joints

["Joel M Brodsky" <jmbrodsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff,
      Bump steer as I have experienced, has been caused by the angle of the
drag link being excessive, following a lift spring installation.  As the
front wheel compresses there is an appreciable action on the drag link, and
it no longer adheres to the small angle theory, thus when the wheel comes
up, it pushes the draglink to the side, and that's what bump steer is.
Drop pitman arm is the solution, or high-steer if you have the bux.

I'm going to see about heating and bending a factory pitman arm a few
inches to retain the same radius, but give a bit of drop in the arm.  The
4" drop arm from Skyjacker is much shorter than stock, but I have yet to
try the one I have.

JoelB