Rock Krawler Control Arms
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They are sold as "mid arms" even though they are just 1" too long. There is no real benefit to this and it can cause your rear coils to bow enough to rub your track bar and up front, the driver side coil can bow enough to make contact with your sway bar arm. That and the fact that they have polyurethane bushing on the frame side which will squeak like a banshee if you don't keep them greased. I'm not too thrilled about the pressure adjustments on the axle end joints but otherwise, they'll work well enough.
2013CGJKU
Member
Wait a second here... I thought you were told to answer every single question like this with "EVO is the best! If you ever run anything else your Jeep will flip and spontaneously combust and roll into a seminary killing a bunch of nuns and you will die in a fire and go to hell!" Haha!
Back on track now, sorry.
Levi
2013 CG JKU 6-speed
cozdude
Guy with a Red 2-Door
i had a bad experience with them. lets just say i wasted my money on all 8 arms. not going into the whole story but i ended up modifying them to make them work on my 2 door, then took them off. i went with what i shold have originally and got the evo front lowers and synergy rear uppers. kept stock front uppers and rear lowers.
09blackruby
Member
Any reason for the different brands the second time around? Evo front and synergy rear. I was looking at the synergy front lowers. Just wondering if anyone has any advice on them. I just want to dump my aev brackets and fix my castor correctly. I just don't want to go thru what you did with the RK arms.
StrizzyChris
New member
I have their front lower standard short arms and have no complaints. They are more than enough to get me by for a few years and dirt cheap compared to other arms. When I upgrade to a long arm kit, I'll be going with johnny joints though.
olram30
Not That Kind of Engineer
Synergy arms are half decent. And by half decent I mean there is a Factory bushing on the axle side and Johnny joint on frame side. They use a pinch bolt instead of a jamb nut. That about sums them up. Nothing really to rave about.
piginajeep
The Original Smartass
Clevites are nice and cheap to replace, but they are also a big pain in the ass to replace and they will need replaced. I would bet most home mechanics couldn't replace them.
Johnny joints on the other hand are a breeze with the $100 tool from currie. Not to mention they take 100x the beating a clevite will.
cozdude
Guy with a Red 2-Door
went with Evo becuase of the quality. went with synergy for the rear uppers cause i didnt want to spend the money on curries but i knew they used a johnny joint on the axle side. possibly at somepoint down the line i will switch out the busing side of the synergy arm (if i can) for a JJ.
jeeeep
Hooked
I've run Clayton over 80k miles now and they have worked great - uppers and lowers all around, I've had to replace 2 of the currie bushings in 2013 and that's because I never greased them since I installed them in late 2010.
There's not a lot of room for grease but Clayton did recommend at least to check them once a year. I started using Green Grease and it's held up so much better than the lucas I used in the beginning.
Taking apart the johnny joints with the tool is easy to do.
2007blackJk
Member
Fwiw ... It's only the rear arms that are too long. RK does have a short rear lower (max travel kit) but why install a adjustable arm only adjusts a small amount more then stock? There's no point.
Rock Krawler WILL cut arms to any length you want. I havnt decided yet, but might go with a shortened set of RK rear lowers with currie uppers. I just hate f****king jam nuts and try to avoid them if possible.
Rock Krawler WILL cut arms to any length you want. I havnt decided yet, but might go with a shortened set of RK rear lowers with currie uppers. I just hate f****king jam nuts and try to avoid them if possible.
2007blackJk
Member
There was a joint previous that did not use grease. This was does. I think 2 at least.
cozdude
Guy with a Red 2-Door
but it you scroll down they have at least 2 verions. krawler joint pro and monster krawler joint. i do believe even the newest version is their 2nd design of the kralwer joint.