Just for anyone interested my issues with 4wp's stems from this:
I ordered my lift, rims, and tires online a month and a half before my local Jeep clubs annual Raush Creek trip. Unfortunately I selected the ship to store option because I didn't want a bunch of very expensive parts sitting on my porch while I was at work. Unfortunately selecting ship to store delays the arrival of your parts because they don't ship right away, instead they ship the next time a truck is going to said store...
So instead of like a week to get my parts, it turned into a month, so my parts didn't show up until 2 weeks before my planned Raush Creek trip...
SO... instead of taking my parts home and installing them myself like I'm perfectly capable of doing, I paid 4WP to install them because they promised me they could have them all installed in time for me to make the RC trip...
Instead they broke my clock spring, couldn't figure out what the heck they did, and held my Jeep hostage for two weeks thus causing me to miss the RC trip that was the entire reason I paid them to do the install in the first place.
Another reason I now hate 4wp's... they installed the rear track bar bolt backwards leaving the long end of the bolt hanging out over the bump stop so I only had 2" of up travel until I bottomed out hard and painfully as the bolt contacted the aluminum Currie bump stop extension.
Plus they told me I needed a new tie rod long side because my old one was bent, then after they installed the new one it still hit in the same place as my original one and they figured out they had installed the Currie track bar bracket and PSC ram mount wrong, but they still left the new tie rod on and still charged me for it even though there was never anything wrong with my original one.
Plus they only balanced 4 of the 5 tires and rims I bought from them. They allowed me to leave with absolutely now wheel weights at all on my front right side tire, so my whole Jeep rode like a paint shaker for a few days until I paid another shop to rebalance my wheels and tires and they found out the tire had no weights at all, and was a total of 19 oz out of balance which most likely means the tire was installed 180 degrees out of balance from the rim and should be spun around so the rim heavy spot and tire heavy spots are 180 degrees away from eachother etc.
Also they never bothered to flex out the Jeep to check clearances, because they welded the rear track bar bracket on at an angle that caused it to hit the shock body, and I had to clearance it with a sawsall to keep it from chewing up my shocks.
Also in the never flexed it or checked for clearance issues category: They didn't check the length of my front stabilizer end links, so the first time I took it off road my sway bar inverted and folded the end links over across the steering linkage.
And those are just the reasons I'll never let them touch my Jeep again. I won't even go into how many parts orders I've had to cancel and order through other companies because 4wp said they have it in stock, and several weeks later I've had to get my money back because they can't actually produce said parts.
Oh yeah, and they chopped the bottom out of my factory air box when they installed my PSC steering, and never bothered to tell me... if I hadn't purchased a snorkel kit and installed it myself, I never would have known it was butchered until I tried to go through a deep puddle in Carolina in the dunes of Corova, or tried to ford through the flood waters here in Va after a local hurricane and hydrolocked my engine. Luckily I found it before I did any damage, but they never even told me that they did that.
When I informed them that I bent my track bar end links the first time I wheeled them, their response was " Did you purchase our extended warranty?" Which of course I didn't... I just assumed that there would be a normal warranty for at least 3 months or so... but there isn't so my repairs are on me.
So yeah, I'm not a big fan of 4wp's and I'll never recommend anyone to buy anything from them, or have anything installed by them. I hate that they now own so many of what used to be good companies, and I hate that so many companies that are actually still good still do business with them.
And I've got a bunch more gripes about them that I could also add, but I've inspected my Jeep and looked over everything they did, and besides putting a bolt in backwards and not testing out the flex to check for binding and interference etc, the rest of the install appears to be correct, and I don't see any loose wires or plugs that would be causing my Traction Control issues.
The bushings were/are holding it in place on both sides so it looks like it's just fine until you really pay attention. It looks like it's been broken for a long time too based on all the rust where it snapped. So for now I'm going to take Thardy and everyone else's advice and park it for now until I get a new control arm.
