Well, the kit went in today. It was pretty much smooth sailing all the way through. The alignment ended up pretty good also, considering I have not yet had it proffessionally aligned (will do so tomorrow). The rods for this kit are significantly stronger than the OEM rods (much thicker walls), and the rod ends fit as well as the OEM ones.
Overall, it took me about 2 hours to do this by myself in the garage (thanks to mineson for the advise on the pulers; they worked like a charm!). My torque wrench is not working properly (it does not click at all), so I kind of torqued everything by feel, but since I am not driving the jeep today and I'm taking it tomorrow to get it aligned, I'll ask the shop to torque all the bolts as well tomorrow morning (the shop is about 1 mile from my home, so no worries that the the whole thing will come apart!).
This is a comparisson of before and after, so here is the picture before the new steering kit:
And here is the new tie rod and drag link:
I think the track bar and the drag link are parallel enough to avoid bump-steer, but I will report on that later on.
Felipe
