K-Member / Rack & Pinion Steering Suggestions

AAndrews said

Cudo's to you and your team for coming up with a superior fix for the poor quality of someone else's part Denny but, for me, I'd just be worrying that some other equally bad component of the assembly would fail resulting in injury/death to me or someone else.

Junk is junk..

I'd cut my losses and throw the whole works in the garbage.

After looking at what's available and listening to comments on here and elsewhere.

HDK, RMS or upgrade the stock factory components.

Cheers!!

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I understand where you are coming from and I do see at least one additional potential problem area.....time will tell.

To be honest (as opposed to being not honest) I never could understand the big deal with the Gerst, It was simply a poor copy of the successful RMS / AlterK. With Control Freak already making their round tube version (copy) of the RMS / AlterK, there is / was nothing innovative, different or improved about the Gerst. I'm all ears, please tell me what I missed. You can image my surprise when in a casual phone conversation with my Qa1 rep he told me Qa1 had bought Gerst. My immediate reply to him was...."That's a great fit!!, Gerst doesn't even use your shocks!" And then I had to asked him....Did the same geniuses that approved the CAP purchase....do this purchase? He sheepishly replied....uh yes. BTW, that same rep told me in Qa1 eyes, Mopar people are different breed to which I proudly replied..."yes, we are!".

All I can do is grin and shake my head. For the record, since 2010, Qa1 has been the exclusive shock for all HDK builds. At over 30K of Qa1 products in 2021....its a few shocks / springs. I guess one could say HDK was using their shocks on Mopar rack and pinion / coil over conversions....before they were.