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Old 04-14-2013, 10:10 PM
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Well I finaly decided to start a build thread since I have done tons of work and have plenty of pictures of the progress on my jeep.
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I bought the jeep in 2005 and it was bone stock. It's a 92 Cherokee laredo 4.0L. The picture above is the oldest picture I have of it and it and is the first lift I put on it. 4.5 in. Rough country with 33x12.50x15 federal mud terrains on black steelies. I'll be posting plenty more pics over the next few days since I have a ton of them and the jeep doesn't look anything like this anymore.
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Here's a few more old pics. Probly taken about 3 years ago.
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The jeep developed death wobble shortly after I bought it and lifting it 4.5 inches and bigger tires just made it worse. so I replaced all the balljoints first cause they had some play.
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The stock trackbar tie rod part had some play also and I wanted to use the stock hole location rather than using the hole that rough country tells you to drill in the bracket so I replaced it with this beefy Iron Rock Offroad double shear adjustable tracbar.
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Well after all that the DW was better but still there. So the next thing was to replace my worn out steering system. I replaced all the tie rod ends with moogs, moog drag link, and IRO HD tie rod.

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I also added a c-rock frame plate, durango steering box, and 3/4 in. Drop pitman arm.
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After replacing everything in the front end the death wobble was way better but still there and now I'm frustrated.
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Well after I inspected everything again I found that one of the bushings on the rough country control arms was wasted. Since Ive been wanting long arms anyways I started saving some cash.


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