Gotta know when to let go of rusty vehicles. My dad had a 2000 blazer that was from new york and basically no place wanted to touch it as you whack the chassis with a hammer and clumps of rust falls out lol. If the jeep is rusted it isnt any better plus a danger in some cases. But a rusty jeep doesnt define it as being a horrible vehicle just one out of a thousand are gonna be a lemon.

edit: Oh on the blazer thing looks brand new but doesnt hide whats happening underneath. He was driving down the road and the upper and lower control arm completely tore away from the car and almost rolled it. Rust is cancer.

 

I think the OP is nuts.. and a troll.. and/or not at all credible or serious. Anyone second my notion?

 

Thats come up before. Thats all i am going to say about that. What i will say is this...

There comes a point in time when its best to call it quits on a vehicle and stop wasting your time with it. And your money. When a vehicle becomes nothing but problems for whatever reason, then sell it, scrap it, or part it out. Get rid of it and buy something else.

 

Can we just start talking about The Purge movies?

 

Yes, on a normal car. But, this is the XJ, remember?
With the XJ, the lug nut cap snaps off. Now you have a STRIPPED lug nut.
Your method does not apply to the XJ, just regular cars that regular people can work on.

Any XJ repair is a total nightmare that even pro mechanics REFUSE to work on this car.
Too difficult. They don't have the time.
This car is only meant to be repaired by someone with a professional garage.

Took the mechanic 3 hours to drill out the lug.
I can't even remove the front wheels without paying someone potentially 15-20 hours in labor ($2000 to remove the wheels, cheaper to own a Ferarri)
That's more than the cost of the entire vehicle, Just to get a shot at trying the brakes yourself.

 

The unibody rails are the most structural part of the vehicle. The factory service manual will show spots on the frame to lift from. If you don't feel comfortable lifting from the frame how could you feel comfortable driving it?

From the sounds of it, the condition of your Jeep is what you're fighting, not the design nor country of origin.

Troll in the dungeon much? Good job getting a reaction from everyone.

When the lug nut cap comes off (happens all the time) the structural part of the lug nut remains on the stud. Next size smaller wrench works fine on it. Now let's say somebody uses a wrench that is too large to fit on the now capless lug nut and somehow by the grace of god rounds it off. Now what? Grab a thread extracting socket which will bite into the rounded nut and reef on that fudger till it comes off or something breaks.

So something breaks and it doesn't come off. Crap, now what? You have a rounded lug with a thread extractor socket stuck on a stud that is inside a wheel. Time for more drastic measures. No professional mechanic in the world would reach for a drill. Every one would grab their oxy-acetylene torch setup and melt the stud out in a matter of minutes. That could damage the wheel but a new wheel is cheaper than hours of labor drilling a lug nut stud.

 

The XJ is no different than any other normal vehicle, you get the a stripped leg nut out the same way, if the plastic cap falls off you just use the next smaller socket, then replace all of the lug nuts with solid ones. Pretty much everything you said is false.

 

There is a vid on youtube of a good looking girl doing ball joints on an XJ without gloves on, or even putting hair back, and yet he needs an instructional video on jacking up his jeep.

Hey OP, I have a 20 year old Subaru to sell you (from Michigan)

Have fun with it!

 

Who isn't in love with her?

 

That's awesome.
Every time the XJ needs a brake job, you need to buy 4 new wheels.
Cheaper to own a Pagani ?

Troll? No, just posted facts and reality, man.
By the way, 4 pages deep, and not one person has been able to post an example of the internet showing how to jack the front of the XJ?
Every other car on the planet has this online. More evidence that this car is not worked on by regular folk.

 

Stupid trolling comment, typical Jeep A-hole
If I had a husband who showed me everything, I would also not need help.

 

Isn't the normal use tire rotation interval 7500miles? Once you fix your problem or replace a rim this should never occur again unless it sits.

 

theres no examples because its not a job that shoukd require help

 

Exactly, anyone that has any sense at all could figure it out. If you don't know just check the owners manual.

 

There is literally hundreds of YouTube videos showing Jeep XJs being worked on by normal people with common tools, many of them in the driveway, in fact I bet 80% or more of the people on this forum do most of their own work on their Jeeps, and we are just normal people.