I have a 99 Jeep Cherokee witht he chrysler 8.25. The ring bearing inside is moaning and groaning bad. So next weekend I am gettin another Chrysler 8.25 out of a 98 cherokee just to swap it in. All in all I am trying to figure out how i am going to swap the break lines.

Should I remove the break lines from the drums?

Remove the main soft line from the hard line?

Take the axle shafts out and swap the whole drums? (which i dont really want to do)

Please help!

Thanks,
Mike

If the axles are the same ratio,I would just take the brake line apart just foward of the axle before it splits to each drum. I would also switch out the entire axle drum to drum.

so your saying to disconnect the break line from where it goes down the frame, into a soft line, to the split. to disconect it from the frame hard line to the soft line. And i am switching in an entire axle drum to drum not just shafts or anything, and they are both 3.55s

when i swapped my axles i went ahead and bought new lines. they are cheap long one was 6$ and the short one was 4$. You can route them how it suits you best. i ran mine behind the axle. JMO

uh... it all depends on how the 98 axle comes to you dont ya think? lol

If you are pulling the axle then yes I would disconnect it at that point.

Yeah I spoke to the guy he hasnt pulled yet but i got in touch with him and told him to just cut the hard line before the soft.

Im just hoping im not gonna run into to much trouble with the break bull ****. Im sure the rear drums are fine but ya never know.

shoot i never even pulled my drums off when i got my JY d44... i just drained the juice and refilled and stuck it under there... i broke my parking brake rod under the seat so i lost the parking brake and just fixed that... but i still have no parking brake so i guess the shoes are done... heck i never bled the system either so im not using back brakes at all... lol