Thats like a scene out of a horror movie lol

 

Correction: Every stock XJ with high miles I've been in has done that

 

Heres my latest custom built winch plate out of a napa tool rack

 

This is why you shouldn't run a stock XJ tie rod offroad haha. I had already destroyed a ZJ tie rod this day and this was my spare, it lasted like 10 mins. 2nd picture has where the tie rod ended up when it was bent traced

 

Haha did it completely fail? Pics aren't loading on my phone. Man I'm going to be running stock ends again the 10th and Jeff's going to help me put it through its paces.

Only part I destroyed at Rausch was a front wheel u joint but I replaced both last week. And when I arrived that day my wheel was centered but.... Not when I left it was 45 degrees off but that was my fault. I made the mistake of trying to keep up with Scott and went through the water a little fast and heard a ungodly smack which I assumed was rock bashing my tie rod bar I felt it I'm the wheel lol.

Edit: ok seen the pics good god man how'd you do that?

 

So I've got a plethora of parts from my 93 that I know I won't be using now that I have my comanche project. I have every single interior piece, in black. I have a light gray full set of manual seats. Tail lights. Etc, ask and I might have it. I wanted to post it in here because I'd much rather meet locally than ship. Too much of a hassle

 

Steve is that a zj v8 tie bar that you just painted red?

 

I had to look hard to figure out what was going on there. That is the definition of catastrophic failure

 

Thanks! Lol, she mainly is. I like light trails and some mud, getting to fishing/hunting spots or camping. But not beating the **** out of it on 5ft verticles coming out of a mud hole haha. So she kinda is a street queen... I get **** from all my buddys (who wheel pretty hard), but the p.o. beat the bricks off it, and being a noob with lifted jeeps I bought it then threw over $3500 into it. So until I get out of school and get a job that I can afford to push the limit a bit, she'll just keep pounding the pavement and light offroad haha

 

anyone here been to crick falls/blue hole ? near perryopolis ?

 

Man mines a daily driver like a lot of people's on here. I got 208k on original motor and trans and baby it everyday because I need it. Offroad you can be careful and reduce damage by being mindful but somethings are unavoidable. I'm not a veteran here either I have plenty to learn. I just had to know what it could do and after hours of wheeling a mostly stock xj its impressive what It can do. I don't like water or deep mud either. I got nice interior and want to keep it that way lol.
And that's the main reason I got the xj to build or have a expedition style rig that would be cool for my son and I to take fishing,camping etc.. I wanted to fish one spot on the Lehigh with my son and I got to a point on trail were my car wouldn't go. Jeep fixed that

 

Sorry Brett. I sometimes forget to slow down through the mud puddles. It was hard this past weekend, I had to tow a Toyota out from lake christy.

 

I had bent a ZJ tie rod in Rock Creek before this and swapped in my spare, which was a stock XJ tie rod. The pics are of the stock rod bent, all I did was turn into a rock and it folded. I wasn't even on the gas. Now my tie rod is .25" wall DOM tubing and I have no issues.

 

Brett I would recommend this if you want an HD setup that will work nicely on the street. Everyone bashes on Rusty's but I've been running their track bar and this tie rod hard and had no problems.

ALSO their HD tie rod is the only one I could find that doesn't use the factory sized ends. The Rusty's ends are huge. Everybody else's HD tie rods (even Rock Krawler) ran stock ends, so you'll have a super strong bar and just destroy the end.

http://www.rustysoffroad.com/rustys-...-xj-tj-zj.html

 

That's a interesting idea.. What's the gripes with Rustys ? Shipping issues?