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Just a quick update, I broke my upper rear shock mount off and its not like I've done any wheeling. Anyway the PO had pop corn welded nuts to the bottom of the Jeep when changing the rear shocks and the poor thing was relying on the strength of a washer to hold the shock to the jeep, so I cleaned the area up and fried it in there pretty good, a little too good as I had to run a tap through the nut to get a bolt back in it. All is well now I hope. Sorry for the rant its just no one will listen to me anymore about Jeep stuff, I havent been wheeling in over 4 months and I am having withdrawls.
Well I finally got out and wheel the thing today and I finally broke it.
Thank jeebus I Keep a pile of ratchet straps in the Jeep. I have stitch welded it back together as a band-aid for now, but I will have to come up with a more permanent solution before we start hitting some harder trails.
Anyway here's a pic from before the carnage.
I already have it welded back in place but I will need to put a little more meat and heat into it before its wheeled again.
lower spring buckets are kind of punky with rot too. I'm not sure what I'm doing as of yet could result in a new front diff, could result in one of these.
Bought a 94 HP 30 last night. U-joints are wasted, ball joints are supposed to be newish, but I think it does have a terraflex forged adjustable trac-bar. So its a roll of the dice could be a total score or it could be junk. More to come with pics.
And so it begins. Here's a pic of the axle as I picked it up.
Every thing so far has been a PITA. Every bolt needed heat, but at least the gears all look clean and in good working order. Props to all you guys that did you lift install with basic hand tools alone in your drive way. Changing axles is taking allot longer than I thought.
I had to call it quits at about 12:30. Axle is in but still have steering brakes and a few other things to button up today.
Looking like I've lucked out paid a $100 for the axle and it had an adjustable track bar that he wanted to take off but didn't have the tools to get the bolt loose. His loss is my gain because what was left on it is this nice unit from terraflex.
and its in.
every things working pretty well. I even took it up on the highway. Little bit of wobble around 40-45ish but nothing bad and it really needs a hillbilly alignment and I never balanced the 33's. Other than that just need to swap over the Locker and my axle tube seals but I'm kind of tired of wrenching on it for now. Still waiting on those sliders from JCR too.
I didn't correct him.
. Anyway the PO had pop corn welded nuts to the bottom of the Jeep when changing the rear shocks and the poor thing was relying on the strength of a washer to hold the shock to the jeep, so I cleaned the area up and fried it in there pretty good, a little too good as I had to run a tap through the nut to get a bolt back in it. All is well now I hope. Sorry for the rant its just no one will listen to me anymore about Jeep stuff, I havent been wheeling in over 4 months and I am having withdrawls.
. Steering is weakest link for sure, but being a DD I dont have the time or really the money for a WJ swap yet.
, but I think it does have a terraflex forged adjustable trac-bar. So its a roll of the dice could be a total score or it could be junk. More to come with pics.
