Highschool budget 1999 xj build
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Year: 1999
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Originally Posted by jbennett
How about swapping front and rear shafts? I'm surprised your pinion angle is so close to perfect. It has to be off if your caster is correct. Curious to hear what your fix finally is, I'll be getting into this on mine soon, not sure what other options you have.
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Year: 1999
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First time it happened I nearly sh*t myself! I was doing 60 on the freeway, hit a pothole, and thought I was going to die. Nothing stopped it except for coming to a complete stop and pulling over to the side. Fun times!
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Originally Posted by CantDrive55
First time it happened I nearly sh*t myself! I was doing 60 on the freeway, hit a pothole, and thought I was going to die. Nothing stopped it except for coming to a complete stop and pulling over to the side. Fun times!
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Originally Posted by 5-Speed
Death wobble = too much fun. Try doing it at 80 mph. Hope you get that figured out though. I sold my last xj due to non fixable dw out of nowhere.
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Year: 2000
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Originally Posted by SatiricalHen
Also, just put in a stock front driveshaft and vibrations are gone. Guess tom woods shaft is going bye bye.
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Originally Posted by Lake00XJ
That's weird. And I'd join you wheeling but I'm up here in Ohio so try to to break anything
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Originally Posted by 5-Speed
Adams wont let you down. Glad to hear you finally ordered one. For me, it normally takes 2 days to get. But i am only 1 day away for shipping. You, not so much.
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Well I have a new front driveshaft coming, a rebuild kit for a rubicon express trackbar so I can put that with the brace and bracket in, rubicon express disconnects, have shims and center pins waiting on u bolts I ordered, and I think that's about it for now. Tired of spending money on this thing, hoping the rubicon express disconnects are longer and will push the sway bar higher hopefully keeping it from hitting the coils like it does now. Decided since I have the rubicon express track bar and bracket I might as well use it since I do wheel my jeep and don't want to screw up the frame. Need to shim the rear for a very slight vibration and need to get some wheeling in to make me feel better about all the ramen noodles I ate to make this work haha
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Originally Posted by SatiricalHen
Well I have a new front driveshaft coming, a rebuild kit for a rubicon express trackbar so I can put that with the brace and bracket in, rubicon express disconnects, have shims and center pins waiting on u bolts I ordered, and I think that's about it for now. Tired of spending money on this thing, hoping the rubicon express disconnects are longer and will push the sway bar higher hopefully keeping it from hitting the coils like it does now. Decided since I have the rubicon express track bar and bracket I might as well use it since I do wheel my jeep and don't want to screw up the frame. Need to shim the rear for a very slight vibration and need to get some wheeling in to make me feel better about all the ramen noodles I ate to make this work haha
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Originally Posted by Lake00XJ
If you don't daily it anymore, take the sway bar off. Can't hit the coils if it's not there... but yea wheeling fixes (or breaks) everything