What did you do to your Cherokee today?
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Put my 33's back on it due to tranny temps and slipping with the 35's. So the 35's are on my YJ. Which is getting 29 spline 8.25 from my neighbor for free.
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Snapped some bolts, brushed some rust, ground some steel. Found the crack in my frame. Doesn't look so bad - when jacking up the transmission crossmember it doesn't flex, so that's a relief. Looks like it tore when I parked on a snow bank or something.
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Lol!, I know what you mean it's like you ask someone "hey wanna give me a hand changing out the old battery? " you start removing the cables they're old the nut gets rounded off the other cable snaps cause it's so old and brittle and when you finally remove the battery there's a hole in the battery tray...and you end up either A: working for 3-4 hours extra fixing everything or B: saying screw this I'll wait till Saturday. Lol
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That is good to hear, I am a touch worried about my frame not being able to hold up to trail use so I am going to order a set of Staang frame stiffeners, Canadian made and shipped to me for just over 2 bills. I need to get my quarters fixed first, thankfully my floor panels are all good
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Replaced my exhaust manifold, put my Brown Dog MM and changed out my tranny mount. The passenger side MM was a huge pain because I changed out the bracket to a super bracket. Then getting the downpipe to reattach was a pain. Over half the time spent was on those two things everything else was gravy.
The inside pipe going into the collector was completely broken all the way around. The driver side MM was completely shot the passenger side looked good. I believe it had been replaced. All three of the original bracket bolts had either bolts. Broken inside of them or the thread bosses were cracked. I was only able to reuse 1 of the original bolts
The inside pipe going into the collector was completely broken all the way around. The driver side MM was completely shot the passenger side looked good. I believe it had been replaced. All three of the original bracket bolts had either bolts. Broken inside of them or the thread bosses were cracked. I was only able to reuse 1 of the original bolts
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I took my doors off at this time to temove the weigh from tha A and B pillars as the rockers are totally gone.
That is good to hear, I am a touch worried about my frame not being able to hold up to trail use so I am going to order a set of Staang frame stiffeners, Canadian made and shipped to me for just over 2 bills. I need to get my quarters fixed first, thankfully my floor panels are all good
I figured out yesterday that I'm going to trim the stress tear (not really a crack thankfully) and laminate it with new 16ga before welding on my stiffeners.
Your floor panels are not good. Have you seen what they do to the 401? Lol
Fun fact: up until very recently, every spring the Don River in Toronto reached salt levels similar to the oceans.
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No idea. XJs aren't unibodies and the doors certainly aren't structural. The latch has about 1/4" of play and the hinges have plastic bushings. I doubt an actual unibody has such a problem either, as if any real stress ever went through them they'd be permanently screwed and never open again. They're like the peel-back foil seals on dip containers... Keep the gooey bits inside.
I took my doors off at this time to temove the weigh from tha A and B pillars as the rockers are totally gone.
Nice, just the mids I take it? What're the specs in Staangs?
I figured out yesterday that I'm going to trim the stress tear (not really a crack thankfully) and laminate it with new 16ga before welding on my stiffeners.
Your floor panels are not good. Have you seen what they do to the 401? Lol
Fun fact: up until very recently, every spring the Don River in Toronto reached salt levels similar to the oceans.
I took my doors off at this time to temove the weigh from tha A and B pillars as the rockers are totally gone.
Nice, just the mids I take it? What're the specs in Staangs?
I figured out yesterday that I'm going to trim the stress tear (not really a crack thankfully) and laminate it with new 16ga before welding on my stiffeners.
Your floor panels are not good. Have you seen what they do to the 401? Lol
Fun fact: up until very recently, every spring the Don River in Toronto reached salt levels similar to the oceans.
Right now they have 3 huge piles and are still getting more in. By the time winter actually gets here and they close down the Seaway for the season that whole area will be on big salt pile and they will have smaller piles sent out to the townships.
The Staang stiffeners are 10g weld in pieces and it looks like they span from the back of the LCA to the leaf perches in the rear. Only a small picture in the link but it is enough to get an idea of how they are made, unless you are on a smartphone