Good, all it needed was a new pinion seal.

 

did a bunch of small stuff, pluged almost everything in, tightened up the bolts on the intake, bolted in the replacement coil that i damaged dropping the engine in, nearly finished the fuel system(built my first braided -AN line!) still need to add the return line from the filter to the port i added on the tank,

 

We worked on my sons XJ today, putting on the budget lift from his old XJ on his replacement XJ. Like most of these rust buckets the rear upper shock mount bolts were froze solid. Broke all four of them. So we fabricated these and welded them in. The rear is finally done, we'll start the front tomorrow.

 

I dunno, man, I wouldn't be trusting myself let alone my kid with that...

Brackets look good, but those welds...from what I can see, I wouldn't run. That metal under there is VERY thin, and brittle. I just welded some cracks in my trans tunnel, and even with my machine on it's lowest setting, burned through super easy. Had to basically micro-second spot weld to get it to take, and it took a while, and looked like hell until I ground it down semi smooth. The cracks were from a DS that cut loose a few years back, and not structural...shock mounts, on the other hand...I highly suggest you rethink your approach.

 

I can see where the above post comes from. where those brackets are welded is very thin. I wouldn't trust it without further bracing or plating first. I could see the whole mfer flexing and bending when I was dealing with broken shock bolts.

 

I know most people hate them but Rough Country had a good idea with this kit to fix that problem.

 

An even better option than welding brackets or RC's flag nut set is their Bar Pin Eliminators. Drill the hole out to a bigger bolt size and bolt the bracket in and never deal with that mess again.

 

fit the "stock" good year belt i had on the 4.0L on to the 5.3 with a tensioner pulley change

im hoping to fire it today..

 

so the thin piece of metal that the original shock bar pin mounts to is not sufficient in supporting his bracket, but it's ok for a bpe (which looks like what he made) or flag nut? Maybe if he came back with bolts?...

 

The flagnut is just a replacement for what was there already. It broke, which most do after years of rust, so i suggested a simple stock replacement option. Where's your problem with that?

 

no problem, just seems like several were jumping on him for his solution to a problem that seemed to suggest an inferior mounting surface that the factory hardware utilizes in the first place. If the welding seems sketchy then like I suggested, add a bolt or two, like the BPE brackets do in the first place. What's the difference in welding a plate on there and the welded nuts from the factory?

 

Because the welded nuts sit inside a reinforced pocket. All that was bypassed when welding the brackets to the surface.

 

today i repaired my cruise control on my 97 xj,turned out to be dry solder joints on the solenoids in the vacuum servo unit.so once i re-soldered the joints put it all back together,went for test drive..cruise control now works...;-)

 

Aw yeah...looking forward to this

 

Got the vent visors installed on our Jeep.
Well, Mom N Dad did anyway. lol. No more rain inside if I forget to check the forecast.
yeah, that happened to me twice already.