Yeah, without a doubt you will shear off those upper bolts. lol soak the **** out of them with PB then snap the bold heads off and tap and extract. those bolts are complete bs!

 

Yup, broke mine on my 88, solid rust. I would heat it up to, just to try to make it easier. When I did mine, like 2 weeks ago, I went the route of the Jeep grand Cherokee v-8 coils and a new set of leafs for the rear with 4 inches of lift. a little pricier, but my jeep was an 88, and trying to take apart those leaf springs would have been hell. the lift itself is pretty easy and outright. Coil and leaf springs, buy some new shocks (who puts used shocks on, I bought mine on ebay for just over a hundred bucks shipped, Rough country 3-5 inch lift).

Major step--- PREP... SOAK the heck out of the bolt, especially those upper rear shock bolts. Also, I had to use a wrench and a jack for all for of my leaf spring bolts... bhut than again, I'll blame the age.

It's pretty easy and standard to do, nothing tricky about it, so best of luck.

 

did my rear shocks yesterday. was way surprised that only one bolt broke and another bent on the way out.

 

Get a cheap air hammer and just blast those upper shock bolts out after you snap em off...

Took me about 2 minutes to fix the broken bolts then I fished in the bolts using the little access hole up there. No big problem.

 

Howd you fix em? By the wire trick or by cutting a whole?

 

I took a combination wrench and a small piece of masking tape and used that to put the bolts in the access hole right next to the shock mount. Similar to the wire trick except that I didn't have any wire... While some people have a fetish about cutting their XJ, I prefer to leave the structure alone as much as possible...

 

Lol me too, she has enough problems already.

Haha I heard about some doing that and just letting they're wrench stay back there.

 

To anyone whose done a bastard pack, Im a little confused when you put it all together, so you use the spring clamp to clam it all onto the main leaf which gives you your lift?

 

would some thing like this work as clamps?

I mean i could make that..thats not worth 20 bucks..
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mr-Gasket-12...item5d30ebba6c