I removed my tcase to do it but u do not have to!
And as long as you
Center punch before you drill it's not too bad. Also there's a little wiggle room for the bolt.

And my favorite part of the the whole thing is you use a stock cherokee front driveshaft for the rear! So buy one spare shaft for wheeling and it'll replace either!

Overall I'm very happy with it. Be sure to lock tite the yoke bolt tho

 

Good to know. I've heard of using the front shaft, but I'll be sitting about an inch higher than yours and running 35s, i guess I'm scared of the front shaft not being sufficient for my needs, I would like it to work as at least a temporary solution! I think once I get my work bench set up I'll probably just pull the T-case, I'll feel much more comfortable doing that on the bench than under the jeep!

 

We done the Rubicon Express SYE hack-n-tap and it was fairly simple. We had the Jeep on a lift and done the hack-n-tap under the jeep. We used a cutoff wheel and followed the instructions. This took about 2 hours. I did also get a custom length CV rear driveshaft which seem to fit really well.

We ran into issues with the lift on the steering bolt (had to cut it out) and the two rear shock bolts broke. We cut the rear shock bolts off and made smooth and then welded bar pin eliminators on the rear.

We also ran into issues installing the new control arms. They were a very tight fit and we had to use a lot of leverage and pulleys to get them installed. It took about 3 hours to install the upper and lower control arms and adjust the track bar.

I just received my front bumper from dirtbound offroad and my rear bumper will be here on Saturday.

I will post pictures of the finished SYE soon.

 

The headlights are Rampage I got from Amazon. Easy to install and much better than OME.

 

Very cool, that settles it then--Rampage it is for me! When I get the spare $$ lol

 

Here is the completed hack n tap. Works great and no drive line vibrations.