Front locker is in, front lift coils are in, upper control arms are in.
Now I have to wait until tommorrow to go to the spring shop to get the new spring centering bolts and spring clamps, and then I should have the rear in.
When I had the front apart to do the locker I found both unit bearings have a little play in them, and both of the 261X joints are bad. I am going to replace the joints and make these my spares. I'll buy new unit bearings and a set of junkyard 297 joint shafts.
I also need to buy/build lower control arms, buy sway bar discconects, and an HD steering system (every joint on the stock is bad and the HD steering is cheaper than replacing ALL the stock parts) Also could use new rotors and pads.
So its still going to be a little while before it drives itself from the garage.
I brought it home yesterday. As I had thought I found no real issues with the 4wd. At his house I pulled it into 4hi and it made a grinding noise the whole time drove across the field to the driveway.
I loaded it on the towdolley behind my liberty and removed the rear shaft.
I towed it over 300miles (had about 4 other stops to make around the state getting parts.
At my final stop I had two sets of wheels, a np435/205 combo, 6 tires, a liberty lift kit ( springs shocks struts ect) an air tank, and a wagoneer dana 44 front with driveshaft and steering components. stuffed in the back of the xj, and I had my self, my dog, and my buddy in the Liberty. I hit the interstate with cruise set at 80mph.
Got home unloaded the xj and clicked it into 4lo, nothing happened, jerked realyl har don the shifted and it popped in. No lises, switched to 4hino noises either, went back to 2w, then abck to 4hi and got the noise, pulled the shifter while at a roll and it popped completely in and the noise went away... its all in a stiff shifter.
looks like a great project and a real cheep one at that.. can you explaine what rear leafs you used out of the s10 and the jeep?
would be great info.. how much lift did you get out of it?
I used only the xj main, then cut the eyelets off the s10 pack and used the entire pack.
I didnt measure anything before hand but from what I read that should ahve gave me about 4.5" You can tell it is significantly higher as thats a 33" tire on there and its no where near rubbing. if you mix the entire xj pack in with the entire s10 pack it should give you nearly 6"
Yeah I noticed in the pic on the untrimed fender how much clearance you have.. one of the reasons I asked. looks good and I can not wait to see more of this build.
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