And here's some pics...
The goods, minus the UCAs and axle:
I'm normally the last guy to reuse bolts, but when the LCA bolts come off the donor WJ looking like this, they're fair game:
won't be driving for a day or two...
Here's where the guys from the south and southwest should stop reading if they think their jeeps are rusty. Cover your eyes, this is going to hurt...
What's a little coil perch rust gonna do? This isn't structural, right?
A better shot. This here is supposed to be a piece of 1/8" plate, spot welded over another piece of 1/8" plate:
Shock mounts are also in excellent shape (huh, what's that hole doing there?):
more "northeastern speed holes"
up here even our coil springs rust!
(the driver side coil spring is suspiciously new looking compared to the passenger side. Based on the previous previous owner's other repair work, I suspect that it rusted until it BROKE IN HALF and then was replaced, but he didn't feel like paying to replace both.)
Rust horror pics stop here... for a bit...
Look ma! no arms!
What was that I said about rust? Nevermind! :spin1: This is what a castle nut looks like after 19 years of northeastern salt spray.
(It went from blistered with rust and too big to fit into the socket to roughly oval shaped and not grippable at all when I tried to turn it. The cotter pin was a lost cause. I ended up grinding into one side until I was nicking the threads on the TRE, then grabbing it with vice grips and twisting back and forth with everything I had until it snapped and could be unscrewed.)
Brakes were in surprisingly good condition. They're the old allen bolt slide pin type, anyone need 2WD beam disc brakes for a 91/earlier? Also, you know how everyone gets confused at first by the torx head on the sway bar links? Mine actually unscrewed because the splines had rusted off :shocked:, it was annoying because I had to use a breaker bar with a torx bit on it to hold onto that end while turning the nut.
The other side. Compare those coil springs...