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93 jeep cherokee sport NEEDED HELP PLEASE REAd.

sspring

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hit tree this morning on right side of my jeep. please help and disgus how the right side of the axle and u-joint and everything is supposed to be set up. not sure on the parts im supposed to get but i know that my sway bar link and upper and lower control arm and i need a cylinoid for it. im pretty sure that i might need a u-joint. please explain in detail how to replace it also maybe a picture diagram of the right side. please and thank you
 
Quite the laundry list there.
If you hit a tree with your XJ and messed up the upper and lower control arms, you have larger issues than having us tell you in detail how to replace a u-joint. I recommend a visit to the library so you can get the big picture.
 
If you have that much rehab to do I suggest that you invest in a factory service manual.
 
For most of what's needed here, a Haynes manual would probably be sufficient. The 93 axle is pretty simple. Replace what's bent. Keep a record of how things came apart, and put them together the same way.

But before going very far, I'd seriously suggest you get underneath with a precise way of measuring, and make sure the subframe is not bent and there is no other damage. If you don't know how to measure a crashed car for bending, find someone who does. You need to be rigorous in your measurement of distances and diagonals, or all the work in the world will leave you with an un-alignable mess. While at it, make sure there is no damage to the axle tube or the axle itself. If you bent both control arms and damaged the u-joint, you need to be really careful here and may need to consider a whole new front axle.
 
For most of what's needed here, a Haynes manual would probably be sufficient. The 93 axle is pretty simple. Replace what's bent. Keep a record of how things came apart, and put them together the same way.

But before going very far, I'd seriously suggest you get underneath with a precise way of measuring, and make sure the subframe is not bent and there is no other damage. If you don't know how to measure a crashed car for bending, find someone who does. You need to be rigorous in your measurement of distances and diagonals, or all the work in the world will leave you with an un-alignable mess. While at it, make sure there is no damage to the axle tube or the axle itself. If you bent both control arms and damaged the u-joint, you need to be really careful here and may need to consider a whole new front axle.

okay i got back under the jeep and i notice the axle on the right side is leakin axle greece. is there any ideas that the axle might be broken from that? or would i be frome the impact and it is in shock or something

im a girl with a jeep love my jeeps but im currently going to school for automotvie technition. got a lot to learn just need some secod opinions you kmow thanks thoug : )
 
okay i got back under the jeep and i notice the axle on the right side is leakin axle greece. is there any ideas that the axle might be broken from that? or would i be frome the impact and it is in shock or something

im a girl with a jeep love my jeeps but im currently going to school for automotvie technition. got a lot to learn just need some secod opinions you kmow thanks thoug : )
For just plain broken, you can jack up the right hand wheel, turn it, and see if the driveshaft turns. But if it's leaking grease out the end of the axle shaft where the universal joint is, it means that something has probably disturbed the grease seal at the inner end of the shaft. Turning the axle as mentioned might help you feel a problem. If I were you I'd look very carefully to see if the right hand tube is bent in, or if the axle shaft itself took a whack bad enough to bend something. There are many things here that can bend just a little - hard to measure, but critical. You may well find it's easier to find a whole front axle than it is to troubleshoot a badly impacted one.

I feel for you, though. My daughter crashed her 93 in almost the same way, with about the same results, but I hope yours is just a little less severe. When we looked underneath and saw the oil oozing out of the axle tube, it was too much for a Vermont rustbucket with 230 thousand miles on it, so good bye trusty, Canyon Blue Metallic 2-door!
 
For just plain broken, you can jack up the right hand wheel, turn it, and see if the driveshaft turns. But if it's leaking grease out the end of the axle shaft where the universal joint is, it means that something has probably disturbed the grease seal at the inner end of the shaft. Turning the axle as mentioned might help you feel a problem. If I were you I'd look very carefully to see if the right hand tube is bent in, or if the axle shaft itself took a whack bad enough to bend something. There are many things here that can bend just a little - hard to measure, but critical. You may well find it's easier to find a whole front axle than it is to troubleshoot a badly impacted one.

I feel for you, though. My daughter crashed her 93 in almost the same way, with about the same results, but I hope yours is just a little less severe. When we looked underneath and saw the oil oozing out of the axle tube, it was too much for a Vermont rustbucket with 230 thousand miles on it, so good bye trusty, Canyon Blue Metallic 2-door!

thats ironic. mines a blue 2 door5 speed also. my last jeep was a 97 laredo and im big on the xj. ever since i bought a jeep seems to mee that i cant keep my hands off. them thats for the imput though ii highly wil take this into consideration thanks : )
 
is it wrong to ask for a picture of you and your jeep?
 
my name is sarah spring from mesick michigan. you can look me up on facebook if you'd like : ) do you have a facebook? i would also like to see some pictures of you. i dont know how to upload pictures on this thing if i did i would let me see if i can figure it out. nope i cant figure it out. tell me how to post pictures please
 
I'm not on facebook, I'm 64 and married, a bit lopsided after a very nasty bicycle accident this spring, and my only current Jeep is a (gasp, choke, cover face) Liberty, and an automatic at that, so I'd better not put anything up here! You probably don't want much more proximity than my avatar, though I do have a nice looking son who's still single at 32 and even works as a mechanic. I don't think he wants to leave Vermont, though.

I did, until earlier this year, have a couple of stick shift XJ's with impressively high odometer readings, so plead for some slack. Here in Vermont it's awfully hard to find a really reliable non-rusty XJ any more, and owing to my circumstances, I was unable to drive at all for three months, and even now I can no longer drive large distances without swapping off duties with my wife, who has her own knee problems that preclude a stick, especially one with as heavy a clutch as my last Cherokee had.

Good luck with the XJ, though. A great learning experience, and if it's a 5 speed, as well as a 2-door, I'd consider it a bit more of an interesting restoration and worth the effort than if it were simply another 4 door automatic.

P.S. this site has no on-site picture facility. If you can put your pictures elsewhere on the web, photobucket or Imageshack or the like, you can use the "picture" link in the "advanced" editiing feature to post the URL here, and the images will appear in your post.
 
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