4wdParakeet
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- Olathe, Ks
I don't know if anybody else has this problem but I think I have a cursed XJ. It seems like everytime I work on my XJ it goes south in a hurry. I don't know if why but it does. Examples.... replacing a rusted in half shackle 6 hours. putting on extended brake lines, 400 dollars later I have new hard brake lines, rear brakes, etc. It just seems like when I work on the damn thing it snowballs on me and gets more and more expensive. So when I ordered my 1 ton set up I decided to take it to a kinda local off road shop. So I get it to the shop and he calls me later that day, the company didn't ship a bracket with the kit. So the company overnights the bracket. Another phone call. Since my XJ has the vaccum disco front end filled with a cast steel that is right where the bracket. My mechanic and I talk about welding to the cast but decided to not too since it's a DD. That leaves our options of replacing the axle. Now my mission is to find a non disco front end with 3.07's. Call all my local parts guys to see if anybody knows where I can get one. No luck all the ones I can find are D30's with 3.55's. That makes another call to my mech. Some more talking and decided that it would be cheaper for us to throw a used 8.25 with 3.55's under the rear and find a 3.55 geared D30 to throw in the front. So now I get to get up at the butt crack of dawn to go get my new used axle and drive it over an hour from the axle pick up point. Long story short I wonder if my XJ is cursed. The whole reason I didn't do the steering myself was so that it wouldn't snowball. So I've now spend about 700 bucks on the steering, 225 on a new front axle, 100 on the rear and roughly 500+ on the install. And just breaking those numbers down I really feel sick to my stomach
uke:. Sorry for the long and boring post but I really had to vent. I couldn't vent to the wife since she is keeper of the wampum and she is already about to scalp me since my project budget just went through the roof. The upside is I've spent a ton of cash on axles so I can do the same thing in a year only with 44's and at least 4.88's and lockers. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH:badpc:
Parakeet
uke:. Sorry for the long and boring post but I really had to vent. I couldn't vent to the wife since she is keeper of the wampum and she is already about to scalp me since my project budget just went through the roof. The upside is I've spent a ton of cash on axles so I can do the same thing in a year only with 44's and at least 4.88's and lockers. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH:badpc:Parakeet
