What was done to YOUR rig(XJ/MJ) today MECHANICALY????

[IslanderOffRoad]

thinking later this week once i get inspected, i'll do my lift and axle swap. i really want to go all the way and 4x4 swap. but seeing as i've never done one i'll need some help

I'd be interested in coming by to help on the tranny swap since I'm planning to do it too.

 

[Swamprat]

well i might have to plan a weekend and get too it. i have school during the week and cant take off of class. i am just throwing the axle in first, i want to get an SYE on my 231 before i put it in the jeep.

 

[*whiteXJ*]

header is on no more leaks!! whoohoo!

 

[Swamprat]

chopped the tow bar off the front of the jeep, ditched the front swaybar, and wired in my CB. and now i cant get anything out of it, i think the antenna is to blme

 

[Swamprat]

some new pics, couldnt find a place to flex out my stock suspension haha

 

[Ecomike]

Wow, it kinda classes up the run down neighborhood!!!:sunshine:

 

[Swamprat]

its amazing what tires and trimmed fenders can do. now only if i have the bumpers i'ver drawn up.

 

[XJ Eric]

Found the vibration in the front. The front pinion yoke nut had backed off and was VERY loose. I should have looked there first. The rear pinion won't stay tight why would the front one stay tight?

 

[Swamprat]

today i've decided to lift my jeep. so most likely by the end of the day, i'll end up with a hover jeep.

 

[XJ Eric]

So even though the front pinion nut was loose, it wasn't the vibration culprit. Getting frustrated. under acceleration the vibration goes away but once I let off it starts to grind/vibrate in a rythmic pattern. vvvvvvvvvrrrrrrmmmmmm off vvvvvvvvrrrrrrmmmmmmmm off and on and on. it's got to be in the drivetrain somewhere. Theres' also a random squeak that seems like it's under the dash. If I'm moving it's squeaking. there's no pattern to it and it doesn't care how fast I'm going either.

 

[Swamprat]

sounds like a ujoint.


and i almost finished my lift. running about 2.5-3" up front and about 1.5-2" in the rear aprox. all i need need to finish up the lift is put the shocks on and tire. it got too late

 

[Ecomike]

Heading out this weekend to inspect a low mileage, 1984, 2 door, 4 banger, 2.5 L, carbed, 4x4, Cherokee Pioneer, RUST FREE, 5-speed manual JEEP for sale in Houston. I may need to get a larger driveway soon, LOL!

 

[Swamprat]

84? those were still FSJs right?

 

[Ecomike]

84? those were still FSJs right?

FSJ?

 

[Ecomike]

84? those were still FSJs right?

It is an XJ, Cherokee Pioneer, the first year they were made.

 

[Swamprat]

i thought 85 was the first year for the XJ platform.

 

[Ecomike]

i thought 85 was the first year for the XJ platform.

I did too, but we were wrong. They came out in 1984.

http://blog.jeep.com/2011/08/23/a-history-of-the-jeep-cherokee-xj-1984-01/

 

[PahlMc]

I went to change a leaky rear axle seal and ended up buying a new axle.

$230 I didn't want to spend but that's life.

 

[XJ Eric]

sounds like a ujoint.

All new Joints in the shafts. The driveshaft joints are all good. The output of the Transfer case isn't moving around. I'm starting to think it's in the locker. The pinion nut was backed off, but tightening it didn't help the noise any.

 

[Ecomike]

Beat on and ripped off the the beat to hell bumper off the 89, getting around to the final body work repairs from my daughter's last fender bender ride into the trunk of a ???? Maid some good progress. Got stonewalled by wandering gremlins on the two AC repair jobs on the ford and saturn. Frod has a wiring harness short (JOY!!!!), and the saturn has a bad compressor now, valves are bad. At least it is not JUNE!!!!