Hello fellow inmates,
This is my first post on this site, but I have owned Jeeps for 30 years and built up several (CJ7, JK's, JT, WJ, XJ, KJ). At any rate, I picked up what I believe to be a diamond in the rough last week for cheap. Maybe the seller knew what he had, maybe not, or maybe he didn't care, and it is looking like I struck gold. She fires right up and almost everything works. I am in the process of learning what has been done and what needs to be done to get this beast street legal and back on the road for now. It will be a daily short distance commuter but mostly a trail dog. At the very least it has a Rock Krawler full long arm kit, hand throttle, HD steering, upgraded brackets everywhere, winch, compressor, armor, snorkel and more.
I will go through and perform a full maintenance on the systems (Ignition, cooling, electrical, etc), but the first order of business is the rear axle assembly. It needs seals on both sides and probably a new shock mount welded on (wait, shocks are suppose to flop around right). There is a truss welded on for the upper control arms and what looks like upgraded brackets and cover. I was planning on tearing it down, but it sure would be nice to know what assembly it is before I show up at the parts store with what may be left of the seals and say "I need two like this" and hope, haha.
This is my first post on this site, but I have owned Jeeps for 30 years and built up several (CJ7, JK's, JT, WJ, XJ, KJ). At any rate, I picked up what I believe to be a diamond in the rough last week for cheap. Maybe the seller knew what he had, maybe not, or maybe he didn't care, and it is looking like I struck gold. She fires right up and almost everything works. I am in the process of learning what has been done and what needs to be done to get this beast street legal and back on the road for now. It will be a daily short distance commuter but mostly a trail dog. At the very least it has a Rock Krawler full long arm kit, hand throttle, HD steering, upgraded brackets everywhere, winch, compressor, armor, snorkel and more.
I will go through and perform a full maintenance on the systems (Ignition, cooling, electrical, etc), but the first order of business is the rear axle assembly. It needs seals on both sides and probably a new shock mount welded on (wait, shocks are suppose to flop around right). There is a truss welded on for the upper control arms and what looks like upgraded brackets and cover. I was planning on tearing it down, but it sure would be nice to know what assembly it is before I show up at the parts store with what may be left of the seals and say "I need two like this" and hope, haha.
