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Replaced the track bar bracket with one of ECGS's heavy duty ones. It is like twice as thick and I cannot imagine the hole wallowing out. The steering stabilizer bracket was trashed, so I got one from TMR Customs. It did NOT fit like the stock one and the welder had to chop it up a bit. (I am...

Here are some pics of it all cleaned up with the new brackets. And yeah, this cost me a LOT more than a normal HP30 would cost, but there were zero HP30s in my area when I was ready to buy, and it still cost me a lot less than a restored one from someplace like ECGS, and tons less than a Rubicon...

The brackets ended up being very badly pitted, but the large ones (bumpstop/shock mount) still had enough metal to be solid. The other brackets were just ruined. The media blasting showed that most of it was totally okay, under all the garbage, though. So that was good. The HP 30 will raise my...

The knuckles no longer turned - at all; the ball joints were totally frozen. The end of the track bar was still in its bracket, as was the steering stabilizer. Had this not been the case I would have passed on this axle because I could have seen that both brackets were ruined. The holes were...

Here are the CraigsList ad pics - pretty damned bad, but the price was adequate for me to bite.

More of this saga later. However, as a teaser - this is what I am up to today: I am restoring a very beat up Dana 30 HP from a 1992 MJ Comanche. Currently I have stripped it down, had some new brackets welded onto it, had it bead blasted, and then I primed it yesterday. The weather is cold, so...

Here is the replacement POS nightmare TJ that this thread is about. ;) These first ones are from the CraigsList ad I answered. Very deceiving stuff! These are from the trip home from Hot Springs. First day at her new home in Mississippi, after a little clean up and some careful...

And here she is, dead, on the side of I-55 north of Jackson. RIP, old girl. My friend will make you live again soon... :(

This first post is just to create the build thread. Not much in here today. I bought this Sport in June of 2013 after my first TJ died on me. I had bought the first one used in early 2004. It was a trade-in on a Honda lot. I saw it there amongst the endless backdrop of Accords and Civics and...

My wife is driving us to see a movie. We just rolled down Jerry Clower Blvd. I actually saw him perform live in Jackson in 1994. Funny guy. I grew up in San Antonio and my mom played AM classic country every morning at the breakfast table. Just before the news would come on at the top of the...

Hey, this is Holton345 from WF and GreenSport from JF checking in from Third World America, AKA Yazoo City, Mississippi. No, Jerry Clower did not make up Yazoo City; it is quite real. Hope to learn, contribute, and make some friends. Later! Wade