94xjsport94
I wish I knew more
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- Feb 21, 2014
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I've got a 94 XJ I've been working on since I turned 14 and the other weekend I broke the coil spring tower and cracked the unibody pretty bad near my track bar mount.
Don't judge the old dumpster welds... It cracked at the end of the brace and I had to remove a fish plate bracket and bolt so see exactly what was going on. The coil tower broke because the track bar is too short IMO and it pulls the axle at such a steep arch the coils are constantly pulling on the towers and it fatigued the metal there. Also had my air bumps mounted inside the coil springs. Full hydro set up will allow for a longer track bar which will help a lot I think along with different mounting points on a new set up.
I've been over the whole Cherokee platform for a minute now. Full bodied kinda sucks, harder to work on because of the sheet metal everywhere, bullshit unibody that's dented up, mine has dumpster welds on it from me not knowing what I was doing years ago, don't like the location of my sliders, and there are a lot of little things that bug my about mine. I've been thinking of either doing a front and back half on mine, but that still leaves the f'd up middle part of the unibody, finding a new Cherokee and building something like this:
Obviously there is very little unibody there and that's a lot of work. Why not just build a tube chassis. That's a lot of work too. Plus doing all custom Trans and engine mounts, fire wall, mounting pedals, etc. Other thing I have been thinking about was a YJ buggy still front and back halved just because it'll have a stronger frame. New unit will probably keep the drivetrain I have now as I'm not ready for a LS swap and etc. So 4.0, aw4, buying an atlas, Superduty axles, full hydro, blah blah blah. What would you do any why?
Don't judge the old dumpster welds... It cracked at the end of the brace and I had to remove a fish plate bracket and bolt so see exactly what was going on. The coil tower broke because the track bar is too short IMO and it pulls the axle at such a steep arch the coils are constantly pulling on the towers and it fatigued the metal there. Also had my air bumps mounted inside the coil springs. Full hydro set up will allow for a longer track bar which will help a lot I think along with different mounting points on a new set up.
I've been over the whole Cherokee platform for a minute now. Full bodied kinda sucks, harder to work on because of the sheet metal everywhere, bullshit unibody that's dented up, mine has dumpster welds on it from me not knowing what I was doing years ago, don't like the location of my sliders, and there are a lot of little things that bug my about mine. I've been thinking of either doing a front and back half on mine, but that still leaves the f'd up middle part of the unibody, finding a new Cherokee and building something like this:
Obviously there is very little unibody there and that's a lot of work. Why not just build a tube chassis. That's a lot of work too. Plus doing all custom Trans and engine mounts, fire wall, mounting pedals, etc. Other thing I have been thinking about was a YJ buggy still front and back halved just because it'll have a stronger frame. New unit will probably keep the drivetrain I have now as I'm not ready for a LS swap and etc. So 4.0, aw4, buying an atlas, Superduty axles, full hydro, blah blah blah. What would you do any why?