I bought a TJ because why????

[Scoobienorth]

Man your fb post on this was a show. 45 people answering stuff you didn’t ask, 4 telling you what you already knew. Not sure of much came from that one

[Scott Cee AKA 2drx4]

That went about as well as I expected. I enjoyed the people who were adamant that I had the components in the wrong places and linked pictures of it being assembled the exact same way as I was trying to.

[Scott Cee AKA 2drx4]

Replacement tie rod showed up, and yup, they put the wrong ball/stud in it:

Last time it will be like this:

Got the rear out:

I broke one upper shock bolt and another went round. Otherwise it all came out reasonably okay. Also the exhaust fell apart, so I ordered some Walker replacement.

[Scott Cee AKA 2drx4]

Front out:

New steering box to go in, the old one leaked like a sieve:

Committed to this now :

Lots more to do as far as cutting off and cleaning up the brackets and frame. I think I'm going to weld the new control arm brackets on because the frame honestly could use some more substantive reinforcement due to rust damage. I will have to evaluate that more when I get that far.

As usual, super slow progress.

[Scott Cee AKA 2drx4]

So I am going to have to do some frame repairs. Thought I took pics, apparently not, but I will when I get it cleaned up to see for sure what I need to do.

I pulled the tcase for access (has to come out anyway) and found this:

That said, I think the tranny is massively overfilled, it's blowing oil out of the shift tower too. Not sure if I have to take the tail housing off to change that seal. Will look into it more. Might just pull the whole trans because whatever at this point. I know the PO "had the clutch done" but it seems to hang up, so maybe I should just accept that I'm only a handful of bolts away from that anyway.

So much for a quick install.