The '90 by 1990JEEPXJ

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well lately i have done a few little things. i replaced my passenger side UCA bushing at the sae time i adjusted my UCA's. and today i decided to try and track down my mini death wobble thing i had going on. i didnt want it to get any worse. so i took the trackbar off the axle side and found a slightly wallowed out hole. so i had some steel lying around, a welder, and some time so i went to work

first i made a cardboard template for the metal

after i cut it out i welded in the new piece

and i used this dinosaur of a welder

it definitely helped out a ton with the wobble i was getting

4-6-2010

well over the weekend i played in the dunes some, whoops etc. i drove home and got SERIOUS death wobble. it always shook a little over certain bumps but now its bad. i took it in to an alignment shop and found out my TRE's are bad already after less than a year. im tired of TRE's and ordered the ballistic fab steering kit. its extreme overkill but my drivers side knuckle is already drilled out to 3/4". so no more sloppy steering. and my caster angle is also off, each side being significantly different, which probably means my tube is bent/twisted. so i need new off set upper ball joints as well.

4-8-2010

finally got annoyed enough to try and figure out my lean to the drivers side, its the coil spring. so i adjusted the ACOS accordingly and here is how it looks

and now it sits just about level. i have to raise up the drivers side just over 3/4" of an inch. needless to say i have little faith in RE suspension products anymore.

also, a few weeks ago i noticed a nice clunk in 4WD. so i looked underneath and found this:

the u-joint retaining clip had come off and the cap had started to work its way out. luckily i had another clip lying around and i didnt lose any needle bearings from the cap. all is well now. that couldve been seriously disastrous