RESURECTIONJK
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Chasing DW is always a hassle. Hopefully that gets you squared away. I’ve been neglecting mine pretty bad also.
What was done to your rig this week?
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Mike Pierson
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Wow, that’s a lot gone wrong! Hopefully all that’ll fix your DW one and for all!
jeeeep
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This is getting ridiculous, apparently the installer decided this bushing was never going to come out so they didn't leave any room o the truss to remove the bushing.
Found that control arm jam nut was never tightened, it was nice and loose.
bad bushing, not sure how much the loose control arm contributed to it wearing out.
I did not get a picture of the differential breather tube that broke because I was speaking in tongue and creating a barrage of new swear words that I'm sure even the devil covered his ears.
I was removing the hose clamp on the differential breather elbow and that little piece of shit elbow snapped off at the axle, did not even put force on it, touched it too support it and it snapped off in my hand.
It looks pressed in, back to Ace Hardware to find something to insert into the piece on the diff that will fit tight and I can connect the rest of the breather hose to it, fucking hell.
Found that control arm jam nut was never tightened, it was nice and loose.
bad bushing, not sure how much the loose control arm contributed to it wearing out.
I did not get a picture of the differential breather tube that broke because I was speaking in tongue and creating a barrage of new swear words that I'm sure even the devil covered his ears.
I was removing the hose clamp on the differential breather elbow and that little piece of shit elbow snapped off at the axle, did not even put force on it, touched it too support it and it snapped off in my hand.
It looks pressed in, back to Ace Hardware to find something to insert into the piece on the diff that will fit tight and I can connect the rest of the breather hose to it, fucking hell.
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jeeeep
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How many cuss words does it take to remove driverside axle upper control arm bushing?
finally got that sob out after taking the Sawzall to score the inside.
Some lessons learned:
SOB IS A PIA with a truss and no air tools.
1. if you have a truss or plan to get one, make sure there is clearance for the bushing and ball joint press. I had to trim portions off the truss to get the ball joint press aligned to allow pressing the new bushing in. Would have had to take much more off the truss to use it for the removal.
2. if you have an air hammer it might make it easier and faster - my compressor didn't have enough to drive an air hammer. Otherwise, use a hole drill, drill the center secton/rubber out then use a hand hacksaw or sawzall to score the inside of the bushing. the sawzall cuts it like butter so don't get too crazy or you'll cut thru. Once the inside was scored, I was able to easily tap it out.
OR... cut the truss off to allow getting a chisel in place behind the bushing edge to hammer it out.
RockJock makes a sized round steel tool for this, unfortunately it wasn't going to arrive in time to miss the rain.
3. remove the upper bolt of the track bar instead of the lower, easier to get the lower lined up 1st and then the upper.
4. on the JL, the axle vent tube is brittle AF, I tried the hack saw to trim it flat, but the tube was hard to cut.
Used needle nose pliers and it broke off easily into pieces, go figure.
For now, I was able to tap a brass fitting tight into the existing hole and reattach the hose.
5. upper control arm must have been in a constant bind; alignment tomorrow will tell how close I got caster correct
6. A lift would make the job much easier, break into a shop and use the lift if you don't know a guy.
7. Save the expense of jail time from breaking in and let a mechanic do it.
finally got that sob out after taking the Sawzall to score the inside.
Some lessons learned:
SOB IS A PIA with a truss and no air tools.
1. if you have a truss or plan to get one, make sure there is clearance for the bushing and ball joint press. I had to trim portions off the truss to get the ball joint press aligned to allow pressing the new bushing in. Would have had to take much more off the truss to use it for the removal.
2. if you have an air hammer it might make it easier and faster - my compressor didn't have enough to drive an air hammer. Otherwise, use a hole drill, drill the center secton/rubber out then use a hand hacksaw or sawzall to score the inside of the bushing. the sawzall cuts it like butter so don't get too crazy or you'll cut thru. Once the inside was scored, I was able to easily tap it out.
OR... cut the truss off to allow getting a chisel in place behind the bushing edge to hammer it out.
RockJock makes a sized round steel tool for this, unfortunately it wasn't going to arrive in time to miss the rain.
3. remove the upper bolt of the track bar instead of the lower, easier to get the lower lined up 1st and then the upper.
4. on the JL, the axle vent tube is brittle AF, I tried the hack saw to trim it flat, but the tube was hard to cut.
Used needle nose pliers and it broke off easily into pieces, go figure.
For now, I was able to tap a brass fitting tight into the existing hole and reattach the hose.
5. upper control arm must have been in a constant bind; alignment tomorrow will tell how close I got caster correct
6. A lift would make the job much easier, break into a shop and use the lift if you don't know a guy.
7. Save the expense of jail time from breaking in and let a mechanic do it.
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Mike Pierson
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Lol damn, Joel! What a pain in the ass!
WJCO
Meme King
Those things can be a real pain.
jeeeep
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the truss made it worse, I should've listened to my gut and cut it away for good working clearance.
jeeeep
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that driver side, I think I heard Jesus laughing because every bad thing I've laughed at crossed my mind.
JT@623
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I have these in the garage for the TJ your not helping
WJCO
Meme King
Ball joint press and air hammer help.
JT@623
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I have both
jeeeep
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Not cutting away the truss to have working room was my biggest mistake, an air hammer to knock out the driver side would've been faster.
The passenger side want smooth like it was supposed to (nothing in the way of the ball joint press)