XJ tech: Frame brace for your steering box.
- Thread starter Hickey
- Start date
- Location
- Bountiful, land of rocks
For how relevant this tech is, it's interesting that nobody who posted before still has an XJ.(XJ Nate doesn't count, since his is mostly missing)
I'm trying to sell mine still
I'm trying to talk myself into buying it
- Location
- Bountiful, land of rocks
- Location
- Bountiful, land of rocks
If Bryson would buy us a burger, I'd even pick him up and haul the fridge back down. It's a good evening for all!!!
I'd deliver
Don't make me lowball you ksl style
- Location
- Bountiful, land of rocks
Don't make me lowball you ksl style
I'll give you $50 and a slice of toast that fell on the floor?
Pile of parts
Well-Known Member
- Location
- South Jordan
If it's a burger from the drugstore in Kamas, I'll come along and I have nothing to do with either deal. (Which is appropriate, since none of this has anything to do with this old thread)
- Location
- Grantsville, Utah
Tried to talk my son into buying it. He wants a 4 door.
Holy blast from the past!
Hey you shush, it still has all the drivetrain...
For how relevant this tech is, it's interesting that nobody who posted before still has an XJ.
Hey you shush, it still has all the drivetrain...
XJEEPER
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Highland Springs
The relevant part is that XJ's still have a known weakness in the steering box area.
Fast forward from 2005, there are now a dozen manufacturers who make/sell XJ steering box area uni-rail reinforcement plates and the one's which have incorporated weld-in sleeves for the steering gear bolts are providing the total solution. Slapping on plates (welding them on is preferred ;>) ) will help reduce the potential of uni-rail cracking in this area, but without the addition of weld-in sleeves, they do not prevent the uni-rail from compressing and flexing when the steering gear bolts are tightened and/or torsional loads are applied to the area as the gear turns large tires.
Ok, enough nerding out.......back to bartering for Marc's XJ with tainted toast.
Fast forward from 2005, there are now a dozen manufacturers who make/sell XJ steering box area uni-rail reinforcement plates and the one's which have incorporated weld-in sleeves for the steering gear bolts are providing the total solution. Slapping on plates (welding them on is preferred ;>) ) will help reduce the potential of uni-rail cracking in this area, but without the addition of weld-in sleeves, they do not prevent the uni-rail from compressing and flexing when the steering gear bolts are tightened and/or torsional loads are applied to the area as the gear turns large tires.
Ok, enough nerding out.......back to bartering for Marc's XJ with tainted toast.
- Location
- West Jordan
Mmmm... Burgers.
RogueJeepr
Here!
- Location
- Utah
Another reason I never left 31's.
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kmboren
Recovering XJ owner anonymous
- Location
- Southern Utah
I am on my third one. Still have parts from my first one on this one. Finally got smart or maybe it was stupid, who knows but I caged and braced almost everything.