My Jeep is road worthy again after sitting dead for over 7 months 😲
Thanks to Rob for all his help. He worked his butt off, awesome guy to have as a friend!
To start with, the Jeep wouldn't start. I had to jump start the battery. When it finally started, the engine compartment started smoking a lot. The oil seperator leaked out all of its oil when the air pressure hit it, but it soon burned off. Then I couldn't get it in gear. It seems that leaving it parked for that long rusted the clutch plates together. Once running, we took it to Rob's house. We fixed the whole front end of the Jeep:
Re-weld the broken shock mount
Took the axles out and cleaned-regreased everything
New seals and slinger plates on the hubs
Brand new hubs
Shortened drag link and recentred
Re-attached the steering stabilizer
Re-routed the air line to bypass the oil sperator
New brake line
Bled the brakes
Oh ya, and repainted some stuff 😈
So the front end is done and I can drive it again. We now need to finish the back end to get it trail worthy. We will need to replace the rear shocks and do some maintenance on the rear/lower control arms. After that, I should be good to go...
