My Poor KJ: Part #2

Fulltimer · **Posted:** Fri Feb 05, 2010 3:17 pm

I'm still having a LOT of problems. If you remember I had a banging in the front drivers side. The axle shaft AND the 1/2 axle need to be replaced! They changed the 1/2 shaft and said I could take her home for the weekend and Monday the axle shaft would be in. Well, when I hit 25mph she started banging real hard. I think the new 1/2 shaft wasn't meshing with the worn out axle shaft. I turned around and took it back. :cry:

I'm about ready to trade it off! Get a used Cherokee and build.

Terry

riptricket · **Posted:** Fri Feb 05, 2010 3:59 pm

dibs on purchasing your front and giving you my stocker to replace it with...

In all seriousness, why would they think that that would work?

tommudd · **Posted:** Fri Feb 05, 2010 4:33 pm

Agree with Jayme for sure, no way should they of put the intermediate shaft in with the used CV, Should of just left the CV/intermediate shaft, out would not of hurt anything for a couple of days.

I have some vacation time Terry
want me to pack up and come down for a while and get you going again?
:wink:

Fulltimer · **Posted:** Fri Feb 05, 2010 6:17 pm

That would be good Tom.

They obviously don't know anything about lifted KJ's. They said after they get the thing fixed I should take it to Jacksonville to an off road place to have something done about the CV angle. They also won't warranty the new parts because of the lift. I can go along with that. The angle is too much. I'm going to have them take the spacers out to drop the angle some. That will cause tire rubbing but I think I can work around that.

Terry

tommudd · **Posted:** Fri Feb 05, 2010 7:44 pm

What are you sitting at now Terry? Middle of wheel to bottom of flare? What spacers did you add?
Is there a good off road shop in Jacksonville is there, well and do they know anything about Liberty's I guess would be the big question.

Fulltimer · **Posted:** Sat Feb 06, 2010 1:05 am

tommudd wrote:

What are you sitting at now Terry? Middle of wheel to bottom of flare? What spacers did you add?
Is there a good off road shop in Jacksonville is there, well and do they know anything about Liberty's I guess would be the big question.

I'm at 22 1/2" in the front with 3 spacers in the "clevis lift". I used the conduit nuts for spacers. There is an off road shop in Jacksonville but they were not any help when I had the lift put in. Some of their suggestions were way off. So I'm guessing they don't know the KJ's.

Terry

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Sat Feb 06, 2010 1:10 am

your cv angle was that off at 22 1/2 ??

theres plenty of us at that range, i think they were just talking over their screw up sending you home without removing the shaft for the time being

tommudd · **Posted:** Sat Feb 06, 2010 1:33 am

Yes I'm sitting over 23 right now and while pretty much I would say at the top of the range your 22.5 is great. I ran that much for 75,000 miles at least so no way is that too high!

I wish you were closer to one of us Terry that could help you some.

JL Rockies · **Posted:** Sat Feb 06, 2010 2:52 am

In my experience, FL suffers from a talent vacuum in all manor of services.

Fulltimer · **Posted:** Sat Feb 06, 2010 5:32 am

I know what you guys are saying. With all the Franky lifts out there, not to mention the OME setups, there are a ton at the same angle. I have 83K miles on her odometer, plus a lot of miles getting towed behind the motorhome. My guess would be the total is close to 100K miles. Lifted miles would probably be around 30K miles. I would have to check my paper work to know for sure. None of this should have caused this much trouble.

Terry

My Poor KJ: Part #2

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