Bar pin eliminator?

techno1154 · Oct 19, 2004

I was trying to remove the rear shocks and broke one of the bolts. I panicked after that mishap and abondon the job until I have a chance to regroup or re-coup from my anger. Some where I heard that some of you use a bar pin eliminator. What do you use and how do you fasten it? I already got myself a drill bit and tap 10mm X 1.50 so that I could use a larger bolt and hopefully prevent this from happening again. Now if I could rid myself of that 'split ends bar pin.
Thanks.

PWRDrill · Oct 19, 2004

A popular thing to do is to use the bracket at the ends of your rear sway bar (where it attaches to the axle) as bar pin eliminators. It's simple and it works well.

Kevin

bigwhitey · Oct 19, 2004

or cut two pieces of angleiron and drill them to fit up in the holes and to the shock. you could even lengthen the shock that way if needed.

Yucca-Man · Oct 20, 2004

The swaybar-based BPE puts the shock operation in the wrong plane to the axle although it works. I used JKS BPEs front and rear on mine and they've been great.

cyberbackpacker · Oct 20, 2004

Go the angle iron route. Cheap and super effective.

Thayer · May 29, 2005

I don't really get how the BPE's help with the broken rear shock bolts problem. What stops the screws supplied by JKS to mount those blocks from getting stuck and broken the next time you want to change shocks???

Seems like the shock relocator from Detours helps fix the problem. It uses different bolts to mount to the frame and to the shock. I want their stuff but they're closed until July....ugh...sad...

http://detoursusa.com/xjstm.php

Infidel_XJ · May 29, 2005

Cut holes in the floor and build a rear shock hoop so you can relocate the lower mounts and still run long travel shocks.....

Pics to come

Eagle · May 29, 2005

PWRDrill said:
A popular thing to do is to use the bracket at the ends of your rear sway bar (where it attaches to the axle) as bar pin eliminators. It's simple and it works well.

Actually, it doesn't work well at all. It gets the shock in there, but the top is rotated 90 degrees from the way it's designed to be oriented, so when the suspension starts to work the top of the shock is being twisted. And neither that nor the real BPEs eliminate the need to fix the broken bolt, because that's what holds any of them in place.

Rocketman · May 30, 2005

You can ride "shockless" over to you friendly neighborhood body shop and have em weld a set of Rocky Road BPE's in place instead of trying to bolt em in. NEVER have to worry about rear uppers again!!

HilltopXJ · May 30, 2005

when you do get the broken bolt out, you need to chase the threads on the other holes. then use some copper based anti-seize on your new bolts, I belive loctite brand will work.

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