98 XJ torn LCA mount right side.

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OnorOffroad

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Location

Enterprise, Alabama

• Jun 14, 2008

• #1

So I was just out in the rain screwing around in the Jeep, and had an accident. Anyway, 4x4 saved my @$$, but not before I smashed/ripped the LCA mount on the right side, now the axle is misaligned and the jeep pulls to the right.

I don;t think anything else bent, I checked the otherside, the sway bar, and the UCAs on both sides, seems ok.

So, what's the easiest way to fix it?

THanks

 

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adrnalinlovr

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Location

Da Boat, CO

• Jun 14, 2008

• #2

welder or seems like a good time to go for a long arm lift kit

 

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OnorOffroad

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Location

Enterprise, Alabama

• Jun 14, 2008

• #3

Good point!

I think the UCAs might have twisted a little bit, hard to tell though. The initial impact was on the right LCA and I think that's what ripped the mount from the axle. The LCA IS RE, it barely has a scratch on it..

 

jmaxj

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in My shorts.

• Jun 14, 2008

• #4

no need to do a long arm just order some HD control arm mounts from currie

 

bcmaxx

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The West Kootenays,B.C. Canada

• Jun 14, 2008

• #5

yuk! things bend!!I'd really have a close look at the axle/arms before I made up my mind

 

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Blaine B.

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Northwest Indiana

• Jun 14, 2008

• #6

What did you have an accident with?

 

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OnorOffroad

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Location

Enterprise, Alabama

• Jun 14, 2008

• #7

Yea I was looking at the HD mounts... Seems like a cheap easy fix.

I was driving off a trail that I always drive back onto a hardball road, when I slid in the mud down into a 4ft cement wash-out (?), as I slid downward into it the LCA hit the top part of the cement and then finally settled at the bottom with the front wheels at the bottom and the backwheels still up in the mud...