Damage invesigation...likely causes?

I have been working on putting in my lift kit today and came across a lot of stuff that had been damaged on the passenger side that my dad had attempted to repair. The base of the shock mount was cracked, the top was cracked, and the LCA on that side is damaged in the mounts (I'm having to cut the bolts out in order to remove the LCA's. What is a likely cause of this damage?

The most likely culprit I can think of at the moment is jumping it and coming down hard and bad on that side... any other ideas?

i would say hitting a tall curb or rock if the vehicle is stock height

Definitely a good suspect. I will see if I can pry into the matter at another time.

couldnt tell you how it happens but you wanna make sure it didnt travel up and put a dink in your tranny cooler line. I tried to make a claim on my old xj, through a breakdown insurance, engineer looked at it and said it was accident damage.

dunbad said:

couldnt tell you how it happens but you wanna make sure it didnt travel up and put a dink in your tranny cooler line. I tried to make a claim on my old xj, through a breakdown insurance, engineer looked at it and said it was accident damage.

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To transmission cooler to worry about. I drive a stick. Are the upper and lower bolts on the lca the exact same?