Recent content by Branmuff09

Thank you very much for your help. Ill check em in the morning. I might just have to cave and take it to a shop to get it fixed alot more quickly than i could do it to prevent damaging anything else. I'll update as soon as i find the culprit.

The sound completely stops once i get up over about 15mph no more popping or anything. It sort of hums slightly around 45mph nothing unbearable just noticeable enough to worry me. One thing that is odd about my situation is that when the front is jacked off the ground and i spin the wheels...

thanks for your input guys. today i went on trying to pinpoint the issue. I took the jeep out and drove until the popping started at slow speeds. i was idling in a parking lot listening to the sound and decided to put the brake lightly and give it a little gas at the same time to hold the same...

Hey guys, a couple of days ago i started noticing a grinding/ popping sound from the front drivers side wheel of my xj when making a left turn at slow speeds. The noise has gradually started to make itself known not only when turning left now, but also from standing starts at traffic lights and...

So i just recently installed a 2inch lift on my xj and now when i turn slowly to the left i hear a clanking sound coming from the front drivers side. It almost sounds like being pulled up the hill on a roller coaster haha. The sound continues until ive come out of the turn and continued for...

alrigh thank you! i figured i'd have some adjusting to do but for now ill start out by making it a degree lower, then ill just work from there if it doesnt fix the problem.

Alright thanks! only reason i thought the rear pinion should be 1 to 2 degrees lower was because i heard that because xj's have leaf suspension in the rear the angle will even out when you are driving due to axle wrap.

thank you very much!

Its a 1996 lifted 2" coils in front 2" shackles in rear. I measured the angles and the pinion needs to drop about 3 degrees to be parallel with the tc output. i was just going to get 4 degree shims which would put the pinion one degree below, which seems like the best thing to do IMO.

So after searching for the correct angles to have in the driveline for the stock 2 joint xj shaft i have found alot of mixed answers. I was always under the impression that the angles from the transfer case output to the pinion needed to be parallel. I was going to shim my pinion angle down...

Yeah i really want to do it and i think itll help. i've just been reading all the posts about the TC drop and it seems risky and honestly seems to cause as many or more problems then it fixes in the long run. i want to try shims i just need to look in to them more

I checked my u-joints out and tried shaking the drive shaft to see if there was any looseness that tends to come with worn u-joints but it was very tight and still. the current ones only have 90k on them but i will do a more detailed check tomorrow. thanks!

I just installed a 2inch lift on my 96 xj. 2" rusty's coils in the front and 2"RC shackles in rear. I am getting driveline vibes and even though i "shouldnt" need it i am getting a transfer case drop, i was told by numbers of people not to get shims with a shackle lift and due to lack of...

Regarding to your question about the cheapest tranny drop kit i bought one from Rusty's for 20 bucks, just incase you choose to go that route.

ill check on ebay and see if i can find some deals on them. thank you for your input everyone!