Egged out shock mounts.

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EpiK XJ

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Astoria OR

• Apr 23, 2010

• #1

The upper mount holes in the sheet metal are all egged out, i pot new bushings in and all it did was eat em up, could i just throw a washer on each side and new bushings and call it good? or do i gota weld nwe washers in there just to make sure? thx

 

xcm

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Southern Oregon

• Apr 23, 2010

• #2

lemme guess, rough country?

 

joe_peters

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Grants Pass, OryGun

• Apr 23, 2010

• #3

Best job would be to weld in some appropriate sized fender washers.

However, you can order various sizes of poly shock bushings from energy suspensions and others, so you might find something that would "fill the gap".

 

CharlesS

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Quezon Province, Philippines

• Apr 24, 2010

• #4

One trick that might work for you is to contact a friend that is replacing the front shocks on a ZJ and use the rubber bushings.
The ZJ shock bushings are almost twice as large in diameter as the XJs which should fill the enlarged hole.
You could also just install stud eliminators and use shocks with dual eyelet ends.

 

joe_peters

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Grants Pass, OryGun

• Apr 24, 2010

• #5

CharlesS said:

One trick that might work for you is to contact a friend that is replacing the front shocks on a ZJ and use the rubber bushings.
The ZJ shock bushings are almost twice as large in diameter as the XJs which should fill the enlarged hole.
You could also just install stud eliminators and use shocks with dual eyelet ends.

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Unfortunately, most of the stud eliminators I have seen that were installed without using shock bushings ended up egging/tearing out the holes. Based on that I always install those stud eliminators with poly bushings.

 

CharlesS

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Quezon Province, Philippines

• Apr 24, 2010

• #6

Depends upon bolt size. I used JKS stud eliminators 12 years ago and they have worked great. No egging.