XJCruiser
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Saint Marys, PA
Seeking advice: Stock 9 XJ - 4.0 = AW4 = NP231 = D30, C8.25.
So Saturday I had put new leaf springs, shackles, and ubolts under it as I was tired of the severe sag it had. So last night I was on my way back from the store and heard a constant thump which drove me nuts as its a well maintained vehicle. In the dark I crawled under and found that the rear passenger side shock had fallen off of the axle mount. I figured no big deal I probably did something stupid and forgot to put the washer in front of the bushing and behind the nut. Well, took my 97 to work cuz I didn't want to deal with it at the time. Came home from work and upon inspection the tip of the "bolt" on the mount where the nut appears to have snapped off leaving the sleeve seized to the "bolt" and the shock free floating from the upper mounts.
My question is this: What is my best option for going about fixing? Cut off bolt drill out the remains and put a new bolt in there? Go to the junkyard and cut a mount off another axle? Just get a whole axle and be done with it? I have searched page after page looking for a place that sells just the shock mount and the only thing I have really come up with is the product like JKS sell where it actually moves the shock further up on the axle.
Any help or information or advice you guys/gals can give me would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
So Saturday I had put new leaf springs, shackles, and ubolts under it as I was tired of the severe sag it had. So last night I was on my way back from the store and heard a constant thump which drove me nuts as its a well maintained vehicle. In the dark I crawled under and found that the rear passenger side shock had fallen off of the axle mount. I figured no big deal I probably did something stupid and forgot to put the washer in front of the bushing and behind the nut. Well, took my 97 to work cuz I didn't want to deal with it at the time. Came home from work and upon inspection the tip of the "bolt" on the mount where the nut appears to have snapped off leaving the sleeve seized to the "bolt" and the shock free floating from the upper mounts.
My question is this: What is my best option for going about fixing? Cut off bolt drill out the remains and put a new bolt in there? Go to the junkyard and cut a mount off another axle? Just get a whole axle and be done with it? I have searched page after page looking for a place that sells just the shock mount and the only thing I have really come up with is the product like JKS sell where it actually moves the shock further up on the axle.
Any help or information or advice you guys/gals can give me would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!