Well as of now both drive shafts are out of the truck as I wait for my SYE. I am currently running one home made washer in the front end, I will be putting in one more. The truck appears to be accident free everything looks good underneath. I have just been having lots of troubles with it and had a thought that maybe none of them work well on road and off. I can see I was wrong in this thought. Now that I have heard from people who have made them work right I will continue the mods with the hope that I will have a reliable and capable rig when all is said and done...
Thanks for the help guys.
Sorry you're having so much trouble, but I think once you get it all sorted you'll LOVE the OME suspension and will truly enjoy your truck. The problem with Vibrations is that there's too many places that they can originate from and really it's hard to pin tehm down when you can't inspect them rolling down the road at 80 mph
First off: Are your tires balanced well? I know it's a stupid question but it's a sim[ple thing that get's overlooked quite alot. The SYE should be done on even stock trucks IMO so you're on the right path there. D-shaft imballances can be really hard to diagnose sometimes because there's kind of a "frequency" to them, meaning that they're RPM/Speed specific and sometimes won't really rear their ugly heads untill
JUST the right speed.
Steering: Well, as others have said, avoid the RR and others "Inv-T" set-ups. Imo they're completely the wrong idea and require more modifying then should have to be done for something that's being sold to consumers. The Typical Y steering isn't bad, but being SFA you need to be real careful to keep your track bar in line with your Tie-Rod to avoid bump-steer that could to some degree feel like like a
vibration depending on where/how you're driving. My personal fav. is to run cross-over steering. On a SFA it's just the best steering you can run IMO.
As far it being wreck free, don't be so sure. my Dad's current 98 XJ looks imaculate but when you really start to add it all up it's like ly that it's been in some sort of wreck. They're uni-body so if they HAVE been damaged they're really ahrd to get everything back in line. Add to that the fact that even a slight warp/mis-alignment in the tub will cause all sorts of woes from Doors not closing to various other annoying things... Dad's has this anoying "tamborine" effect in the front axle and it feels as though the front control arms are loose from time to time. Crawling under the truck and even replacing all of the bushings/control arms did nothing. And the Rattles!!!! Oh god how I hated my XJ's after a few years as a trail rig, it was like I was driving a jar of penny's.
The end of it is: They're Cherokee's... they rattle, shake and in general just aren't that rock solid. Great platform for a Trail truck, just not that durable... yes I've owned a few
Cheers
Dave
