Easy Fix DANA 30 Bent C's / Jeep XJ

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7 ай бұрын

Diagnosing a possible bent axle on the Jeep XJ's Dana 30 HP has been on the cards since returning from a recent trip. I suspected a bad wheel alignment, but I don't think that's all of the problem. A lot of work is on the horizon, Truss, C Gussets, Long Arms and Cutting and Rotating the C's, but first I need to fis the immediate issues so I know what to do next.
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Mike
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Jeep Spec:
1999 Jeep Cherokee XJ 2.5TD RHD.
Summer Tire - 35x12.50r15 BFG KM3's with 15x8 3.75" backspacing (-19 offset).
Winter Tire - Cooper Discoverer ST MAXX Por Studded 35x12.50r15 BFG KM3's with 15x8 3.75" backspacing (-19 offset).
Lift Front - RC 4.5" Coils and N2 Shocks (3" Coil Spacer).
Front Shock Bar Pin Eliminator.
Dana 30 High Pinion with Artec Industries Lower Control Arm Mounts with modified upper mount and modified Track Bar mount.
Front RC Control Arm Drop Bracket.
Ruff Stuff Short Arm Single Himes.
RC Extended Sway Bar Links.
Dana 30 Rock Crusher Diff Cover.
Ruff Stuff One Ton OTK Steering.
6" Lift Drop Pitman Arm.
Ruff Stuff Front and Center Frame Stiffeners.
Rear DIY Frame Stiffener and Rear Frame Tie in Kit.
6" x 2" Box Rocker replacement with Tube Slider.
Modified Factory Bumper with Side Sliders.
Rear Tow Hitch Tire Carrier that bolts into Rear Frame Tie in Kit.
Modified upper Shock Crossmember for Rear Shocks
Rear Axle Chrysler 8.25 29 Spline with modified High Clearance Shock Mounts.
Rear Shocks 6.5" Trailmasters.
Rear Leaf Springs 5.5" Rubicon Express
Rear RC Shackle Relocation Bracket.
Stainless Steel Braided Brake Lines front and back.
Warrior 9500lb Winch.
Front Bumper - Ebay Custom Made.

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@WorkshoptoWilderness 7 ай бұрын

@rickcooper9434 7 ай бұрын

0 3😊😊😊

@rickcooper9434 7 ай бұрын

😊

@theclarkofben84 7 ай бұрын

You're an absolute legend, Mike. For every self critical thought you have, there are many people out there watching these videos having thoughts of admiration and respect

@joecola6487 7 ай бұрын

When a man build skills and learns to work with his hands he can tackle any job . Mike keeps leveling up. Much respect . 🇺🇸

@jcricket-vr5xr 7 ай бұрын

I said it many times mike your one hell of a fabricator glad your feeling better

@OutdoorsmanDave 7 ай бұрын

You really are amazing Mike, though you inspire me NOT to get into 4x4 and to just stick with wilderness camping, I do miss your bushcraft days.

@WorkshoptoWilderness 7 ай бұрын

Amazing or stupid, probably stupid haha. Well there's no reason why you can't do both, I do. Having a solid 4x4 makes a difference when you like doing what I do. Thanks for watching

@hnandra1 7 ай бұрын

It always amazes me how even in the most shitty situations you remain calm and collected with a plan of action to get to your end goal.!

@hnandra1 7 ай бұрын

Btw do you have a engineering background or is this all self taught diy ??

@WorkshoptoWilderness 7 ай бұрын

@@hnandra1 I use to get worried by things going wrong when but I actually enjoy the challenge these days, probably because I've been doing it for longer now. I have no engineering background, my fathers an engineer though and a lot of his problem solving I remember as a child. I actually remember him saying "there's always a way". Thanks for watching!

@joecola6487 7 ай бұрын

Solo camping builds grit !

@iamepimethus 7 ай бұрын

Always love the happy sarcasm!!

@ccaldwell8556 7 ай бұрын

Thank you Mike. Your attention to detail has given me a hint at what the tire wear on my daughter's XJ might be. I've been wondering about it for a while. I'm really looking forward to your long-arm build.

@WorkshoptoWilderness 7 ай бұрын

Glad the video can help out and appreciate you watching! Those C's bend pretty easily but also easy to bend back by how the job went.

@051biohaz 7 ай бұрын

Such a great Jeep man, really love the work you have done on it

@kevinzimmerman2304 7 ай бұрын

Anytime a Jeep breaks or something is worn out. We look to improve it. Ill be pulling my front axle for front frame stiffeners and strengthen some of the brackets this winter. Good luck with the build. It is fun wrenching but even better when we get to work the Jeeps.

@WorkshoptoWilderness 7 ай бұрын

Ah nice, frame stiffeners are a nice mod! Also just for then being able to weld to the frame stiffener and know its not going anywhere. All for the greater good, It will be nice when all this works over but I will try and enjoy the process. Good lick on the stiffeners and thanks for watching!

@williammrdeza9445 7 ай бұрын

Quite the ambitious project Mike! Good luck as you work through this--and take care of yourself in the process.

@Robdutton91 7 ай бұрын

You are such a perfectionist, I love it. Looking forward to seeing you build some long arms. I paid almost £1000 for the kit I had on my 4.0 after I paid the VAT on it and it wasn’t great. Made me realise I need to learn how to weld

@lastmanstanding1954 7 ай бұрын

GO MIKE GO !!!

@grantswheelstohills 7 ай бұрын

My goodness, Mike. Though this is more work than you expected. I bet your pleased, to.1 repair the problem. 2 .are that improvement to the new "box section thingy " well done Sir. I now motivated to find a barn this winter and start work on my old camper. Atb Grant 👍.

@WorkshoptoWilderness 7 ай бұрын

Its a lot more work than I wanted, but I have the time and the weather is terrible. Just went and cold pre winter. I will be happy to get it all sorted! Ah nice, barn hunting for a workshop. We're are you based?

@grantswheelstohills 7 ай бұрын

@WorkshoptoWilderness Hi, yes it was another of work. But if you are a perfectionist, there is only one way ! In sunny Kent.

@MrOldclunker 7 ай бұрын

OMG! Rare as Rocking Horse Shit ! I lost it ! LOL Yep, Note to self...when taking something to a buddy's shop...be there when the fix is done.

@GrizzlyPath 7 ай бұрын

My god that escalated haha. And here I was worried I wasn’t gonna get much Mike in the Garage content this winter!

@WorkshoptoWilderness 7 ай бұрын

Yeah that all went out of control. I'm hoping it will be ready for some snow camping, but I have a feeling its going to take a while... Thanks for watching!

@eversleyowl 7 ай бұрын

Great video, as ever. All of a sudden this has become a major project. Very timely for me to see what you are up to though. I'm currently looking out for a decent condition high pinion dana 30 to swap into my TJ and much of what you are doing is exactly what I keep going backwards and forwards on in my mind.

@WorkshoptoWilderness 7 ай бұрын

That's a nice coincidence! I don't think my truss will be much to go by, its juts going to be some 1/2 inch steel. Its a shame because I would love to get a proper one but the shipping is savage. Are you US based?

@eversleyowl 7 ай бұрын

@@WorkshoptoWilderness no, I'm in the UK so I completely share your pain with regard to RHD parts availability. If I was in the US I would probably swap in JKR axles, but the sales of JKRs were so low in the uK you just can't find them. I've shipped parts from the US, but only Quadratec and RockAuto - as you say the cost is eye watering on occassions. Then you get hit with close to 25% in duty and VAT 🙄 Yet to do it, but I have been looking into having parts shipped to a company on the East Coast that loads it all into containers and ships by sea to the UK. If you can free internal US shipping that looks to bring the cost down to 1/3 of FedEx et al.

@WorkshoptoWilderness 7 ай бұрын

@@eversleyowl Ah okay, well I know the feeling with 25 percent vat. It bumps up the cost quite considerably. I suppose the plus side is you get creative and make a lot more parts, but the other side for is, sometimes I would rather buy them and save all the grinding and welding. Some of the trusses look amazing. Mine will probably look functional haha.

@chopperchuck 7 ай бұрын

A couple analogies come to mind You pulled on a thread that you probably shouldn't have tugged on Or you opened up a can of worms that you shouldn't have opened

@WorkshoptoWilderness 7 ай бұрын

I think both are valid! Thanks for watching

@47cav13 7 ай бұрын

Man I feel your pain brother!!! I just replaced both lower control arms on my jeep JKU and the OCD also kicked in 😞

@WorkshoptoWilderness 7 ай бұрын

I even pep talked myself before starting that it was just going to be a small fix.... why does it always happen. Thanks for watching and good luck on the build!

@grenobel 5 ай бұрын

I love the bottle jack hack to straighten the C's. My XJ's C's are bent as well and I've considered just putting a D44 in it, but I'm having a really hard time justifying the cost. I might try the bottle jack and adding some gussets for now to get it down the road for a bit longer.

@WorkshoptoWilderness 5 ай бұрын

The bottle jack did the job. I didn't realise how bad they were bent until I did this. A D44 would ne such a good upgrade, I would run 37s if I had the opportunity to get one of those axles. Thanks for watching and good luck with the C's!

@cherokee7824 7 ай бұрын

Как всегда много интересного👍

@thonyonetwo 7 ай бұрын

Is your last name Oxhard? :P. Very happy to have found this channel btw! Nice work!

@WorkshoptoWilderness 7 ай бұрын

Haha, I'm probably missing something dodgy aren't I? Thanks for watching!

@Robdutton91 7 ай бұрын

@@WorkshoptoWilderness”Mike Oxhard”

@jamesa7506 7 ай бұрын

You really went caveman style with the hammer! No wonder Samantha got deflated. Hope you get to feeling better soon!

@WorkshoptoWilderness 7 ай бұрын

May she rest in pieces....

@owlclaw 6 ай бұрын

Ahoy from the US. I can relate, Gwagon parts here are Unicorn Shit here too, whereas I just bought an entire XJ (in decent shape) for less than I pay for a set of new tires 😂

@bensblues 7 ай бұрын

Mike, you were my childhood hero back in the days of MCQBushcraft - the dogging jokes are really ruining the vibe 🤣🤣 im not sure how much more i can take... they say to never meet your heroes, maybe they're right.

@WorkshoptoWilderness 7 ай бұрын

Haha, well you don't grow a sense of humour, i've always been this way unfortaunilty, just a more censored on the previous channel due to a very young average audience. Thanks for watching!

@seanmacdonald8476 7 ай бұрын

Holy shit bro

@MrMARKKIND 7 ай бұрын

Don’t hit any more bumps!

@moecantileverjr 7 ай бұрын

Got to measure the johnson rod twice, or she won't believe you.

@Grace_of_Allah 4 ай бұрын

My friend recommend me to subscribe your channel 😊

@WorkshoptoWilderness 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for checking out the channel!

@chopperchuck 7 ай бұрын

fyi your Facebook link is broken

@WorkshoptoWilderness 7 ай бұрын

I actually don't have FB anymore at all. I will remove the link, thanks for letting me know!

@chopperchuck 7 ай бұрын

@@WorkshoptoWilderness well that sucks Mike I wanted to send you pictures of the transmission crossmember I made for my XJ so I could put in a custom three link long arm set up The center section is bolted in the outer section that holds the suspension components as welded in so I can still get my transmission in and out without affecting my front axle

@WorkshoptoWilderness 7 ай бұрын

@@chopperchuck ah no worries. I made mine the same way, crossmember and suspension mounts are separate and bolt together. Suspension mounts are welded to the frame stifferners.