My Jeep YJ build thread

[bobbywalter]

hell of a score on the yj though... 2g...and there is still metal left....friggin awesome.

 

[Shran]

So that dumb vacuum CAD thing on the front axle apparently has not worked since I got this thing... our offroad event over Labor Day was somewhat awkward in 2wd, I found out about that when I couldn't make it up a hill. One of the nipples on the vacuum thing was rusted off.

I did the normal thing and instead of fixing it I bought a winch.

 

[pentode]

I've been away a long time so I might be missing an obvious joke and/or reference, but is that a real antique plate?
When I look at that Jeep my brain says "new Jeep"... does that mean I'm just old?

 

[superj]

you can open that cad deal and slide the collar into 4wd and then your front end will be like a jeep cherokee front end, the axles will be turning but not engaged. then when you put the tcase in 4wd, the front end will engage and you will be good to go.

jeep got rid of that vacuum controlled collar engagement right around the 93 or 94 models, i think. i don't remember my wife's 93 having it but i know my 87 had it because i deleted it by sliding the collar over.


the other, more expensive fix was to change that axle shaft to one from a cherokee because they never used that vacuum system

 

[superj]

that dana30 front end was used from the early 80s until 2019 on all the solid front axle jeeps. wrangler, cherokee, comanche, grand cherokee, all of them.

you had to pay to get a d44 front and i think those only were available on rubicon wranglers in the tj and newer models.

 

[ryan]

you can open that cad deal and slide the collar into 4wd and then your front end will be like a jeep cherokee front end, the axles will be turning but not engaged. then when you put the tcase in 4wd, the front end will engage and you will be good to go.

jeep got rid of that vacuum controlled collar engagement right around the 93 or 94 models, i think. i don't remember my wife's 93 having it but i know my 87 had it because i deleted it by sliding the collar over.


the other, more expensive fix was to change that axle shaft to one from a cherokee because they never used that vacuum system

^this

IMO i'd switch the axle shaft from the two piece to a normal one.