NDCjeepsmith
Red Skull Member
Omfg! So I'm helping out a buddy with 2013 JKU that has had over 100k dumped into it and 4 or 5 POS shady shops half-assed it all along the way.
Just picked it up from a fab shop where it sat for the past 19 months. Only thing he was supposed to do was a full hydro setup cause the half-assed hydro assist and steersmarts yeti setup fell off.
I got it off trailer and went around for a quick look. Instantly noticed the rear-end is 4" offset to passenger side, there's no track bars, no brackets were painted so everything has rusted, some welds broken, and half the bolts missing...
Luckily it's only been driven 50 miles in the last 6 yrs but I still can't believe this thing was let out of a shops doors like this.
Now to my first question... does anyone recognize these long arms or brackets?
I'm not really cool with these arms, they look a bit shady. Axle ends are threaded welded into the link with the stock style "U" ends on a clamp and pinch bolt.
And yeah... there's no panhards! I'm assuming the front was needing to come off and redone to fit the double ended ram.
Rear???? No clue... also noticed the rear has drivers brackets on inside of frame and passengers brackets on outside of frame. I see the reason.... the gas tank... this is my first messing with a JK btw so I assume this is common. But what throws me is the axle brackets are centered but the frame brackets are both on right side of frame so I'm thinking that's the cause of offset rearend and not just that it's missing the panhard.
Thoughts? Encouragement, pointers and any info to help my research is greatly appreciated.
Just picked it up from a fab shop where it sat for the past 19 months. Only thing he was supposed to do was a full hydro setup cause the half-assed hydro assist and steersmarts yeti setup fell off.
I got it off trailer and went around for a quick look. Instantly noticed the rear-end is 4" offset to passenger side, there's no track bars, no brackets were painted so everything has rusted, some welds broken, and half the bolts missing...
Luckily it's only been driven 50 miles in the last 6 yrs but I still can't believe this thing was let out of a shops doors like this.
Now to my first question... does anyone recognize these long arms or brackets?
I'm not really cool with these arms, they look a bit shady. Axle ends are threaded welded into the link with the stock style "U" ends on a clamp and pinch bolt.
And yeah... there's no panhards! I'm assuming the front was needing to come off and redone to fit the double ended ram.
Rear???? No clue... also noticed the rear has drivers brackets on inside of frame and passengers brackets on outside of frame. I see the reason.... the gas tank... this is my first messing with a JK btw so I assume this is common. But what throws me is the axle brackets are centered but the frame brackets are both on right side of frame so I'm thinking that's the cause of offset rearend and not just that it's missing the panhard.
Thoughts? Encouragement, pointers and any info to help my research is greatly appreciated.