What did you do to your XJ today? 1M Views

[rastus2571]

Looked at my 8.8 sitting in the garage and bought a spartan locker for the front.

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[anthonygubbin]

Originally Posted by Jimmyb

Moved swaybar yes and also 1" was to compensate for lift.

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I still can't work out why you needed to set it forward more than the stock position JB. Did you need to compensate for massive tyres rubbing on the back? Also isn't your castor out now that you have shifted it an inch past stock?

Regards A

[junglejuice]

Originally Posted by anthonygubbin

I still can't work out why you needed to set it forward more than the stock position JB. Did you need to compensate for massive tyres rubbing on the back? Also isn't your castor out now that you have shifted it an inch past stock?

Regards A

You can move the diff position without affecting the caster....

[anthonygubbin]

Originally Posted by junglejuice

You can move the diff position without affecting the caster....

K I didn't know that.

Regards A

[Hamsteh]

One side mounted up, dont have any photos yet of the job finished. Also my new phone has a sh!te camera...

[bruggz351]

Originally Posted by rastus2571

Check the uni joints. You can possibly feel rear tailshaft vibration whilst driving by putting your hand on the floor behind the console accelerating and backing off.

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Uni joints appear ok.
Rear joint definitely is. front joint, dunno. Heaps of slop on the splines

The noise I have is definitely the rear drive shaft. Put the XJ on stands this morning and ran her up to 80 klm/h, daren't go any faster. Fook me!!! The noise, inside that shed...
I tell ya, it's bleedin amazin children aint cryin, storm chasers aint lookin skyward and christians aint yellin "armageddon"!!

And with no load, the vibrations were terrible.

I'm wondering, is the shaft too short with the 8.8 conversion?? As I stated above, heaps of movement in the spines.
Ah well, I have a yoke now, touch wood, tomorrow I can install a SYE and front shaft. .
Checked the output bearings and things still seem tight. (pray)

On a lighter note...

I also custom fabbed a awesome dash mat out of a bar runner





...noice...

cheers

[Jimmyb]

Originally Posted by mud_slut

All good MM let me know when you have some time and we can take it from there. Where exactly are you leaking from your front diff ? I'm currently leaking from my LCA bracket (passenger side) that were replaced when they were crushed. I was thinking somehow the guy who did the repair left a crack and I may also have a dodgy axle seal.

Originally Posted by junglejuice

You can move the diff position without affecting the caster....

No issues with caster as have adjustable arms. Moved it forward as the rubber was catching to much on back edge of guard opening and couldn't cut more off without affecting flat flares.

It made the sway bar extremely close to the coils which is why I moved complete sway bar forward. In the scheme of things 2" isn't much, when 1" of that was out anyways due to lift.