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Swapped front seat cushions with each other. They are different, but fit nevertheless. Now practically new passenger seat foam lives under the driver. About 5 cm higher than before, but very soft and supportive.
3 hour of work. Not hard, but a bit fiddly and time consuming with the seat rings and rodes.
Great idea my drivers seat is a bit shite. Might have to do this too.

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After some minor death wobble attempts, this weekend I got the full taste of major death wobble, so I got pissed and started tackling the actual problem:

The original holes in the axle are enlarged, the old shouldered bolt was moving around despite my best efforts to tighten it and to make matters worse, the shoulder was not long enough to engage the second hole in the bracket. Plus, the polyurethane bushings are way too soft and their sleeves now have play inside the bushings. Adding up all the play...I'm happy it didn't wobble like crazy before.

Step 1: Cut out the dinky 3mm thick trackbar bracket and fabricobble one out of 6mm material. Now the bolt will have a tougher time wearing out the hole.


Come at me, fun police, but give me some time to finish then I can put on my flame suit.
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Step 2 - through the end:

Finished bracket, no more enlarged holes:


I've cut a small tab drilled out to exactly 12mm out of the same stock as the front bracket and spot welded it behind the stock bracket.


Bracket welded back:


All that I could find was a trackbar bushing from an XJ, redrilled it to 12mm. It will do until I get the new WJ-specific bushings. The top bushing is still the poly crap.

So far it seems fine, steering is a bit tighter, I've tried to take some railroad crossings and bad dips as fast as possible and nothing.

No more popping noises on speed bumps. The popping noises were probably the bolt moving around in the hole.

There's one pothole in town that always caused a bit of wobble, will try it today.
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I added a precleaner to the snorkel and started growing fruit on the roof.
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Summer's coming!
Can I come visit for .... 6 months or so?
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Oil change today. The picture is of a genuine Mopar filter. Note the Mann brand and part number also on it.
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Yup, you can get the identical filter from Mann. That's what I use in mine.
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