Front axle shims - 95YJ

These are caster shims. Caster is part of front end alignment and contributes to ease and stability of steering. Adding a suspension lift almost certainly changes your caster. I would keep the shims when installing the lift, and then take the vehicle to a front end shop to have the alignment checked. Then you might have to take them out or put different ones in. Oh well...

Earle

I left em out and will see whta happens when I get it aligned Monday/Tues.

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But they'd charge me for that. And I'm a cheapskate, in addition to not trusting (most) shops.

Monday/Tues.

So you're going to take it home, install the wedges, and then bring it back in to get the alignment double checked again? It is highly recommended to have the final configuration verified, rather than calculating which wedges are needed and slapping them in. You do have a point about most shops though. Imagine the torque their air tools will put on your U-bolts...

Earle

Hadn't thought about that - doh.

I air gun my U-bolts to 65 lbs.

You're supposed to use a torque wrench on them. People question my tiny little Craftsman air compressor and lack of air tools, but there is reason in my madness...

Earle

Desert YJ wrote:

Real men do not need impact wrenches, or penetrating fluid, just muscle and a torch. Did I mention my friend in Crozet, Virginia who once removed a shock mount (the whole thing) with no other tools than a 44 magnum pistol?

Earle

L.W.(ßill) Hughes III wrote:

Damn straight! Did I ever tell you about the time my neighbor's wife drove his Porsche through my garage wall and destroyed my lawn mower? If there's anything better than destroying a lawn mower, it's having your neighbor's wife do it for you with his Porsche, and then apologize profusely and pay for it!

Earle

L.W.(ßill) Hughes III wrote:

I finish em up with a torque wrench - but if you set your compressor to the desired psi it comes out pretty close.

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You remind me of my Dad doing a roadside tyre change on our LandRover (whose wheel nuts peculiarly would get tighter the longer they were on) .. he applied so much pressure to the wheel brace by hand (no extension bar) that the wheel brace evenually bent (and it was a lot thicker than the one that comes with the Jeep) ! The same guy had a head on with a 38 ton lorry and broke the steering column before impact by bracing himself against the wheel as he wasn't wearing a seatbelt. The accident investigator said he hadn't seen anything like it before..

Dave Milne, Scotland '99 TJ 4.0 Sahara