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Date:
3/26/2019 11:06:56 AM
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RE: Finally, after much struggle
Well, it took me about two weeks just to do the front!
Some of the decisions manufacturers make on their cars when designing them just make no sense to me, like your balljoint issue. I think in the case of mine, the only reason there are bushings pressed into the axle and not the Control Arms like everywhere else on the vehicle, is that it's all legacy shit. Chrysler was looking to save money, so they simply used all the old tech stuff they'd been using on the cars from the previous decades. My Jeep, while a 98 is mechanically related to most Dodge/Jeep/Chrysler vehicles since the 80's. That said, it's at least relatively simple to work on.
Also, just discovered that I've actually installed the lower CA's upside down, so I gotta redo that. Mistakes were made. At least it shouldn't be too terribly difficult to pull them out and swap them around, no bushings to pull this time around.
