Easiest way to do pucks is to get a spring compressor,get the front of the truck up and wheels off and undo the sway bar so the axle can droop. You should have room to get the coils out and put the pucks in.
This has to be one of the most asked questions on the board,a quick search should come up with lots of info.
You want spacers/pucks up front and chevy drop shackles in the rear.
:agree: you would have to remove the bed and butcher the rear frame to get the full potential out of the factoy leafs so you would never see the benefit of a 4 link on a stockish MJ
Mine probably got bent while laying on the scrap pile,I'm sure it got really bent when the scrap pile went to the crusher.
my current bumper was perfectly straight once too,then the tube bender got ahold of it. :cheers:
Could be,I haven't put them on yet. The MJ plate is from a 2.5L and my XJ plate is from a 4.0L.
The difference is very slight,it wouldn't take much to make my XJ plate match the MJ one.
Both trucks should have crappy 3.07 gears so you should be able to use your axle.
I wouldn't bother with the XJ rear axle unless it has a D44 or your rear ratio doesn't match the XJ front,they should have the same gears but you never know for sure till you check.
Unibody means the frame and body are one,you cannot remove one from the other.
And the "frame" of and XJ and MJ is very different so they wouldn't swap anyway
Any year XJ/MJ skid plate will work and they are not hard to find around Portland,I have 2 of them but not sure I want to part with one.
I have noticed my MJ one is slightly different compaired to my XJ one but I don't see how it would cause fitting issues.
The best thing to do is figure out how much it will cost to fix it then take that number and ask yourself if you could replace your truck with an equal or better truck for that.
That is a good point,I would remove the links and see if the sway bar moves you should be able to move the sway bar up and down with little resistance.