Sadly, I don't have to imagine. That's the reason I don't have an MJ anymore.
I take it needed a lot more than an axle assembly to fix?
Could have got by with an axle swap, but then the 2.5 was producing a lot of blowby, so a 4.0 swap would have been in order. Way too much for what was supposed to be a 'round town DD. Still have the TJ and now a new Patriot (wife) so we're still in the Jeep Crew. I just replaced the MJ with a first gen ZR2, like I used to have before the TJ.