I'm fortunate enough to live only two towns away from the folks at Redhead Steering Gears. It makes it real easy when you don't have to deal with shipping or core exchange! I took my old leaky creaky down and brought home a new Redhead. I also brought home a t-shirt for the wife (also a redhead).
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Then later a delivery person brought me my new M.O.R.E. steering box bracket so I could trash my OEM 2-piece "thick sheet metal" AMC bracketry. I noticed several outfits selling these on the web, but I didn't see where the others had quality welds like these. This one is heavy duty. Sorry, no banana for scale...
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I also had two bolts that were broken off in the frame and managed to get them both out today! One of them twisted off during
my removal process, and the other was twisted off already. Imagine my surprise when I then noticed that the one that was there already was the rearmost hole in the front spring perch--leaving the spring perch with only one bolt holding it on!
I was lucky that each of the offending bolts had about 1/4" of threads still protruding. After welding nuts on what was left of the threads down below, I bored an access hole on the front of the crossmember.
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I used my old torch to heat the welded nuts up nice and hot through the access hole and quenched the bolts with a cold, wet rag. It worked out pretty nice. Now I just have the one round hole to weld up.
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So, that's what I did to or with my CJ today. It was a good'n!