Shortly after the last repairs were complete I went on a long hiatus.  Partly because I had to leave to go elsewhere for a few months for training.  Partly because I couldn't get pictures from my iPhone to my computer without e-mailing them all, which was a pain.  No more iPhone pics from here on out.  Also, I was just lazy and faced with the task of organizing all the pictures I simply didn't want to do it, until now.

I'll start off by going way back in time.

When I returned from training I ordered new wheel hubs and also got a ball joint kit from Synergy, MFG.  Compared to the original ball joints, those things are beefy and come with sweet dust covers.  I love Bandit, but I will never buy a car from someone who says "it was a beach car" ever again.  Upon the ball joints breaking free from the knuckle, shards of rust shot out everywhere.  It wasn't a fun job and took two whole days at the auto shop to complete.

This is the old hub:

Old hub and new hub comparison:

Steering knuckles weren't too bad, but I cleaned up all the mating surfaces and gave them a thin coat of grease

Here is a side-by-side of the old ball joints with the new.  As you can see, one of them simply just fell apart.  Probably factory ball joints.

For some reason my XJ has CV joint axles.  This is the base model, with no cruise control, so I don't know why these are even on here.  Regardless, the boots are torn on both sides.  I will not replace the boots, but will replace the axles in the future with the stronger, more reliable, u-joint axles.

Finished install before I greased them all up