DIY: Jeep Cherokee Leaf Spring and Rust Hole FIX  

Thanks for this video. I have the exact same rust hole in the same spot. And I might be moving back to PA soon so I better get busy!

This is what it takes on these 20- year old Jeeps! Nice work!

It’s cool that you help your brother out. Nice Jeep’s! I have our current and former XJ’s on our channel Patriot72. I will be tackling our leaf springs this weekend. Should go decent with help from The Lord Jesus and The Holy Spirit! I enjoyed the video. I subscribed. Keep it up. God bless!

Thank you algorithm. This is a great video.. I was looking for a little advice on which leaf to remove in the rear of my '98 to smooth her ass a little and here this is. Whoever's doing the editing and music selection needs a raise. No shit, I'd love if some of the bigger Jeep channels had half of this groove. Subbed.

Dude this video was awesome. I wished I had seen something like it when me and a buddy barely figured out how to install my add-a-leaf that’s now sagging 10 years later 😂 At least i know what to do this time around. God bless.

A steel cross member from a warehouse pallet rack makes excellent repair material for the rear rusted frame area. Already the perfect width to slip right over the weakened frame and about 1/8 inch thick so it welds real nice. Bevel and stitch a few pieces together to make a neat repair and I ran my repair from the bump stops to right under the trailer hitch. Now I feel confident the hitch will never break free. Those rear bolts took me about two hours each to extract damage free. Lots of penetrating oil and a fancy homemade bolt extractor.

For rust proofing, I have always used phosphate etch, followed by Bill Hirsch Miracle Paint. Then an overcoat of undercoat, or paint, depending on if it is visible or not

Always a good idea to presoak all nuts and bolts with your favorite penetrating oil a couple of days prior to a job like this. I've been known to mix PB Blaster with Deep Creep. Remember, more is better. God bless and stay well.

Thanks you did a nice job god bless

Awesome patch job!

Great job !

i have a 96 xj and need to do that same thing. my rust is more bad then yours but i cut out frame rails out of a 99 xj. im using it for patches but sounds good

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That was very entertaining and informative. I guess one of the takeaways is that if you are going to start a job like this make sure you have a nearly empty gas tank. It would have been a lot more work removing the tank if it had 20 gallons of fuel in it. To make the bottom of the Jeep look better why didn't you hit the "new" leaf springs with some black paint before installing?

My driver side is sagging so it could need this work

I just bought a 1996 cherokee sport. it was a must tow no start deal. Well stupid me i did not do an inspection underneath and man the leaf springs are not holding on by very much. My fault for not looking. It was an older couple, she is disabled and he is a handyman who is in his early 60's....They seemed very open and upfront about why and what was going on with the vehicle. I did not do a deep investigation because i thought i could trust them. Still my fault. i took it for 950 cash so lesson is ill never not bring my jump box , code reader and coolant combustion test fluid kit. 3 tools along with a decent list of check offs. But for 950 i figured id throw 500 in it and have a winter driver. But i hear to many stories about what happens if the leafs go on you and you are say on the free way. Nobody has removed them and did a video to show the viewers...........I wanted to be sick about this but said cut the loss at 950 and do not let it be a 3500 loss.

ahhh , jeep life in Pa ...

Why didn't the jeep get lifted more with so much more leaf?

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