Hey Eric, Just a heads up when you are working on a Jeep / Dodge with a tracking bar front end the best way to check them is with the truck on the ground and have some one wiggling the steering wheel back and forth for you, other wise the front end will always "feel tight" even though it could be getting ready to leave town on you. When you pick it up on a lift it puts to much tension on the tracking bar to be able to check it using conventional 3 and 9 wiggle methods. --Eric O.

@MediumHalf

9 жыл бұрын

Mechanics named Eric got each others' back. :)

@ericthecarguy

9 жыл бұрын

+South Main Auto Repair Good call. Thanks for pointing that out. Some ball joints are that way as well.

@assgrabberb

9 жыл бұрын

+South Main Auto Repair A Pinion seal was leaking too. That's a pain in the ass but a good video. Damn I love Jeeps.

@CMDRSweeper

9 жыл бұрын

+JaWe Yup, at least with what Americans call "Domestics". But I doubt Eric C has the worst cars to fix when it comes to salt and corrosion.

@NobodyAskedForThis

8 жыл бұрын

+CMDR Sweeper dealer Tech, soon to be self employed, in the northeast. We got rust like nobody. Dealing with rust is an art in itself.

Eric, You're the best! Thank you for all the help you bring to everyone that is in need and can't find an honest mechanic. Without you I'd be screwed...

Camera man Brian is the master with his camera and settings and lighting. ..everything in perfect focus..from closeup to infinity.

perfect. Just broke the sway bar link this morning and wondered what a replacement was like. Not having a lift nor an impact wrench I'll send this to my guy in town but at least I now know what to tell him. Excellent video, description, and tips.

You make my week w/ your vehicle care videos. I'm now disabled and can't do all those cool suspension and brake jobs/upgrades like I used to. When my time comes I will watch over you and keep you safe and assist getting rid of those pesky gremlins like those spinning ball joints!!!!

Hey Eric my name is justin and im 15 and i have been watching your videos for awhile and i just wanted to thank you for the entertainment and the knowledge i get from your videos. keep up the great work

11:40 I love how when Eric faces little challenges he's so calm and merely like "oohh ok"

Thanks Eric! I have to replace mine right now. I've had the Jeep since new (2003) and need to replace the disco links I put in 10 years ago. It was good to work through the whole process with you -- will save me time! My only addition to your suspension check (agreeing with SMA) is the pan hard rod bushing which goes and you can't really see it unless you have it on the ground and rack the wheel back and forth.. That, and a lower than normal death wobble speed... (Know you know this - just listing for others for the full check.) I also have a "zerk count" for the jeep. There are so many up front that It's easy to forget one up so I have a "total" that I count to make sure I get them all.

Torque specs from the factory manual for a ’99 TJ: The manual says to install and tighten in the order below. Sway bar bushings = 40 ft./lb. Lower link nuts = 70 ft./lb. Upper link nuts =45 ft./lb.

I think it's great that you caught the attention of Advance Auto. Here in Illinois I buy most of my parts and fluids from them. Really like their speed perks discount!

Thanks Eric, great video and appreciated. Along with a lot of other people I didn't like how the top ball joint bolt spins. You didn't seem to have any problem with it but I did. I cut a small slot on top of the bolt to use a flat head screw driver to keep it from spinning. Also I noticed there is a torque spec in the instructions I guess most people aren't worried about that.

Of all the vehicles I've owned over the years, domestic and import, the Jeep Wrangler is still the best vehicle to wrench on. There are so much space to work on the Wrangler and most everything can be repaired or replaced with simple shot tools.

I'm new to jeeps so this whole damn video was super useful. My thought 2/3 of the way through was "jeeze I hope he talks about grease points" and then he literally said "let's also grease any other fittings we can find". Damn Eric u rule.

Thanks for posting this video. Its hard to get good quality Jeep videos. I wish you could do more Jeeps. I did a similar epair on mine but my front Stabilizers did not have grease fittings.

I'm so glad I live in central Texas and don't have to deal with rust vehicles down here 😊

Those knipex cobra's you've got probably worked better than the vise grips for holding that torx bolt. I use mine all the time for this type of stuff! Thanks for the video!

Good morning Eric. I'm having coffee getting ready for work myself. Now i have something to watch in the process.

I own a 1993 wrangler, after seeing this 2004 model there is so many diferences and actually looks more complicated to fix anything. I have had my jeep apart at least 2 times to repaint the chassis and change the suspension and was surprised seeing all that rust underneath the newer model compared to my 1993 with almost no spec of rust to be seen, just goes to show how manufacturers of today dont want your car to last more than a few years. And as always great quality videos and very informative with a dash of comedy haha.

Thanks, man very helpful. I bought a 3/4 in. Ball Joint Separator from Harbor Freight. It helped immensely -- shot my self in the wrist the first time--- OW! the second ball joint landed easily 40+ feet away from the jeep. THX! again -- good luck with your channel

Excellent video and perfect timing. A friend needs to change the same part on his Camry so I had him watch this video. What I take away is he better buy a good quality cordless impact wrench. His Toyota fasteners are always rusted out and he struggles!!!

I legitimately laughed when that bolt shot off from the air hammer

Great job so smart on mechanics. You would make a great bartender with positive talk. thank you .

Thanks for this video my broken one was stuck the same way. Your method worked for me too. Impact hammer for the win!

Always consistent with the videos! its 10pm here Friday night, and i can guarantee there will be a ETCG video.

Very informative video, thanks a lot. This will come handy as I'm changing all of my suspension bushings.

12:26 - Was wondering how far that thing was going to shoot! LOL!!! Eric, love the videos, you keep it pretty real!

I bought one and bent the puller trying to do the front bearings on a Toyota Tundra, which is one of the worst. ToolTopia stood behind it and sent me another. I think for the ones you have to really force it's better to use a giant bearing splitter on a press, although I have heard rattling the side with an air chisel helps.

Holy cow ! Eric O, Eric C, and Amesie"s all on one video ! Nice.

I used moog sway bar bushings for my '78 C10...they were made out of the same cool material.

Best job at a sponsored video yet...well, I do love your work with Jim Bates live as well. :) You always teach a lot, but having someone else there is cool. :)

The "stabilizer bar" is also known as an anti-roll bar for obvious reasons. It makes it easier for people to understand what it's function is. Also, for those who don't know, the bar itself twists as the suspension goes up and down. The thickness and density of the bar and bushings are what determine how much resistance to body roll the vehicle has. A common upgrade people will do to performance cars is to change the roll bar bushings to a stiffer material such as polyurethane or to put a thicker bar in. You can do the same for a truck and get the same results, but for an off road vehicle like that you want the suspension to move more independently from side to side for wheel travel through ruts and over bumps. There are quick disconnect links available for some off road vehicles that allow you to take out the links without tools to have fully independent suspension while off road, but still have a decent handling vehicle on your way home.

Jeep: Just emptying every pocket. Shits and giggles aside, I love jeeps. They do have a special place in my heart because it's what I grew up with.

I just replaced mine and took the tire off. I learned I had to move the floor jack up and down and different positions to get the links to line up. A lift would be nice 👍

Hope to see more Jeep videos from you! Us Jeep guys are always looking for advice fixing them:-)

Funny story about that exact Advanced Auto in Mason, OH. When I came to this years meet up from Wisconsin (about a 370 mile drive) I realized while getting getting gas on the IN OH border that my gas cap was missing and has probably been off since earlier that week! Sure enough, after the meetup I stopped at that Advanced and bought a new one and heading back to the land of cheese. Just a fun story!

I don't think I have ever yelled at the screen this many times in a ETCG video lol

Thanks. Great. Clear instructions and easy to see where things are.

the camera you are using absolutely brilliant

@stinkycheese804

9 жыл бұрын

+gene hensley Huh? It's not much different than the video from my point and shoot camera that you can buy almost anywhere. Yes it's good but most modern cameras are good at video. These days you can get a model capable of clean 1080p at 60FPS for $100.

the high frame rate is awesome... it gives an almost 3d aspect to the video

I wish my steering box was as simple to change as thats jeep's is. Great show Eric.

Urethane bushings will squelch and make noise. Couple of wraps on the bar with either yellow gas teflon tape or Monster blue tape, and then grease that and they'll stay nice and quiet.

damn right down to the front stabalizer shock brand...this is a carbon copy of my TJ...only mine is an 03. Great Job Eric! Also this video is going to get so much attention out there from the jeep fans like myself. Stay Dirty!

When tightening the top nuts, instead if trying to use a pry bar to put tension on them, just give the sway bar a couple taps with a hammer to seat the stud.

I'm glad Eric is in the rust belt and not in somewhere like Arizona. it shows how easy jobs become not so easy

Very helpful! I'll be doing this repair to my 02 Jeep Wrangler soon. This vid cleared up a lot of questions! Great vid!

@NobodyAskedForThis

8 жыл бұрын

Easy easy job. Nuts and bolts kind of thing. Respect the torque, lube where it needs it and you'll be go to go.

Hi Eric I was under my 96 Toyota Hi-ace van the other day replacing the air cleaner and I noticed that compared to the Jeep you where working on my car was pristine as far as rust goes underneath. We in Australia are so lucky we probably only have at a max 5% snow coverage and most of that is in the East of Australia a tiny bit down the S/w of western Australia though and to my knowledge they don't salt the roads, Looking under that 2004 Jeep the tail shaft rust looked like someone had shoved a40 year old one on it. This to me has answered a ongoing question why your 2nd hand cars are so cheap compared to ours they are rust buckets ! my car is coming up to 20 years old , I would say we have a ten year advantage (road use & gravel road) over the cars used on your roads (when driven responsibly )

I found that a brake line flaring tool, the little press part, fits the sway bar and will press that old piece right out quickly.

How cool, we both have a Jeep TJ on our lifts this week. The one I have is a 1998 white Wrangler with 4066 original miles getting decked out with everything from the Warn catalog for a 14 year old kid whos going to destroy it. But it's sooo clean.

@ossimjew

9 жыл бұрын

+Amesie's Corner Make that brat pay for his own car, if you know he will destroy yours.

@AmesiesCorner

9 жыл бұрын

His dying father, the owner of the local Subaru dealership is having it built for him..

@ossimjew

9 жыл бұрын

Amesie's Corner Ah ok, I'd build a rally car if my dad owned a subaru dealership not a jeep.

@AmesiesCorner

9 жыл бұрын

+ossimjew I know right! I think it was bought shortly after the kid was born and has been in the garage his whole life kind of deals

@ossimjew

9 жыл бұрын

My first car (1974 240d) I was lucky enough to find a fairly clean one in the junk yard for $500. Taught me a lot about cars, those old diesel are so easy to work on. If it was not for that car I would not have majored in Mechanical engineering and be doing what I do now. Amesie's Corner

MORE JEEP STUFF!! Love it!

If you ever find yourself replacing the heatsink on you cpu, and you're out of thermal paste, use a tiny bit of that anti-seize compound instead. It's full of copper, which has excellent heat transfer properties.

I had a stabilizer link break on my Jeep Cherokee XJ and immediately the ride quality diminished. Just going down the road and hitting bumps caused significant side to side body sway. On vehicles with higher center of gravity, you'll want to get these fixed ASAP should they ever fail.

Poly SQUEAK bushings SQUEAK are so great..... Just be sure to lube the crap out of them with a good silicone grease or your ride's going to sound like a brothels bed frame , SQUEAK, SQUEAK, SQUEAK......... 100% agree on never seize getting on EVERYTHING... And as a bonus it doesn't like to wash out easily!

Moog stuff seems great except every part I use turns to a rust bucket literally 6 months later. I'm surprised they didn't give you a welded nut to hold that top stud, too -- they're usually really good about that much.

Anti seize the heroes of the automotive world the gift that keeps on giving

Any time I replace suspension/wheel parts on one side I always replace the same parts on the other, it just seems proper to replace it on both sides, they both have the same amount of wear and the same conditions, and if that all finally took one out, the other can't be too far away.

Awesome Video. Not boring and the edit transitions were great.

Great video!!! Thanks for sharing. Front t bolt size is t55.... btw

@yzer

3 жыл бұрын

How does he have such a nice shop and lift, but not a full Torx and TT set? He lost all credibility when I saw that. I even have impact and non-impact full sets and I’m just a home user. Does he want to strip the fasteners?

Hey Eric, I'd just like to weigh in on my opinion with your sponsors/advertisers. I completely understand your need to make a living, and I hope you make a very nice living, I certainly think you've earned it. My one request is that you always maintain your sponsor transparency, and that you continue to deliver their message yourself rather than allowing their advertisers to put ads in your show or reading from a script they give you. This is not a gripe, but support for what you are currently doing and a request for you to not change. Thanks, Mitch

Great vid Bro, sending this to my brother, he has a wrangler like this!

I'm not wishing bad things on a fellow Jeep owner, but I hope this thing returns to the shop for more videos!

That is one clean jeep.....musta never been off road....rust free too.

i love this dude and his videos

Doing an internet search. I can not find much about cold weather problems with urathane bushings. When I dealt with Denver spring. That was 1998 and the vehicle was a 1976 toyota fj40 land cruiser(left front spring repair). There was lots of evidence at the spring shop bulletin board(news paper clippings etc). Things may have changed since then I do notice the bushings are not amber colored but are now a pretty blue. In any case I would check with a spring shop or? to be sure before risking it.

Thank you soo much for the tour !!!!!!!!

Thanks for the vid Eric. Great job.

thanks Eric for doing work on on a Jeep :) they do tend to get crusty

Thanks Eric, very good video! Agree re Anti-Seize... it's a Jeepers best friend... next to duct tape lol.

You should always start with the penetrating oil on the nuts and bolts. It WILL make removing them easier.

Hey Eric, great job on all you efforts to produce excellent content! 👍 I bought a 99 Jeep TJ lifted with 35s. Lots of work was done to it. When driving on the highway, it wonders right and left so I got an alignment done and it did not correct the issue. Any recommendations or ideas of what could be causing this suddle movement? Thank you in advance!

Great job Eric!!!

Greetings from Australia. Great quality video and quite funny to. I just did this today. My left one broke too. I do not have a pneumatic hammer! - so i used a plumbing stillson spanner(wrench) to spin the bastard ball around and lots of lightweight hammering until it fell out. Glad you had trouble too!

I laughed at he nut jumping out of the torsion bar with the air hammer!

This is just really a great education!

I'm surprised the Moog Problem Solver didn't have a slot to hold the ball joint with a wrench, to stop it from spinning. The ones I got for my Honda had them. That was one of the problems it... solved.

@awd42

9 жыл бұрын

+anti0918 For ball joints, steering linkage etc. with a self-locking nut (crimped or nylock, no cotter pin), it usually works to first assemble it with a normal (non-locking) nut, which should go on without the whole thing spinning, then after it's tightened and properly seated, remove that nut and install the lock nut. Or they could do like my VW and put a torx socket on the ball joints & outer tie rods ends (on the end of the threaded part) to counterhold them. This should be more common!

@joemunoz5459

8 жыл бұрын

+awd42 How did using the pry-bar stop to ball from spinning? I'm having an issue getting my tightened down.

@LFTDoffroad

8 жыл бұрын

+Joe Muñoz the pry bar puts tension in the joint making the joint tighter.

@joemunoz5459

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I figured out

Eric, what is the scientific explanation for the orange dust on parts that are starting to fail? Awesome video

Eric, could you do a review on Snap - On's 14.4v 3/8 cordless impact wrench? Can't seem to find a good review anywhere and my Snap On guy has ALMOST convinced me to go for it...

Kinda looked like both pinion seals were leaking , Be glad it is not one with the electronic front sway bar.

Moog parts are quality stuff!

hey I think you repeated this video but it's a good video liked watching it again hope to see more new ones in the future days to come have a nice day Eric peace.

any vids on coil spring and shock replacement?

I hit a pretty big bump in my '02 wrangler a few months ago and ever since there has been a leak (I'm almost positive it's the steering box). I've just been topping it off because I haven't had the time to replace it but do you think that the shock from the bump could've busted something in my steering box? Thanks!

Is it just me or did Eric use the vise-grips backwards? Experience has taught me to place any type of channel-lok, monkey wrench, etc as in the manner of a pipe wrench to get the best grip. In other words, think of the fixed jaw as an anchor and the bolt/nut should rotate INTO the wrench under load.

Smashing job eric :-D, a very nice jeep, looks nice to work on :-D

@ProtegeTuype

9 жыл бұрын

Yeah looks like there lots of space to work on it

@SuperJeremi10

9 жыл бұрын

+gil zur I have me a 98 jeep grand Cherokee so far seems easy to work on drives great love it mine has 176,000 miles on it interior is in great shape almost looks new but there are signs of wear jeep has been well taken care of and maintained.

I realize it may not make any difference but it sure looks like the bar stock of those Moog stabilizer links was smaller than what it replaced.

Did the exact same thing today on my 97 TJ.

Alright now: upgrade ya 7 Stars thanks Eric! - GBU

great vid, Eric!

awesome video,,,,,lots of info,,,, keep the good work,,,,

Brain should put on some armour when the air hammer comes out!

Could be like the ink newspapers use to print with, I know someone who gave people those barrels, and the places you would find that shit was purely amazing, like a series of footprints on white carpet

What is the name of the hard to remove screw? I have a jeep wrangler tj and i had to cut it to get it out. Now i need to buy it new

Hi Eric. I noticed that the front differential pinion seal is leaking.

Great video Eric. Jeep! Douglas

I never grab wheels at 12 and 6. Instead I simply lean on the front of the car and push up and down on the suspension to listen for noises. That way I don't have to worry about my fingers falling off. I guess it's so much safer for you though being on a lift and all, and I still like grabbing wheels at 3 and 9.

That Zepp penetrating oil could unseat a foreign dictator. Zepp, feel free to send me one hundred and eighty cans or so if you have any extra just taking up space.

Eric I've been following your videos for years and I have a question on a 2000 ford expedition I stalls on idle. only runs with gas pedal pressed changed the idle air control problem is back after a week of running right. where should I check from here...

Fantastic video thanks

If only it were that easy all the time. My '01 TJ project car is severely corroded under there and I am expecting I am going to have to cut most of the suspension parts off the car & replace just about everything.

hey Eric, what size sway bar bushings did you use? 33mm? and do you know what size the rear sway bar bushings will be?

I was told to load the suspension before tightening bushing caps, any thoughts?