Front Drive Shaft

[mrlavalamp]

depends on exactly what is wrong and how stubborn you are.

THIS IS JUST MY OPINION: Very rarely is something "so bad you just need to scrap the whole thing" but i find quite often that is the non-owner approach to a larger problem with a vehicle they dont want to deal with personally. Shops love to do this because it is faster and easier for them to simply swap transmissions/axles/engines instead of do the actual repair and rebuild, and it might actually save a buck depending on exact labor rates (not always though).

Most often worn out parts are the drive shafts joints, cv shafts, and the intermediate shaft and bearings. If your axle/diff have a problem you can remove the front drive shaft and the CV's completely and drive without that axle connected to anything. If there is an electronic problem, then that can be another animal all together, and sometimes those are the easiest to fix (or the hardest, all depends).

It all depends on what exactly is wrong and how bad it is really.

 

[Danihound]

depends on exactly what is wrong and how stubborn you are.

THIS IS JUST MY OPINION: Very rarely is something "so bad you just need to scrap the whole thing" but i find quite often that is the non-owner approach to a larger problem with a vehicle they dont want to deal with personally. Shops love to do this because it is faster and easier for them to simply swap transmissions/axles/engines instead of do the actual repair and rebuild, and it might actually save a buck depending on exact labor rates (not always though).

Most often worn out parts are the drive shafts joints, cv shafts, and the intermediate shaft and bearings. If your axle/diff have a problem you can remove the front drive shaft and the CV's completely and drive without that axle connected to anything. If there is an electronic problem, then that can be another animal all together, and sometimes those are the easiest to fix (or the hardest, all depends).

It all depends on what exactly is wrong and how bad it is really.

thanks for the info.

the problems is that the selec trac thing is not working at all, (even before the driveshaft replacement), it just dont do anything the stick looks like is not even attached to anything (you can move it freely).

i want the less costly solution, which is i think leave the system there and just dont use it, withouth the driveshaft if needed.

this jeep will only be used to drive in the city until the engine dies hahaha.

 

[daves06lrenegade]

A pull-a-part yard probably has quite a few KJs just waiting for you to wrench on them... My yard (Canton, Ohio) typically has 6 to 10 of them... You practice on their stock removing them and then you are ready to replace yours...
I have a salvage 2006 Liberty Renegade that had a tunnel fire that I also got pretty cheap and I use my PAP for replacement parts... I have used my Jeep in winter here in northern Ohio and the 4WD is a welcome item in a bad snow...
I look for the wrecked Liberty for drive train parts... I know that it ran before the collision and isn't there because of drive train problems....
Besides you have a Jeep and you need to wrench on it...
Dave

 

[mrlavalamp]

Seconding the junkyard option.

If you 4wd selector is simply loose and not attached to anything (it should be a little hard to move from 2wd to 4wd, and you need to be in Neutral to move from 4hi to 4lo and it will still be hard)

I haven't had to deal with the linkage on this shifter yet, but typically these linkages always have some plastic clips or connectors that break SUPER easy.

If this is your problem Daves idea of going to the junkyard and practicing on a couple of theirs is not a bad idea. The parts will be cheaper than new by a lot, and if you take a bunch of pictures of your existing parts you can compare those on your phone to what you find in the junkyard to figure out what is missing/broken/wrong.

Of course you could always do the same homework using the factory parts manuals, and then go find what you need after.