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awesome. ill send a message. thanks so much everybody for your help.

lol. sorry didnt mean to send you down the rabbit hole. bet you found some good stuff you forgot about though.

thanks Tom i appreciate you looking. Dennis id happily take one with holes in it if Tom cant come up with anything. monte looks so neglected, just missing that one piece of trim sure changes the look.

Dennis thanks so much for looking for and into those parts. i actually straightened out the long rocker piece and got it looking good. still looking for the drivers side short piece though. ill take anything you have in that department. thanks

no complaints from me, im just happy to have the help.

sorry about the weird photo file format, didnt realize i had done that. ive had the car for 20 years, everything is driver quality. i appreciate you looking and let me know!

Long story short, driving up to a race and blew a tire which took off a piece of trim and dented the fender! lessoned learned and life happens. trying to identify and locate the missing piece of trim from my fender is proving difficult. im betting someone here can point me in the right direction. thanks.

Sorry to highjack. Are you saying you didn’t use the motor mount backing plates that move the engine forward? Isn’t that the whole point? I should add I’m in the middle of a swap of a 5.3 and a th350 and I used those same trans dapt mounts but I did use the back plates and I’m finding I’m about 1/2 inch off the bolt hole for the motor mount

So I’ve got my proper 31011 rag joint now and I’ve got my Cherokee steering box. The splines and flat space look a little off to me. Wanted to check here before I hammer it home. Anybody recall what there’s looked like. I’ll attach a couple pictures that hopefully get the job done. thanks in advance

Awesome appreciate the help. I’m doing a 5.3 swap which prompted the steering box swap. Should make hoses that much easier. I’ll probably do a hydro boost from an Astro and rebuild the front end since everything is so accessible right now

Pretty sure this goes here. As the tittle says ive got a GC steering box and im wondering if anyone with previous experience with this swap knows the part number of the rag joint they used or what it was from. Ive heard 80s trucks like a suburban works well. thanks in advance

Sorry for the late reply. Ill upload pictures from my phone, hopefully they arent huge. You can see where it popped out and how i gave er the ol banana curve at the end

So im doing a 5.3 swap and decided to do the cherokee steering box swap while im at it because it just makes sense. Well getting my old rag joint off proved to be quite the task and long story short my steering shaft is fubar. So question is, has anyone here ever replaced one? im having a hard time just finding a replacement. there is and endless list of aftermarket and nos replacement parts for these ol montes except for steering shafts apparently. is it called something else and im being dense or is this something ill have to scourge the junkyards for? as always, any and all help is greatly appreciated

Thanks for the help everyone. Wiped a lobe so out she goes. Ls going in

Thanks for advice everyone. I should've added that I pulled the valve covers and let it run and everything was moving and doing its job. I even pulled the intake to make sure I got a good a seal on the China walls. It really seems like a fuel issue. Mechanical fuel pump should be pushing enough right? What's my next step? Buy a fuel pressure gauge or rebuild the carb? Honestly I'm wondering if I shouldn't try a brawler or something on there. Don't know much about rebuilding these eddy