What should I expect after a rollover?

[bassicrob]

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...Asides from everything being thrown up onto the roof



My first post here and from what I've seen, its a very cool little community of jeepers.

I have a 93 Cherokee that i recently rolled over. I hydroplaned on an uphill road, when the back end swung out from behind me, I did a 180, crossed over the double yellow, and continued to slowly slide sideways towards the embankment. My back passenger side tire fell off the road, and momentum kept me going into the ditch. End result was I was upsidedown about 160 degrees, my passenger side was resting against the side of the embankment and two small tree stumps, and the driver side got a small tree to the windshield A-pillar. Luckily, the roof never touched the ground as i was wedged. I had about $3000 worth of body damage, most of which went to a new paint job, the rest was a new hood, front right fender, back passenger window (2-door style), windshield, and trailing arms.



I lost about 4 qts. of transmission fluid which caused some hard shifts in the beginning. A month later that seems to have gone. i have also been loosing a little oil, possibly to spillage or blow-by from the filler cap, but still investigating. Last week I had the distributor cap replaced and crankshaft position sensor replaced because the truck simply wouldn't start. It stalled twice before at idle, but nothing further since the repair.



Anyways, is there anything else I should look out for, inspect, or replace, due to the rollover? Anyone else have good/bad outcome from a rollover?



-Rob [addsig]

 

[MudderChuck]

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My wife has a habit of periodically running into things with her XJ. And it seemed like everytime we got it back from the body shop, I´d find a suspension piece bent, they overlooked. Check out the tie rod ends, the track link, the pitman arm shaft where it comes out of the steering gear box. Any play up and down will translate into wandering on the road. It might not be a bad idea to check the motor mounts and transmission mount also, with a crow bar. The last time she parked it, was on the roof. I think that old beast is gone for good. The roof crushed from the door posts all the way down to the hood. Everybody got out OK, her and the kids were lucky. Makes a good case for using the old seatbelts.[addsig]

 

[MudderChuck]

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On two different occasions after getting the XJ back from the shop I found one cut and one disconnected vacuum line, respectivley. Them guys work by the hour, and often if it will drive out of the shop it´s good enough.[addsig]

 

[Jeeppicus]

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When mine flipped I got it "fixed." I was under the Jeep one day and I saw that one of my shocks had exploded, yes it had a huge hole and looked like a gernade had gone off. I also have little things that will never be right like my door lock will open with any key inside it, and I have to push my automatic shifter up farther up in park or it won't start. [addsig]