So Eric and I, mostly Eric, 
had a super successful last minute tech day today.
Met him at his house and we finally took care of my front springs so I can disconnect now.
What we/he did was cut the front coil spring guides off his old rig and weld them onto my upper spring seats, we also bent up a retainer that will hold the spring onto the coil bucket. Now when I disconnect my front sway bar and the axle droops all the way down, my springs won’t fall off. 
All that’s left now is to measure for and order some rear limit straps, and get my skid plate cut.
Sawmill here I come 
Thanks again Eric, you are the man
Further proof I will do anything for beer. And oh yea . . .
Nice!
I replaced the engine and trans mount on my XJ. They were completely shot.
one step at a time
i put my hardtop on yesterday 
Stopped me dead in my tracks with the picture thing
Finally figured out photobucket mobile.