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I was able to get a positive 86 degrees. I think I could have gone more if I spent more time on it. Putting a jack under the pinion housing helped out huge; made things a lot easier for those last few degrees. I still had to use straps but not as much. I did flip the CAs around also since I had them off anyways; so they are now on correctly. The "clackety" sound is gone and got up to 75 MPH with no vibration at all. I may take it in to have an alignment done or at least have them put it on the rack and see if anything is off or not. When I test drove it, steering felt a bit different; not good not bad just different. It was also windy and I couldn't tell if it was wandering or not but I don't think it is. I plan on taking a trip up north about a thousand or so miles there and back so I guess I'll know for sure if there are issues.
I wanted to thank everyone who contributed to this post and provided their input. It was all very valuable to me and I couldn't have done it without you. Now onto the next one
Good to hear. Glad you got it fixed.
The wander is probably due to a lack of caster, unfortunately there isn't too much you can do until you get a geometry corrected housing.
You can try and lengthen the lowers very slightly each time to gain back a bit of caster.
It's a trial and error process with cardan driveshafts. 2 degrees pinion might not vibrate at all on one JK but it does on another.