Definitely in the final stages here. Ended up getting an OEM high pressure power steering line, and it fit. Soooo...if you do this in the future, keep your PS hoses, because they work, and you only need to bend the low pressure line down a smidge to clear the steering. Also - if you end up with a hydroboost PS pump, just cap the top inlet, and you're golden.
Continuing with tuning. The motor is running pretty rich both from my nose telling me so, and my O2 sensors. Doing some tuning today to try to get that under control. I also learned some new stuff about "Throttle Follower" and "Throttle Cracker". I keep getting ahead of myself thinking I'm like this pro tuner, and I slightly adjusted my throttle plate - this added some new throttle hang that wasn't there before. After some YouTube learning, and poking around in my tune, I discovered that I actually reduced the throttle plate below the TPS level for the follower (I think), and it just likes to hang out and give me some extra air for like 3-4 seconds if the motor isn't entirely warmed up yet. Small issue, but was good to learn about that.
Trying to clean up the engine bay some more. I went ahead and ordered a new fuse box that's contained and has appropriate mounting hardware - instead of the Radio Shack DIY fuse block that I currently have over there where the ABS pump would be. Great for learning...not so much for the longer term installation. I don't like seeing wires exposed...so I'm hiding them as I work my way around the engine bay.
Air conditioning is rapidly becoming more important to me, because if you live in AZ, you know it's starting to warm up - sooooo, I mostly drive in the morning and early evening. There are a couple of options for brackets...I think I'm going to go with the Sanden 508. I need to find a place here in town that can make me up some custom AC lines - so I'll be calling around - unless someone has some suggestions? I've got some diagrams to sort out the wiring...kept the Jeep sensors...hoping I can keep the Jeep in control of it all...just gotta get to that task and I'll focus in on it and figure it out.
Muffler is being delivered today...probably head down to the muffler shop tomorrow and get that all buttoned up.
Haven't yet put on the front driveshaft as the temporary exhaust pipe I'm running is kinda in the way. Oh, and I've got to order one of those cable driven transfer case linkages because the OEM one was bad before, and now there is no hope for it. hahaha
I keep going back and forth on the shifter. Do I cut the tower and set it back with some welding? Do I buy a new tower with the lever that's shifted towards me? Do I just bend the mother-trucker? I'm going to try the bend right now...because it's free, and we'll see where that ends up.
Luckily father's day is right around the corner...and I'm going to request an entire Bed Rug set for the Jeep. Might as well freshen up that 18 year old carpet - and just clean under all that crap.
Um...outside of all of that...I still can't believe I am actually driving this thing around. Can't get the grin off my face TBH.
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