What did you do to your TJ today?

How do you get here from the kingdom of middle earth? Short hop to oz and then a big plane the rest of the way?

12 hour plane ride straight flight to LA......Not sure if they will let Hobbits on the plane in barefeet though haha
 
The reason NZ drives on the left is because the UK drives on the left. The reason why the UK drives on the left is because the Romans marched on the left. Why break 2000 years of tradition just because someone invented vehicles? :D

Andy

Exactly my thought….. why reinvent the wheel….plus the Roman’s made a good Caesar salad 😂😂
 
Last few days went like this:

After finishing the the JK axle swap, I went to pick up the LJ from my buddies shop. My new O’Reilly’s battery bit the dust. Purchased in March. (To be fair, it had been drained an excessive amount of times before I found the cause).

O’Reilly’s won’t warranty it, because it’s under the PO’s number. Paid full price for a new battery after arguing with them for an hour just to get back on the road.

Parking brake stopped engaging and began to run into an issue with a soft brake pedal.

Get home. Had to put on my half doors I bought months ago, because stopping isn’t as important.

Initial inspection in the driveway reveals this clip repeatedly popping off.

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Quick adjustment to bring back my parking brake.

Then I develop a high idle issue next time I start the Jeep. Turns out to be the TB cable getting stuck. Before figuring that out, I thought it to be a vacuum leak. I wasted a few bottles of starting fluid and whole day to no avail.

Finally figured out my brakes by following Blaine’s advice and found a brake line the was coming into contact when I fully cranked to the left. Was a super simple fix at the end of the day.


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shot the fuel rail with the temp gun after a relatively short drive from work some weeks ago- it was at 175 degrees- so i decide to do some tinkering- basically sleeve the entire fuel rail/line in the engine compartment- idea being to spray a little cooler fuel. 2 feet of heater hose and a few feet of 3/8 fuel line that i had.

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re shot the temp gun on the fuel rail- a 20 degree hotter day and significantly longer errand run then the baseline- - running 25 degrees cooler(148 degrees) $10 of heater hose for the win- maybe black zipties would look a little more tidy.
 
re shot the temp gun on the fuel rail- a 20 degree hotter day and significantly longer errand run then the baseline- - running 25 degrees cooler(148 degrees) $10 of heater hose for the win- maybe black zipties would look a little more tidy.

Looks great man I’ll definitely keep this in mind. What size heater hose did you go with?
 
Looks great man I’ll definitely keep this in mind. What size heater hose did you go with?

split a 3/4 heater hose for the fuel rail and over the rubber supply hose. 3/8 fuel line slit will cover the metal line- I went ahead today and cover the whole pressure side of the fuel line past the the dual cats down to the frame.
 
Today I spent an hour pointlessly driving around creating unnecessary emissions just to get the stupid PCM to say it is ready for the emissions test. I failed and today was the last day for my tags.

Looks like I have to do TSB 25-001-07 tomorrow, which means disconnecting the battery, which means starting again from scratch.

Then I will have to drive around for a couple of hours on expired tags creating more unnecessary emissions just to get the PCM to say it is ready.

Sigh.

Andy
 
Today I spent an hour pointlessly driving around creating unnecessary emissions just to get the stupid PCM to say it is ready for the emissions test. I failed and today was the last day for my tags.

Looks like I have to do TSB 25-001-07 tomorrow, which means disconnecting the battery, which means starting again from scratch.

Then I will have to drive around for a couple of hours on expired tags creating more unnecessary emissions just to get the PCM to say it is ready.

Sigh.

Andy

I've completed the Chrysler drive cycle (setting all of the monitors) on jackstands in my driveway.