Those are smart-lookin' seats! Looks like they have side-impact airbags, so make sure you remove those. You don't want static electricity setting them off randomly!
What did you do to your TJ today?
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Those are smart-lookin' seats! Looks like they have side-impact airbags, so make sure you remove those. You don't want static electricity setting them off randomly!
Agree with that, pretty sharp @Jack_Stefan .
Not to pee on anyone's campfire, but that may not be possible without destroying the seat depending on how the airbag unit was integrated.
It kinda depends on what all you use your Jeep for and where.
My plugs have been out for a couple weeks because the doors and windows are off, it's been raining on and off for a few days and I haven't been driving it in the rain, so I let it drain on it's own. FWIW, if you're not parked totally level there is need for some ShamWow action on at least one floorboard section, sometimes two.
The three reasons I do put them back in:
1) There's a weather related reason to put the doors and top back on to drive.
2) I'm going off road anywhere near where I live because I ain't out west and I found out that those drain holes are a two way street when I filled the floor with dirty water a few inches deep with the doors and top on. Dang that water was cold on my feet!
3) Plugs keep mice and small critters from easily taking up winter residency inside the Jeep.
So those wires have been cut and taped off with marine layer heat shrink. Then I wrapped them in a wire loom and taped it off with fabric tape.
Additionally. These seats will be hooked up to a On/off rocker switch
This way I can cut electricity going to the seat when off roading.
Turning them on will enable all seat controls including heating.
Get that dead radiator out of the way of water pump replacement. It makes everything easier and you'll have less chances of the newly installed water pump leaking.
Trying real hard to get anything done with the axle today but it's just so hot out.
I know it's way hotter in other parts of the country but this feels particularly brutal in Minnesota.
I know it's way hotter in other parts of the country but this feels particularly brutal in Minnesota.
You're going to have mosquitos the size of a condor soon...
i see i'm not the only one still rocking the stock battery terminal clamps! I seriously need to do mine soon.
My starter took a dump while on vacation on the Olympic peninsula. Stopped for ice cream after dinner and got back in the Jeep and turning key had no effect. I get out and grab a wrench from the back, open the hood, and lean down and beat on the starter motor a little. When I got back in the car my wife looked at me like I was desperate and clueless. I am not sure she has ever been so impressed when the jeep started right up?!
My starter took a dump while on vacation on the Olympic peninsula. Stopped for ice cream after dinner and got back in the Jeep and turning key had no effect. I get out and grab a wrench from the back, open the hood, and lean down and beat on the starter motor a little. When I got back in the car my wife looked at me like I was desperate and clueless. I am not sure she has ever been so impressed when the jeep started right up?!
I'm pretty impressed that you accomplished the "repair" from above and didn't have to slide under the Jeep on some hot tarmac a couple times to do that.
One of the advantages of being tall, but can't fit in an Indy car, so?!
Got shipping confirmation from http://wermopar.com/ on my new radiator, so I started pulling parts
Pulled the original water pump, didn’t look too bad
Inside of block looks good I *think??
Round 1 gasket removal and cleanup
Pulled the original water pump, didn’t look too bad
Inside of block looks good I *think??
Round 1 gasket removal and cleanup
Removed my half doors and drove it doorless.
My previous "Jeep" Jeeps ('79 CJ7 and 2017 JK 2 door) both had full doors so they were all or nothing.
Well, I also had a set of tube doors for the JK but they don't count.
Anyway, my wife and I have both always felt that this TJ had the least top-down wind turbulence of any of them and I always suspected it was the half doors.
Suspicions confirmed.
Now that that's out of my system I probably won't remove them again as I much prefer it with the half doors installed.
I still get the same open and airy feeling, much less turbulence, and I DON'T lose my armrest
My previous "Jeep" Jeeps ('79 CJ7 and 2017 JK 2 door) both had full doors so they were all or nothing.
Well, I also had a set of tube doors for the JK but they don't count.
Anyway, my wife and I have both always felt that this TJ had the least top-down wind turbulence of any of them and I always suspected it was the half doors.
Suspicions confirmed.
Now that that's out of my system I probably won't remove them again as I much prefer it with the half doors installed.
I still get the same open and airy feeling, much less turbulence, and I DON'T lose my armrest
My starter took a dump while on vacation on the Olympic peninsula. Stopped for ice cream after dinner and got back in the Jeep and turning key had no effect. I get out and grab a wrench from the back, open the hood, and lean down and beat on the starter motor a little. When I got back in the car my wife looked at me like I was desperate and clueless. I am not sure she has ever been so impressed when the jeep started right up?!
what size wrench? I need to get that size for future use.
Any size will work, or even a rock. The reason the starter stops working is the brushes wear to the point they no longer make contact. By banging on it, the brushes will move enough to contact the commutator again. But it only works a few times. Luckily it worked again when unloading from the ferry!?
Installed a new starter today. Cranks much better now, thought my battery was weak, but not anymore.
Also replaced the windshield squirter for the front. There is one for the rear too, mounted just above the front one in the tank. The front burned out and now I know why. When I installed the new one, still no squirt?! Pulled the line off the nozzle and nothing? Then I saw there was a little plastic valve about 2" from the end of the line. I pulled it off and could not blow through it, either direction?! Tossed that and reattached the line to the nozzle and it sprays fine!
Also replaced the windshield squirter for the front. There is one for the rear too, mounted just above the front one in the tank. The front burned out and now I know why. When I installed the new one, still no squirt?! Pulled the line off the nozzle and nothing? Then I saw there was a little plastic valve about 2" from the end of the line. I pulled it off and could not blow through it, either direction?! Tossed that and reattached the line to the nozzle and it sprays fine!