What did you do to your TJ today?

Where and cost to order those?

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Changed a tire. A new tire. A new 35x12.5 15 Mickey Thompson Baja Legend EXP tire. 546 miles on the new 35x12.5 15 Mickey Thompson Baja Legend EXP tire. I've only had the new 35x12.5 15 Mickey Thompson Baja Legend EXP tires for two weeks. Haven't even had a chance to go off road with the new 35x12.5 15 Mickey Thompson Baja Legend EXP tires.

Traveling down the highway at 70 MPH the Jeep settled in front and pulled hard to the driver's side. No bang, no boom, no real drama, just went flat. Got it to the side of the road and saw this:

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A closer look at the sidewall tear. Looks like I scraped the sidewall on something, not uncommon when off roading, but there was nothing in the road to hit, no other vehicles nearby, nothing obvious to cause the blowout. Might be a puncture at the bottom of the tear, might not. Invisible nail? Laser hit from Low Earth Orbit? Incompetent assassination attempt with a .22? 'Tis a mystery.

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I threw the spare on (definitely going to replace the OEM jack with something better, it worked as it should but it was cumbersome and more time consuming than it needed to be) and headed for home base. The wife called Discount Tire, I had paid for the certificates for return or replacement when I bought the tires. I'll be dropping the tire off tomorrow morning, they will have the new (new new?) tire mounted and balanced by the afternoon, no charge. Moving on.

Wow, that is crazy. Glad it wasn’t worse.
 
Funny enough (not really) I have both ADD&ADHD
Sucks cause in my head i want to do a million damn things in which I do but all that's done is just a beginning of process and then I forget sometimes

And that's why I'm broke,whole boat load of things I want to do and I start em and then I cant seem to finish what I started,I've been working on it but damn it I can't help it, I like to help others to make them feel happy but then I loose myself....(that being my progress and time)
Short story of my life 🙃

Singing to the choir here. I'm pretty sure I was the first diagnosis in Wa back in the 60s.
 
Funny enough (not really) I have both ADD&ADHD
Sucks cause in my head i want to do a million damn things in which I do but all that's done is just a beginning of process and then I forget sometimes

And that's why I'm broke,whole boat load of things I want to do and I start em and then I cant seem to finish what I started,I've been working on it but damn it I can't help it, I like to help others to make them feel happy but then I loose myself....(that being my progress and time)
Short story of my life 🙃

Wait until you get older. It only gets worse. o_O
 
Got my exhaust and intake manifold/s back from blasting
Joe from Top Koat in fortworth took care of me,man has a very clean organized shop so I already knew he was good and from the looks of it he is !
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Time to deburr all the hard edges from these cast exhaust manifolds, this should alleviate them from cracking...that's the plan atleast since I know from experience it helps to stop cracking since the hard lines in the cast are like a stress risers and can promote cracking so hopefully my bit of experience from building some small block chevys can apply to these little things😁could be wrong but we'll see!
 
I just finished putting my 2.5 together and tomorrow the head is going on. Factory Service Manual says dry head gasket. I want the copper spray on both sides of the head gasket. Am I wrong. Tomorrow morning this is going together
 
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