Got new gears today, the shop painted the diff covers, is that normal or did this shop to a little extra?
What did you do to your TJ today?
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I'm not 100% sure about application years but there is a listing for a single center spray nozzle for TJs on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071HHTDJ7/?tag=wranglerorg-20
Got new tires today and installed a winch.
grumblebee
TJ Enthusiast
It's already in my hood. I just had no idea since I've got the split tubing. I think the empty clips you can see in the very back are supposed to hold a single tube and go to that single one and they've split it to reach the hood bumper holes. What the heck. Thanks for pointing that out.
Sorry to hijack the thread guys — didn't seem like a big enough deal for a thread.
Who knows the possible reasons the PO took the rubber hood bumpers out and put nozzles in place of them. 1 reason could be the center clogged and it was easier to replace the bumpers with nozzles??It's already in my hood. I just had no idea since I've got the split tubing. I think the empty clips you can see in the very back are supposed to hold a single tube and go to that single one and they've split it to reach the hood bumper holes. What the heck. Thanks for pointing that out.
Sorry to hijack the thread guys — didn't seem like a big enough deal for a thread.
Another maybe they just wanted to get more coverage?? Any way you look at it it's your Jeep do with it as you will. Make it unique!!
That centered square hole is where the stock sprayer mounts.
So... I didn't do anything to the jeep today... I did go to In-N-Out for lunch today. Right now I don't have a top on the Jeep because OKTop sent me a windshield rail 2 weeks ago without any mounting hardware and it took a week to get them to respond and apparently another week or more to send a couple clip angles and some screws..... I'm a little salty because I waited in the COVID induced lunch line at In-N-Out for 30 minutes in 111 degree Phoenix heat..
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After almost a year sitting in my garage I got my Barnes skid bolted to my Skid Row plate.
9/16" tuck, oh ya. Rolled on Rustoleum for the skid, never going back to spray. I drilled the transfer case bracket to align the linkage with the drop, shifts better than ever. Also put a PT-100 sensor in the transmission pan and a digital temperature controller in just to geek out. Everybody needs 1/10 degree resolution on their gauge right?
The motor mounts and transmission filter were just collateral damage.
9/16" tuck, oh ya. Rolled on Rustoleum for the skid, never going back to spray. I drilled the transfer case bracket to align the linkage with the drop, shifts better than ever. Also put a PT-100 sensor in the transmission pan and a digital temperature controller in just to geek out. Everybody needs 1/10 degree resolution on their gauge right?
The motor mounts and transmission filter were just collateral damage.
Finished my spring and track bar install today. Did that neat trick where I smash my finger so hard blood shoots out from under the nail. As you can see in the picture, I’m rough on fingers.
Got everything done, larger bolt axle side in the front installed and everything. Took it for drive to let everything settle. No sway bars installed, holy shit don’t ever do that. Pulled three wheel motion a couple times.
Had to adjust the front axle over about 1/2” or so. Rear is still 3/8“ to 1/2”off but I’m out of adjustment on the track bar. I’m putting an angled bracket on and will recheck it. Flexed it out as much as my jack would. More to come Thursday when parts show up. Fuck me my finger hurts.
Got everything done, larger bolt axle side in the front installed and everything. Took it for drive to let everything settle. No sway bars installed, holy shit don’t ever do that. Pulled three wheel motion a couple times.
Had to adjust the front axle over about 1/2” or so. Rear is still 3/8“ to 1/2”off but I’m out of adjustment on the track bar. I’m putting an angled bracket on and will recheck it. Flexed it out as much as my jack would. More to come Thursday when parts show up. Fuck me my finger hurts.
Just because people everywhere like pictures, new to me fogs operating for the first time:
Green thing in the middle is a camera lens artifact.
Green thing in the middle is a camera lens artifact.
Pack them with dielectric grease and they will probably be fine for may years to come.
grumblebee
TJ Enthusiast
Nah, it's definitely the demon you exorcised from your electrical system.
That is odd, looks like a center dual was on there originally, here’s mine in the stock location closer to the back of the hood. It might be an SE thing.
Short answer: no and yes.
Long answer:
Last summer, after taking care of the post-purchase must do's, I started on the want-to-do's. I charged up the A/C with my old single line/gauge/tap that I'd had for 25 years. Put a can or two in it, and it blew cold. For a while. Month went by, and I decided to try it again, but I bought a freon sniffer. I suspected the charge port or the high side port. The sniffer (harbor freight style bought off ebay, I think) pointed me towards the high side port. Bought the usually recommended Jeep port kit and replaced the valve along with an a/c manifold gauge set. My old single hose/tap thing I'd bought at wallyworld way back when was starting to leak, so figured it was time to upgrade. Leak seemed to be fixed at the high side port, but I lost the cooling after a couple weeks. By that time, summer was mostly over, and I shelved the idea of fixing the a/c.
This spring, my list of wants was getting shorter, so fixing the a/c made it to the front of the list. I put some dye in the system and ran it out on the highway for 10 or 15 minutes. Let the sun go down and grabbed my new O'Reillys UV flashlight and checked it out. Nothing at the evaporator fittings, or the accumulator/drier. Nothing at the low or high side ports, at least, none that couldn't be explained as injecting dye in the low side port. Nothing along the lines or the front of the condenser. Nothing at the evaporator drain (unlike my wife's '02 Focus...sigh). Nothing at the top of the compressor at the lines and couldn't really see anything at the front top of the pulley. Crawled under it where the bottom of the compressor is normally oily, from....p/s.....or.....tranny lines......or.......yeah, glowing UV a/c dye that was injected 2 hours ago and leaking from the back of the compressor body. Aha!
Ordered a new compressor and accumulator/drier. And finally found a vacuum pump in stock at Harbor Freight. Summer is here and they're flying off the shelves.
The shop manual says the system (for my '01) holds 6.1 ounces of oil. If you replace the compressor, you are supposed to drain the old compressor and measure the amount of oil. Then, put that same amount of new oil in the new compressor. You can get compressors with oil in them, but you need to drain that oil out and measure the amount and only put back in the amount you drained from the old one. If you are replacing the accumulator, then you put 3 oz in the new accumulator. Something like .75 for..let me look it up......75 oz if replacing the condenser and 1.5 if replacing the evaporator. The manual also states, that if a leak occurs, to add 1 oz more to the system after the repairs are made. So, I had a plan.
New compressor (with oil) arrived and new accumulator arrived. I picked up a bottle of PAG46, which is according to my research the current equivalent to the shop manual ND-8 oil. I drained the new compressor and it had about 3 oz in it. I removed the old compressor (I have the torn up hands to prove it) and drained out about 1 oz. I figured I did have a leak, so I put 2 oz of new compressor oil back in the new compressor. Removed the accumulator and figures, what the heck, I should drain it just to see. Even though the manual calls for putting 3 oz in, for fun, how much was in it. 6 oz. Yep. I know the oil can and does move around the system, but that seemed like a lot. I hadn't noticed the shop manual stating 6.1 oz of oil is total for the system. I asked the a/c tech at the dealer where I work, and he said that sounded excessive, LOL, to be polite. He said most systems only take like 7 oz usually. That is when I went back and found the 6.1 in the manual. I felt much better at that point, that I had put 5 oz in, and that there would probably be the other ounce spread out in the lines, condenser and evap. I had already charged it up by the time I asked the tech, so what was done, was done. Anyway.........
After buttoning the system up, I hooked up the vacuum pump and let it run for an hour. Pulled 28-30 inches of vacuum. Had to leave for lunch at my parents, and didn't want to leave the gauges sitting on the hood out in the driveway, so I disconnected them and closed up the garage. Came back, put the gauges back on, barely lost any vacuum in the disconnect/reconnect process, so felt ok to charge it up. Put the 1.25 lb, well, maybe not that much. I have a scale, and I keep thinking one can is 1 lb, but one can is only 12 ounces. So, I may actually be about 4oz short, but the system is cooling better than the other 2 times I had it charged up. And it's been muggy this week.
I jumped the a/c relay to get the compressor to kick on, but then it wouldn't stay on once there was a can in it. I forgot to plug the high side cutout back in. Worked perfectly once I did that.
But, your system won't kick on while pulling the system down with the vacuum pump, since you don't pull the system down with the vehicle running. Also, you would put the oil in the system before pulling a vacuum, so, once you start the vehicle to charge, and start the compressor, it will already have the oil in it that it needs before the freon goes in. Gee, I should have just gone with that paragraph in the beginning, LOL.
grumblebee
TJ Enthusiast
You don't know how many times I've said this! haha. What's the thing in the middle grounding? I don't have that either.
The joys of used vehicles. Also didn't know I was supposed to have a light under the hood, found its wires and connector stuffed in the hood just like yours.Currently looking a washer fluid tubing and hood bumpers...
Thanks for your help!
Maybe I should have smudged it with burning sage...
Which is weird, because I've been pleasantly happy with how well my single center jet sprays. Never once thought, "I need more!" But wants and desires are different for all people, I guess.
grumblebee
TJ Enthusiast
Nah, that was a great write-up! I'm about to do the same thing hopefully this weekend. Thankfully my father has all the tools from doing it to an old work truck last summer, so I don't have to buy much to get it done. I'm hoping it's just an easily fixable leak so I'm not waiting around on parts to finish it.
I don't have to look this info up now, thank you! I have a 2001 as well.
Some have had good luck with different brands of GraBars copies. Some have not. I have not heard anything bad about the USA made GraBars. I love mine. And can still be found on ebay for $86 shipped. ebay link
Also, welcome to the forum. I found this place a year and a half back when I was only test driving my Jeep. Yes, I was fixing things before I bought it. Great bunch of people with an answer for almost every question about TJ's.
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If you haven't found it yet, or nobody has mentioned it to you yet, the shop manuals and parts list/catalog is listed for the different years in the resources section of this site. For free. The wiring diagram in the shop manual in that section is not correct, well, not correct in parts, so I bought a used paper manual (with additional computer driveability (sigh, however it's spelled, I'm too tired to google) manual. Oh, it was the O2 sensor pigtails wiring section, if I recall. Maybe.
I've downloaded it at work, so I can look stuff up when I think about it and not have to wait until I get home and forget what I'm doing.........