Woo glhoo, makes death wobble something to look forward to. It took all I had to get it to the road side. Trust me, you don’t want that to ever happen.
Do they sell a rebuild kit?
Waiting on wrecker to get it home, just a leaning tire and grease flung out is all I will have to for starters ..not sure if I’m tearing into or the shop...they do Facebook messenger on weekends so I will reach out.Pictures or it didn't happen.
Waiting on wrecker to get it home, just a leaning tire and grease flung out is all I will have to for starters ..not sure if I’m tearing into or the shop...they do Facebook messenger on weekends so I will reach out.
They have been supportive so far, the entire venture was just so that I could get out of my comfort zone and get to mess with something a little more extreme.Assuming you weren't jumping it at 60mph (if you were, we need pictures of that too), it certainly sounds like either an installation issue or issue with the parts. If Teraflex cares about their product (which they probably don't), they should be interested in helping you get back on the road.
WOW sounds like quite a ride ! Glad you got it reeled in without a serious wreck!Waiting on wrecker to get it home, just a leaning tire and grease flung out is all I will have to for starters ..not sure if I’m tearing into or the shop...they do Facebook messenger on weekends so I will reach out.
Reading between the lines here but it sounds like that rig you showed pics of with all the crap wrong with was in fact something you owned or were about to own and now it owned you.They have been supportive so far, the entire venture was just so that I could get out of my comfort zone and get to mess with something a little more extreme.
Agree with what you say, it was losing grease prior so it had some to lose...I really should have already checked it.
Brakes faded too. Boy that was a help.
I’m just debugging the thing and having fun while I’m at it.
The ARB lockers wanted to puke gear oil, turns out the short run to the front diff is prone to...I bought the purge valves, they stopped that. Likely still need rebuilt, will see how often they cycle.
Radiator was installed with no allowance for flex so it steams a tad at the tank, new one coming.
Ultimately it needs a proper control arm set up if I want it more streetable, it is completely bushingless ...or was til I put a track bar on.
One thing I’ve learned about this is not only how things move has to be addressed, but how freely they move matters as well. Too much too fast is not always good.
Yep. I can’t suffer enough in daily life, I have to add to it.Reading between the lines here but it sounds like that rig you showed pics of with all the crap wrong with was in fact something you owned or were about to own and now it owned you.
Yep. I can’t suffer enough in daily life, I have to add to it.
And the kicker is I don’t even care, I have zero expectations, nothing to prove and no trails to conquer that I can’t with my other TJ.
I had a business arrangement that benefitted me to move one, this one was cheap and I knew I could part it out or scavenge what I wanted or sell it to the next victim.
I’m just farting around, and not wildly throwing money at it at this point, but I’m aware to make it right or better that money has to change hands. Not really worried about it .
One thing that is becoming evident is not only am I pretty clueless, but good off road knowledge can’t be found down here either.
My money is on the spindle nuts backing off. I've seen many that are not installed properly.Hopefully it is just a bearing that failed and if that is the case you should be able to acquire what you need and most any good parts store. If the hub or spindle is damaged you will be going back to Tera for that.
Tenn is where to be. Birmingham has a shop and Motobilt is down in Dothan.Yep. I can’t suffer enough in daily life, I have to add to it.
And the kicker is I don’t even care, I have zero expectations, nothing to prove and no trails to conquer that I can’t with my other TJ.
I had a business arrangement that benefitted me to move one, this one was cheap and I knew I could part it out or scavenge what I wanted or sell it to the next victim.
I’m just farting around, and not wildly throwing money at it at this point, but I’m aware to make it right or better that money has to change hands. Not really worried about it .
One thing that is becoming evident is not only am I pretty clueless, but good off road knowledge can’t be found down here either.
The suspension, if you call it that , it worthless.I've only seen a few other Jeeps that were running CRD front axles. I don't know why other than I just think Teraflex wasn't as popular as other axle manufactures. Why they don't use off the shelf stuff when designing these axles I'll never understand. I hope it's nothing all to serious.
Yes this Jeep seems to have been slapped together. I've got faith in ya.
The suspension, if you call it that , it worthless.
The integration of the engine and electronics, dash, etc is impressive. I left church the other night and a red light was on....they even wired the parking brake light up to the new cluster.
It doesn’t have to “be” anything right now, as far as right, proper, etc.
I’ve already been offered a JK for it.
The first goal is to not get killed in it.
second is to see if it’s mechanically reliable under the hood, stays cool, etc.
Then it’s suspension and steering if I hang on to it , but I’m not married to it .
I can’t imagine tackling a swap , I realize there are guys out there that aren’t intimidated. We have a top notch LS guru out here, lives out in the sticks a little, has a dyno, and he is the man for those.It's good that they at least did the engine swap correctly as I've seen some really shitty swaps done since I got mine done. The shop that did mine was the place to take your rig on the west coast and he did a shitty job on mine. I had to deal with a lot of stuff that wasn't correct. Took me a while to get mine running correctly. In his defense he couldn't test drive it since I was swapping axles once I had it back and this is what caused a lot of issues.
But it was also like a month or 6 weeks late to be finished and when I arrived to pick it up he didn't even have it running yet.
Having to redo all that stuff will take a little time but if you decide to keep it I'm sure once you are done with it you'll have a BLAST with it. Of course then the BUG will hit you and you'll be adding stuff to the engine to hop it up.