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What did you do to your TJ today?
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I can remember the original TV Show.....
In the words of my West Virginia based co-worker "I seen it"Deleted before Chris deletes me. Only you and I know what I "supposedly" posted.
I remember that show, too.....Agent 99 was a hotty.
I actually have the correct tools & it's still a pain in the ass, though I am comparing it to discs & my skills aren't exactly the best. Saltopia is just where I live (PA), not where I expose my TJ - it's a garage kept weekend toy that hasn't seen a grain of salt or drop of brine at least since 2016 when I bought it (in the fucktard state no less
) & the axle shafts were installed in 2017 so they've never seen it... when I pulled the drum off the center logo looked identical to the rest of the flange, I wiped that portion off for the photo, what you're seeing is mostly dried dirt & some surface rust left over from my wheeling days when I routinely submerged it in Rausch Creek muck, that shit is pretty toxicMore importantly the frame is good, inside the rails the tc & control arm areas look like this:
One spot I did have a monumental bear of a time with was the upper rear shock bolts when I replaced them a couple years ago. To look at them they didn't appear to have any rust but they were corroded to the point where I snapped 3 out of 4 trying to remove them, it was almost like they were welded on there, had to cut the nuts off to get it all out, a real nightmare. I haven't run into any other rust/corrosion related issues fortunately.
Don't get me started on "I dream of Jeannie".
I feel your pain. When I bought my LJ, you could eat off the undercarriage. After three seasons of salt and brine, I now lock mine in the garage for the winter and use my beater Impala.I actually have the correct tools & it's still a pain in the ass, though I am comparing it to discs & my skills aren't exactly the best. Saltopia is just where I live (PA), not where I expose my TJ - it's a garage kept weekend toy that hasn't seen a grain of salt or drop of brine at least since 2016 when I bought it (in the fucktard state no less
More importantly the frame is good, inside the rails the tc & control arm areas look like this:
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One spot I did have a monumental bear of a time with was the upper rear shock bolts when I replaced them a couple years ago. To look at them they didn't appear to have any rust but they were corroded to the point where I snapped 3 out of 4 trying to remove them, it was almost like they were welded on there, had to cut the nuts off to get it all out, a real nightmare. I haven't run into any other rust/corrosion related issues fortunately.
I ran into the same problem with the upper shock bolts. I ended up unbolting and lifting the body up a few inches. I used a cutting wheel to hack of the nuts.
He must be too lazy to write ādoneā in his daily reportsYour vernacular usage was close, Ryan, but I corrected it for you...
Yup, I have a subaru daily driver that's my salt sponge. I've never had salt related issues even living in the rust belt all of my 55 years until the TJ came along, not mine in particular but just in my search seeing what I saw & knowing what I know it's crazy how quickly it destroys this particular vehicle. I've had cars bathing in salt with more miles than my TJ that showed dramatically less salt related impact, in fact my subie at 8 years old/85k barely shows any signs of corrosion as of yet. I really do believe the TJ is just a poorly designed & constructed vehicle to that end. I look at them all the time & just cringe at what I'm seeing. As said my TJ came from NJ & when I bought it, it was 12 years old with 119,000 miles yet rust-wise it looked more like a southern TJ & I know it was there because I bought it there from a young kid that had if for about a year & he got it from a family member close by & the CarFax confirmed it was registered there the entire time - so I have to believe these 2 prior owners somehow knew to keep it out of the salt. Seems like a no-brainer to us now but people that bought TJs brand new didn't necessarily know how important that detail would become... by the time most figured it out it was way too late.
And by the way, if you want to see shock pain take a gander at this:
https://wranglertjforum.com/threads...rning-read-for-amusement-purposes-only.12686/
Well technically this was yesterday...started dismantling my Dana 30 on my path to 4.88s...three hours were spent beating the unit bearings out. Punches, hammers...even dusted of my air compressor and found my air hammer. Lots of break free and kroil.
You'll have a lot less respect for your brackets when they grind off in less than 3 minutes.
Pretty sure the unit bearings were the cause of my wubba wubba noises.
Sure glad I was in the garage too...19 degrees out...got the shop up to a balmy 42.
You'll have a lot less respect for your brackets when they grind off in less than 3 minutes.
Pretty sure the unit bearings were the cause of my wubba wubba noises.
Sure glad I was in the garage too...19 degrees out...got the shop up to a balmy 42.
Steering was all disconnected at that point.
They were corrosioned/rusted/grimed in good. Just took time.
-Mac
Took some effort since my deck only has one video input, but Iām happy with the results.
.This reasonable explanation will be scrubbed from existence when they come after you; Chris will be forced to comply after they torture him with high-definition episodes of Sex and the City (he won't last more than 15 minutes and no one will blame him if he needs medical attention and long term therapy).Don't much care. Wont have long to live with that when that happens. Brown Santa is slang around old tractor sites for UPS man.
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I'd barely get past the opening credits and I'd be singing like a canary haha
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