Once upon a time there was a little engine. But he was a sad little engine because he was different from all his other little engine friends….
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Once upon a time there was a little engine. But he was a sad little engine because he was different from all his other little engine friends….
I had ChatGPT take a crack at your story. The end is a bit rough
Once upon a time, there was a little engine named 4.0. But he was a sad little engine because he was different from all his other little engine friends. While they were content with their standard power and performance, 4.0 always wanted more. He dreamed of powering the most powerful and exciting vehicles on the planet, and he was determined to make that dream a reality. Specifically, he dreamed of becoming a Hemi engine, powering JMT's red jeep for adventurous rock crawling and camping trips. But his small size and limited capabilities made him doubt whether he would ever be able to achieve his dreams. And so, 4.0 remained a sad little engine, yearning for something more.
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For now I’m gonna be Mr. Eclectic and stay with the JCR’s. I just finished modifying them about a month ago.
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I keep having issues pop up. I started seeing red fluid again. I only like that when it’s going in my TCase. It was on the tranny, but I couldn’t see any on the TCase. I checked the level and it was pretty close to full. A few days later I’m seeing more red stuff. I run Royal purple in the tranny, so it’s got to be coming from the TCase. I looked closer. It was hard to see, but definitely coming from the front of the TCase where it attaches to the tranny. So, input shaft seal replacement. It’s a bit of a pain getting there, but all done now.
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I was also greasing the rear shaft and centering ball, and noticed a ujoint plastic dust cap was broken. For now I used some Teflon tape to seal it up. Don’t want to mess with it right now even though I’ve got a few ujoints in the attic stash. 
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That’s even more difficult to get to.
EDIT: Did you put in the Atlas while you were down there?
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I was also greasing the rear shaft and centering ball, and noticed a ujoint plastic dust cap was broken. For now I used some Teflon tape to seal it up. Don’t want to mess with it right now even though I’ve got a few ujoints in the attic stash.
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In reference to lubing the centering ball, is this the correct type of adapter used for that?
That’s even more difficult to get to.
EDIT: Did you put in the Atlas while you were down there?
In the process. While under there I've been installing a GR tranny mount, revamping the exhaust hangers, refreshing the clutch and replacing the exhaust mid pipe.
That's what I have and use.
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Thanks. Great, I bought one thinking it's the correct thing. I have the plastic one that came with my Tom Woods driveshaft, but I wanted something besides plastic.
That works but if you want something a bit nicer look at the Lincoln G901 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FN4B9I/?tag=wranglerorg-20
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Thanks for the tip. That looks nice. The one I have/posted is the LockNLube brand. I bought it because all my grease guns have LockNLube couplers on them and I figured it would work good with them without having to screw the coupler off and the needle fitting on. I haven't needed to lube the centering ball yet as I just got the driveshaft a few weeks ago, so I guess I'll see how it goes when I need to lube it.
If you are running the Lock N Lube the style you have is the preferred one as you do not need the sliding collar to keep it locked in place.
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Moved the rear license plate from the corner to the middle of the tailgate armor in preparation for the GR corner armor. I removed the tailgate armor and discovered was able to just barely put nutserts in the sheet metal in each side of the vent hole (2005). Remounted the armor, drilled through the armor and sheet metal to set the location for the 10-24 nutserts. Everything was dead on. It took a bit of measuring to know exactly where to drill relative to other known points. I love the silicone license plate holder and am super happy with how it turned out.
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We’re at Moab. On Saturday I took @EternalHobbyist on Hell’s Revenge. This was the first trail I ever ran in Moab about 5 years ago. I was on 33’s and 2.5+1.25 locked. The group I went with were just some folks I met at the RV park I was staying at. They looked my rig over and said, just follow us. They had two JKU’s on 37’s, an LJ on 40’s, and a TJR on 32’s with a flat belly driven by a 72 year old named Rick Antolovich. That was a great day as they showed me the ropes. More about Mr. Antolovich later…
Here’s Hell’s Gate this year. Great crowd up top. They loved it. Of course, I convinced @EternalHobbyist to do it! Great job Daniel! Hopefully he’ll post his video of him.
Here’s Hell’s Gate this year. Great crowd up top. They loved it. Of course, I convinced @EternalHobbyist to do it! Great job Daniel! Hopefully he’ll post his video of him.