Brought the trail ready wheels in to be balanced today, will probably look into picking up a set of centramatics also.
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What did you do to your TJ today?
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Replaced the oil pressure sensor . . . broke another brittle electric clip.
WestCoastDan
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Finished my passenger side mini-boatside. This is a huge gain in clearance. It's just so clean looking too. Just needs some dirt and grime.
I think I scored a pair of 32RH's with transfer cases for $500 total. I'm picking up one pair tomorrow hopefully. The other later in the week.
Well it’s not what did I do to it today.. it’s more of what I made my son do.. he sent me a pic of it while he’s enjoying it out West
Wired in rear defrost with the integrated dash timer and my own fuse/relay box. Rear window doesn’t seem to be getting warm but connectors on windows measured 12.3V when on. Any ideas?
Is the grid intact? Check continuity/resistance to make sure. If it's not, you'll get an open circuit. The grid can be repaired - see Page 8G-6 of the service manual.
In the manual that @sab referred to it states that there should be a “distinct difference in temperature between the grid lines”
Rewired my new cigarette lighter power chargers. Hopefully I will be able to charge my Jackery and run my refrigerator during my next camping trip.
1000 Watt
I like it. I take it on my Jeep camping trips and on our travel trailer trips.
I was using it to power the fridge on a Jeep trip. I added the power ports so that it could charge it off the alternator while running the fridge. Apparently it spiked over 15 amps and blew the inline fuse. It is tapped into a 20 amp fuse slot so I put a 20 amp fuse in and will test it to see if it works.
Be careful with advertisements showing inexpensive Jackerys. If you look into the specs, they do not produce as much power as the full priced ones even though they are labeled the same. My buddy was going to buy a 600 Watt Jackery for $300 or so until he realized that it did not have the same capacity as the $600 Jackary 600 Watt. They generaly run $100 per Watt.
So.... when do these go into production for those of us that do not have this kind of Fab skill?
To be honest, the initial build of this one took up a lot of time. Check, double check, triple check, drill, weld, re-drill, cut, grind, etc. It was a ton of work up front, but the first is usually the hardest. I did a very good job documenting my process so the other side goes smooth for a video I'll make.
Now I know why production runs always seem very "loose' regarding fitment. There are a bunch of different variables that could be applied depending on how you want it. Keep it loose and it'll fit most everything. I couldn't imagine doing all this custom by hand for a customer. You thought Genright was expensive. I couldn't match that price for time and materials.
OH I totally get it. I do IT for manufacturing. Unless you do it, almost no one gets "first run/prototyping/development" costs and issues. Everyone just sees the production runs after they swipe the card. I hobby fab in my garage when I need to but nothing on your scale or skill.
About the only sliders out there worth putting on are the Genrights or Savvy (Blain's designs) and soon to be BFH Garage's sliders ;-) I would really like the Savvy's if they start making them again. I tend to think the GR's are going to be the only real option when I get to that point.
Yep, yep, and YES! Bringing a product into production is a huuuuge headache compared to a development cycle or a one-off build-up. Getting the parts and raw materials reliably is one headache, fine tuning your product production is yet another. Parts/materials suppliers come and go, the part you found that's just perfect isn't made anymore or isn't available from your supplier, materials suddenly become scarce or pricing goes through the roof, etc, etc. I learned this when I started making my Sistrums in quantities of 5 at a time. The first 2 were easy, after that I'm always having to change things to accommodate new supply realities, both in how I make them and where/how I get the materials needed. And that's just about as chickenshit of a product that you could imagine, yet the headaches are there nonetheless. My years in the Manufacturing Engineering dept. of an industrial computer company taught me well!
A friend designed a HELL of a nice rifle rest. He was going to start making and selling them, everyone of his acquaintance wanted one, including me. He tried valiantly, but was unable to make the jump from a one-off to production. Its too bad, as I was able to try his design at a shooting event several years ago and it was wonderful. I can only imagine the headaches @mrblaine goes through for his products!