Got some "catch up" wrenching done. Added some castor to the front end. Plumbed the air locker tubing, clearanced the xfer case skid for the front DL, installed a 12Oclock Labs speedo fixer, and added a couple US flag stickers.
What did you do to your TJ today?
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More wheel sanding. I'm into each wheel about 10 hours of prep and they are still so-so.
7 Slot Customs... It's a Jeep specific Barnes affiliate
Installed the seat bushings from @JHenley01. Install was super easy. The seat is nice and solid now. Interesting...I had thought both seat frames would be identical, but my drivers side seat doesn't have the bolt and knubby thing that takes the bushings. It's more like a slider inside of a channel. It is a seat that slides forward and rocks forward toward the wheel. Anyway, unless I am missing something (which is possible) it left me with a backup set of bushings.
Solid rain the past 30 hours and will continue to rain all day. Out at 7am to pull the passenger floor plug, to drain about an inch of water in the floorboard.
One of my pups lived the first year of her life alone in an outdoor pen with no shelter. When it rains, she is terrified. It has been a long night.
One of my pups lived the first year of her life alone in an outdoor pen with no shelter. When it rains, she is terrified. It has been a long night.
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You should punch whoever treated that pup like that directly in the throat, several times
No problem sir
Edit - I dont know why there's half of an emoji but its supposed to be a saluting emoji
Now that I know the 7 is for 7-slot I feel it may get highlighted instead of deleted.
I know nothing but have heard bad things about the Yukon Zips
I couldn't afford to pay myself for that much work.
I hope they turn out like you want them to.
Well considering how dead it feels on the freeway after putting on the stock airbox,anywhere from 60 to 80 and really any acceleration point in general it does not accelerate as hard as it used to compared to the cheap pod filter with a outerwears pre filter(intake noises were great&shortly lived)
My jeep is cammed,head with LS valvetrain,slightly ported intake,Tuned aswell ,in which I used a pod filter stuck to the intake tube and tuned it in this configuration,so yes in other terms my jeep is breathing in alot more air than a bone stock jeep so ofcourse it'll need a better intake system that's not as restrictive as the stock airbox
So if any smart-asses wants to tell me how useless CAI's are I will not proceed to talk with you furthermore.I know a few that dont like cai's are after seeing Jezzas thread even with factual evidence,did not expect the same people that i've had good shares with me here in the forum to be so out of pocket persay to another person but hey that just life. I'm cool with the ones that I know here but I guess the Cai topic is touchy and will affect out relations...
As far as filtration goes I'm not too concerned since 60-70 percent of my jeeps life is spent being a daily the other times are me crawling with it i.e at bridgeport and even at that the stock airbox can't filter the fine gravel dust from leaving/entering the place let alone the wheeling. So to help it I just ziptie a pre-filter on the airbox snout and it helped
Cross section of the stock air pipe, the stock system is sized smaller at the air horn and the cross over tube than the throttle body diameter. So it is restrictive if the throttle body was sized correctly.
I see the discussion problem with just slapping a K & N filter on and calling it CAI and lumping that design in discussion with a proper CAI set up that is making efforts to duct in colder air, run larger piping, and proper filtration for being in the dirt.
I couldn't afford to pay myself for that much work.
Fact. Coulda had em blasted and powder coated for much less than 40 hours of my labor
Fact. Coulda had em blasted and powder coated for much less than 40 hours of my labor
Not around here. This is a decent sized town, but I would have to go to Atlanta for that kind of work and I try hard not to go to Atlanta.
Yeah
Yeah I noticed that,the horn is a ways smaller than the TB I'm assuming around 50mm? Also what's the I.D of the intake tube seems quite small
But yeah I just slapped a cone filter at the intake tube and called it a day( but I didn't call it a CAI) one can call it a CAI since I have no hood but I won't get into that
,As well because of that I didn't want to momentarily run the airbox like I now am since I had intentions of getting a THOR cowl Intake but they were on back order for 4-5 weeks,So I canceled my order....so
Factory airbox it is
I may take off the air ram/horn thing off and put a Velocity stack type deal and have some sort of ducting and put a hole on the back side of the grill for it to get some fresher air! Not too decided on what im gonna do yet as it's my daily and time is of essence so I can't just do whatever on it whenever I can ya know
Yeah I noticed that,the horn is a ways smaller than the TB I'm assuming around 50mm? Also what's the I.D of the intake tube seems quite small
But yeah I just slapped a cone filter at the intake tube and called it a day( but I didn't call it a CAI) one can call it a CAI since I have no hood but I won't get into that
,As well because of that I didn't want to momentarily run the airbox like I now am since I had intentions of getting a THOR cowl Intake but they were on back order for 4-5 weeks,So I canceled my order....soFactory airbox it is
I may take off the air ram/horn thing off and put a Velocity stack type deal and have some sort of ducting and put a hole on the back side of the grill for it to get some fresher air! Not too decided on what im gonna do yet as it's my daily and time is of essence so I can't just do whatever on it whenever I can ya know
Yeah that's what I had on there it was a vibrant filter with an outerwears pre-filter,it seemed to do a good job since I did some wheeling,donuts in the dirt and gravel,in other words it spent lots of time (about 6 hours total) in dusty conditions and nothing really came up inside the intake tube so it was a good temporary setup
This setup was short lived however as someone stole my filter because I got no hood on my jeep yet....
Yeah
Yeah I noticed that,the horn is a ways smaller than the TB I'm assuming around 50mm? Also what's the I.D of the intake tube seems quite small
But yeah I just slapped a cone filter at the intake tube and called it a day( but I didn't call it a CAI) one can call it a CAI since I have no hood but I won't get into that
Factory airbox it is
I may take off the air ram/horn thing off and put a Velocity stack type deal and have some sort of ducting and put a hole on the back side of the grill for it to get some fresher air! Not too decided on what im gonna do yet as it's my daily and time is of essence so I can't just do whatever on it whenever I can ya know
If memory serves me, its 47mm at the horn, 50mm ID on the cross over tube….but if I am being honest, just like people like a little louder muffler for the sound, I like to hear the engine inhaling air full throttle.
Installed my own windshield washer tank that fits with my high line fenders. So far no leaks.
I had a zip in my XJ for years, and took it up some questionable lines. Never had an issue, so hopefully this one is the same. I have seen some negative reviews on them but that has not been my experience.
Gotcha,Yeah I looooove the sound of my intake i had,the whistle like sound when Im in&out of throttle the noise at full throttle.....I'm a fool for the induction noises
Once I have a turbo I'll be ecstatic
If those tabs are rigidly-mounted, as they appear to be, you may want to consider using mounts like this between the fender and the aluminum tabs:
Those are highly likely to crack from vibration fatigue, especially if that aluminum was artificially aged prior to welding (has a temper, like T3, T4, T6, etc.)
When the Harley-Davidson VR 1000 first hit the track at Daytona in '94, we were using aluminum fuel tanks, and that was a nightmare. We felt like the little Dutch kid running out of fingers for the dike.
Your TJ doesn't vibrate like the VR did, but it doesn't take much to crack aluminum that was artificially aged and then welded.
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