What did you do to your TJ today?

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Swapped in some new control arms. When I went from Dana 30 to d30hp it put the pinion a few degrees down angled. Got the pinion at one degree up. Still have some minor vibrations, but I'm reasonably sure that they're from axle u joints. PO did a lot of desert running with the old axle and steering bent. Would be surprised if the u joints weren't bad.

Core 4x4 sent the wrong nuts for the bolts in their hardware pack. Fine thread vs coarse thread. My only gripe. Otherwise seems like a vast improvement over OEM arms.

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Chickenshit project while waiting for the hurricane. The sound bar - or sound pods in my '06 - seem pretty airtight to me, not particularly good for bass response as the speakers will try to form a vacuum during outward excursions - and compress on inward. Therefore, I figured I'd vent them:
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Hecho en China - 1/2" mini speaker ports.

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Hole drilled.

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Press fit...

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Should lower the impedance of the enclosures and let the speakers breathe.
Cool idea, I have always been a fan of sealed enclosures for tighter base in my mids myself but it does sacrifice a little on the really low response.
 
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Cool idea, I have always been a fan of sealed enclosures for tighter base in my mids myself but it does sacrifice a little on the really low response.
The amount of air moving through these little ports astounded me, frankly. Certainly not "tuned", but better than nothing.
 
Tried to get those bumper bolts but couldn't, so ill be grinding the heads off tomorrow and doing them that way.

Finally downloaded Gaia and found a couple trails this afternoon in NH. One was definitely too dicey for me to attempt on my own with no recovery gear but its definitely doable, the other was a slightly bumpy but very drivable dirt road so I had some fun.

I'll be going back out tomorrow with a friend, and hopefully with the winch on tomorrow assuming I can get the damn bumper off so I may try some more intense stuff haha !