Been absent for awhile. After the last wheelin trip I’ve been on the go. It got a lot of mud on it. I cleaned most of it off. The Jeep has been driving horrible with a shimmy between 40-50mph and just rough all around. I finally broke away and got to Discount Tire today. Jeep is driving like a Lamborghini again, smooth as silk. Very happy! Didn’t take much more weight either.
On another note, a few weeks ago my interior driver door latch quit working. I didn’t tear into it right away. I just assumed that the plastic clip that holds the latch to the guide wire had broken. So I ordered some Crown replacements.
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One of the stupid things about these new Crown latches is the word lock is on the wrong side. The Stock one’s have it right.
It was a bit of a pain getting into the door but not too bad. With a little help from my son I got the new latch installed. No pics yet. PUt it back together and that worked. Unfortunately, the unlock mechanism didn’t work. It’s been like that ever since I’ve owned the Jeep, so I went back in and fooled around with this mechanism.
The photo below shows the extent of the movement when I tried to unlock it with the latch.
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The photo below shows how far it’s supposed to open. I put some PB Blaster on the parts and worked it a bit and now it works pretty well with the latch. Very pleased.
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