Been a while so I figured I’d keep this atleast updated for my self, it’s been lack luster in terms of actual modifications but has been very busy for other reasons. If ya don’t want to read it all I did a genright battery tray, odyssey battery, moroso battery terminals, jeepcables, a tail pipe rather than a muffler dump, and swapped trans fluid to redline mt-90.
a long story short my wife’s car had a cross threaded oil filter before we owned it (I didn’t know about) so when I did a change and tightened the filter as tight has I could it still leaked all the oil out and my wife didn’t recognize the difference from the maintenance light and no oil pressure light light. After it turned itself off I spent days flushing and cycling oil to try and save it, I’d drove again but the motor sounded bad, but after about 5 months it finally burn out. So my wife and I are down to just my Jeep again so keeping it well running is top priority. The next few thing I would even want to upgrade on the Jeep would also cost so much (Swayloc, mid arm, outboard) I’ve started to get into other hobby’s more like firearms, rc crawlers, and still snowboarding when I’m not in school to keep me busy without dropping a few grand since I can’t.
Now as far as the Jeep stuff it came down to doing a genright battery tray, new battery, battery terminals, battery cables and a new metal cloak rear track bar that my dad got me off marketplace since used parts in eastern idaho are non existent. Then also did motor oil which isn’t anything to even mention but did put redline mt-90 in the trans again since this is a junkyard trans a shop put in while I was stuck in Arizona getting my axles and I have no idea what fluid they used. The redline smoothed things up more than I was expecting.
The battery I had was a cheap random brand lead acid which i was already wanted to get rid of bc of the genright mounts the battery at an angle and i was worried that would kill it as well as my winch wasn’t working which i had a hunch it might have been my stock terminals with a crappy mounting and corrosion so i decided to not just to do the battery but terminal connectors which also forced me to do after market cables from JeepCables.
Had to trim the genright tray for the odyssey battery which I was mad bc it fit fine for my old battery and I even powder coated it. The rest of the tray was an easy install and seems to be really nice but will see how much abuse it holds to before I have to brace it off the fender or another spot on the fire wall.
The jeep cables and terminals were super nice to organize all my connections and currently every connection has its own bolt on the terminal connector and with some cleaning the ends off my winch works again. Install was super straightforward for that so nothing to mention about that.
Also did a tail pipe since I found one for 50 bucks on Amazon to help with the drone in the cab rather than a down pipe straight from the muffler. I still have an exhaust leak on either my headers or the connection from header to the mid pipe/cat that’s a little annoying but is only an issue at higher rpm’s.
All in all the Jeep is running well, all my issues are resolved except I have a vacume leak for my hvac vents that I can’t find but after about 10min of highway driving it looses vacume and closes the vents which I then just have to engine break to get the vacume back. Other than that my 4wd has been solved, lockers and gears have had no issue and my battery system should be of no concern for a little.
Photos include the Jeep projects as well as other side fun such as rc crawler and gun projects.
