Since the winter I pulled my transfer case to figure out why it was popping out of 4low. Turns out I put a 1.25in wide chain with the normal 1in sprockets so the chain would slide and hit the shifting fork and pop it out of 4low. Got a new chain and threw it back in (think I messed the rear out put shaft seal on my tcase from installing it or the case in) since then it seems to work great but adjusting the cable shifter still needs work.
Put new door handles on from Amazon that have a completely different design than the ones I had and have no worry about the lever flipping over the latch now.
I’ve also gone a different direction for gear and lockers even tho my plan was control arms and Swayloc as priorities. Since a follower of mine on my Instagram (
@The4bangertj on insta too) messaged me about how he has some axles he’s going to sell if I’m interested since he knew I was trying to get a super 35 under my jeep. They’re Dana 30/44 from an 05 lj so I get disks and they have arbs front and rear with 4:56 gears. For 2,500 dollars that was the cheapest option I could think of as well as easier axle swapping than setting up gears in a parking lot where I live. Only problem was they were in Tucson Arizona and I’m located in rexburg Idaho.
Since I’ve driven the country 5 times in the jeep I didn’t think much of it and it drive great for about the first 7 hours. Once we hit cedar utah I had a slight misfire start. After stopping I found the distributor leaking oil and the bolt holding it in loose. Tightened it up and filled the motor oil back and thought that was my only worry. As time goes on the miss fire got more consistent as well as the next stop in Las Vegas I was still leaking oil. Because of the previous motor oil leak everything under the jee was covered and when I ran my finger in it I still saw the dark carbon from the motor oil in it and just assumed my distributor is still leaking so I checked the motor oil and kept on my way. About an hour away from phoenix (were we were stopping for the night) the miss fire was almost constant and then 5th became neutral. Then checked all gears were but 4th. After stopping now it was obvious the transmission was puking oil and I burnt up the trans. My theory is I messed the metal spring in the rear output seal on the trans as the rubber sealed worked while I was home but after all day driving the heat expanded it and didn’t have the metal spring to hold it in. The damage was done and I wasn’t attentive enough to see the difference of gear oil vs motor oil.
Long story short I was able to pick the axles up with a friends truck as I got a new trans and then had a shop throw it in that day. First time I’ve had a shop do anything on the jeep so it felt weird and hurt my wallet. They also found out my clutch had the wrong clutch face on towards the flywheel (I installed a new one the way I pulled it out, my clutch has always been mushy too which I thought I was just bad at driving when I felt like I was burning the clutch bc it wouldn’t grab without a lot of gas) so glad I had a shop do it anyways.
After almost a week and being stressed of missing school and now having credit card debt for the first time I made the long trek back with 2 axles on a hf tray. Will be cleaning them up and painting them before I throw them under and ride my bike to class. So beyond stoked to have these axles but the journey was wild.
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