A lesson learned—keep it light and nimble!
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See, now you've got everyone doing a google search for pegging and blue waffles which one should never do under any circumstances.
As long as they don’t search for lemon party they may survive.
One of the reasons for the demise of Jeeps Unlimited was the AZ Bastard Army got offended that they were not allowed to troll the tech sections, the PTB, moderators and admins basically confined them all to the off topic forum. What lead up to that was the trolling of tech with posted pics of goatse, lemon party, tub girl, and similar any time they felt a bit put upon. Sadly they ruined what was once a great place. They would post up phone numbers of folks like Jerry and his wife's work number with requests to call and harass her. They also signed up on other forums with Jerry's username and did stupid shit under his name.
The folks that ran the place could never figure out how to shut them down and keep them shut down. That chased off 1000's of members.
Group of shitheads that called themselves that. One or two were in the Phoenix area. Another favorite trick of theirs was the phone service for the deaf. You call into an operator via computer and type in the message. She has to repeat verbally to the hearing person what you type. They were pretty rude with that one and took great delight in posting up what they made the operators say to the unsuspecting victims.
Wow, these trolls make any of the trolls have had here pale in comparison.
Like I said, they ruined JU because they couldn't and didn't have the tools to deal with them. They were just miserable people.
They didn't hide who they were. The info was out there due to all the chit chat back and forth for years before they turned rogue.
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I haven't opened the box yet, but completely forgot that replacement rotors are in there. That's certainly the bulk of the weight.
Out of curiosity, how much needs to be machined off on stock rotors for them to fit? And, is it safe to do so?
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A question I have is why the locking hubs? By all accounts, you're keeping this light and small (31's, right?). If that is the case, I wouldn't think anything deeper than a 4.11 gearset would be required. Typically, vibs don't start until you get up into the 4.88's and higher from what I've read.
I'm not saying you shouldn't do this, just curious why you think you need to.
I'm not saying you shouldn't do this, just curious why you think you need to.
For the small hub kit, you just need to open up the center bore so it fits the snout on the back of the bearing hub. I don't believe you can do the late model rotors without a spacer since the kit is based on the earlier full cast rotor which is deeper. I need to check that to verify though.
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Dug through my parts and found some replacement fender lights. Previous owner got creative and used a drilled in screw to hold one of the lights in place!
The front fender flares are also faded and had duct tape residue. I made a first pass at cleaning them up. I'll be removing all of them to buff the paint. It's likely they will all get painted at that time.
I also found a battery hold down in the parts bin and cleaned, painted, and installed that. I did manage to find a jack and the handle that goes into the jack. Sadly, I did not have the lug wrench!
The front fender flares are also faded and had duct tape residue. I made a first pass at cleaning them up. I'll be removing all of them to buff the paint. It's likely they will all get painted at that time.
I also found a battery hold down in the parts bin and cleaned, painted, and installed that. I did manage to find a jack and the handle that goes into the jack. Sadly, I did not have the lug wrench!
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It's not a matter of need too, but rather want too. I've run the large, 5 on 5.5 Warn hub conversion on my LJ for over 7 years now. I don't like spinning the driveshaft or R&P, if I don't have to. Also, I'll be installing a Dana 44 Rubicon rear, along with a Dana 30, with Detroit TrueTrac up front. Both are geared to 4.10. I know this combination can be driven on the street without a hub conversion, but that's not what I'm looking for.
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Driving 4h on street if in snow ect would be convinient too without stressing the front axle with the true trac right?
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Had a headlight out and discovered the connectors were toast
Replaced the stock connectors with a ceramic version (orange) and added an adapter (Red/Blue wire) to convert to H13 bulbs.
Replaced the stock connectors with a ceramic version (orange) and added an adapter (Red/Blue wire) to convert to H13 bulbs.
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Replaced the stock headlights
With a free set of JK headlights from a buddy.
Buffed and waxed the front end, to make it look better with the JK headlights.
With a free set of JK headlights from a buddy.
Buffed and waxed the front end, to make it look better with the JK headlights.
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Replaced all the dash lights with LED. Red for the cluster and white for the HVAC and Switches. While I was there, I also replaced the busted center black bezel with a silver one I had.
I happened to have a full stock switch pod, so that went in for future use!
Replaced the stock tail light bulbs with some LEDs I had. This is a rare occasion where I say thank God for California. Zero rust in there!
The last thing for this weekend was replace the blower resistor and repair the inoperable 3rd brake light.
I happened to have a full stock switch pod, so that went in for future use!
Replaced the stock tail light bulbs with some LEDs I had. This is a rare occasion where I say thank God for California. Zero rust in there!
The last thing for this weekend was replace the blower resistor and repair the inoperable 3rd brake light.