Arizona Rock Crawler
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Blaine is yet again saving my ass and sending me a dipstick and tube so I can get this thing wrapped up. Should finish up everything else today.
Less forum, more wrenching.
Everything is done minus the dipstick tube and filling it up!
Funny how after all that hard work the most satisfying part is putting the shift bezel on and looking at your new auto shifter
What happened to your fancy TC shifter? Bummer in the dipstick tube, I have 3- 32RH transmissions and could have sent you one as well.
I’ve always had the stock TC shifter handle. Must be thinking of someone else. Shoot I should have posted up on here I appreciate that. I ended up paying $70 for the seemingly last dipstick on the internet. Having it shipped to Blaine to replace his.
Just picked up a used millermatic 211 for $600. Now we can do some big boy mods 
While I’m waiting for the dipstick tube to finish the install I almost forgot I needed to check if my rear driveshaft would still be usable with the swap. Put the skid back on and measured and it is most certainly too short now. The 32rh is about 2” shorter than the ax15.
Sending out my rear driveshaft to Tom wood today to get lengthened as well as converted to greasable splines. I haven’t torn the boot on my rear shaft but the front boot gets torn up all the time so I’ve decided the XC style is better for my needs.
Sending out my rear driveshaft to Tom wood today to get lengthened as well as converted to greasable splines. I haven’t torn the boot on my rear shaft but the front boot gets torn up all the time so I’ve decided the XC style is better for my needs.
I have the greasable style rear without the boot. It is nice and easy to keep lubed.
This Miller 211 is amazing. I sucked at welding with our old welder but I’m starting to get the hang of this one. Practicing for when I do the JJ tower on my dads Dana 30
Finally plugged the dipstick in today and filled her up. Fired up right away and worked perfect! Now all I need is my rear driveshaft back from TW and I’m good to go
Rear shaft gets here tomorrow! Which means Sunday is wheelin day again! It’s been way too long.
I drove the Jeep up to 50mph today with just the front shaft in and good lord is it slow now. The AX15 felt pretty zippy but with only 3 gears now she’s not too quick. The good news is I don’t care because it’s only used for wheeling and my 15 min work commute.
Spent the day today cycling the rear suspension and cutting the rear wheel well to fit my tires. I don’t know how anyone fits 35s without trimming the wheel well. The good news here is that with my old control arms I was losing 1.5” of downtravel during articulation. With the new Savvy arms I’m at full travel, yay! And this gives you an idea of how junky rough country arms are. I was only getting 2.5” of downtravel during articulation when the other side was at full stuff before the joints maxed out.
I drove the Jeep up to 50mph today with just the front shaft in and good lord is it slow now. The AX15 felt pretty zippy but with only 3 gears now she’s not too quick. The good news is I don’t care because it’s only used for wheeling and my 15 min work commute.
Spent the day today cycling the rear suspension and cutting the rear wheel well to fit my tires. I don’t know how anyone fits 35s without trimming the wheel well. The good news here is that with my old control arms I was losing 1.5” of downtravel during articulation. With the new Savvy arms I’m at full travel, yay! And this gives you an idea of how junky rough country arms are. I was only getting 2.5” of downtravel during articulation when the other side was at full stuff before the joints maxed out.
How do your Shift points feel?
You may need to tighten your Throttle valve cable a couple clicks at a time.
True. I’ll play with it some more once I get the rear shaft on. I didn’t love driving it in front wheel drive with a lunchbox locker haha
Also to be fair there aren’t many shift points to begin with on a 3 speed
Makes sense, I wouldn't either. When you said it's not as quick I was just wondering how you adjusted your TV cable, and maybe your shift points were too early and soft making it seem slower.
With 4.56 and 35's your Jeep shouldn't be terribly slow. Obviously not a race machine either. Good work though! I have the XC splines on my Tom Woods also. Good stuff.
By slow I mean not as good of acceleration from 0-45 mph
I won’t say mine is a rocket ship by any means but riding in a couple of manuals and in my own with the 32RH it should feel somewhat snappy.
I read back through this thread, and my only thought besides looks good, is I am jealous of your Amazon warehouse deal on the Spare Warn lock outs for 120$. I'm gonna watch for a set also. I buy the warehouse deal stuff sometimes and its a good deal.
I saw you are planning on running an Aux cooler for the trans, that will be a must IMO. Go into the radiator and then the cooler and back. I'm sure you knew that! But tossing it in here anyway.
I saw you are planning on running an Aux cooler for the trans, that will be a must IMO. Go into the radiator and then the cooler and back. I'm sure you knew that! But tossing it in here anyway.
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