"But the Guys On the Forum Said I Need This Stuff" Build

qslim said:
Got a little more time over the weekend, the brakes turned into a little more than I wanted. The left rear brake hose looked suspect, so I wanted to replace them both. The hard line is crimped into the brake hoses from the factory, and there was no option that I could find for getting a full set of pre-bent hardlines with hoses. So I just got some hoses and a length of brake line & made my own. I wasn't planning on spending a day & a half on getting the lines just right, but I did. Should work fine, we'll see if my homemade flares leak when I go to bleed the brakes. I realized after I took this picture that the left brake line is farther away from the axle than I like, and given the fact that the pinion is going to be raised I think I'm going to redo that one. At this point I just want to get it centered so I can get my driveshaft.

Changed the pinion seal, cleaned up the axle, gave it a fresh coat of paint, & hung the control arms. Here she is in all her glory ready to be hanged.

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What's not cool is that when I was going through my control arms from Core 4x4 two of the arms had forged ends with the snap ring not completely seated in the groove. I messed with them a little bit & can't get them to pop in. I called the place & their first response was to see if I can press the joint further into the housing, but I told them A: I don't have a press, and B: Even if I did, I have about an hour a week of free time to work on this thing & I'm not interested in losing my time because of their quality escapes. Still waiting to hear back.

Installing the zerks was also a pain in the ass because they got their powder coat all up in the threads. I couldn't chase it because my taps are tapered & wouldn't thread before they bottomed out on the joint, so I had to get a cutting wheel & nick a zerk fitting to turn it into a tap & chase the threads out. Minor annoyance.

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Couple of sockets and some allthread and you don't need a press.
 
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mrblaine said:
Couple of sockets and some allthread and you don't need a press.
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Yeah, I couldn’t find a socket big enough to fit the housing to draw the joint through. I’m going to root through the shed tomorrow to see if I have something. They called back a little while ago & said they’d be happy to send me a shipping label. I’ll see what I can figure out.
 
Bonus, I listed the front Dana 30 that came with my Dana 44 and my old Dana 35 for $200 on the local Mormon Craigslist, got a text immediately from a guy that was really desperate for them. I figured I'd have a hard time getting rid of them but he came right over, paid me, & we loaded them up in the back of his truck.
 
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rasband said:
It’s called KSL, it’s not really just Mormon but it is the only thing the folks in Utah use for some reason.
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I went to fetch up a rig from a friend outside of Moab. On the way back I pulled into a gas station to get some fuel and while I was there a pick-up with a gooseneck stock trailer pulled in. Side door at the front opened and about 20 kids came pouring out. Guessing it was some sort of Mormon bus.
 
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Alex01 said:
Is this really a thing or a poke at Utah?
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Not a poke, it's real. KSL is Salt Lake City's NBC broadcasting affiliate and owned by the LDS Church. They have a classified section on their website that is pretty much what everyone here uses, probably because the Church controls everything. I haven't heard of anyone using Craigslist since I moved here in 2016.

Edit: there are lots of Jeeps on KSL.com, if you're ever looking for a high-desert model it's not a bad place to go. There's stuff on there from AZ, NV, ID, & WY.
 
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qslim said:
Not a poke, it's real. KSL is Salt Lake City's NBC broadcasting affiliate and owned by the LDS Church. They have a classified section on their website that is pretty much what everyone here uses, probably because the Church controls everything. I haven't heard of anyone using Craigslist since I moved here in 2016.
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Probably has to do with all the optional lifestyles that are part and parcel of CL. If you use it, you implicitly condone the "aberrant" behaviors.
 
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mrblaine said:
I went to fetch up a rig from a friend outside of Moab. On the way back I pulled into a gas station to get some fuel and while I was there a pick-up with a gooseneck stock trailer pulled in. Side door at the front opened and about 20 kids came pouring out. Guessing it was some sort of Mormon bus.
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Highest number of children per family in the country! The Mormons like to procreate. Lots of white ones too. When we first moved here my son had a birthday so my wife rented a bounce house & invited all the neighborhood families with kids over for hot dogs. Between my little ginger kids & everyone else in the neighborhood my backyard looked like a Hitler youth rally until my Puerto Rican buddy who already lived here showed up with his kids. Pretty stark departure coming from the D.C. & Central Florida regions.

Edit: The majority of those folks never came around again either once they found out we weren't part of the church lol.
 
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Updated build thread: installed a Core 4x4 and JKS sticker on my toolbox.

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