Your wife is like mine, she’s thinking, “what’s different?”
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I was crawling around the vehicle taking pictures of everything and it was like an easter egg hunt. I was like “there that’s everything.” Then I spotted the flipped tie rod, and was like “oh ya” then I thought I got it all again and spotted the hidden trailer plug in and it was like a real surprise. I was all “That’s Awesome!“
I am glad I have this thread or I might start to forget all the hidden (by great work) stuff.
Flipping the tie rod in your case is akin to "just raise the rear bumper 1.25"". Both sides were completely disassembled and the upper ball joints pulled to weld on the raised swaybar link mounts.
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So about 10 years ago one time my wife and I were doing a practice day with our race cars out at Thunderhill raceway. Her session ends and she comes into the staging area, she gets out and I jump into the car. I head across the parking lot and turn onto pit lane and accelerate to about 45 mph. I feel the steering wheel bounce, and flop A LOT! Up and down like it was about to fall into my lap. I am literally like wholly shit and turned off the emergency out exit and was pretty panicked because I hardly had control. I pull into the staging area and looked under the column. The 2 bolts that hold the steering coulmn were about 3” long and both nuts had vibrated about 2.75” down those bolt. It was probably 5 or 6 laps from falling off. It was quite terrifying at 45 mph.
I ask my wife “wholly crap! Why didn’t you come in when the car was acting like that.” Now mind you in our car you would typical be going around 105-110 into the braking zone for turn one.
She looks at me with a cute innocent smile and says.
“Oh that makes since, I thought it was shaking a little under braking.”
You could move the steering up and down roughly 8”!
I used this fuse block in the F100, they make a few different configurations for fuses and relays.
https://peerlesselectronics.com/15712-12-04-21a-fuse-block
https://peerlesselectronics.com/15712-12-04-21a-fuse-block
It would surprise you I think to know how many rigs I drive with similar things that are just so out of whack that I wouldn't drive them to the end of the block willingly after the first drive.
I have several of that style Bussman relay fuse panels. I don't like the height, looks, or wiring them.
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Funny how such a simple sentence involves so much work.
Explained by the driver as, it’s a “Jeep thing”.
First off, very nice work on the jeep.
What about a 3 or 6 circuit weatherproof fuse block from Painless Performance?
https://www.painlessperformance.com/wc/p.php?s=fuse3
I have used their stuff quite a few times for various street rods and race cars.
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Blaine’s comment reminded me. I didn’t post pictures of the new sway bar mounts.
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It's this kind of stuff that keeps me shaking my head. It's also the kind of stuff that reminds me why it's important to have male and female in the human race. Reminds me of when Rocky said Adriane, "I got gaps, you got gaps, together we fill gaps."
Your rig looks fantastic, attention to detail is immaculate. What a nice rig.
I probably have 5-7 versions of that, plus relays plus other crap and none of it fulfills my sensibility requirements of how it should look and function. I have the cheap stuff, stuff from Blue Sea, etc..
Not that it matters much but anyone looking to duplicate the location of the aux outlets we installed needs to pay close attention to the other side of the panel. There are bits of metal back there that will ruin your day if you miss.
sonofabiscuit does that looks nice...and it doesn't surprise me one bit given who did the work...
Nice new additions! Looking forward to seeing the trailer done too. Hoping for some rain soon to settle things down and would love to do a trial run.
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