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Replaced the rear Rubicon express spacers with my Sawzalled down rock hard no name spacers. After work today.

these RE spacers are fine, but I can tell you they say they fit front or rear. But they are meant for front only.

That concave area is for the front upper coil bucket style. The coil can press that flat in the back because the upper coil bucket is not that shape. And the way the coil sits it crushes this style. It needs a solid spacer, if a spacer is gonna be used.

Needless to say the other spacers work and give me the little bit higher ride in the rear. I don't want it level when not loaded down with gear.

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Rubicrawler Install went well. Used my unused Zone swaybar extensions as a Spacer pulling the spud shaft off the trans, they worked great! It is a hard pull. I broke the snap ring for the spud shaft. Which is not used with the Rubicrawler. The splines were not damaged.

Vibration free at all speeds and speedometer is dead on.

next weekend will be my currie steering and power steering cooler and transcooler.

Stay tuned. Oh, and its seriously low in low/low 1st gear.

Install took 6hrs with no help. Shifting is easy. Happy here.


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Flivver250 said:
I enjoy the pictures of your shop and tools just as much as the build.
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Thank you. All the tools are paid off also, no huge tool truck bill right now. Its taken a while to get what I have. And am always adding more. And my stalls get trashed during the week.

I just put in the extra effort to clean it up. As do most our guys. I work on customers cars just as organized as I do mine.
 
I have been buying tools for 46 years. I still do. I cut corners on the box, but never the tools. I had a very old Snap-On box that the bottom box finally buckled under the weight of the tools stacked in the top and middle box. SO swapped it for a new one, but I found a like new giant box set-up for sale ridiculously cheap. I do not have a shop anymore, and only visit my garage once a year so it is always an utter mess when I get there. When I finally move back to the US, I will have a good shop again, hopefully back in Coeur d'Alene or Notus. Florida sucks.
 
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I have been buying tools for 46 years. I still do. I cut corners on the box, but never the tools. I had a very old Snap-On box that the bottom box finally buckled under the weight of the tools stacked in the top and middle box. SO swapped it for a new one, but I found a like new giant box set-up for sale ridiculously cheap. I do not have a shop anymore, and only visit my garage once a year so it is always an utter mess when I get there. When I finally move back to the US, I will have a good shop again, hopefully back in Coeur d'Alene or Notus. Florida sucks.
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Hopefully you get to choose Idaho.
 
Morning TJ Jerks!

My new friend Kimber and I headed off to the shop this AM. Today I will be performing an upgrade to my Harbor Freight Winch, let me know what you guys think? Whoever reads this thread I suppose. I know the HF winch is highly revered as durable and all, but I wanted to try a small upgrade to it and test the durability of my enhancement.

I will also be installing a power steering cooler and transmission cooler. Oh some Currie Currectlync.

Have a good day ladies and gents and I will post some pics afterwards of the installed HF upgrade. Soon, to the woods to shoot stuff and wheel.


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Cross-Threaded-06TJ said:
Morning TJ Jerks!

My new friend Kimber and I headed off to the shop this AM. Today I will be performing an upgrade to my Harbor Freight Winch, let me know what you guys think? Whoever reads this thread I suppose. I know the HF winch is highly revered as durable and all, but I wanted to try a small upgrade to it and test the durability of my enhancement.

I will also be installing a power steering cooler and transmission cooler. Oh some Currie Currectlync.

Have a good day ladies and gents and I will post some pics afterwards of the installed HF upgrade. Soon, to the woods to shoot stuff and wheel.


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Just a small upgrade. LOL
That winch looks like a supercharger!
 
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DuncLJ said:
Ahhh….the 70th Anniversary Limited Edition...Very cool!

I ordered an M8000 just yesterday.
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Awesome, I have always had Warn winches. This HF was a mistake, they got me with the coupon and I wasn't sure how serious I was about spending money on the Jeep at that point. I have owned an M8000 on a previous TJ, they are great. I grew up around an 8274 that was my fathers he bought new in 1974. He had it on a 72 CJ5, then and 83 CJ7, and last an 88 Ford Full size Bronco.

I have hauled alot of deer and pigs and Elk up out of canyons and up into a tree to process with that old 8274 of his. And we used to it to get unstuck many times too. And pull all sorts of stuff out or around, it was always a workhorse ready to go.

I did install a new 8274 on the 74 CJ5 I restored for him 10 years ago. We let that original 8274 stay on that Bronco when we sold it, the guy went home and removed it the same day. Wish we kept it, it was an Original from 1974....
 
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Cross-Threaded-06TJ said:
Awesome, I have always had Warn winches. This HF was a mistake, they got me with the coupon and I wasn't sure how serious I was about spending money on the Jeep at that point. I have owned an M8000 on a previous TJ, they are great. I grew up around an 8274 that was my fathers he bought new in 1974. He had it on a 72 CJ5, then and 83 CJ7, and last an 88 Ford Full size Bronco.

I have hauled alot of deer and pigs and Elk up out of canyons and up into a tree to process with that old 8274 of his. And we used to it to get unstuck many times too. And pull all sorts of stuff out or around, it was always a workhorse ready to go.

I did install a new 8274 on the 74 CJ5 I restored for him 10 years ago. We let that original 8274 stay on that Bronco when we sold it, the guy went home and removed it the same day. Wish we kept it, it was an Original from 1974....
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That's to cool, I'm sure that new 8274 will literally last you forever.
 
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