Nashville TJ's Build - Continued

JMT said:
I spent too long in the university. 188 hours just to get my bachelors degree cuz I didn’t know what I wanted to do. Then to punish myself I went back and took 88 more hours to get really edumecated. Now my second job is adjunct faculty teaching one semester a year at a graduate school. Engineering would be interesting though. Math was my forte but never went past Cal 2 and I’d need a big refresher. Homeschooling the kids keeps me around education constantly. I’m usually trying to get away from everything academic (see my bolt on build thread 🤣). I hate grading papers. I apologize for clogging up your build thread @NashvilleTJ
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Not a problem at all, @JMT. It’s nice to get a bunch of posts to the thread - regardless of the subject.

I get it on the math. When I was doing my undergraduate work, I got to my last semester having met all the requirements for my major and a minor - I just needed about 15 credits to get to the 120 required to graduate. I could have coasted, but I always enjoyed economics - so in that last semester I took five upper level economics courses to pick up that degree as well. Upper level econ is heavy, heavy on the calculus side - but today I wouldn’t recognize a differential equation if it bit me in the ass.

But even building the rig, I still use trig, geometry and algebra all the time - so all that study was worth it.
 
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NashvilleTJ said:
Not a problem at all, @JMT. It’s nice to get a bunch of posts to the thread - regardless of the subject.

I get it on the math. When I was doing my undergraduate work, I got to my last semester having met all the requirements for my major and a minor - I just needed about 15 credits to get to the 120 required to graduate. I could have coasted, but I always enjoyed economics - so in that last semester I took five upper level economics courses to pick up that degree as well. Upper level econ is heavy, heavy on the calculus side - but today I wouldn’t recognize a differential equation if it bit me in the ass.

But even building the rig, I still use trig, geometry and algebra all the time - so all that study was worth it.
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Diff EQ, one of my best math classes. Don't remember any of it.
 
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NashvilleTJ said:
Not a problem at all, @JMT. It’s nice to get a bunch of posts to the thread - regardless of the subject.

I get it on the math. When I was doing my undergraduate work, I got to my last semester having met all the requirements for my major and a minor - I just needed about 15 credits to get to the 120 required to graduate. I could have coasted, but I always enjoyed economics - so in that last semester I took five upper level economics courses to pick up that degree as well. Upper level econ is heavy, heavy on the calculus side - but today I wouldn’t recognize a differential equation if it bit me in the ass.

But even building the rig, I still use trig, geometry and algebra all the time - so all that study was worth it.
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And you do a good job using them to build your rig. You've got the 'know how' and the 'how to' to accomplish really cool and utilitarian mods. Me, I rely on people like you, @Mike_H, @bobthetj03, and countless others, I won't bother alerting the guru mrblaine! 🤣
 
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Diff EQ, one of my best math classes. Don't remember any of it.
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Add me to the list. Mech eng degree, so much math, I lost count of how many classes I had to take. I can barely remember how to do an integral, let alone Diff-E-Que.

I use trig, geometry, and algebra all the time though.
 
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JMT said:
And you do a good job using them to build your rig. You've got the 'know how' and the 'how to' to accomplish really cool and utilitarian mods. Me, I rely on people like you, @Mike_H, @bobthetj03, and countless others, I won't bother alerting the guru mrblaine! 🤣
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Yep - I dread the day Blaine sticks his head in here...
 
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While digging around my old parts pile this weekend I came across this: It's the Currie HD steering linkage for a TJ. I ran this years ago on my Dana 30. If anyone is interested, it's free to a good home.

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NashvilleTJ said:
While digging around my old parts pile this weekend I came across this: It's the Currie HD steering linkage for a TJ. I ran this years ago on my Dana 30. If anyone is interested, it's free to a good home.

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Are you sure thats a currie setup? Tie rod looks skinny and the drag link looks nothing like mine (castle nut on TR isnt recessed, bend just before drag adjustment sleeve...)
 
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Are you sure thats a currie setup? Tie rod looks skinny and the drag link looks nothing like mine (castle nut on TR isnt recessed, bend just before drag adjustment sleeve...)
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+1 - it doesn't look like any Currie steering I have seen unless they changed the design at some point (but I don't believe they did).
 
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Are you sure thats a currie setup? Tie rod looks skinny and the drag link looks nothing like mine (castle nut on TR isnt recessed, bend just before drag adjustment sleeve...)
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rasband said:
+1 - it doesn't look like any Currie steering I have seen unless they changed the design at some point (but I don't believe they did).
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Pretty sure. Before I posted this I went back and checked because I could not remember what it was. Bought it back in '06 from Quadratec. I actually had the original steering as well and compared the two. Dimensionally, they are about the same. But the tie rod is solid, not hollow like stock.

Man, tough crowd...


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OK - I'm wrong. Thanks for helping my memory. After thinking on this a bit, years ago I think I gave the Currie setup to my son to run on his XJ. I think this is the XJ steering.

Sorry Brian.
 
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NashvilleTJ said:
OK - I'm wrong. Thanks for helping my memory. After thinking on this a bit, years ago I think I gave the Currie setup to my son to run on his XJ. I think this is the XJ steering.

Sorry Brian.
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The old bait and switch. Seen it a hundred times. 😬
 
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NashvilleTJ said:
OK - I'm wrong. Thanks for helping my memory. After thinking on this a bit, years ago I think I gave the Currie setup to my son to run on his XJ. I think this is the XJ steering.

Sorry Brian.
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Hey many of us make mistakes. And most are understanding and don't hold it against them. And the fact that you were offering it for free to someone says a lot more.
 
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B00mb00m said:
The old bait and switch. Seen it a hundred times. 😬
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Wildman said:
Hey many of us make mistakes. And most are understanding and don't hold it against them. And the fact that you were offering it for free to someone says a lot more.
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I'm just glad I decided to post a pic. Would not have known otherwise...

'Preciate you guys watching my back.
 
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