Operation Phoenix
- Thread starter macleanflood
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We need a "hold my beer" emoji for that one.
Put 3" bump stops on the front for now. Can easily get away with 2s but I want the extra insurance since the jounces are old. When I do a BL and MML might even be able to drop to 1". Got over 8" of travel with the 3" stop
Got to find something that automatically resizes photos...only a couple of these will upload.
-Mac
Got to find something that automatically resizes photos...only a couple of these will upload.
-Mac
Recovering a truck that went off the side of a hill... people attempted a recovery... broken steel cables, straps, come alongs...big spikes in trees, broken pulleys everywhere. Then they started taking it apart... pulled the engine, cab, started cutting the frame in half.
Note to self ... When the safety thimble hits the ring in the tree stop pulling.
-Mac
Note to self ... When the safety thimble hits the ring in the tree stop pulling.
-Mac
Stripped the interior. Used my Ryobi power scrubber and a brass brush to clean up everything I missed in my last rush job last summer. Added a couple of missing bolts... passenger side rock slider was missing one. Air bag controller was missing two. Cable shifter bracket was missing one.
Prepping for DEI Boom Mat. Should be here later today.
Debating if I should paint or primer the driver side floor. Or dare I say put bedliner on the kick panels.
-Mac
Prepping for DEI Boom Mat. Should be here later today.
Debating if I should paint or primer the driver side floor. Or dare I say put bedliner on the kick panels.
-Mac
And all back together...doubt they'll be much difference with the top off.
-Mac
P.S. Went on a test drive and I'm impressed. Lot less drone. Should be less exhausting to drive all day.
Also rolled across the scales down the street. 2240 front, 2220 rear. Almost perfect 50/50 weight balance and 4460 total without the top.
-Mac
P.S. Went on a test drive and I'm impressed. Lot less drone. Should be less exhausting to drive all day.
Also rolled across the scales down the street. 2240 front, 2220 rear. Almost perfect 50/50 weight balance and 4460 total without the top.
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Couldn't help but share... installed some steps on my wife's JK... here's the optional brush cutting attachment.
-Mac
-Mac
Well... Amazon had this smoke machine on sale 65 percent off...YST Tools... actually own their oil pressure gauge and it's not junk...
Problem is that it works good enough to show me a leak in my throttle body gasket (I hope) and my #5 injector... probably o rings.
-Mac
Problem is that it works good enough to show me a leak in my throttle body gasket (I hope) and my #5 injector... probably o rings.
-Mac
Replaced the throttle body gasket and torqued to 90 inch pounds.
Thinking I probably have a throttle body o-ring job in my future...but...Jeep runs and idles just fine. Gas mileage is a touch lower than I would like...but this is not the cause.
Going to leave things alone for now... ain't broke, don't fix it...but store this information away for future troubleshooting.
-Mac
Thinking I probably have a throttle body o-ring job in my future...but...Jeep runs and idles just fine. Gas mileage is a touch lower than I would like...but this is not the cause.
Going to leave things alone for now... ain't broke, don't fix it...but store this information away for future troubleshooting.
-Mac
I'm always tempted to pick up a smoke generator, Mac. Are you happy with the one you got from Amazon? Do you have a link?
I think I got the last yellow one...you might have to settle for green or blue...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0C27LS9JH?tag=wranglerorg-20
I have zero experience with smoke machines.
This one has a pressure gauge, came with a zillion fittings for different sizes... probably all the way to 2". Power cable screws on to the back...runs on 12v with alligator clips. Came with mineral oil.
I also own YST Tools oil pressure gauge and it's pretty decent for made in China Amazon junk.
And the $50 I spent on it beats an hour drive into and back from town to borrow one from an auto parts store.
-Mac
Drove around the corner to the lake to throw the paddle boards in. 84 is hot around here...
-Mac
-Mac
Future project perhaps? Depends on what engine falls into my lap... For now this is going to sit in the corner...
Scored a couple I assume are Bulldawg fiberglass uppers for half doors at B&R today for $120. Passenger door upper is pristine. Driver side door was destroyed and the fiberglass is broken in five places. I'm not afraid of a little glass work. Making the textured pattern will be tricky.
-Mac
-Mac
Editing videos...
This was trying to kinetic pull a Chevy Blazer dumped in the woods...no tires...front springs and shocks removed...
When kinetic failed we got out the recovery rings and started winching...
-Mac
This was trying to kinetic pull a Chevy Blazer dumped in the woods...no tires...front springs and shocks removed...
When kinetic failed we got out the recovery rings and started winching...
-Mac
Puttering today. Didn't like how my new Duralast evap charcoal cannister fit in the original factory bracket...seems like despite some massaging the metal strap was deforming the plastic canister. That and one screw was missing...and the other two were sharp and pointy...if I full stuffed the Jeep into the fenders those pointy things would go into the tires.
So I put nutserts on the bracket and used 5/16 button head stainless bolts, removed the metal strap and replaced it with a zip tie. Painted up the bracket.
While the paint dried I extended one of the horn wires 6 inches to reach where I mounted it on my air compressor brackets.
And a few other things like cleaning up my fire extinguisher brackets.
-Mac
So I put nutserts on the bracket and used 5/16 button head stainless bolts, removed the metal strap and replaced it with a zip tie. Painted up the bracket.
While the paint dried I extended one of the horn wires 6 inches to reach where I mounted it on my air compressor brackets.
And a few other things like cleaning up my fire extinguisher brackets.
-Mac
Perhaps the real final chapter of my rebuild and recovery from last summer...the final piece arrived today from Robert at Dirtworx.
Considered tapping the back side with a 1/4" thread and using it as an air tank...but that's really silly because there's just not that much volume.
Zillion coats of grey primer and I'll be painting it gloss white.
Had to massage the bumper mounts a little with my 3 lbs sledge... maybe a dozen full send kinetic pulls on that blazer with nothing but the four outter bolts was a bad idea.
-Mac
Considered tapping the back side with a 1/4" thread and using it as an air tank...but that's really silly because there's just not that much volume.
Zillion coats of grey primer and I'll be painting it gloss white.
Had to massage the bumper mounts a little with my 3 lbs sledge... maybe a dozen full send kinetic pulls on that blazer with nothing but the four outter bolts was a bad idea.
-Mac