Decided to refinish my tailgate skin with scotch brite and wd40, it’s nowhere near perfect but I figure the more I do it, the better I’ll get.
Starting over: A lightweight Rock Crawling Daily Driver
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Decided to refinish my tailgate skin with scotch brite and wd40, it’s nowhere near perfect but I figure the more I do it, the better I’ll get.
Other updates, I should have some 2nd hand savvy parts getting here on Saturday, including a front bumper, the aluminum hardcore cover, and a steering box skid.
Is this a normal amount of movement for a tie rod end?
Still fighting this darn Deathwobble and I’m learning I don’t know as much as I thought I did.
Still fighting this darn Deathwobble and I’m learning I don’t know as much as I thought I did.
1st good step to learning
For your death wobble, have you fully and completely ruled out wheels and tires?
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Finally threw on some new to me Jks sway bar disconnects, sway bars are important
You need to adjust the disconnects. Make the links longer
1st good step to learning
For your death wobble, have you fully and completely ruled out wheels and tires?
Yes I’ve swapped to the wheels I knew were good and no change
Progress is being made slowly, the bumper is for the most part on just need to add the corners, looking at the steering box skid, does it need to be bolted onto the bumper before I install it, because I don’t think I can access to nuts with it on, and secondly, how do you get to the lower bolt into the powersteering box mount? I see the bolt hole I’m supposed to use but not spot to get the nut in it?
Going to advanced after church to pick up a moog trackbar, one step at a time.
Bumper install is finished, and gave it a nice polished brushed finish.
Replaced the trackbar with a moog trackbar, aligned it, and swapped tires and so far drives better than when I bought it.
Saw this too. But only because I got flagged after Zorba posted a “like.”
And yet another discovery on the not so clean, “clean Jeep”
At some point this Jeep was in an accident and there is about 1/4in of bondo where I had to set a nutsert for the sliders
Got to play in the rocks a little bit last week, have open diffs is finally presenting a problem so that’s getting bumped up on priority, Boise gets some snow but it’s only a few months of the year so I’m highly considering a front auto locker for now, I’m currently talking to someone about buying his axles when he swaps them out, the axles are a hp 30 with an lsd and a Dana 44 with an arb locker, chromoly shafts in the front and rear, he wants 1500 for the set, but earliest that is going to be winter before he swaps in wontons.
As for the Jeep edition 8274 I took some time to sand and polish the housing, it’s looking really good but it’s going on the back burner because the xd9000i still works fine and I have other things to prioritize.
I drove my TJ across Snoqualmie Pass for 3 years with a lunchbox locker in the front & a Detroit in the rear. And before that I had a Samurai with lunchbox lockers in both axles and drove it in the snow too... IT's not as bad as many claim it to be.
I'd love to find one of the Jeep edition 8274's.
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