TeraFlex QD and Steering Stabilizer Bracket
- Thread starter B1Toad
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@Chris Have you been bumping my post to the top lol? I decided to do something today to make removing and installing the links easier. I had an especially hard time on Sunday as the wife and I drove over the top of Mt Lemmon and down the backside, when it was time to put the links back we were in 100 degree heat and I was clean and dressed nice because we planned to eat at a restaurant by the zipline. So here's what I did today, which made the job many times easier (and cleaner)
First I ground of just a little on the front face of the steering damper mount where the link is hard to fit past without twisting it. I also ground the top edge to make it rounded. Next I took the link end and ground off about 1/8" to make a flat spot on the round end right where it squeezes past the steering damper bracket, and I also made a bevel on the edge. Then I got out a flap disc and polished everything smooth and painted it. Now the link slips right on there with no fist pounding or blood.
Second I found a 1" piece of packing foam about 8" square for a kneeling pad and I put that in the Jeep along with a pair of work gloves, a pair of sleeves cut from an old sweatshirt and a large 12" pair of pliers with rubber grips. I can use the long pliers as a pry bar against the coil spring and the rubber grip end as a tapping hammer.
Now I think I can do it without getting beat and bloody.
BTW if anyone is thinking about the back road from Summerhaven it was sobering and left us feeling depressed. There is so much gone from the fires and drought, nothing was green except one spring crossing and the river valley at Peppersauce Canyon, everywhere else is brown, dead and dusty. Even at the high elevations just past the fire station as you start down, the few trees that are left don't look good at all, some look barely alive. Nothing at all like it was just 20 years ago.
I hear the Chiricahuas are in bad shape as well, we want to go there next and check. My wife's grandparents lived in a cabin up there in the 60s and 70s which is now gone. I hope it's not too depressing up there. Maybe we'll going during the monsoons.
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