What did you do to your TJ today?
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Short drive (glad to see the good weather hasn’t gone just yet) and did some more work on the rear.. no rush as my other shelf is still operational.
I just did that and had to drill out a couple nutserts and replace them. I used a bit about the same size as the threads.
Looks great. I am still struggling to get mine aligned properly. and the uppers I have need to be replaced.. the fit is horrible and I don't want to mess with trying to bend them.
I’ll be doing the same thing soon! I had to cut most of them to remove the flares and Rubi rails. Anybody know where to get replacement nutserts for the Rubi rails?
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Any hardware store like ACE should carry them.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015A3HVEO/?tag=wranglerorg-20
O'reillys has them too. You can buy just the nutserts or can buy a pack with the install bolt/tool too. I'm sure ACE is probably cheaper.
Solder is a very soft metal with high electrical conductivity. Because it is so soft it has a tendency to crack and should never be used to weld metals or in a shear, compression or tension situation; it will also crack in a situation that experiences vibration (i.e. Jeep). The better solution to splicing wires is to use bare metal barrel crimp connectors with the correct tool, then cover with heat shrink tubing. For more on this, see WatchWesWork on youtube.
I've been using heat shrink crimp connectors from the boat store by Ancor. Color coded and all sorts of odd fittings like speaker connectors, quick connects, blue to red, etc.
Today I installed a Felpro VS 50458R valve cover gasket kit.
The valve cover gasket has been weeping for some time and after a 600 mile round recently; I decided it was time to replace the gasket.
Disassembly, cleaning and installation were about 1.5 hours; add another hour for several neighbors to ask "What are you doing"?
The valve cover gasket has been weeping for some time and after a 600 mile round recently; I decided it was time to replace the gasket.
Disassembly, cleaning and installation were about 1.5 hours; add another hour for several neighbors to ask "What are you doing"?
Replaced that lousy sumb*tch of a blower resistor!
...because seeing someone working on their own vehicle is a bit of an oddity these days, I suppose.
Selling our Baja house and hauling the jeep back to Minnesota. Have a couple weeks yet to enjoy the 80 degree temps topless before we leave. Hard top is back on for the trip.
Tired of Mexico? I’d probably go the other way.
Not after you spend a 10 month long summer down here. It was 85 here yesterday. We had three months over 100 last summer. I want to go a little further north but the housing market is totally messed up.
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