Careful with that Klein tool. Not everyone is qualified to use those.
@AndyG always measures once and cuts twice like any good carpenter should...
What did you do to your TJ today?
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@AndyG always measures once and cuts twice like any good carpenter should...
Careful with that Klein tool. Not everyone is qualified to use those.
Guarantee ya I’m not. These numbers on this tape confuse me .....
I love it! I added something to my car to make people stop tailgating me. It clearly shows from the rear window since I removed the tint. I mounted it on the middle headrest on the rear seat.
p.s. I turn on the red LED lights in the eyes at night. We all have to grow up sometime.
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How did you get a replica of my first wife?
Today I freshened up the interior door panels on my 97 Sahara. Very happy with the outcome. I will be doing the rest of the interior soon. Before is the sun bleached, darker is the after. Seems to be pretty close to the parts of the jeep that don’t get sun.
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For those that care this is the pile of rust I’ve removed so far ….
Took my favorite girl out on a backroad Jeep ride. Threaded the boundaries of 4 counties and popped out by a roadside diner…. Food was great but the atmosphere was a little questionable
Took my favorite girl out on a backroad Jeep ride. Threaded the boundaries of 4 counties and popped out by a roadside diner…. Food was great but the atmosphere was a little questionable
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Awesome, but which four counties?
More progress. Been needle scaling and wire wheeling the tub til my hands numb. Just trying to add some life to the old girl. 
Picked up a hitchhiker... making a nasty comment about the empty duck pond.
Swapped out the transfer case indicator switch while the belly pan was off.
Installed the Savvy transfer case shifter cable that's been setting in the garage since April. FYI, this is not easy by yourself.
Got the UCF belly pan installed and the RC brackets drilled in. I had to notch the belly pan to clear the front driveshaft and the driver rear RC brackets.
If I could reorder the belly pan, I would get the middle rise one. With the RC bracket, I only gain about 1.25" instead of the full 2. I didn't weigh it before, but it is at least 1/3 the weight of the stock one.
Tomorrow the front and rear control arm brackets will be cut off and the long arms installed. The rear would be done already but the VFD had 3 medical runs this evening and now the NASCAR race is on.
Installed the Savvy transfer case shifter cable that's been setting in the garage since April. FYI, this is not easy by yourself.
Got the UCF belly pan installed and the RC brackets drilled in. I had to notch the belly pan to clear the front driveshaft and the driver rear RC brackets.
If I could reorder the belly pan, I would get the middle rise one. With the RC bracket, I only gain about 1.25" instead of the full 2. I didn't weigh it before, but it is at least 1/3 the weight of the stock one.
Tomorrow the front and rear control arm brackets will be cut off and the long arms installed. The rear would be done already but the VFD had 3 medical runs this evening and now the NASCAR race is on.
Ada,Adam, Canyon, Gem, & Washington…..guess that is 5 that we trek’d through.
Thanks for the reminder - I really need to check the full-droop of my front DS on my UCF skid.
I think I took enough out for when I get the proper length shocks installed. My shocks now are what is limiting my down travel.Thanks for the reminder - I really need to check the full-droop of my front DS on my UCF skid.
I used these Auxitos but I cut the plastic domes off to try to make it as short as possible. If I could do it again I would have just chosen shorter bulbs. The reason is there are clearance issues because the bulbs are longer that Claytone's cluster and one bulb hits the 1156 socket in the rear even if you bend it far back as possible. I laid the bulbs on the bottom of the plate so the one can slide a bit under the 1156 socket. Anyhow, it wasn't easy to fit and it was really time consuming to splice, solder, and make the reflectors.
https://www.amazon.com/AUXITO-Reverse-360°Illumination-Brighter-Replacement/dp/B08QHX95B2/?tag=wranglerorg-20
I actually got them on AliExpress because they were cheaper than Amazon. 4 bulbs for $20.
I messed around and lost one of those fancy valve cover bolt torque limiting washers and quickly discovered that they're hard to find. I ordered a set of 3d printed nylon ones off of Etsy last week, but they were shipped via the Post Office and after a week of being in their custody, the best the USPS tracking can say is "In the US". This is after they were reportedly in Memphis a few days ago which is a couple of hours from me if I'm not in a hurry.
I got tired of waiting to put it back together so this afternoon, I took a threaded 5/16 washer, cut the threaded shank to the same length as the real washers and used it on the valve cover. Seems to work. I did put it on the uphill end so that it shouldn't be as likely to leak.
And while I was putting the bolts in, of course one fell landed between the water pump and it's pulley. And in my attempt to retrieve it, it went in behind the pulley where I can't reach it now. So it looks like I get to pull the fan and pulley to get it out of there.
I got tired of waiting to put it back together so this afternoon, I took a threaded 5/16 washer, cut the threaded shank to the same length as the real washers and used it on the valve cover. Seems to work. I did put it on the uphill end so that it shouldn't be as likely to leak.
And while I was putting the bolts in, of course one fell landed between the water pump and it's pulley. And in my attempt to retrieve it, it went in behind the pulley where I can't reach it now. So it looks like I get to pull the fan and pulley to get it out of there.
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