What did you do to your TJ today?

MikeE024 · Jul 16, 2023

Recently cleaned my passenger front rotor, lightly sanded my brake pads, and re-bedded my brakes to improve my braking that was pulling to one side.

Recently also put a rubber fuel hose, silver wrap, and lava wrap over my fuel line near the cats in hopes to drop my fuel temps.

Tonight I did the TSB wiring for the o2 heaters, and I was able to sync my cam/crank sensors thanks to the help of others in a great discussion thread.

TheBoogieman · Jul 16, 2023

AzJeff said:
Yesterday I finished fixing the sunburnt cowl and putting it back on. Strip, prime, paint, clear, sand, polish. I've done the driver flare and rocker cover and now the cowl. Not sure what to do about the hood, too big for a rattlecan fix.
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MikeE024 · Jul 16, 2023

TheBoogieman said:

williambmac · Jul 16, 2023

Finished up the break in procedure on my recent regear. Dumped and refilled the diffs.

ColoJeep · Jul 16, 2023

AzJeff said:
Yesterday I finished fixing the sunburnt cowl and putting it back on. Strip, prime, paint, clear, sand, polish. I've done the driver flare and rocker cover and now the cowl. Not sure what to do about the hood, too big for a rattlecan fix.
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Take your time , shoot in a temp. on the cool side of the acceptable range , use plenty of paint in overlapping coats and you can successfully rattle can
that hood. Your cowl came out good enough for a Jeep , you can pull the hood and make it alot better than it is . Don't stress and have fun !

AzJeff · Jul 16, 2023

Was thinking about a wrap...

Maybe not on on the hood..

ColoJeep said:
Take your time , shoot in a temp. on the cool side of the acceptable range , use plenty of paint in overlapping coats and you can successfully rattle can
that hood. Your cowl came out good enough for a Jeep , you can pull the hood and make it alot better than it is . Don't stress and have fun !

Thanks for the advice. Temps on the cool side aren't happening right now here for a while, it can wait til later. Will probably give paint a try and if it really sucks just sand it and get it wrapped. Biggest problem is the hood is covered in crow's feet cracks so it's going to be some work to get it smooth.

ShapeShifter · Jul 16, 2023

AzJeff said:
Was thinking about a wrap...

Maybe not on on the hood..

Thanks for the advice. Temps on the cool side aren't happening right now here for a while, it can wait til later. Will probably give paint a try and if it really sucks just sand it and get it wrapped. Biggest problem is the hood is covered in crow's feet cracks so it's going to be some work to get it smooth.

Wow. Ive never seen paint do that.....

TheBoogieman · Jul 16, 2023

AzJeff said:
Will probably give paint a try and if it really sucks just sand it and get it wrapped. Biggest problem is the hood is covered in crow's feet cracks so it's going to be some work to get it smooth.
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If you wrap it, you won't need to sand it down. So much easier than painting.

TheBoogieman · Jul 16, 2023

ShapeShifter said:
Wow. Ive never seen paint do that.....

It's pretty common on certain year Jeeps. My 99' XJ did that.

MikekiM · Jul 16, 2023

LJDC said:
I finished up my tailgate table and lights. The lights are on a delay relay, so they’ll keep working for 30 minutes after the ignition is turned off.

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Which table is that?
Did you have to cut the cover for the lock mechanism?

TheBoogieman · Jul 16, 2023

DavidBT said:
Well, you could join the @RINC club

It's a very "inclusive" club.

97TJNM · Jul 16, 2023

TheBoogieman said:
It's pretty common on certain year Jeeps. My 99' XJ did that.

My XJ looks just like that.

SeaJeep97 · Jul 16, 2023

I installed my new ARB air compressor on the mount where an AC compressor would go. Bolted right in. I used blue locktite so hopefully it won’t shake loose.

Anyone else seen one mounted like this before?

Danarch · Jul 16, 2023

SeaJeep97 said:
I installed my new ARB air compressor on the mount where an AC compressor would go. Bolted right in. I used blue locktite so hopefully it won’t shake loose.

Anyone else seen one mounted like this before?

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No, but that is where my second ac compressor is mounted for on board air. The PO moved the ac compressor.

Looks good!

kincaid.0678 · Jul 16, 2023

I got bored today so I disassembled my spare cylinder head and cleaned it up. Everything seems pretty clean and straight. Just need to get some new valve stem seals and then lap the valves then I’ll put it back together.

SPECWAR · Jul 16, 2023

kincaid.0678 said:
I got bored today so I disassembled my spare cylinder head and cleaned it up. Everything seems pretty clean and straight. Just need to get some new valve stem seals and then lap the valves then I’ll put it back together.

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Hope you did it in the back yard

TheBoogieman · Jul 16, 2023

JasterMereel42 said:
I'm pretty sure the next thing that I need to do to my Jeep is a Thermocure flush.

BTW, this is a new to me Jeep that has been in my possession for only a week.

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Did the stop leak work at least?

bluescapegoat · Jul 16, 2023

AzJeff said:
Was thinking about a wrap...
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Maybe not on on the hood..

Thanks for the advice. Temps on the cool side aren't happening right now here for a while, it can wait til later. Will probably give paint a try and if it really sucks just sand it and get it wrapped. Biggest problem is the hood is covered in crow's feet cracks so it's going to be some work to get it smooth.
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How'd you get a picture of my hood

ShapeShifter · Jul 16, 2023

kincaid.0678 said:
I got bored today so I disassembled my spare cylinder head and cleaned it up. Everything seems pretty clean and straight. Just need to get some new valve stem seals and then lap the valves then I’ll put it back together.

Are you going to stroke that one (pardon the expression)?

ShapeShifter · Jul 16, 2023

Speaking of touching up the sunburn, I decided to finally get around to that today because weather was pretty good for painting. I have used this Color rite brand with their color & clear coat kits on motorcycle tanks before with great results.

I had some fairly mild sunburnt areas but only on the windshield frame. My cowl and hood are in good shape. The only prep I did was clean with alchohol and scrub with triple 000 steel wool. Its not perfectly smooth but this aint no show-n-shine rig.