What did you do to your TJ today?

Painted my wheels 😎

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Installed my body lift, but didn't get around to the motor mount lift, a mixed result. Not going to do the motor mount lift until I work out how to solve a residual problem.
 
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Got tired of looking at these bumper braces, so put the damn things on. The first one battled me for hours, the 2nd took the 10 minutes I expected the job to take in the first place. Take home lesson: Chase threads of nuts that have been welded on - even if the bolts thread through them!

Waiting on some misc. hardware to re-attach the stock bumper (should arrive tomorrow). I have everything I need to make my new rear bumper - except budget for the welding shop - so the stock one is going back on for a bit.
 
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Zorba said:
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Got tired of looking at these bumper braces, so put the damn things on. The first one battled me for hours, the 2nd took the 10 minutes I expected the job to take in the first place. Take home lesson: Chase threads of nuts that have been welded on - even if the bolts thread through them!

Waiting on some misc. hardware to re-attach the stock bumper (should arrive tomorrow). I have everything I need to make my new rear bumper - except budget for the welding shop - so the stock one is going back on for a bit.
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Looking forward to that damn bumper we've been hearing about ! Get er done ! :ROFLMAO:
 
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Took the doors off for the first time this weekend, which I only barely got to enjoy due to the fact that I had to drop the transmission pan 3 times before I finally believed that it was the selector shaft seal leaking all this time. The real burn is that I wasted 8 quarts of ATF believing it was a gasket problem & that I had a defective lube locker. Now it is all sealed up using the rubber gasket that came with my filter, so I have the worlds worst $21 paperweight in the form of a lube locker gasket, cuz I'll be damned if I'm touching that pan again any time soon.*

Also completed the install of Yukon chromoly front axles. I've done a bunch of u-joints here lately between my jeeps and friends jeeps, and I had been getting really frustrated with them....dropping needle bearings out, accidentally knocking them out of place during install, trouble getting c-clips seated, etc. But by the time I did these last 2, I feel like I finally have the process down...just in time to never have to do it again.


* In less than a month I'll be doing the 32RH breather tube relocation, which probably means I need to drop the pan again. In a perfect world I would've done that project this week, but I have a trip coming up and am out of time for the inevitable setbacks that project will certainly bring about.
 
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hear said:
Took the doors off for the first time this weekend, which I only barely got to enjoy due to the fact that I had to drop the transmission pan 3 times before I finally believed that it was the selector shaft seal leaking all this time. The real burn is that I wasted 8 quarts of ATF believing it was a gasket problem & that I had a defective lube locker. Now it is all sealed up using the rubber gasket that came with my filter, so I have the worlds worst $21 paperweight in the form of a lube locker gasket, cuz I'll be damned if I'm touching that pan again any time soon.*

Also completed the install of Yukon chromoly front axles. I've done a bunch of u-joints here lately between my jeeps and friends jeeps, and I had been getting really frustrated with them....dropping needle bearings out, accidentally knocking them out of place during install, trouble getting c-clips seated, etc. But by the time I did these last 2, I feel like I finally have the process down...just in time to never have to do it again.


* In less than a month I'll be doing the 32RH breather tube relocation, which probably means I need to drop the pan again. In a perfect world I would've done that project this week, but I have a trip coming up and am out of time for the inevitable setbacks that project will certainly bring about.
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Why would you have to drop the pan?I am planning on this relocation too
 
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Why would you have to drop the pan?I am planning on this relocation too
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Well, I don't fully know that I have to, but I just figured it was a sensible step. I know you need to pull the pump, but there shouldn't be much ATF in the housing at that point, so I guess maybe you don't need to drain it. Of course I also don't understand why the dipstick tube doesn't function as a breather tube (or why breather tubes are necessary at all, but maybe that's a whole 'nother topic).

Since you're planning on this as well, I'll tell you that I was HOPING to simply tap the existing vent hole and put my NPT 90 deg fitting right into the stock location. I read another thread here where somebody determined they had 17mm of clearance. The fitting I have in my hand, assuming it threads 100% in, is about 16.5mm, which is probably too close for my taste. I may try to find a lower profile one, but I doubt I'll have much luck.
 
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Well, I don't fully know that I have to, but I just figured it was a sensible step. I know you need to pull the pump, but there shouldn't be much ATF in the housing at that point, so I guess maybe you don't need to drain it. Of course I also don't understand why the dipstick tube doesn't function as a breather tube (or why breather tubes are necessary at all, but maybe that's a whole 'nother topic).

Since you're planning on this as well, I'll tell you that I was HOPING to simply tap the existing vent hole and put my NPT 90 deg fitting right into the stock location. I read another thread here where somebody determined they had 17mm of clearance. The fitting I have in my hand, assuming it threads 100% in, is about 16.5mm, which is probably too close for my taste. I may try to find a lower profile one, but I doubt I'll have much luck.
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I thought there was just a vent on top and you just extend it?with a body lift shouldn’t be a big job
 
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