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What I did to my YJ today

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So after my long list of things to do for my jeep, I finally got the sway bar disconnects installed. I haven't tested them but I have noticed the appearance to be much different. For some odd reason I feel like I can take on the world. I am stock, though I run on 31" tires so it makes me wonder. hmmm.... Anywho...I will be trying to find the bushings for the JKs telescopic tracbar I've acquired to install in the next few days. I have pictures just need to extract them from my phone.

Info on the dicos, it was a pain in the behind to remove them!! That's all I can say about that. Installation was a cinch and I cannot wait to go "flexing" soon.

As I mentioned before I have cleaned the carb and valve cover, they were covered in heavy grease and grime and oil and dirt and basically everything under the sun. I'll post pics tomorrow. I'm getting summoned by the woman to come to bed. It's 0230am. hmmm.... ;-)

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OK anyone have a fan shroud for a 2.5 I could buy? I killed my 2nd electric fan in about 30 hours worth of trail time. I am going back to mechanical. Nothing is worse then looking at you temp gauge in the red with your coolant boiling in the woods. Made it home without any damage though. Just need the shroud to get it back on the road now.

First I kill the Taurus fan, then the Mark 8 fan. Apparently they dont hold up to mud for long.
 
#8,267 ·
Maybe try a JK electric cooling fan... my JKU's seems to be holding up fine after being submerged many times.
 
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Randomly the hose coming out of my gas tank (see pic) that connects to the fuel line decided to blow a big hole. Not sure why or how, probably age...

Anyway, I had to fix it "redneck" style. Used some old garden hose, small pipe clamps, and some electrical tape. Worked like a charm.

Wrapped the old hose tightly with the tape, disconnect the hose from the fuel line, slid the 4" piece of garden hose over the original hose, reconnected, and clamped down. I had my doubts if it would work. But it did.



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#8,307 ·
Randomly the hose coming out of my gas tank (see pic) that connects to the fuel line decided to blow a big hole. Not sure why or how, probably age...

Anyway, I had to fix it "redneck" style. Used some old garden hose, small pipe clamps, and some electrical tape. Worked like a charm.

Wrapped the old hose tightly with the tape, disconnect the hose from the fuel line, slid the 4" piece of garden hose over the original hose, reconnected, and clamped down. I had my doubts if it would work. But it did.
Haha that's awesome. No reason to shell out money if you don't have too!
 
#8,271 ·
Cut the rust out of my floor pan and rocker panels. The passenger rocker was worse than I thought. Dropping it off at my friends shop tomorrow where she will sit for the next few weeks while I'm out at sea. Little by little she will get welded back together. When I come home she should be ready for some bedliner and rocker armor

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#8,272 ·
Gotta tell ya Bum you sure cant tell a book by its cover. Go know that floor pan is inside that gorgeous machine. Fred Flintstone would love that mod. Post pics when it's done and you get back from fishing:rofl:
 
#8,274 ·
This actually happened Saturday evening on my way back home from a club run on the Sherman Pass Jeep Road, blew a pinion on the rear end. I could smell the gear oil but I thought it was coming from the truck in front of me as his diff cover was soaked.

After cleaning up a lot of the mess I wanted to make sure it was the seal so I put some oil back in it and would you believe it only took a few ozs? I find it really weird that a few ozs of oil can make that big of a mess! Anywho drove it around for a bit and sure enough it's the seal.

So I spent Sunday and Monday crawling around under my Jeep getting it all apart and cleaned up and ready for new parts. Man the dogs sure miss their nightly ride! LOL
 
#8,277 ·
Thought this was funny, I dont personally do this, but I have seen enough threads started because of it.
 
#8,285 ·
What I should of done but didn't!! This was at my daughters school when I dropped her off for her first day of school in the 7th grade. Didn't want to cause trouble her first day lol
Rethink where you park. Might be better if those 7th grade horny dogs were chasing you and not her. Jeeps are such a turn on:rofl:
 
#8,291 ·
My neck hurts. Take the body lift out and lift it 4". TC drop, black steel wheels and 33x12.50 BFG's would be my plan. Keep it simple if it is for a kid.
 
#8,296 ·
I'm going on 2 months. Started with a blown transmission. Turned into new bumpers, fuel cell, frame repair, new windshield, hood, tube fenders, bigger tires etc.
 
#8,299 ·
Finished my rocker guards and put them on today. Probably start my rear bumper and tire swing next week.

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#8,302 ·
Past few days. Got my tube fenders in. Turn signal markers. Light bar. (No lights on yet for clearance issues.)
 
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