| Author | Message | ||
     Wolfridgerider |
Do some poking around on Jeep Forum. The long arm set up is not all its cracked up to be. My main concern is getting a little more flex out of the back end and the outboard shocks should do the trick and what up after that you ask... I just ordered LED round recessed brake and back up lights with a LED Flasher. That will be my next to do once I get it home | ||
| Thumper74 |
Also, do those towers mount on top of the frame rail and move the shocks to the outside of the frame rails? | ||
| Thumper74 |
I found it on Rusty's. Interesting. Doing coil overs in the back, then? | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
This should give you the idea  | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
no coil over yet. Just longer shocks | ||
| Thumper74 |
Whelp, I took the long way home and stopped at Summit Racing. This weekend is a manager's special weekend with some pretty hefty discounts. I went looking for tires and a locker. I found a locker for the D35. Detroit locker for a Ferd 8.8". A few others for a D44. Ford 9". Ford 7.5". Everything but a D30 or Chrysler 8.25". Dejected, I ended up with quick disconnects for the sway bar and adjustable track bar, plus the tensioner pulley, since it's a bit screechy. I'm still looking for tires and wrapping things up at the shop so I can tear into it. | ||
| Etennuly |
Gotta love shopping at Summit! That place puts a hurt on me! | ||
| Thumper74 |
I live around half an hour away now. It's a problem... Buy anything cool? | ||
| Etennuly |
Buy anything cool? How do you not? I have not been there in a couple of years personally, but my son has! He is building a nasty little 454 that is nearly done. It is normally aspirated and going in his ol monster Chevy 4x4. He was disappointed with the stock 305 not being able to pull it over obstacles and through deep thick mud with the 42" tires. This should cure his ailment. I have always said this about the built for torque 400 Chevy small block in my Jeep: "I don't have to go up hills.....it just grabs the top and pulls it down to me". I believe my son is trying to one-up me.  | ||
| Thumper74 |
72,000 Lumens... http://sploid.gizmodo.com/guy-builds-a-water-coole d-72-000-lumen-flashlight-and-b-1786888897 | ||
| Thumper74 |
So, I got to spend some time with the Heep today. Wolf was right, the squeal starting was the tensioner pulley. It's quiet now. The hitch... Well, I was going to hook up my little trailer to it to drag my quad and stuff home. So I hopped on the ball. It made a noise. I bounced again, this happened.  The sawzall went through the rest of it like buttah. The rest of the bolts had bad heavy scale on the heads, but came out with an extractor. Luckily, I had brought this with me, just in case...  Loosely installed.  I found the clunk!  | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
Where did you get that Jeep... from the Titanic? That is a butt load of RUST! | ||
| Brother_in_buells |
That looks almost the same as my BJ42 did! | ||
| Thumper74 |
Close! It's lived it's life in Cleveland, | ||
| Ratbuell |
...and that's why I get under my 01 Ram every spring and fall with spray undercoating. 239k miles and not a lick of rust. On a fifteen year old *Dodge*!! | ||
| Etennuly |
And that is why I moved from the 'Great White North' (rust belt) to Florida many many years ago. Being a "half back", in Tennessee isn't too bad. My chosen career of a body man, it sucked to face rust every single day on every car. I have even replaced body panels on vehicles less than a year old back in the 70's. I really hate rusty vehicles. Let me tell you about it some time! Ya'll make me feel good about my rust free Florida Jeep. Damn! My first jeep was a 1957 CJ5. I bought a full sheet of 14 gage steel put it up to the side of the jeep, welded it to the cowl that was left, rolled the end around the tail light area, welded that to the solid center tailgate area, then marked out the cut outs for the door opening and the wheel well, leaving enough to bend an edge, cut it out with a panel cutter and welded it to the edges that were left. Welded in floor panels and it became a useable Jeep again. The ol' F head four cylinder three speed was good for up to 35 mph. If it ran 40 down hill it had to be in neutral to not over rev. Any faster and it was crazy unsafe. Even with new suspension and steering parts these things could not stay in their own lane at 40. Great fun crawling through the woods though. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hCPODjJO7s Project Binky. All wheel drive transplant in an old Mini. Welding porn. Fabrication porn. enjoy. | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
New set of Bistein Shocks are on order 11" travel  | ||
| Torquehd |
pretty welds on the shock mount. Edit #1: What's a toyota "suh'LEEK-uh"? Edit #2: Any job that requires more time to make your own special tools than to complete the job... is a job worth doing! I wish I could make a bike lift as cool as that big blue mini lift. (Message edited by torquehd on September 29, 2016) | ||
| Aesquire |
#1 A Celica/Supra. ( I guess the Toyota Supra name is U.S., not Brit ) But a buddy assures me it's a Supra AWD setup. #2 No kidding. I've been lucky to have a variety of machine shop jobs over the years. I didn't get the job running the lathe so big the operator rode in a cab attached to the Tool Holder. I did get to show off by running it. It had armor glass sheets on the cab, which was a good thing since chips of slag & steel the size of your fists would bounce off it in front of your face. Lucky enough to work in one of those shops that you do inspections on parts with a giant microscope/optical comparator, and made redacted for redacted. But the real bragging rights go to a shop down the street that got a "nya nya" present from their German rival. They received a tiny glass tube with a magnifier glass mounted in front of it to show off the "worlds thinnest wire". They returned it 3 months later with 3 small holes drilled in the wire... sideways. Then to rub it in, they'd mounted the drill bit they used next to the cross drilled wire. With it's own magnifying glass embedded in the original glass tube. On the other end of the tech spectrum, I help teach how to make armor and am fairly comfortable with an anvil and hammer. That said the fabrication skills on Project Binky make me very jealous. I've learned a lot from those 13 ( so far ) episodes. | ||
| Aesquire |
Ditto on the welds. I Just found a '97 Grand Cherokee 6 cyl for sale. https://rochester.craigslist.org/cto/5763023297.ht ml Anything to look out for? Purpose initially, is winter beater so I don't have to shovel the driveway in the morning, or evening if I can. So I expect to get new tires, anyway. And spare commuter car. I can get fancy parts on it later. (Message edited by aesquire on September 29, 2016) | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
I don't know much about Grand Cherokee's This would be a good place to start http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f13/ | ||
| Ratbuell |
That was a good generation (ZJ, I believe). I had a '98 5.9 Limited. Wish I'd never sold it. The 4.0 is pert near bombproof. Good transmissions those years. And good transfer cases - the WJ (99-03, I think) had issues with the full time systems, they liked to eat their planetary clutches, but all of the part time systems are rock solid. Look for rust. ESPECIALLY in Rochester. Check the exhaust header - they liked to crack, but eventually were superseded with new design that had flex-bellows in the 1 and 6 runners. Hell of a price if it's solid. Cushy, capable, and plenty of upgrade crap out there  | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
Well.... the new shocks are shipping from California and wont be here until next week. They said my Jeep was coming off the lift and getting put on the back burner.... Mad dash to the parts store to cross reference the shocks that are on their way. They fit a 1986 Chevy K30 4x4 rear. I hit Advanced Auto Parts and no luck. Then Autozone. They had a set for 55 bucks. Dropped them off on my way to work and I hope to have it back next week. The guy working on my Jeep has been working at the same shop for over 40 years and his work looks GREAT to me. He cut off my lower front control arms and replaced them with some HEAVY duty new ones. Some how the originals got bent... I have no idea how that happened... LOL He has a good eye and has found a few things that needed tweaked and tweaking he has done. I can't wait to get it back in my hands so I can screw something else up! | ||
| Thumper74 |
Good to hear! | ||
| Thumper74 |
I bet you can get the Wrangler to do this... http://truckyeah.jalopnik.com/videos-show-the-jeep -renegade-has-a-scary-problem-under-1787687990 | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
Flush mounted the rear tail lights I think it turned out pretty good.... and the back up lights are off the hook bright....    | ||
| Froggy |
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| Reepicheep |
I wondered how he knew that wasn't going to happen, because it looked like that was going to happen. | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
you would think as soon as the passenger side started to sink... he would have put in reverse. Nothing Ventured... nothing gained! That boy gained some knowledge... the more you know... |
