| Author | Message | ||
     Ourdee |
Thumper74, My renegade is a hoot to drive. As much fun as the ones in the videos. Surprised a Beemer pilot that thought he could take it. Well the Liberty needed attention yesterday. Two new front hubs and all new brakes. Getting them out after 110,000 miles.  Required some serious beating.  Success was slow but did come.  That is my new 36mm socket. | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
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| Torquehd |
I love those creepy crawlers. Are you able to tell any difference between a standard MT and those? Have you run them before? | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
This is the first set that I have had. I have only wheeled them a couple of times. In the pic above, they only have 10 lbs of air. I want to find some rock and drop them down to 5 or 6 lbs and see how they do. So far I can't tell any difference between the Firestone M/T I had on it before. They are surprisingly quiet for how much tread they have. | ||
| Torquehd |
I know I'm not a jeep, but, the topic of LED's came up earlier in the thread. I swapped my reverse lights with LED's. I'm very happy with the results. The pictures don't do it justice. Before/after  | ||
| Torquehd |
...but i still wasn't satisfied... $15 ebay special, 2x 6" light bars, 18W.  now we're cookin'... LED replacements vs lightbars.  | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
This could hurt... http://social.cummins.com/introducing-cummins-crate-engine-program-cummins-repower/  | ||
| Torquehd |
I can tell by looking at that dyno chart that it needs more fuel, air, boost, and an aftermarket exhaust. And a beefier transmission and transfer case to handle the additional power. And fourlinked dana 60's to reliably put that power to the ground. Yep, that could hurt some good jeep folk out there. I suspect it will look something like this:  (Message edited by torquehd on November 04, 2016) | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
I hope not. I not a big fan of the "Roll the Coal" peeps. | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
Before...  After...  | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
Before...  After...  I would say the modifications are working the way they should. I am happy and then...  | ||
| Ratbuell |
Easy fix there. And cheap. Buy new tensioner. Remove belt. Remove one bolt. Install new tensioner and bold. Reinstall belt. get it before the belt starts to fray! | ||
| Etennuly |
Mark if it has an idler pulley might as well change it to. They usually have the same bearing and were put in at the same time. Wish I could draw lines on that chart above.....My 400 sbc is about 180 hp at 3400 rpm and about 325 ft lbs at 2800 rpm stock. Making that diesel "cute"  . I could double both of my numbers for about $600 and two weekends. | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
That "cute" diesel gets almost 45 mpg in my Jeep....  | ||
| Etennuly |
We had a wedding here on our property a few weeks ago. In the list of stuff I had to do was moving the Jeep. I put this engine together in 1997 last time around, where it ended up in the Jeep. For some reason the old style twenty year old mechanical fuel pump has retired. Cranky no start. There is a surprise!  Anyhow, it still needed to be moved. With no one around to help and me being too busy to get a strap to tie it back to the tractor bucket, I aimed it with my tractor, locked the steering column, and let it go. That is a soft new gravel pile so I figured it would just roll into it kind of squarely. The Jeep will only roll straight with it's welded rear gears but I forgot to calculate the side angle slope of the driveway effecting my aim. So a few worried moments later it is doing it's own twisty flex pose.   Silly thing likes this stuff! Six more inches and that front tire would have rolled down the other side. Gotta love a Jeep!  | ||
| Brother_in_buells |
Those idler pulleys made from soda cans are crap! Have one made from solid metal or alloy on a lathe and have no problems anymore. | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
The front driveshaft cardan joint went out again. This time I took it to Driveline 1 to have them rebuild and balance it. The machine they use to balance driveshafts looks like a huge lathe. The tech turned it on while he was giving me a tour of the shop. I couldn't believe how fast that thing was turning. I think I would have soiled my shorts if it had a out of balance driveshaft in place. He showed me how they do what they do and I was thrilled he took the time. They had put a nice coat of black paint on it but I had to funk it up a little once I got it home.  | ||
| Sifo |
...but i still wasn't satisfied... $15 ebay special, 2x 6" light bars, 18W. Again, not a Jeep, but I just did the same 2X6 in inch light bars for backup lights. It's really dark where I live, and simply couldn't see backing out of the driveway. Now it's like daylight!  I think these probably throw enough light to be viable/cheap off road headlights. Forget about on the road though, their light patter will blind people. I'm almost thinking I should add a toggle switch to turn them off if I need to. | ||
| Ratbuell |
I have a pair of the 10w eBay single-LED round lights for backup lights on my Ram 2500. Awesome as backup lights. I have another pair (bought a 4 pack for something silly like $30) that I put on my XJ as driving lights. EVERYBODY flashed me. So, I got some "tint" spray paint, flush mounted them into the OEM bumper, and now they are simply "brighter" DRL's - ignition switched and they make the Jeep stand out a bit but throw zero light downrange. The Hella H4 E-code conversion headlights with 55W DDM HID lamps (4300k) do just fine for actual light downrange  And, no flashes since I tinted the LED's. | ||
| Torquehd |
I can't decide if these are cool or scary. A different approach than Mattracks. | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
Finally going to the Jeep Jamboree in the Tennessee Mountains... AKA Oak Ridge... Knoxville... Wind Rock Park! Damn thing sold out in 3 hours. I had it marked on my calendar and the alarm set on my cell phone. I was not missing out this year... ERROR CODE 504 again and again... but I finally prevailed! Vern, you may need to join Doug and I at the campground to talk and look at JEEPS in April. | ||
| Etennuly |
Mebby. Keep me posted. I still have not been there. Now on to LED front light blocks mounted in the grille of a slightly raised 4x4....it is a good damn thing I cannot shoot a pistol left handed out the window after dark in the rain! If you can not turn those mo%#€¥{%< things off you might die by high speed lead poisioning to the head! Not funny while towing a loaded trailer on secondary twisty road in rain and pitch black night with these things coming at you. I had to actually stop in the road for a couple minutes for my eyes to recover enough to drive again. | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
Marine Corps night fighting tip When the enemy pops off a flair, close your shooting eye until the flair burns out. When driving... Close one eye when one of those bastards is approaching. When the offending vehicle has passed, open that eye and go on your way. Plus I always look to the right and down at the edge of the road to maintain my path of travel | ||
| Thumper74 |
That's sort of a pirate tip too! The eye patch keeps your night vision ready for going below deck! | ||
| Etennuly |
I always look down to the right as traffic approaches at night. I always close one eye if an idiot leaves his bright lights on. It was hard to see at all in the rain and darkness, one of those evenings where you are burning out your retinas trying to find the edge of the road with no stripe. Everything disappeared in this blinding light as popped up over a hill around a corner, I could not see it coming. The darkness was kind of like if you were in a pitch black cave, then someone turned on the lights to a pro football stadium right in front of your eyes. Shitballs! Like stepping on a land mine in your brain. It filled the grille area of a mid size pick up. Probably several light capsules tied together into a solid block of lights. The bastard made no effort to turn them off either. Three days later I can still see it! | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
That sucks but you have made me laugh! The first time I saw one of those light bars, I was at a off road park. We could see the light coming and all of us were  Thought it was pretty cool but not worth the $1500 price tag at the time. Now they are CHEAP and everywhere... | ||
| Torquehd |
There are videos on youtube of guys who are smart on electronics taking apart cheap ebay light bars and analyzing the led's and the drivers. It seems most of them are overdriving the LEDs which would result in a short lifespan. I have cheap leds for reverse lights, but I seldom use them and they're never on long enough to really get hot. I would be hesitant about spending a hundred dollars on a light bar that I was going to use for extended durations. | ||
| Sifo |
I'm not sure why they would overdrive the LEDs. I've read, and from my own experience, found that you get very little additional light output by doing that. Even so, if they aren't going way overboard, the shortened life span probably won't be an issue. Most LEDs are likely to out last the vehicle you put them on. I would be far more concerned about the supporting circuitry that makes the sun fly out the front of the LED. | ||
| Torquehd |
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| Wolfridgerider |
I will never get stuck again... Rock Lights are done!!  |
