Engine Replacement
Saturday, July 21st, 2007The time has finally come to replace the tired engine in the red Jeep.
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SoCal Fest 2007
Friday, May 4th, 2007
John Bull Trail – A Curse Lifted
Monday, January 15th, 2007Well since I had a day off work and nothing to do I decided to head up to Big Bear to finally knock John Bull off the list. Instead of making it a full trip I just called up Josh and Cal and the three of us went up there and attacked it stealth-like. This was during an unusually cold period (it hadn’t gotten above freezing in about a week) so the snow was still a beautiful fine power that wisped across the road with a slight breeze, there was also very little ice to be found since the snow wasn’t melting.
The only misadventure to be had was me getting out of my Jeep in a gas station parking lot… My foot found a nice ice spot and down I went.
As a side note: The highest temperature we saw all day was 24° F.
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Rockin’ XJ Jamboree
Friday, November 17th, 2006
Almost ready!
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006The only thing left to do is install the Custom 4×4 rear bumper I bought from Scott. The only reason I haven’t done that is I haven’t had the time to get to Corona to pick the damn thing up… It WILL be on before JV.
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The Junk in the Front
Sunday, November 12th, 2006After a good amount of time with the header panel completely removed it’s time to put it back on. In order to do so I had to drop the winch in place, route wiring, install larger transmission cooler, and a bunch of other stuff.
This is how it has looked for about the past month:
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New Coolers & Winch
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Buttoned up with new 21 slot grill.
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Installing the Lift and Axles
Friday, November 10th, 2006Now heres the meat of the build, everybody sees the lift first and the Jeep won’t get very far if it doesn’t have any axles. I started out with the front axle, removed my old one, swapped the old knuckles, brakes, and steering over, and put the new one in. As I was doing so I cut off the OEM lower control arm mounts and installed the TNT Y-Link arms, Tomken 4″ coils, and Daystar 1.75″ spacers.
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The next weekend I installed the rear axle and slipped the extra leaves in my pack. One of the first things I had to figure out was the brake lines on the axle. The truss that Ron built for me ended up being the perfect place to put the brake lines and as an added benefit gave me about 2″ of extra length in my rubber line because of how I mounted the junction block!
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Well, just about ready for JV. Can’t wait!
Transfer Case
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006Injuries aside it is time to remove my old transfer case, freshen up the “new” one, and rebuild it, I’ll start by removing the old one…
Damnit!
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006Well today at work I had a little accident with a knife. As I was opening up a Lithium Ion battery pack the knife slipped and sliced a gouge in my left index finger, enough to see white at the bottom. Luckily I have a glass desk so always have plenty of paper towels handy to clean it with so I reached behind me and clamped a bunch of them on before a drop of blood could hit anything. I held pressure there for about thirty seconds then peeked in… As soon as I saw how deep it was I knew that it was beyond the help of a band aid. Normally I would have used butterfly stitches but with the Jeep build I felt they may not hold well enough. In fact I’m not even sure I can work on the Jeep either way because most of the stuff I have left is pretty large items…
Anyway I gauzed the finger up, taped it, and drove to the emergency room by my house (and hour from work), walked out of there about an hour later with five stitches, fun fun!
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Gearing the Axles
Sunday, October 29th, 2006Well part of my job is to install my gears and lockers (4.88:1 gearing and ARB axles). After getting irritated with my lack of quality workspace at the house I called up Ryan Brown and went down there to use his tools and work space. In an afternoon I had both axles geared and locked.
Rock and roll!
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More photos can be seen here and here.
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