Recent content by HobHayward

A bad rotor/cap led to stumbling right after a warm start for me. Otherwise it ran pretty much fine. It was pretty weird.

Thanks guys. Picked up a new cap (16lb, tested in the store). Separately I think I found the leak at the upper heater line fitting, tracked it down via the steam after stopping after driving it under heavy load. I swapped the spring clamp for a hose clamp, hopefully that's fixed it. I do...

No, I realized this morning that I totally forgot to grab a new one. Will do that as soon as possible.

I just replaced my radiator, lines and thermostat hoping to solve some cooling issues. Previously it was running half a tick down from 210 when cruising on the highway, and it would climb up a full tick past 210 under heavier load, I.e. going up a 9% grade, sometimes even a tick and a half...

I hate to do this, and fwiw I've done plenty of reading.. Recently on hot days (100*, and at 4500' of elevation) I've been nudging up past 210, almost to 230 on one occasion. The interesting thing is that this is not affected whether cruising on the highway or sitting at a stop light in town...

Just one? I'll hit up RE and see if they'd sell them individually, I may be interested.

Pretty sure its not the belt for a variety of reasons, foremost because I have to be moving for the noise to occur.

So for quite a while now my xj has made a squeaking or chirping noise for the first few minutes its driven, only when completely cold--having sat for at least several hours. The strangest part is that the noise shows up with the gas applied, and then will go away temporarily if I take my...

Thanks guys, I would think that Thehowler is right that I want a tad more bl. Looking at this pic, I have toe contact: I've pressed carrier bearings on with pre-load shims so I think I'm going to try removing maybe .003 or .005 from the pinion spacer stack and see where that lands me. I think...

Skip a few steps because obviously I stopped taking pictures when it got interesting Unfortunately the shackle location we chose was too far forward, as I discovered the leafs had sagged on the drive home Moved to the furthest back spot and ride quality way better than it ever had been...

The PO of my XJ (unbeknownst to me when I bought it) overloaded the hitch towing a flatbed car trailer. These pics look rusty but its not nearly as rotted as it looks, the frame was cracked. Not super likely that other people have the same issue, but this would have been helpful to me so...

In process of re-gearing my hpd30. This was my pattern when I was using setup bearings, was pretty pumped as this was the first pattern I got after setting up the backlash: With the real bearings and races pressed in I end up with .0035" of ring gear runout on the diameter (not sure what it...

In the middle of an 8.8 swap and my test fit yields a 15* pinion angle and 18* ds angle. Was shooting for -2* on the pinion. Brackets are just tacked so not a big deal to move them but I don't want to waste my time if its not worth it. Haven't turned much up other than that 2* is...

Thanks Brian, My concern with that is that the shackles would have even less travel than they do now. The leaf bolts were resting on the shackle boxes when one they were one hole further forward, is that cutout enough if I was running different bolts on the leaf side of the shackle? This was...

Best shackle angle I could get with the stock shackles.. Any suggestions on lift shackles to improve the angle? I welded the shackle boxes to frame inserts I made to beef up my cracked frame. I'll be posting a writeup on that at some point for anyone else interested.