The one item I have yet to cover on the double Sanden mod was the relocation of my fluid reservoirs, so I'll go over that now.
I had previously relocated my windsheild washer fluid to inside the engine bay where my air box use to be (this was necessitated when I raised my fender flairs 4" and cut my fenders sky-high to match.) And when I relocated my battery I installed a radiator overflow from a ZJ where my battery previously sat.
Here's a crappy picture of what I'm talking about, note the radiator overflow in the bottom left and the washer reservoir in the bottom right:
Okay, so with the addition of the second Sanden I wanted to move the radiator overflow out of the area, and that necessitated changing my washer reservoir (which was always a temporary solution anyway.)
So here is the area on the driver's side I have to work with:
On a trip to the Pick-n-Pull sometime over the past year (knowing this day would come) I pulled a couple different radiator overflows and washer reservoirs so I had different sizes to choose from. (The local yard is VERY reasonable with misc. parts like this...) So here's what I ended up with, going back to my stock radiator overflow and an older model XJ(?) washer reservoir:
The great thing about these washer reservoirs, I could retain my newer year pumps, the holes are identical across the years (from what I've seen...)
So the washer reservoir was pretty straight forward, fit right in this spot where my air box used to be:
I just had to build a little support bracket underneath to level it out - this is the first time I've used wood in a mod... what can I say, I was in a hurry to get ready for Moab!
Next was the coolant overflow, which was only a little tricky. This is the spot I put it, and due to the space constraints it was necessary to orient it this way:
Luckily, the bracket I had installed for my old air compressor was perfectly positioned to help me mount the overflow:
I used the stock mounting bracket and removed the rivits holding the portion that attaches to the electronics in the OEM location and made some cuts and drilled an additional hole to bolt to my old compressor bracket:
Here you can see the bracket installed and the two bolts - one coming up from inside the fender and one going through the old compressor bracket:
The reservoir looks closer to the brake master cylinder than it is, I have a good 3/8" clearance and it turned out rock solid so I'm not worried about it rubbing at all.
I don't have a pic of just the reservoirs alone, so here's an unmolested birds-eye pic of the entire engine bay as it currently sits:
I still need to finalize securing the washer fluid reservoir, it is currently held down with zip ties ... :looser: (well, it held up fine in Moab at least!)
I had previously relocated my windsheild washer fluid to inside the engine bay where my air box use to be (this was necessitated when I raised my fender flairs 4" and cut my fenders sky-high to match.) And when I relocated my battery I installed a radiator overflow from a ZJ where my battery previously sat.
Here's a crappy picture of what I'm talking about, note the radiator overflow in the bottom left and the washer reservoir in the bottom right:
Okay, so with the addition of the second Sanden I wanted to move the radiator overflow out of the area, and that necessitated changing my washer reservoir (which was always a temporary solution anyway.)
So here is the area on the driver's side I have to work with:
On a trip to the Pick-n-Pull sometime over the past year (knowing this day would come) I pulled a couple different radiator overflows and washer reservoirs so I had different sizes to choose from. (The local yard is VERY reasonable with misc. parts like this...) So here's what I ended up with, going back to my stock radiator overflow and an older model XJ(?) washer reservoir:
The great thing about these washer reservoirs, I could retain my newer year pumps, the holes are identical across the years (from what I've seen...)
So the washer reservoir was pretty straight forward, fit right in this spot where my air box used to be:
I just had to build a little support bracket underneath to level it out - this is the first time I've used wood in a mod... what can I say, I was in a hurry to get ready for Moab!
Next was the coolant overflow, which was only a little tricky. This is the spot I put it, and due to the space constraints it was necessary to orient it this way:
Luckily, the bracket I had installed for my old air compressor was perfectly positioned to help me mount the overflow:
I used the stock mounting bracket and removed the rivits holding the portion that attaches to the electronics in the OEM location and made some cuts and drilled an additional hole to bolt to my old compressor bracket:
Here you can see the bracket installed and the two bolts - one coming up from inside the fender and one going through the old compressor bracket:
The reservoir looks closer to the brake master cylinder than it is, I have a good 3/8" clearance and it turned out rock solid so I'm not worried about it rubbing at all.
I don't have a pic of just the reservoirs alone, so here's an unmolested birds-eye pic of the entire engine bay as it currently sits:
I still need to finalize securing the washer fluid reservoir, it is currently held down with zip ties ... :looser: (well, it held up fine in Moab at least!)
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Alright, fine, nothing fancy but here's what I did:
group but we did catch up to them at the scenic overlook, I can't remember the name - it was this one:
The next time I broke my front drive shaft right off the bat trying to crawl a boulder. I was foolish and had taken the XJ to Moab after putting on my new TNT longarms and didn't get a shake-down run in. 
