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Smash Hole said:
What kind of driving?

Last tank I kept track of was 13.02 corrected, mostly highway with some extended idling.
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Probably the most highway it's seen in a long time. Drove it back and forth to work 5 or 6 times when it snowed and a couple times since then.

Putting the second o2 sensor back in will help.
 
Been looking at other longarm kits now. This is ... interesting
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http://www.diamondintheroughfab.com/jeep-cherokee-long-arm.html
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good idea, not well thought out.

I don't see dick holding that cross member in besides the four factory bolts, and ain't no way I'd trust my life to those nutserts and 8mm bolts.

If they'd put some veritcal wings on it and grabbed two sleeved holes through the unirail on both saides with some proper 5/8 bolts or somehting that would be an awesome design. I'm putting the belly pan on Jennies and I don't look forward to servicing anything ever under there after that.
 
Maybe it's not as obvious on my phone, but I think it looks kinda like the Clayton 3pc setup?
Bolted in then welded to the frame rail.
Clayton
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Diamond
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And the uppers look tiny. couple little tweaks and I think it would be a decent kit.
 
I'm not a fan of any of that being welded. I don't like the clayton design either. You're still relying on sheetmetal to hold it, and there's no shear element. You're simply not utilizing what's there to the best of it's ability. Two through bolts with sleeves solves every issue ever, and doesn't rely on a backyard welders fab to keep a bus full of nuns from death.

I'm no engineer, but that's my take on it.
 
I have a mower that we bought when we moved in to this house in 08. I have never changed the oil or emptied the old gas just put fresh stuff in and start her up. Last year the wife decided she wanted a bag mower so we bought a new one and didn't use the old one all year. Now my sister in law needs a mower so were sselling this old one to her. Dumped fresh gas in and it started on the first pull. The newish one took 5.
 
IMO for function and simplicity the rockcrawler setup cant be beat.

Tyler used off the shelf rock krawler kits for the front 3 link and rear 4 link on the ls2 xj and they have stood up to 440hp.

Radius arms will always suck..... When is the xj market going to embrace that
 
87manche said:
I'm not a fan of any of that being welded. I don't like the clayton design either. You're still relying on sheetmetal to hold it, and there's no shear element. You're simply not utilizing what's there to the best of it's ability. Two through bolts with sleeves solves every issue ever, and doesn't rely on a backyard welders fab to keep a bus full of nuns from death.

I'm no engineer, but that's my take on it.
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I wouldn't run a clayton kit without frame stiffeners. Other than that its a pretty solid crossmember, thats what nick has on his jeep. Sam's home made crossmember is held on to the stiffeners by 8 grade 8 1/2" bolts and had the Clayton's builder crossmember been available i just would have bought it
 
I've been running the Ironman4x4Fab long-arms with the RE mounts/skid since I tested the combo for Andy. Just throwing an option out there... I like the fact I can drop the skid without dropping the rest of the suspension...
 
I need garage tunes.

Must be cheap, loud enough to hear over a compressor, have fm radio, play my iPod, and bonus points if it charges my iPhone 5.

Budget less than $100. I'm not happy with the sony I just returned because the damn radio didn't work.

I used to run a pair of computer speakers with a little powered sub and they worked awesome but I want a radio now so I can listen to Full Metal Jackie Sunday nights on WGRD now that I finally get the station..

Go!
 
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Drag a 70s stereo out of your neighbors trash, drag speakers out of the other neighbor's trash, add an old computer power supply and an old cdrom drive plus an iphone cable. Splice wires and add liberal duct tape. Done.
 
I have have, an old receiver and two 15 klm 4way stacks. Got a buddy that has a cheap surround sound that works very well with dvd, 3.5mm jack.
 
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Smash Hole said:
I need garage tunes.

Must be cheap, loud enough to hear over a compressor, have fm radio, play my iPod, and bonus points if it charges my iPhone 5.

Budget less than $100. I'm not happy with the sony I just returned because the damn radio didn't work.

I used to run a pair of computer speakers with a little powered sub and they worked awesome but I want a radio now so I can listen to Full Metal Jackie Sunday nights on WGRD now that I finally get the station..

Go!
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I've got a 12v converter wired to a car stereo mounted in my wall, 4, 3 way 6x9's in the ceiling. Sounds great, looks cool, takes up no shelf space.
 
kastein said:
Drag a 70s stereo out of your neighbors trash, drag speakers out of the other neighbor's trash, add an old computer power supply and an old cdrom drive plus an iphone cable. Splice wires and add liberal duct tape. Done.
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this is what I would do. Nothing beats old discrete component radios.


for 12V power supply on the cheap. Find dead PC, steal ATX power supply, jump green wire to black wire with toggle switch.
You'll have 12 and 5v, so 12V for radio, wire 5V to USB port for charging.
 
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