THe NAC Lots-O-BFG KO2 Thread

[5spd_xj]

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wait, whats interesting? lol something went right over my head apparently?

 

[asp]

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ficksed^^ i wasn't paying attention.... my bad.

 

[Hackmeister]

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yay i'm going skateboarding today. travis i probably should be game to go snowboarding in 2 weeks or so, i'll just have to stay out of the trees since i still can't stop myself with my left / front arm if i were to run into a tree. how late in teh season does midnight madness go?

 

[5spd_xj]

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only til the end of february you'll like jusssst miss it. sorry sir. we can go still tho, no worries. in the meantime, to uplift your spirit, comment here as well

http://naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?p=244261126#post244261126

 

[nhrocker]

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i dont personally dont trust a face mount d-ring mount

x2

If it were me, I would notch the upright angled tube that's welded to the mounting plate on the outside, just under that horizontal tube at the 4 tube joint. Use a long enough piece of the 1" stock to stick out in front of the tubes as your d-ring mount, and extend it as far back the bumper mount as possible. It would be welded to both the horizontal and vertical tubes and down the side of the mounting plate. That will give you welds on a second plane, MUCH more weld surface, and reinforce the bumper mount.

Not that I've ever looked at having to beef up that exact bumper...

x3 ...middle lane of the pike @ 65mph in a 2" lifted xj, nearly ripped the wheel outta my hands. It ended up just being a totally empty stock steering stabilizer.

A blown steering stabilizer would not be the cause of death wobble, it's just a bandaid to cover other issues. If everything is set properly and functioning correct you can run with no steering stabilizer whatsoever. If by replacing the stabilizer your rig was "cured" than it's covering up another larger issue that you may want to figure out before it gets worse.

it's a 3axled vehicle that is on biiiig tires. i'd gues 44s+ and beadlocks and can go up and down big ledges

It's on 48's. It doesn't have traditional axles either, it has in-hub electric motors powered by a turbo-diesel out of a VW Jetta. Built to be able to scale a 4ft vertical ledge, handle a 40* side slope, and since its skid steer can turn in place. Add the remote operated .50cal and that would be one fun toy to play with.
:cheers:

 

[Begster]

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http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?p=244261391#post244261391

 

[Begster]

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Oh, and Anthony, thanks, but I'm just going to get some at Autozone, its easier and I need to get this fixed this weekend.

 

[asp]

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no prob, that's what i figured. they're real cheap...

 

[MoparManiac]

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Mark, glad you made it home ok. Sucks that your friends didn't answer. I would have invited you down to chill or something had I known they disappeared on ya.

On a side note, installed a durango alternator in my jeep today (136amp).

Everything works better now lol. Props to Adam for reminding me about this swap.

 

[nhrocker]

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On a side note, installed a durango alternator in my jeep today (136amp).

Everything works better now lol. Props to Adam for reminding me about this swap.

I did that swap a few years ago, been really happy with it. To go along with it make yourself some good heavy duty battery leads (if you haven't already). I did all my lines (power and grounds) with much heavier gauge welding cable leads. In my rig the small leads are now 4 gauge, the larger are 1 guage (used to be 8 and 4). That helped my rig out even more. Allowed me to run all the electronics, lights, heater, defroster, etc with my stereo going and no more dimming lights.

 

[RCman]

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Finally in from cutting up more of the ice storm damage. My arms are really aching me from limbing over my head. Time for a quick early dinner and then a little work assuming I don't fall asleep first.

bill, if you'd like to see a picture of what billy means when saying "it used to be nice", keep an eye out for the build thread, i put in a pic of it the day i got it...

That was clean. I'll post some comments I have in the thread after dinner.

So I drove the 2 door Jeep up to Boston last night. I experience 2 more small cases of death wobble and as I'm going, the brake pedal feels like its getting spongier and spongier, until I actually get into Boston when I"m pushing all the way to the ground to get brakes. It did brake once I got down far enough.

Got into the parking garage at school, found no fluid in the reservoir, and the right rear drum and inside of the tire were covered with brake fluid. Amazingly I had transferred all my tools that I carried around with me in the 4 door to the 2 door the night before when I was doing the tune up.

Sat in the parking garage for 45 minutes cause none of my friends up there were answering their phones.

Felt like sh*t, and had to get home. Poured a container of brake fluid in there, after a while it pretty much self bled, and I had a harder pedal again. Didn't matter much as I used the brakes only once the entire trip from Boston to my exit back at home.

That's horrible on two counts. One the XJ (kinda glad that I didn't get if for Angel now). Secondly your freinds not answering. They don't sound much like freinds I would consider if they knew you were coming.
You are always welcome at my place if that happens again and you want to drive west versus south back home.

x2
If it were me, I would notch the upright angled tube that's welded to the mounting plate on the outside, just under that horizontal tube at the 4 tube joint. Use a long enough piece of the 1" stock to stick out in front of the tubes as your d-ring mount, and extend it as far back the bumper mount as possible. It would be welded to both the horizontal and vertical tubes and down the side of the mounting plate. That will give you welds on a second plane, MUCH more weld surface, and reinforce the bumper mount.

I think this would be the only way to do it if you were going to cut any of the tubes. I'd worry that you are taking to much out the the front tube that supports the winch. That is/was my main concern with saying I wouldn't cut the tubes.

Anthony, why not put some d-ring mounts where the owner of the bumper you posted but those god aweful things called tow hooks?

http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?p=244261391#post244261391

Slide Hammer.

Oh, and Anthony, thanks, but I'm just going to get some at Autozone, its easier and I need to get this fixed this weekend.

Time for an upgraded rear axle, IMO.
Either way skip AutoZone and head to Advance, much better.

 

[5spd_xj]

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That was clean. I'll post some comments I have in the thread after dinner.

awesome, thanks bud your input is greatly appreciated in every way. don't hold back... :gag:

after all, whatever crazy comments you have, i'll just respond with "Hmmm, not quite sure what ya mean Bill...maybe if you could just take a weekend off from working on your Jeep and just show me what you're talking about, that would be great..."

to be totally honest though, I'd rather come help you with your Jeep, that thing has been in the we-gotta-get-this-going stage forever and you deserve to get wheeling again asap...as always, let me know what i can do to help

 

[RCman]

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awesome, thanks bud your input is greatly appreciated in every way. don't hold back... :gag:

after all, whatever crazy comments you have, i'll just respond with "Hmmm, not quite sure what ya mean Bill...maybe if you could just take a weekend off from working on your Jeep and just show me what you're talking about, that would be great..."

Haha... I don't know everything. Actually, make that I don't know hardly anything. Just the stuff I learn from research and trial and error. I'll be game for helping whenever.... after mine is drivable. I don't want that to sound as selfish as it does, but I just want to drive something.

to be totally honest though, I'd rather come help you with your Jeep, that thing has been in the we-gotta-get-this-going stage forever and you deserve to get wheeling again asap...as always, let me know what i can do to help

I know. I want it out of the "we-gotta-get-this-going stage" badly. It is just hard to think of anything that I need help with. Most of the stuff right now is just crawling under, fitting, marking, crawling out, adjust, crawl under, rise, repeat. I've got a list of stuff going right now and all but one item on it is one man jobs. When I do need help I'll be sure to give you a call. Thanks again. :thumbup:

 

[Begster]

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Mark, glad you made it home ok. Sucks that your friends didn't answer. I would have invited you down to chill or something had I known they disappeared on ya.

That's horrible on two counts. One the XJ (kinda glad that I didn't get if for Angel now). Secondly your freinds not answering. They don't sound much like freinds I would consider if they knew you were coming.
You are always welcome at my place if that happens again and you want to drive west versus south back home.

Thanks guys for the invites. I ended up getting in touch with them. What happened was I had only talked with my old roommate telling him I was coming up. When I got up there, he was walking around with his girlfriend and his phone was in her pocketbook, so he couldn't hear it. I then started calling a few other people, one friend was in Maine, and another was in Quincy and wouldn't be back for an hour. I then got a call from another friend returning my call from earlier in the day, and her and her 2 roommates were going to a local pizza place, and so I met up with them, and I got a call back from my roommate as I was walking there.

After hanging out there, then at their place for a little, I started feeling like sh*t, the pizza was what killed me I think. But I ended up deciding to leave, stopped by and talked with my roommate for a while, then met up with a kid I went to high school with who was in Boston for the weekend on leave from the Coast Guard Academy, before finally heading home.

Waiting around wasn't too bad, I was talking with Colin most of the time, and thankfully it wasn't too cold out.

Slide Hammer.
Time for an upgraded rear axle, IMO.
Either way skip AutoZone and head to Advance, much better.

Slid hammer wouldn't have worked, I did debate that for a second, pulling the cover and the c-clips, and pulling the whole shaft assembly. Also, no Advanced around here. And the one time I did go, the guy was an idiot and kept telling me the inner axle seals should be the CV shaft seal.

Ya Bill, it is kind of nice you didn't get this for Angel, there are definitely better ones out there. The PO was certainly an idiot.

Ha, I debated just unbolting the leafs, and throwing in my old ones along with my 8.25.

Either way, I cut one drum off, need more cutting discs tomorrow.

 

[RCman]

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Slid hammer wouldn't have worked, I did debate that for a second, pulling the cover and the c-clips, and pulling the whole shaft assembly. Also, no Advanced around here. And the one time I did go, the guy was an idiot and kept telling me the inner axle seals should be the CV shaft seal.

Why wouldn't the slide hammer work? Hook it over the edge of the drum and pound away. Maybe I'm missing something.

Ya Bill, it is kind of nice you didn't get this for Angel, there are definitely better ones out there. The PO was certainly an idiot.

I'm just glad it would have never left her stranded.

Ha, I debated just unbolting the leafs, and throwing in my old ones along with my 8.25.

Either way, I cut one drum off, need more cutting discs tomorrow.

Do it.
As for abrasives, I know it won't help you tomorrow, but I've got these and they seem to work well for what they cost. Not quite as good as their Norton counterparts, but at 1/3 or less the cost they end up being better in my mind.
http://smithandarrow.com/untabrasives.php

 

[Begster]

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I was taking a regular mallet and wailing on the edges, wasn't working. I can't imagine the slide hammer would have been more effective.

I would rather just sell the 8.25, plus it has a shock stud broken off, so I would have to get that fixed first. I also don't want to pull all the ABS crap out. I'll take the easier way out, and just fix the brakes, rather than do an axle swap. Its not like I'm wheeling it that I need the extra strength.

Thanks for the link, but I have some stuff I need to return at Home Depot so I'll just pick some up there. (I know, you hate HD).

 

[RCman]

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I was taking a regular mallet and wailing on the edges, wasn't working. I can't imagine the slide hammer would have been more effective.

I think you'd be surprised. I was the first few times I used one, even force around is key.

Thanks for the link, but I have some stuff I need to return at Home Depot so I'll just pick some up there. (I know, you hate HD).

I don't hate HomeDepot, just don't like most of the products they sell (namely the stuff we'd by for garage use, the homeowner stuff ain't bad if it is not overpriced) and the fact they are killing the real lumber yards.

 

[5spd_xj]

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the guy was an idiot and kept telling me the inner axle seals should be the CV shaft seal.

Either way, I cut one drum off, need more cutting discs tomorrow.

uhh, the guy was right... :wow: Imagine if I had just started a thread in Advanced Fab and actually believed this? :scared: lol


Good luck with getting your brakes sorted out. Hell, good luck with that thing in general, it seems to be quite the challenge so far for ya unfortunately...

 

[billyjp2]

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I did that swap a few years ago, been really happy with it. To go along with it make yourself some good heavy duty battery leads (if you haven't already). I did all my lines (power and grounds) with much heavier gauge welding cable leads. In my rig the small leads are now 4 gauge, the larger are 1 guage (used to be 8 and 4). That helped my rig out even more. Allowed me to run all the electronics, lights, heater, defroster, etc with my stereo going and no more dimming lights.

whats better, a ZJ swap or this?

 

[nhrocker]

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whats better, a ZJ swap or this?

You talking about the 136amp alternator swap? The Durango is the same alt that the V8 Grands used, but are way more common than V8 Grands around here.

Or were you asking about something else?