THe NAC Lots-O-BFG KO2 Thread

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is it just me or did someone cut off some of the housing on the drivers side for the coil bucket?

XJLI said:
44 is almost done.. just gotta do the UCA mounts.

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super nice weld action... that i didnt do. lol.
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ROBZ95Xj said:
is it just me or did someone cut off some of the housing on the drivers side for the coil bucket?
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Oh dip!!! I didnt see that, that looks alot more then the Clayton-style way of cutting the housing too. Is the whole top half of the tube cut out? The truss doesnt even look to go all the way to the actual tube to help support things.
 
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ROBZ95Xj said:
is it just me or did someone cut off some of the housing on the drivers side for the coil bucket?
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mmm

foxwar71 said:
Oh dip!!! I didnt see that, that looks alot more then the Clayton-style way of cutting the housing too. Is the whole top half of the tube cut out? The truss doesnt even look to go all the way to the actual tube to help support things.
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its all re-welded around where it was cut off. i'll try and keep my jumps limited to 7.5ft.
 
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was gonna go and finish welding the drivers stiffners tonight, but with a shitty night at work im way to exhausted to deal with it, i get both sides done tomorowthen start cutting out whats left of the floors, on the plus side looking at me welds alot actually aint that bad
 
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My Jeep has been parked in the parking garage for the past 2 days, and before that it was parked about 10 mins away from my apartment for the past 3 weeks. I parked it on the street in front of my apartment for 45 minutes today, and I get a text from Colin asking if I was parked out there.

Effing stalking the crap out of me. I'm impressed.
 
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i'm still sick, but at least i slept last night.

i havent been sick in like 3 years, i start working at an office and i get sick twice in a month. coincidence? def not.
 
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MoparManiac said:
Holy hell they cut a lot off.
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Yeah, and I'll still never understand that. Besides a little grinding to remove the pad flats I don't see what the person doing any of these axles wouldn't just cut the steel bracket they are adding rather than the axle itself. Must be the "must use an unmodified universal bracket" mentality. :dunno:
 
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RCman said:
Yeah, and I'll still never understand that. Besides a little grinding to remove the pad flats I don't see what the person doing any of these axles wouldn't just cut the steel bracket they are adding rather than the axle itself. Must be the "must use an unmodified universal bracket" mentality. :dunno:
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:dunno:
 
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So I watched 'death race' last night, for the first time.

Not the movie to watch before heading out to Rausch for a weekend of racing. :laugh:

On a side note, the new trailer tows XXXXing awesome. SOOO nice.
 
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RCman said:
Yeah, and I'll still never understand that. Besides a little grinding to remove the pad flats I don't see what the person doing any of these axles wouldn't just cut the steel bracket they are adding rather than the axle itself. Must be the "must use an unmodified universal bracket" mentality. :dunno:
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Everyone is afraid to weld to the diff or something...I don't get it at all.

vetteboy said:
So I watched 'death race' last night, for the first time.

Not the movie to watch before heading out to Rausch for a weekend of racing. :laugh:

On a side note, the new trailer tows XXXXing awesome. SOOO nice.
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:thumbup:
 
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MoparManiac said:
Everyone is afraid to weld to the diff or something...I don't get it at all.
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that what i was saying. i said heat it up, use nickel rod, wrap it up to have it cool slowly. same as welding to the knuckles. i'll yell at ken later and take a closer look at what was cut off to keep this thing in one piece..

on another note.. found a nice crack in my windsheild.. little tiny chip and the snow from yesterday prob did it in. i give it til august til it hits my roof.
 
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My photo assignement for this week is pretty much have fun with photoshop.

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The building and one of the plane with contrails is real.
 
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That's nice and sharp. Good contrast and color.

I can't tell which contrail is real, either.
 
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So as a member in good standing of the GSD club.

Last night I was outside until 11:30 PM - in sub-30 degree weather - doing some electrical work on the XJ and loading everything up on the trailer. Remote battery disconnect, new kill switch, amber light, and a bunch of other stuff all good to go now. I need to get one of those headlamps or something...I spent most of that time with my minimag clenched in my teeth. :laugh:

Things didn't go without issue though. I've had two lengths of 3-conductor wire running through the firewall for a long time now for the in-cab winch controls. One for the main winch and one for the (now missing) front suckdown winch. I figured I'd use the wiring for the suckdown winch to run the remote solenoid as it just needed to be connected to the new items on both ends.

Long story short, I wired the kill switch up to the main winch wiring instead of the suckdown winch wiring by mistake. Obviously this didn't work, so after dicking around with it for a half hour trying to find the 'bad connection', I jumped the solenoid and started the truck to troubleshoot further. Not realizing that this was now sending constant power to the winch solenoid pack and stalling the winch hook against the fairlead. Keep in mind this would be mostly silent as the winch isn't actually rotating, just sittin' there sucking up amperage.

By the time I realized this about a minute later (and at the same time I figured out my wiring snafu) the winch solenoid was toasty hot and emitting a smell that was very reminiscent of the magic smoke that leaves an electronic device when it dies. I reconnected everything where it should have been and the kill switch/solenoid worked perfect right away. The winch, not so much. I didn't feel like XXXXing with it at 9:30 PM but my guess is it'll probably need a new solenoid pack at minimum. For now if I really need to use it, I can just manually connect the power...

Another part of my delay last night was figuring out how to strap down my BBQ grill on the new trailer. Heh. :D
 
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