What are you doing to your rig - the continuing saga

[Hypoid]

Nice action photo! Looks like you are squirting maple syrup on it.

Thanks! I added some fresh solvent, just because it was low. Then, I cleaned housing!

I've had shop privileges for almost a decade. This is the first time I used the parts washer. Yup, it's home built.

After I got it cleaned up, I didn't like the looks of that plastic thang.

I measured the hole (.340") and did something even more sketchy. I tapped it for 1/8" NPT. If you've never cut threads before, this is not the project for learning how!

You may notice there isn't much room around that hole. I couldn't use any of the standard tool holders. I wound up turning the tap with a combination wrench, while trying to hold the tap steady with my other hand. That sunnybeach was rocking all over the place; good way to break a tap! After the tap should have been coming out the back side, it got very hard to turn. I could have tried forcing it; good way to break a tap! I backed it out.

I smeared the threads of the fitting with my favorite sealer, and ran it in the hole. I had a pretty snug interference fit before the threads bottomed out. I think that'll do...

 

[SolarBell]

Got a new-to-me Dutch bumper today. Dutch was even nice enough to help me extract one of the steering box bolts after it snapped coming out.

 

[xj5280]

Got a new-to-me Dutch bumper today. Dutch was even nice enough to help me extract one of the steering box bolts after it snapped coming out.

:wave1:

 

[SolarBell]

Oh yeah, Jim too.

 

[SolarBell]

 

[DutchVDub]

Finally working on installing the Tom Woods NP242 SYE kit w/ replacement output shaft that I got from Hypoid forever ago. Then it'll be on to the Liberty 8.25 disc brake swap.

 

[xj-grin]

so swapping the spherical bushings on a JKS quicker disconnect is a biatch --shadetree tip, 1 1/4 sink fittings in steel are exactly the right ID to keep the bushing from expanding when pressed in and make the job easier... spent much of the day trying to chase down the apparently elusive (in all the major parts-monkey systems) front pinion seal fora JK D30. I think I've got it (thanks to Frank Z tracking down the part number that noone else could find), but ran out of light and warmth before I got it in, since the garage remains doorless for a few more weeks. I'll try and get it in tomorrow morning so I can replace the front driveshaft and have 4wd back, just in case the weather dudes have it right this holiday...

 

[eflores]

got the motor done in the ZJ tonight....****in a that was a lot of work

 

[old_man]

got the motor done in the ZJ tonight....****in a that was a lot of work

Now knock off and spend some family time. Merry Christmas.

 

[eflores]

Now knock off and spend some family time. Merry Christmas.

yes sir. same to you and yours

 

[Hypoid]

I drove to the Stone of Fire, to pick up my project axle from the Fabrications of Flat Green.

Junkyard axle with 4.10s: $50
Timken Bearings & Seals: $130
Dutch making an offer I couldn't refuse: Priceless!

Now to get some straight cut gears for the D-44, and spacers for my WJ knuckles...without using a credit card.

 

[Serious Offroad]

so swapping the spherical bushings on a JKS quicker disconnect is a biatch --shadetree tip, 1 1/4 sink fittings in steel are exactly the right ID to keep the bushing from expanding when pressed in and make the job easier... spent much of the day trying to chase down the apparently elusive (in all the major parts-monkey systems) front pinion seal fora JK D30. I think I've got it (thanks to Frank Z tracking down the part number that noone else could find), but ran out of light and warmth before I got it in, since the garage remains doorless for a few more weeks. I'll try and get it in tomorrow morning so I can replace the front driveshaft and have 4wd back, just in case the weather dudes have it right this holiday...

Glad to help Chris!

 

[xj-grin]

AAAAnd.... Frank's part number was wrong too (thanks for the effort, though, man). It would appear that there is a stealership conspiracy to f up all the parts store databases for the front pinion seal on a JK axle... CS Dodge on Woodman had the part at their fingertips, part in stock, and at only three times the cost of the parts store versions (or the Omix version that Frank can get online). BUT, I got it, its in, and the driveshaft is back in place so I might be able to get back up the driveway manana! What a f'n process -- now I just have to return the two "wrong" seals!

 

[Joe94xj]

Is your front end noise gone now?

 

[xj-grin]

negative, ghostrider -- frank and I found some play in the pitman arm -- not in the joint, it may have been slightly over-reamed when I went to the 1-ton setup. We're either going to find another pit man to re-ream, or maybe drill it through and use an insert... still squeaky too, but the bushing swap (only one of them was bad) in the disconnects did make the steering seem a bit tighter in turns (less sway - go figure).

 

[USN0174]

Finally scraped enough pennies together to get my stiffeners and sliders from Frank. Just waiting to hear back :cheers:

 

[in4aride]

:thumbup:

 

[DutchVDub]

I finished up my SYE install into the NP242 yesterday. Then I did the Liberty disc brake swap onto my 8.25 rear axle. That was a very simple and easy install.

 

[eflores]

I finished up my SYE install into the NP242 yesterday. Then I did the Liberty disc brake swap onto my 8.25 rear axle. That was a very simple and easy install.

this post is worthless without pics

 

[DutchVDub]

Picture what 8.8 brakes look like. It's a nearly identical setup. It ain't nothing fancy.