What are you doing to your rig - the continuing saga

[in4aride]

Booooooo

 

[SteveT]

That's the EZ lube feature.

 

[Fred]

That actually makes sense. Scary.

 

[Boostwerks.com]

Did you grease them before pressing them home?

 

[Fred]

Grease the outside of the caps? I've never done that or seen it done. The bearings come greased. I wasn't sure I had the clip seated completely, so I was trying to get a couple of thousandths of an inch more. It's all my fault, I was using a full circle clip and bent it putting it on the u-joint. I'll know how to do the next one correctly. Learn by ****ing things up.

 

[Digger87xj]

Hate it when that happens. I did the same thing recently. Tighten the press to get that smidge more to get the clip on aaaaand POP.

 

[Frank Z]

Finished yanking out the seats and floor mat. Got some surface rust to clean-up now.

Made some progress on the frame, no pics of that yet.

 

[eflores]

Are you gonna sell that 97 tcm?

 

[Frank Z]

It went with the tranny.

 

[SolarBell]

Now trying to hunt down some bushing sleeves for my converted flat rear shackles since I just found 3 of them rusted to the bolts.

 

[Hypoid]

A buddy broke his upper T-stat housing bolt. Then, he broke an easy-out in the same hole. After a few botched attempts to remove it, he pulled the head so I could work on that easy out.

I found a tungsten burr for my Dremel, that burr is not cheap. I started thinking about the shiny, black, header panel I have stored in the rafters, with the rusty trim screws still embedded in it. I hope I don't ruin that burr before all this is finished.

 

[proracedriver616]

A buddy broke his upper T-stat housing bolt. Then, he broke an easy-out in the same hole. After a few botched attempts to remove it, he pulled the head so I could work on that easy out.

I found a tungsten burr for my Dremel, that burr is not cheap. I started thinking about the shiny, black, header panel I have stored in the rafters, with the rusty trim screws still embedded in it. I hope I don't ruin that burr before all this is finished.

you still havent put that thing in yet lol

 

[Hypoid]

you still havent put that thing in yet lol

Nope, I'll have to uninstall the primary driver before that happens.

 

[Boostwerks.com]

Started mocking up my belly pan and traction bar this weekend. I love how the pan turned out, although I may need to trim for the driveshaft. Also got the exhaust thrown back on.

 

[Fred]

That is the prettiest damn skid plate ever created for the POS XJ. I salute you.

 

[jdogg4]

boots that's sick man! nice work.

 

[SolarBell]

Now trying to hunt down some bushing sleeves for my converted flat rear shackles since I just found 3 of them rusted to the bolts.

Does anyone know of any place that sells just bushing sleeves by themselves? I'm about to just order a small piece of tube and cut a bunch of pieces to the right length.

I need 4 of them them as 0.750" OD, 2.75" long, and fit a 9/16" (0.563") bolt.

 

[rockfrog]

Ace is the place... maybe?

 

[SolarBell]

I ended up ordering a 1 foot length of tubing to the exact right other dimensions from McMaster. I paid more than I should but I got it in stainless to try and prevent this happening again. I can easily cut 4 pieces to the right size out of that length.

 

[YELLAHEEP]

I'd also suggest using a marine industrial grade grease inside as well.