What are you doing to your rig - the continuing saga

[SeeingSpots]

Well after messing around with my jalopy 89' for a year and a half, and constantly fixing the atrocious redneck engineering that the prior owners had done, I finally gave in and purchased a clean 98'. :clap:

The engine is trashed (minor rod knock), but it just so happens that I have a healthy 58k mileage late model engine in my 89' that is dying for a new home. Now the task will be to swap over all of my suspension/steering/cage from the old rig to the new one.

Troy was nice enough to haul my new heep back to Castle Rock on his trailer. More progress pics to follow.

 

[kastein]

I just did a redneck re-rod-bearing on my red 98... looks like that but a lot more beat!

It really isn't that hard, assembly lube, torque wrench, 25 bucks in new rod bearings, some green plastigauge, and a few cans of brakleen to do it right. Maybe I'm preaching to the choir here but at least you'll have a spare engine sitting around in "this will get me to work if it has to" condition. Unless it scored the crank up, of course, but even after a few months of low oil pressure and ugly knocking when cold, mine was only into the copper and the crank looked fine.

 

[eflores]

I guess he could jb weld the hole in the block too

 

[kastein]

oh, I didn't realize it tossed a rod already :anon:

 

[xj-grin]

so "minor rod knock" was sarcasm, and actually code for "well ventilated engine block"? ROR.

 

[SeeingSpots]

so "minor rod knock" was sarcasm, and actually code for "well ventilated engine block"? ROR.

Hey now.....it's ram air.


There's about a baseball-sized hole by cylinder #5. It's sounds so smooth.

 

[xj-grin]

its fun when you're doing 65 up Wolf Creek pass and a 4.0 decides to "ventilate" its "ram air"... the misty oil on the windshield is a dead giveaway. Mine was in #5 as well.

 

[YELLAHEEP]

Yeah....... Jim tells me "just a rod knock" so I'm thinking great! Easy drive up on the trailer, then drive into his garage....... He failed to mention the gaping hole in the block.......

"Don't start it! I don't want shrapnel in my legs!"..... "Don't start it! I don't want oil all over my driveway!".......

Uphill to the trailer........ VERY uphill into the garage.......

Jim = :twak:




At least I got to add him to my "trailer'd" list.......

 

[kastein]

If Audi and Volvo can do I-5s, so can Jeep!

 

[SeeingSpots]

"Don't start it! I don't want shrapnel in my legs!"..... "Don't start it! I don't want oil all over my driveway!".......

Whatever....I don't trust cast rotating assemblies that are spinning at 800rpms without a shroud. :explosion

 

[YELLAHEEP]

Scaredy cat..... :shiver:

At my auto vocational school we blew up donated cars monthly. Parts fell to the ground below 2000 rpm if they made it out of the block at all. @ redline you can get sheet metal penetration....

We had a 70's olds 88 with a knocking 455....... Drained oil and coolant, sand and bb's into the intake.... Ran for nearly 20 minutes at full throttle before it slowly wound down as the pistons welded themselves to the cylinders. Disappointing. :laugh:

 

[SeeingSpots]

Scaredy cat..... :shiver:

At my auto vocational school we blew up donated cars monthly. Parts fell to the ground below 2000 rpm if they made it out of the block at all. @ redline you can get sheet metal penetration....

We had a 70's olds 88 with a knocking 455....... Drained oil and coolant, sand and bb's into the intake.... Ran for nearly 20 minutes at full throttle before it slowly wound down as the pistons welded themselves to the cylinders. Disappointing. :laugh:

As an underwriter, everything about that paragraph made me throw up in my mouth a little bit. lol

 

[xj-grin]

it made me ROR!

 

[eflores]

you should be in the garage jim
no effin around on naxja....hop to sir

 

[Kittrell]

Troy has enough good will with his trailer to last a lifetime.

 

[eflores]

except for hat one time he lost a tire going down the highway...i wonder who's car or house finally stopped it

 

[YELLAHEEP]

except for hat one time he lost a tire going down the highway...i wonder who's car or house finally stopped it

I'm confident it hit no cars and that stretch of I-80 is nothing but sunflower and corn fields, so at worst there might be a farmer cussing me as he's prying it from the jaws of his combine.......:shhh:

 

[Fred]

Added a washer to the stock trackbar mount. The hole was about .05" wallowed out. Got rid of that stupid allen head bolt from TNT. 25/64" drill through the washer fit the 10mm bolt exactly.



No pictures of the welds. A bad welder and a bad welder don't make for pretty pictures.
The apparent misalignment is actually the hole through the rear part of the mount.

 

[xj-grin]

Did that for my partner's TJ a couple weeks ago...

 

[Elguapo]

Did that for my partner's TJ a couple weeks ago...

No need to weird us out with what you do outside of jeeping with your "partner" Chris. :eyes:
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