- Location
- Colorado Springs, CO
It's for a WJ knuckle conversion, now that I read the link.
What are you doing to your rig - the continuing saga
- Thread starter old_man
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freerider15
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- Location
- FoCo, Crawlorado
freerider15
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- Location
- FoCo, Crawlorado
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arty:
Stepping down in numerical size...and up in physical size
arty:Stepping down in numerical size...and up in physical size
DutchVDub
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- Location
- Milliken, CO
Oh look, you bought me my new tires. How nice of you.
freerider15
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- Location
- FoCo, Crawlorado
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I really wasn't planning on picking up tires this soon.
Just happen to be perusing CL and thought what the hell...and put in "goodyear stickies".
Brand spanking new, only used for mock up...for $160 less per tire than listed online...and no shipping or tax.
He's going to 42 stickies since he feel's the 40's will look small on his build (118" WB TJ buggy).
Fine with me...these are several inches larger than my 42" Iroks...and STICKY!
Still $$$$ for 4 tires though, but not much more than the 40" Nitto Trail Grapplers were going to run.
I really wasn't planning on picking up tires this soon.
Just happen to be perusing CL and thought what the hell...and put in "goodyear stickies".
Brand spanking new, only used for mock up...for $160 less per tire than listed online...and no shipping or tax.
He's going to 42 stickies since he feel's the 40's will look small on his build (118" WB TJ buggy).
Fine with me...these are several inches larger than my 42" Iroks...and STICKY!
Still $$$$ for 4 tires though, but not much more than the 40" Nitto Trail Grapplers were going to run.
Trying to track down what I think is a bad ground issue in sisters rig.
Runs fine but air bag, battery and other lights pop on after the gauges fall like vehicle is off. If driving it still runs down the road no issue.
Has a couple hundred in it since motor swap (runs perfectly fine)
New ignition (old one seized up)
Charging system checks out and tests fine.
Am I right chasing a ground?
Runs fine but air bag, battery and other lights pop on after the gauges fall like vehicle is off. If driving it still runs down the road no issue.
Has a couple hundred in it since motor swap (runs perfectly fine)
New ignition (old one seized up)
Charging system checks out and tests fine.
Am I right chasing a ground?
old_man
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- Location
- Loveland, Colorado
You did hook up the ground from the head to the firewall, right?
UnlimitedMatt
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Cheyenne, Wyoming
Could it be just a loose connection behind the instrument cluster? On Davids 98 that would happen randomly and he would just push on the gages to get them to come back online.
puttzer
NAXJA Member
- Location
- Berthoud, Co
Mike, I think there is a TSB pertaining to a patch harness that fixes that problem. My sons 2 door does the same thing. Stinks I don't work at Jeep dealer anymore.
puttzer
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- Location
- Berthoud, Co
DutchVDub
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- Location
- Milliken, CO
Creepies installed
time2getdirty
my cats breath smells
- Location
- Cheyenne, Wyoming
Nice!
freerider15
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- Location
- FoCo, Crawlorado
Niiiiice!
On another note...the F-350 is giving me its first problems.
I knew it was leaking coolant from somewhere...but after spraying it of and letting it run of course it won't leak for me.
Also come to find out (I'm still learning diesel motors), most all diesel motors do NOT use regular coolant. They use special coolants, mine uses an EC-1 rated coolant. CAT is the one who kinda developed it, was able to find 4 gallons of concentrate (not supposed to use 50/50) at the CAT dealer in Windsor (at nearly $25 a gallon).
Also getting a massive oil leak. I though it was the oil pan gasket, which had me scared. Oil pan gasket means removal of the engine...
Luckily after some forum posting and searching, it looks like it it not as bad as I thought. More than likely something is leaking into the valley, then out the drain hole at the back of the block.
So tonight I'll pull of some turbo piping, spray some degreaser into the valley and spray it off. From there I should be able to let it run and hopefully find the culprit that is leaking.
Now if I could just get the coolant to leak!
On another note...the F-350 is giving me its first problems.
I knew it was leaking coolant from somewhere...but after spraying it of and letting it run of course it won't leak for me.
Also come to find out (I'm still learning diesel motors), most all diesel motors do NOT use regular coolant. They use special coolants, mine uses an EC-1 rated coolant. CAT is the one who kinda developed it, was able to find 4 gallons of concentrate (not supposed to use 50/50) at the CAT dealer in Windsor (at nearly $25 a gallon).
Also getting a massive oil leak. I though it was the oil pan gasket, which had me scared. Oil pan gasket means removal of the engine...
Luckily after some forum posting and searching, it looks like it it not as bad as I thought. More than likely something is leaking into the valley, then out the drain hole at the back of the block.
So tonight I'll pull of some turbo piping, spray some degreaser into the valley and spray it off. From there I should be able to let it run and hopefully find the culprit that is leaking.
Now if I could just get the coolant to leak!
DutchVDub
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- Location
- Milliken, CO
I have a cooling system pressure tester. I find it's very useful for finding leaks.
freerider15
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- Location
- FoCo, Crawlorado
That might help, I'm guessing even with letting it warm up...its not getting hot enough and enough pressure to leak.
I'll get this oil situation dealt with, then onto the coolant.
I'm planning on doing a FULL coolant flush (need about 25 gallons of distilled water), and don't want to put this nice expensive stuff it before I find it...but don't also want to be driving very long on coolant that isn't good for it.
I know the water pumps are somewhat notorious for needing replaced...and I'm right about the mileage for it. But, until I can find that leak i'm not doing much...though I'm contemplating just changing everything and being done with it (upper and lower hoses, T-stat, waterpump, etc.).
No tow rig...no wheeling
YELLAHEEP
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- Location
- Littleton, Colorado
Interesting how you phrased it with "first"..... clearly you expect more.....?
Ford sucks.
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eflores
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- Greg's place
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