- Location
- Thornton, CO
I am so done with apartment living. This is what happens when your fancy RCV cap cracks and all of the grease washes out of the joint.
What are you doing to your rig - the continuing saga
- Thread starter old_man
- Start date
I am so done with apartment living. This is what happens when your fancy RCV cap cracks and all of the grease washes out of the joint.
What does the living accommodations have to do with that crappy cv boot ?
- Location
- Thornton, CO
Don't think about that too hard.
- Location
- Golden, CO
Just your ability to inspect and repair your vehicle on said properties.
When I lived in Aurora, I had a code enforcer get hypertensive when he saw a steering column on top of a car parked in my driveway: They gots rules about working on vehicles in the outdoors...
trippled
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- colorado springs, co
Let alone the property manager come out and chew your ass for having a car torn half apart! Apartments suck.
Sounds like no fun ...I want to move to western Nebraska or Wyoming property is cheaper and room to do things without Nazi enforcers .
On a side note pulling a d30 shaft on trail was a minute. Job out 30 minute or less back in...if someone had stock shafts they would have more practice and be fast enough to avoid the Nazis.
Got driver side boat side rocker in need to fine tune fit then pull it and do the cutting off the truck this side then will get started on braces...should be complete next week then need tube the doors in ...Just bought full hydro ...so bye bye drag link and steering box and hello axle push forward .was going to use this plate kit on my knuckles but probably just going to go with solids ...but I really do want to weld the knuckles just to weld them ...lol...sticking metal together is fun .
- Location
- Golden, CO
I took the carpet out of the back yesterday. Got to see more of the crash damage, and then some...
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freerider15
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- FoCo, Crawlorado
Yowser! That's some rust!
Luckily it doesn't look too too bad, just some minor clean up and patch work?
freerider15
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- FoCo, Crawlorado
Finally got the roof of the buggy done:
Crazy how much of a difference in makes in the interior feel.
Will be nice not to have inclement weather be as much of an issue, not the small truckload of rocks the MTR's like to wing up into the air and rain down when driving.
Now to get the doors and hood done.
Crazy how much of a difference in makes in the interior feel.
Will be nice not to have inclement weather be as much of an issue, not the small truckload of rocks the MTR's like to wing up into the air and rain down when driving.
Now to get the doors and hood done.
- Location
- Golden, CO
I want to get the front carpet pulled, to see how much work is there.
freerider15
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- FoCo, Crawlorado
Now now, don't do that.
Just turn a blind eye to it and ignore it, nothing to worry about there
No freight today so got home and was going to be lazy ,but every hour on it is an hour closer to hitting the trail befor summer ends...Had 5 hours of daylight used it to bend and drop in b pillars then with the majority of the 5 hours I played around with the door dilemma as I was going to just go simple with fixed tube and a skin ...lol...and after mocking up a tube only 10 inches tall from the boatside it became clear trying to get ones feet up from the foot well and over that tube was a total of about 20 inches and a steering wheel o er the legs made that a sucktastic thing so I quickly kicked the tube off the tack welds and decided to make tube doors I used a bunch of old short tube sections that were doing nothing slugged together to mock up a door it looked good so I used some 1.5 inside some 1.75 to hinge them and will slam latch them after and use a pull cable to release them whe seated...I should also be able to gut and cut my old doors to a skin and tab the tube for release pins to hang skins ...but the skins can wait until important stuff gets done...lol...got to bitc h slap Cleveland rock before fall...got that to settle up on that flop of 2012 .
freerider15
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- FoCo, Crawlorado
What, are you short or something?
Getting in/out of mine can be a pain initially, but once you get it down I can get in/out rather quick and painless.
If you're going to make door bars, seems like a removable steering wheel is a must. It would be quite the PITA to get in/out of mine without one.
In other news...
Got my ORI's on and charged up last night. Went with a little less pressure in the lower chambers, not sure how I'll like it. It makes for a softer "ride", but doesn't give as much side to side stability. Essentially, the "spring rate" is lower now than I had it before. If I decide it's a little too "floppy", it's an easy change of adding some PSI to the lower chambers. Gotta love being able to adjust all of that in a matter of moments
What, are you short or something?
Getting in/out of mine can be a pain initially, but once you get it down I can get in/out rather quick and painless.
If you're going to make door bars, seems like a removable steering wheel is a must. It would be quite the PITA to get in/out of mine without one.
In other news...
Got my ORI's on and charged up last night. Went with a little less pressure in the lower chambers, not sure how I'll like it. It makes for a softer "ride", but doesn't give as much side to side stability. Essentially, the "spring rate" is lower now than I had it before. If I decide it's a little too "floppy", it's an easy change of adding some PSI to the lower chambers. Gotta love being able to adjust all of that in a matter of moments
Steering wheel would help but climbing in a rig like a jungle gym gets old...non fixed door bar and suicide opening felt as easy as stock ...At 5'6 everything is a climb and at 250lbs and 5'6 nothing is an easy "slip" in and out of.
Got to love the adjustability of struts but also got to hate losing all your ride height on a trail when a seal fails...lol...and at.$850 a corner carrying a spare is a bit pricey ...I would however like the look of them with the full hyrdo I grabbed from Kyle in the Springs that is going on shortly... First world choices...lol
Decided fixed door bars up front will suck...so made tube doors for front then decided tube alone sucks as it gives no protection from rain and crap weather or even the mud my Swampers are going to throw when trail is freshly wet , so late today I found myself cutting some tube off the rear door area and then gutting a door to a thin skin and test fitting it , well it fills in the door jam area cleanly and weighs almost nothing.So instead of doing some hideous section of plate on the door tubes I decided these fixed behind the exo tube is much better looking I may make it removable but they are the rear doors so they don't need to be .After the rear mock up I wanted to see about the front since My tube doors are in line with my exo a door skin would look like poo on it gapped away from the body my tube doors open suicide style and left room with door handle removed to fit in to the door jam behind the tube door,so I decided to attach it to back of the tube doors so they open and close with the tube after getting the skin placed to it fits tight against the door seals with tube door closed I got some scrap pieces of steel to tack the skin to the tube to try it out ...worked real well so this is the route I'll be going I will will make these able to be removed from the tube with pins and will make some Windows from lexan to slide up and down in the window track I left in the skin .I think this will offer the ability to be reasonably protected from weather and then offer the visibility of no doors by being removable and brings back more xj look to a rig that was starting to look like a truggy.
- Location
- Golden, CO
My little dog ate my seat belts:
All better now, and we take the dogs in her car...
All better now, and we take the dogs in her car...
I had to cut my driver belt it would not release when I was on my roof ...lol...wheeled for Two years without the belt...I know...any who the factory belts were cut out this round of build up and 5 points going in their place...hopefully they release while on my roof.
- Location
- Thornton, CO
Progress has been slow, but finally had time to take the RCV joint apart and clean it up. You can see the piece of gravel I removed that was likely causing most of the problems. There was a good amount of sediment stuck in the grease.
Got it back together yesterday, it was down about 2 months. Having to work on the side of the road really limits your wrenching opportunities. Seems to be good so far, no more involuntary jerking of the steering wheel. I will drive it to work all week to confirm.
Got it back together yesterday, it was down about 2 months. Having to work on the side of the road really limits your wrenching opportunities. Seems to be good so far, no more involuntary jerking of the steering wheel. I will drive it to work all week to confirm.
UnlimitedMatt
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- Location
- Cheyenne, Wyoming
You know, I'm just a couple of miles from you. If you ever need a garage to work in, let me know.
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