What was done to YOUR rig(XJ/MJ) today MECHANICALY????

[IslanderOffRoad]

I have an Aussie in the front of my 2000 I believe it helps as much as if I'd had it in the rear. Now both front and rear works great like I had in the 87. But I did not ride that on the road much. It's noisy if in the rear takes getting used to.

I had one in the front of my 94... Lsd rear 8.8 on that one. Loved it.

Figure it will give me more capability until I do axles. Worth 250 for now. Since I don't daily, noise doesn't worry me

 

[blenny]

I have a spartan front, made a lot of noise and jumped a lot initially, changed to heavy gear oil 95 180 or something like that and now it is invisible

 

[IslanderOffRoad]

Locker ordered

 

[Ecomike]

My diesel jeep is almost all finished on the dash restoration adventure, and the wiring I had planned to do through the firewall for 10 years is almost done

 

[jeepdreamer]

My diesel jeep is almost all finished on the dash restoration adventure, and the wiring I had planned to do through the firewall for 10 years is almost done

Build thread?

 

[Ecomike]

Build thread?

No. It was an 85 gas 4 banger that had the engine replaced with a nissan diesel 4 banger, an SD-22 before I bought it used in a wholesale dealer lot for $950 cash in 2002 when no one wanted to buy anything (not long after 9/11). The swap was rushed and needed a lot of work to get it usable as a daily driver. I had no idea at the time what engine had been dropped in it. It was a black box for a year or so. It was my first jeep too. (had driven my ex-girlfriends 96 jeep and fell in love with jeeps). So I dug for answers as to what I had. Had to figure out what parts were jeep and what parts were something else. Finally got lucky one day and identified the engine as the 1981 pick up truck diesel engine, the SD-22 and found a great site on the nissan engines. Redid the power steering, redid the entire A/C, worked on the rats nest of Jeep wiring issues, rebuilt the 5 speed Nissan transmission (that was a chore). Funny story I drove it for 6 months before I discovered it had a fifth gear, LOL. The engine is only about 61-63 HP but gets 34 MPG in the city. Had to diagnos the balck and white smoke puking issue after about a yearm that look like the end of the project, till Al (the Nissan site) and his friend steered me to a $25 leather diaphragm (now no longer available ) that was modulating the Bosch fuel injector pump that was dry rotted that fixed the smoke and puck problem. The fuel injector pumps were hard to find and cost more than the jeep. And I was not fond of the idea of rebuilding a diesel engine at the time so that fix was a huge deal for me. But it took 6 months to find the real problem. Since then I have made many repairs and mods.

But sorry no build thread or history thread. I did make the new engine mounts I made out of steel belted tire tread using used junk tires. Last major thing was I let what I thought was a good mechanic try to solve a hard to push clutch problem and he pulled the entire dash and made a huge mess to get the clutch-brake peddle assy under the dash. Another friend has been helping me get it back together while adding wiring and removing obsolete wiring from the firewall, engine bay to cab. I needed help because of my extreme rheumatoid arthritis limits my flexibility and ability to use tools. The clutch problem is due to my RA not due to the clutch. I need a way to make the clutch easier to push for my weak leg and foot. It would kill me hitting 5 o'clock traffic for an hour with my weak legs, knees etc. I am thinking of adding a small air bubble to it to make the peddle soft and mush but still working. Or I may use my chemical engineering experience and try adding a custom adjustable pressure relief valve to the line to lower the peak pressure

It had a softer peddle, that still worked before I fixed it 4 years ago LOL, with a new line, new MC and SS and some hard core bleeding and repairs to the peddle hardware that had a failing weld. Did more work on this beast than any other in 43 years. Had to bypass 80% of the oem fuse box years ago.

Replacing the bad gauge set light bulbs and cleaning the circuit board style contacts today

 

[Ecomike]

Wish me luck folks, I get my first start trek BORG implant on Tuesday morning Feb 9th!!! Cataract surgery to replace the lens in my eye with a synthetic lens. First of two planned to restore my eyesight!!! Gone nearly blind in just 4 months thanks to steroids used for my RA.

 

[Exxon Valdez Jeep]

Put a late model valve cover on in hopes to minimize side blow by, the baffling is way better in these. Swapped out my bent d35 shaft for a straight one. No more wobble wheel and still have the d44 waiting...

 

[IslanderOffRoad]

Spent lots of time cleaning mud off this weekend. Was getting some wobble from all the mud caked inside the rims.

Ended up taking all the plasti dip off. That stuff does not remove as easily as advertised

 

[Exxon Valdez Jeep]

How does it look underneath when it's removed? Mess up the surface at all?

 

[IslanderOffRoad]

How does it look underneath when it's removed? Mess up the surface at all?

Nope, not at all, surprisingly looks the same as it did before.

Just a pain to get it all off.

 

[Exxon Valdez Jeep]

Scraped off my purple tint

 

[dantheman!]

After finding the frame damage on my XJ i went back and forth about selling it and trying to find another one, but i couldnt in good faith sell it on without disclosing the frame damage i found, and i didnt really want to take a hit on it monetarily. So the wife and i talked it over and decided that we were going to build it anyway, have as much fun as we can with it and then swap everything over to another XJ at some point down the line.

so we started working on my long arm install last weekend. when removing one of the crossmember studs the threads were stripped on the exposed part of the stud and we spent most of the day dealing with getting it out. Finally had to run to my friends place and borrow his 120v hobart and weld the nut to the stud so we could extract it.enormous pain in the ass but its out.

Saturday ill be back under it trying to get the rock sliders and long arm crossmember setup so i can start actually doing the lift install. Im ready to make the boxes of new parts empty and the jeep big.

 

[R6TeXJ]

After finding the frame damage on my XJ i went back and forth about selling it and trying to find another one, but i couldnt in good faith sell it on without disclosing the frame damage i found, and i didnt really want to take a hit on it monetarily. So the wife and i talked it over and decided that we were going to build it anyway, have as much fun as we can with it and then swap everything over to another XJ at some point down the line.

so we started working on my long arm install last weekend. when removing one of the crossmember studs the threads were stripped on the exposed part of the stud and we spent most of the day dealing with getting it out. Finally had to run to my friends place and borrow his 120v hobart and weld the nut to the stud so we could extract it.enormous pain in the ass but its out.

Saturday ill be back under it trying to get the rock sliders and long arm crossmember setup so i can start actually doing the lift install. Im ready to make the boxes of new parts empty and the jeep big.

not being able to see the damage; can you weld on reinforcement plates to the frame?

 

[dantheman!]

thankfully the damage is just the ear bent outward. i bought a frame machine clamp and going to get creative with pulling the ear out.

This is looking head on at the passenger side frame end.

The bumper i have may end up getting welded on to strengthen that section of the frame but yea i should be able to add some plates to strengthen it up.

 

[IslanderOffRoad]

Got my off-road lights wired up.

Still not sure what I did wrong wiring up a Fitch box, ended up with the lights on all the time until I disconnected the master switch

 

[xjintx]

Finished my front end... as always took on life of it's own. Started with Ball Joints then coils. That made me replace a couple tire-rod ends. This lead to rebuild of flex joints in both lower control arms and adjusting flex joints in the uppers. Then added Drops for the control arms which caused my NEW front diff to fall out Determined O'Reilly's sold me wrong one. Now it's replaced. Oh yea added new front bump stops on top and softballs inside coils along with new steering stabilizer. Today I get an alignment... hope they don't discover more. Next I want to install my BrownDawg motor mounts.

 

[dantheman!]

Every step of this long arm install has fought me. After a bunch of trips to get tools I got one side of the frame brackets on.

Need to drop the exhaust to get the hole saw in behind.

Almost wish I did the short arm kit at first just to go enjoy it.

 

[Ecomike]

I wonder if you could use a 2WD 87 Red Cherokee with no body damage that has no engine or transmission?

After finding the frame damage on my XJ i went back and forth about selling it and trying to find another one, but i couldnt in good faith sell it on without disclosing the frame damage i found, and i didnt really want to take a hit on it monetarily. So the wife and i talked it over and decided that we were going to build it anyway, have as much fun as we can with it and then swap everything over to another XJ at some point down the line.

so we started working on my long arm install last weekend. when removing one of the crossmember studs the threads were stripped on the exposed part of the stud and we spent most of the day dealing with getting it out. Finally had to run to my friends place and borrow his 120v hobart and weld the nut to the stud so we could extract it.enormous pain in the ass but its out.

Saturday ill be back under it trying to get the rock sliders and long arm crossmember setup so i can start actually doing the lift install. Im ready to make the boxes of new parts empty and the jeep big.

 

[Ecomike]

If I recall my daughter and I used crowbars and a sledge hammer and a few days of manual labor back in 2008 to fix that same area on her current 89 DD that she put 65,000 miles on since then. I thought you were talking unibody-frame damage.

thankfully the damage is just the ear bent outward. i bought a frame machine clamp and going to get creative with pulling the ear out.

This is looking head on at the passenger side frame end.

The bumper i have may end up getting welded on to strengthen that section of the frame but yea i should be able to add some plates to strengthen it up.