iimafa
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Took the rig out to hollerwood for the weekend and finally got my half doors installed. Rig did great, and we sure had a good time. On the second day I took the hood off because of an overheating issue that seems to be getting worse, with the engine exposed I noticed a lot of movement in reverse so checked it out and Found out the motor mount was pretty well destroyed. Some chicken wire held it together for the weekend and when I go home I found it was broken on both sides of the rubber mount. in the middle of the night I took the rig off of a pretty large drop and managed to catch the leaf spring. I can’t decide if I’m going to try to replace them or keep running it. Chicken wire for now.
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I finally got around to making front fenders for the old girl, had some help with it also, the boys decided to help by drinking beers and rolling around in the garage chairs. Its been awhile since I’ve used the bender, but front a distance it doesn’t look half bad. It should help keep me from bending the fenders every ride. Beating the fenders straight has been a consistent job I have to do everytime I would get home from the woods.
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I set out to fix some electrical issues that have been bugging me when out on the trails. I had a 100 amp manual reset circuit breaker between the alternator and the battery. On hot days or when using the front large winch though this would trip and cause issues. So I came up with this after seeing how the badlands 12k winch uses auto resetting circuit breakers. So this isolates the battery in the middle, the engine and alternator behind 200amps and has the front winch behind 150amps. The idea is half cocked, but I built it so I tossed it one anyways. The 150amp breakers should kick out a few seconds after when they go over 150 amps in an attempt to keep me honest and not destroy the winch/alternator/battery when using the front winch. Then after they cool down I’ll get another pull, the multiple conductors are supposed to act as a heat sink to help the whole unit stay cool. In the future I want to get a bigger alternator which is why I put 200amps on that side of it. If it works how I want only time will tell, but either way it was a fun project to build. resin 3d printed stand off, pla 3d printed mount. Conductors cut on the plasma table. it had a little bit of everything in this project.
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So I drilled out the orifice in a stock power steering pump, put a small #4 washer under the spring and tossed a new wheel on it. BUT what I thought was a bad power steering pump turned out to be a bad steering box. I’ve never seen this before but I managed to push the front cap out of the box. I’m assuming this was caused by not having the ring seated in it fully when I took it apart to add the hydros assist ports. To fix this I took the cap and snap ring from a Cherokee I had sitting in the yard, then tack welded the ring onto the casting to give me some piece of mind.
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Took the rig out and headed south to red river gorge. The steering was getting pretty tough and forwards the end of the night I rolls into a mud hole pretty quick popping the tire off the bead and killing the pump. It was hard work driving it through the woods without power steering. I ordered another stock pump with the intention of modifying it, drilling out the orifice and increasing the pressure slightly. Also I started hearing a bad noise from the timing cover so with some reading I’m thinking it’s the chain tensioner. So I went ahead and ordered a tensioner and a new harmonic balancer, so in the next week or two I’ll pull it apart and try to get her back in shape. I also went ahead and ordered a thermostat controller oil cooler adaptor with the hopes to toss an oil cooler on the front. It get shot after wheeling all day and I’m hoping this will help slightly.
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Got the bags setup and took it out for a weekend in Kentucky. It went great, bump stops worked how they should and the bags kept the tires off the frame.
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After adding the turbo blanket the temps under the hood have gone down a lot it seems. I’m excited to see how it feels in the summer, but it did great ripping through the snow we got the other day. I pulled it into the shop to redo the rear shocks and add some larger air bags, the air shocks from an Escalade weren’t cutting it and with enough weight the tires were forced into the wheel wells. So I started on these, should be about 2500lbs per bag at 80 psi, along with solid bumps set to keep the wheel out of the tub in the worst case.
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Beautiful attention to detail, looks great!
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Not much action of the tow truck recently, I’ve been using it around the yard to move things, pulled some fence posts with it and drive it occasionally. It gets very hot under the hood and the coolant temps have been going above 210 the last few times I’ve run it hard so I may be tossing a new waterpump on it soon and flushing the cooling system. I got a turbo blanket in an attempt to keep some of the heat out of the engine bay, I haven’t run it yet but hopefully it helps some. It was a cheap one from Amazon, grabbed it fro $20 and it fit pretty good considering the strange turbo.
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35s and 9 inch front and rear is very very cool, fine looking unit. Also love the hidden winch
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Got it all back together, spent most of the time touching up some of the paint pounded out some dents, changed the oil and slapped on a diff cover I made a few years back. She’s ready for some action, just need to get a trip planned!
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Had an issue that when it was in reverse it sounded like someone was hitting the transmission with a hammer, so yanked out the ax4 and tossed in a used ax5 from a wrangler in the old girl, went ahead and slapped some paint on what I could while I had it apart and doesn’t look half bad. I tossed a new throwout bearing in it while I was at it. Also I found out the 2.5 86-89 external slave bell housing is indeed different than the newer 99-2000s wrangler bell housings as seen below in the pictures. I wasn’t aware of this difference when I picked up the trans, either can work but the parts cannot be mismatched between them, the bolt pattern for engine and the trans is the same but different for the slave cylinder.
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Few small updates with the rig,I’ve been using it around the house more than anything and took it out in the snow a few times, while out in the snow I managed to break reverse, so found a used trans from a wrangler and going to be throwing that in in the next few weeks. Also i managed to score some 5:38s for the front and started making the front diff cover, it’ll be awhile before i get them in but slowly getting the parts i need. update in the shop, I finally got a 2 post lift so it should make life a little easier I started off by swapping on some new to me 42s pittbulls on some steel wheels, they’re not nearly as cool as the methods, but it’s what I got so it’ll work fine. slow progress recently as I’ve been spending most of my time working on the barn itself, so once I get that straightened out I should have some more time to finish it up.
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It’s got a 5 psi waste gate, so nothing crazy but definitely makes it feel less sluggish. I blew a boot one day one the road and it was night and day difference, reminded me how slow it was before. I wired the wasted gate shut one day and was hitting 15psi and that was a party, actually felt close to how my 4.0 cherokee felt on 35s, I felt like it wouldn’t last long like that though so quickly put the spring back on.
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Only time will tell