DirtyComanche

Nope, not if they're Chinese. They'll either bind up, break apart, lose compression, get stuck, stop flexing, lock up, or worst of all, the damn paint will start fading and you'll die from lead poisoning. Yes, I have officialy banned the buying of Chinese products in my country. Come and get me Triads. Just say no to Chinese parts. Vote Chico 2012 or maybe 2016, depending on when the cut off date for legally running for president is. Amusingly enough, we have an engine hoist at work that is powerfist (chinese, same as HF). We use it for pulling engines out of A-stars in the field by putting it in the back of a truck to get enough height... A-Star engine - $500 000 or so. A core is worth $50 000. Engine Hoist - $139.99 special at PA. Hmm. It hasn't failed YET.

If I Remember Correctly. AFAIK.

I did my old 35s with lead BBs. It was nice and smooth... They were used/beat tires, but they seemed to be wearing fine. Until I siped them, then promptly I tore a lot of tread off them. In big chunks. Fuel milage, who knows, doubt it changed anything. It was 8oz of lead rattling around vs 8oz of stick-on weights, basically... I'd do it again. But I didn't do it on my turdysevens - I never bothered to balance them at all.

I find it VERY suprising that they'd do that. How much did they charge you? If you balance them that way it takes no time on the balancer, and hence they should not charge you much (if anything) for the balancing, other than the cost of the beads (whatever they used).

Those front shackles will be fodder. And with leafs the problem is often the steering. I know, you can go high steer and solve some of those problems. But you can often still have issues with the pitman arm/DRE contacting the TR, or a leaf spring... If you can fit leafs, you can fit a 3-link with acceptable geometry. At least, much better than the leaf springs. Oh, and a leaf sprung front will always have some bumpsteer at high speeds (unless you run full hydro or a panhard bar). Sometimes it's nice to be able to go fast through the bumps. And with those outboarded springs, can the steering travel to full lock? I'd say I doubt it, but 60's don't turn very sharp normally.

I'll stick to coils and longarms, Never ever had death wobble. The moment you go to long arms, you don't have a stock setup any more. For the actual amount of work a front leaf conversion is, a guy could build some radius arms. I'm not big on radius arms, but they're better than front leafs. And a front leaf setup can deathwobble too. If you don't believe me, go talk to some YJ/SJ/CJ owners, a lot of them will complain of 'less than ideal' driving characteristics. And the front (stock) parallel 4-link can easily be stopped from deathwobbling. You just have to make sure everything is in proper working order - it's not like they wobbled from the factory.

And provide less flex steer, proper AS (more traction), a better roll centre (more stability) and NO axle wrap. Build it right and it will work better... Build it wrong and it'll be a pile.

What's this SEM plastic prep?

I might need to get armorall off some plastic... How? What takes it off without really screwing things up?

If I'm on the highway I'm fine, but throw me in traffic and I stop paying attention to one or the other. The problem is though, on the highway my dodge is so loud that I can't hear anything...

Here's some wet kitty: Image Not Found That's my parents psycho cat. She's got similar markings to that kitten, not that you can really tell.

That's pretty cool! You should see some of the fish that are out where I'm on tour... We're providing helicopter services to fishing lodges on the Queen Charlotte islands. A guy last week got a 154lb halibut! And there's been some salmon in the 60 to 70lb range! But the guests are paying over 1000 a day, so I guess they'd better get something good!

I don't know how good of a DD that's be.

Did the tire pass you when it fell off? That's always a funny thing to see.

Yeah, well, no can do for a while... That and I don't know if I have a signed copy of the transfer papers yet. So I can't even trailer it until I do.

BC is nice, but some things are more pricey. Anyways, do you just plan to convert to 4wd, or to lift/wheel it too? You might be better off getting a SYE and a double cardon driveshaft for the rear now instead of sourcing a stock rear driveshaft (which will be hard to find) if you do plan to wheel it a bunch at some point.

Crown is more like $40 for a 26er here... :nuts:

So I got an email from my mom.. My jeep was delivered. It's 'Not too bad, but not too good either'. That only makes me more curious.

How nasty of whiskey did you buy the guy? Medallion? I know Albeerta has cheaper booze than here, but I didn't think by that much?

Not with mild steel. Which is the case here. But I don't like sawzalls for that type of thing personally. Although, I have used them for it before. And I shy away from cheap disks and such. We have a place here called 'princess auto' which is pretty much the same as HF, and the flap disks from there are lethal. They explode during use.

You could use a RE small flex joint. But polyperformance sells a bushing you could use I think.

Don't own a good grinder? I have a nice dewalt 5", and if I put a high quality wheel in it I can cut through that stuff like butter. Maybe 15 minutes to remove them and clean everything up so you wouldn't know. Otherwise I have no idea what it'd cost. With a torch it could be done in a couple minutes, probably under the minimum charge for a machine/welding shop.

I started it without it a lot, bad habit from driving an auto the rest of the time...

So I guess this thing got dropped off at my parents house. I haven't got a nasty email from them yet, so it might be okay. At least I remembered to tell them that a jeep might show up out of the blue... I seem to recall telling them it was in 'alright shape' and wouldn't vastly decrease the property value. I'm not sure if that's true or not. Back off tour in a week... Maybe do a week in the hanger... Then I'll go see what this thing is like.

Oh jeeze. And I bet you also think the clutch has a purpose? :nuts: I powershifted the hell out of my puker. I don't think that was the deciding factor. I think it was the clutch dumps from 4k rpm. Maybe. But you can't really be sure, other than my tranny dun work right anymore...