eaglescout526 Posted January 31 Author Share Posted January 31 Wow its been a few months. Found a couple of the flash to pass switches, I will be adding them to Little Red here and Chunk. I added the wire to the plug as it was vacant and didnt think it was there in the first place. Plugged the new switch in and it does the flashing. Neat! Dumb feature, sure! But another one to add to make them both a little more modern. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglescout526 Posted February 1 Author Share Posted February 1 Added the flash to pass. This one is weird to a terminal that has constant power so I can flash the high beams whenever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglescout526 Posted February 22 Author Share Posted February 22 My father finally found the pics he took of me working on little red back in '16 As we can see I am working on painting the rims. On a tight budget it was what I could do with the trailer rims. Note the back window is still the OEM rear window. I still regret changing it out. I changed it out due to missing the latch that I ultimately ended up finding later on...not sure where it went. Yes grill is upside down, I fixed it later. There I go cleaning and prepping the wheels for the new paint. They looked good honestly. But going down the rabbit hole of OEM, I wanted Jeep rims. Heres me replacing the bushings on the original leafs. I dont recall what I was doing there but probably cleaning up any and all rust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pizzaman09 Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 Sweet rear window louvers. That would be awesome for hot summer days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglescout526 Posted March 16 Author Share Posted March 16 1 hour ago, pizzaman09 said: Sweet rear window louvers. That would be awesome for hot summer days. They do a great job actually! The design is more for the OEM window but hey, I got it to work and can’t complain about the functionality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
89 MJ Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 1 hour ago, pizzaman09 said: Sweet rear window louvers. That would be awesome for hot summer days. Having driven this truck after sitting in the sun all day and my truck after sitting in the sun all day, I can confirm, it makes a huge difference in cab temperature. It also really doesn’t affect visibility at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglescout526 Posted April 6 Author Share Posted April 6 Ok I have been chasing the weirdest steering issue for the better half of 6 months now and I have boiled it down to the beam. My 2wd beam has been through hell since I have owned her. Burning the old bushings out, putting in poly bushings, replacing coils, replacing the poly bushings and cutting out the sleeves of the old bushings, not good and tight sway bar bushings which would lead to a death wobble which ruined what little gripping power the upper control arm bushing mounts had, ball joint replacements, stripped threads on the coil spring bracket, welded a nut where the old flag nut once was, oh and my slight accident I had where I crunched both drivers side control arms...yeah! Good times. Any how it is being replaced with this beam from an 86. I noticed a couple differences with this one, the UCA mount openings face the back vs the front of the Jeep. The mounts also have supports welded to them which I believe are factory. Other wise that is it. It should be an easy bolt in and should fix alot of the issues I have currently while fixing old issues of the past. Grabbing the beam from my parents house. Beam all cleaned up Beam reinforced to prevent future removals of the UCA bushings from damaging the mounts and had one of the existing supports welds fail and rewelded that. Yes I did do a test fit and the UCA with bushing clears just fine. I should be able to get this done before the AMC show. Beam swap should be started and done tomorrow while waiting on some new parts. But this should correct the steering issue I am having once and for all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglescout526 Posted April 12 Author Share Posted April 12 Beam in! Got it last night, didn’t fix my issue which I think it’s the new gear box. What ever. But I got peace of mind on the front suspension and no more clicks and groans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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