Son of Stink

[AnotherOldJeepGuy]

20 hours ago, Gjeep said:

They secured gasket to the pan but there NEEDS to be anaerobic gasket maker on block where arrows are pointing

Can you confirm I have correctly interpreted your advise in the pic below, yellow scribbles where you are suggesting gasket maker needs to be placed?

[Gjeep]

Correcto. Also between the RMS halves gets Permatex#2. Here's reference pic for the RMS:

 

[Gjeep]

Long live the she-shed! A little over two years ago when we moved to Oregon I commandeered the shed on the property. Nice 300 sq ft structure with loft area and additional side overhang we can park a car under. My wife rightly felt wronged that she didn’t have an enclosed area for things and said she wanted a she-shed. 100% identical structure. My first question was – what are you going to put in there? Things. Done. It’s been vacant for 2 years except for 2 bicycles and 6 small Rubbermaid totes I tucked away. I’ve been inching my way in there with irrigation pipes, fittings, yard tools, etc. Time for the take-over. It’s going to serve as my parts paint booth and overall tinkering workshop (house related things mostly), but a solid dry area to paint Jeep stuff in. Come January when she heads to Florida to visit family for a week the Ditch Witch and I will run power to it. 

 

This morning the she-shed was where I painted several cut-to-size 6mm honeycomb mesh grilles for the MJ. After searching high and low, ordering far too many ‘wrong’ grille inserts I finally found a mesh design that fits evenly across all the openings of the modified factory grille. Fun part was that this mesh insert came rolled up. So, my wife’s heavy duty rolling pin was cleaned off and put to use. Worked great. Since they arrived gloss black, after I cut these proper, I sanded/ prepped them for paint. Now they’re satin black front and backside like the grille itself. Typically, with custom-ish projects I make at least one spare (this time three) as it makes a future need simple.

 

 

 

[Gjeep]

Oregon doesn’t mess around with their front license plate requirement. I had ordered every available aftermarket winch flip-up option available and all of it turned out to be crappy made in China rusting under the paint stuff. Then looked into factory options across manufacturers new/ used that I could modify, flip up or down and unfortunately nothing was right. Circled back to Jeeps XJ factory plate holder, measured out the distance I’d need between the on-center from the bumper attaching holes to putting the plate just in front of my winch hook — 2” eye to eye. Decided that a black textured 1/4” plastic sheet cut-down would match bumper end caps perfectly. Below is what I ended up with. Nice and simple. (Nothing is painted: hardware or the plate itself yet. All will be satin black for consistency.) Nutserts will be in the factory underside bumper holes for ease of install/ removal of retaining bolts.  

 

 

[fiatslug87]

Did you look at the Cascadia 4x4 flipster, made in Canada. I have their version 2 I believe on the FJ.

 

 

[Gjeep]

Looks good/ quality on your FJ but the design doesn’t work for my vision on the MJ. Tower hinge setup is distracting. I know. I’m crazy…