- Location
- Westminster, SoCal
OK, I think I'm at a point where tomorrow I will be able to take the jeep out of the garage and see what is working and what is not. Up to this point I have:
- yanked aw4 and swapped in the ax15
- yanked the 231 it had and put my old one in (mine had the hack and tap)
- yanked front and rear axles and put my old ones in
- searched for replacement drums for the 44 and finally found a working set
- replaced a bent axleshaft in the 44 (bent between the bearing and the flange)
- replaced the comp with the one from my 98 (to get rid of the bus error message due to the missing ax15 and tcu)
- swapped in the interrior harness to gain electrical doorlocks and windows (lost electrical mirrors in the process... not sure why, but I know what to jump to get them moving again
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- swapped in the door guts to get the locks and mirrors to tie into the harness
- swapped the ignition stuff to get rid of that annoying cable for the aw4 and swapped in my button from the 98 for key release
- in the processes swapped all my old locks in
- straightened out the crossmember and reinforced the hell out of it
- swapped calipers from the 98 in (they were relatively new)
provided that all of the above is working right (drivetrain primarily and that the rear axle is not bent) things still left to do:
- seats and carpet (maybe do the rear buckets before moab)
- interrior cage (farming that out)
- finish all my electrical
- figure out if my front bumper is in one piece and if so bolt it up and if it's bent see if it can be salvaged (I landed on it and it looks tweaked)
- cut rear quarter panels
- reinforce frame rails with angle iron (3/16 3x3)
- do something for rocker protection (still unsure how I'm going to proceed, I guess I need to try and line things up and take some measurements)
- trim front fenders and put my flares on
- install my fog horn (it survived the roll!!)
- build my rear cargo area rack to hold the spare down and spare tires and tools on top (can't happen till the cage goes in)
Thing that really sucks is that my grad school starts up monday and it takes two nights out of each week... plus I'll have to spend some time hitting books which will be additional time. Oh well... who needs sleep?
Anyways.... anyone can think of anything I should check or test before I hit the pavement ? I don't want my junk to fall appart too soon after I put so much work in it (oh yeah, brakes are bled).
Finally many thanks go out to all that helped me out with it so far:
Johnny, Mike, Brandon, Rabbit and my dad. THanks guys!
And of course thanks go out to all the wiseguys here that helped me with the theoretical stuff (and told me of that ugly reverse torx on top of the tranny)
- yanked aw4 and swapped in the ax15
- yanked the 231 it had and put my old one in (mine had the hack and tap)
- yanked front and rear axles and put my old ones in
- searched for replacement drums for the 44 and finally found a working set
- replaced a bent axleshaft in the 44 (bent between the bearing and the flange)
- replaced the comp with the one from my 98 (to get rid of the bus error message due to the missing ax15 and tcu)
- swapped in the interrior harness to gain electrical doorlocks and windows (lost electrical mirrors in the process... not sure why, but I know what to jump to get them moving again
)- swapped in the door guts to get the locks and mirrors to tie into the harness
- swapped the ignition stuff to get rid of that annoying cable for the aw4 and swapped in my button from the 98 for key release
- in the processes swapped all my old locks in
- straightened out the crossmember and reinforced the hell out of it
- swapped calipers from the 98 in (they were relatively new)
provided that all of the above is working right (drivetrain primarily and that the rear axle is not bent) things still left to do:
- seats and carpet (maybe do the rear buckets before moab)
- interrior cage (farming that out)
- finish all my electrical
- figure out if my front bumper is in one piece and if so bolt it up and if it's bent see if it can be salvaged (I landed on it and it looks tweaked)
- cut rear quarter panels
- reinforce frame rails with angle iron (3/16 3x3)
- do something for rocker protection (still unsure how I'm going to proceed, I guess I need to try and line things up and take some measurements)
- trim front fenders and put my flares on
- install my fog horn (it survived the roll!!)
- build my rear cargo area rack to hold the spare down and spare tires and tools on top (can't happen till the cage goes in)
Thing that really sucks is that my grad school starts up monday and it takes two nights out of each week... plus I'll have to spend some time hitting books which will be additional time. Oh well... who needs sleep?
Anyways.... anyone can think of anything I should check or test before I hit the pavement ? I don't want my junk to fall appart too soon after I put so much work in it (oh yeah, brakes are bled).
Finally many thanks go out to all that helped me out with it so far:
Johnny, Mike, Brandon, Rabbit and my dad. THanks guys!
And of course thanks go out to all the wiseguys here that helped me with the theoretical stuff (and told me of that ugly reverse torx on top of the tranny)
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