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Nice Looking crazy tough trail... SideChic got you banging your thumb.

That trail looks awesome. I want to get out there when my axle swap is done with you guys

More details on that 4runner?

Alboy97XJ said:

More details on that 4runner? ��

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If Helen Keller rock crawled I imagine this would be her rig.

it'll buff out alan.

XJensen said:

If Helen Keller rock crawled I imagine this would be her rig.

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Damn josh. Haha.

Also another casualty to this last trail. I found that the chassis is flexing so much the windshield decided to uninstall itself along the bottom all the way across. So now i have some musical windshields to play here soon.

cage it

GordoSmasho said:

Also another casualty to this last trail. I found that the chassis is flexing so much the windshield decided to uninstall itself along the bottom all the way across. So now i have some musical windshields to play here soon.

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I thought you had frame stiffeners installed.

techno1154 said:

I thought you had frame stiffeners installed.

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Only mids. Its not enough for the stress i put on the chassis. The new build has stiffeners front to rear. And it will have a cage and boatsides. It should not have these types of problems.

blondejoncherokee said:

cage it

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The new build will definitely have one

GordoSmasho said:

Also another casualty to this last trail. I found that the chassis is flexing so much the windshield decided to uninstall itself along the bottom all the way across. So now i have some musical windshields to play here soon.

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you go through chassis like most people go through underwear, haha.

XJensen said:

you go through chassis like most people go through underwear, haha.

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Ive only had one chassis that i wheel

I love the pic of your thumb. I should have gotten a pic of my hand a couple months ago. 3 pound sledge to the side of my index while driving my d60 axle tube onto the inner sleeve I used for narrowing the axle. Turned my entire hand funny colors and the entire palm, index and middle finger swollen. Doctor, nurse and x-ray tech thought I'd broken the finger. But got away with nothing broken. Still aches almost three months later though.:gee:

Rob D said:

I love the pic of your thumb. I should have gotten a pic of my hand a couple months ago. 3 pound sledge to the side of my index while driving my d60 axle tube onto the inner sleeve I used for narrowing the axle. Turned my entire hand funny colors and the entire palm, index and middle finger swollen. Doctor, nurse and x-ray tech thought I'd broken the finger. But got away with nothing broken. Still aches almost three months later though.:gee:

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Pain is fun

So had a bit of a list to fix and get the jeep ready for reno run. All of this showed up on the last trail me and alan did. Side chick. Its quite a challenge.

Replace or repair one of the tires i punctured in the sidewall.
- its at the tire shop, we will see if they can fix it.

Windsheild is shredded and completely unglued on the bottom.
- not sure if i will get to this but the most i will do at this point is shoot some silicone down in the groove to help hold it down. The chassis moves so much its just going to break if i put a new one in.

Driver front inner front shaft
- this got a bit mangled during the last ujoint breakage. I bought a new inner and alloy usa joints. Supposed to be stronger but we will see. At this point im pretty close to buying rcvs. I got this all put back together and running

Rear diff was leaking heavily.
- turned out the bolts had loosened up. Landed a few times on it really hard and the last run

Rear ARB leak
- i have had a leak in the rear arb system for about a year but it worked fine. While i had the cover off i looked and the copper line had broken free of the seal housing. So i tried my hand at a repair. I drilled out the remaining copper in the housing and soldered in the remaining length of tubing. It holds air and no more leak.

I should have the jeep back together tomorrow morning. Then ill go for a quick test rip.

So the copper line broke off?

Yeah, I think I would keep the windshield disconnect.
Otherwise you'll break it.

EricsXJ said:

Yeah, I think I would keep the windshield disconnect.
Otherwise you'll break it.

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Thats the plan for now. Haha

blondejoncherokee said:

So the copper line broke off?

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Yeah it wasnt fully broken off. It was very cracked right at the joint on the seal housing. When i moved it to try and pinpoint the leak, it snapped off. So out the diff came and i tried my hand at plumber soldering it in. Seems to be holding fine. The seal housing kits were all out of stock and some were over a hundred bucks.