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got the power steering hose replaced last night and took it out for a lil trail riding here in town. not much but good for testing. Power steering sucks and need to trim my front bumper some, but other than that it did good.
passenger wheel rubbing like a mofo here. driver droop is...
bent this up last night turned out ok for just protecting winch a lil bit more
got the bed box mounted and the rock light brackets welded on.
had some old door bars from blazer laying around so did some mock up to figure out where and what i want to run tubes
Planning to do a shake down...
well after that was all finallized guess what. it was legal and got to drive it around a lil. found out power steering hipressure hose is busted and o ring at oil filter adapter leaks but other than that this thing runs good. I did take it out again last night and got some death wobble so...
well after several hours of trying to get all the lights to work properly i finally got it. i ended up using a curt converter with its own power supply and using it for brake and turns. it had 1 wire for stop and tail and just wouldn't work so i ended up just running tail lights off a wire from...
back to the jeep its almost street worthy. the front axle is i think 100% done. working on some wiring for tail lights and fans. I am having problems with my brake switch. the pedal sits about 1/2" away from bottom so might have to look into why but it will be road driving this week.
also...
finally got to drive it under its own power last night. Still needs front shocks so that top on list and rear lights wired up. But the sum bitch runs good, shifts and stops kinda lol speedo works to.
adding that leaf in rear seemed to level it out some
already putting it to work. snatch...
almost ready to rock and roll. shocks mounted and pinion angle set and perches welded. just need to get some bolts for bottom of shock and put brakes back on.
maybe drive it out of garage tom
I started on the nine again. got it all grinded down and rear for a final burn in for the perches and shock mounts. Going to move to calipers from 12 o clock to around 9 or 10 so i can bleed brakes properly.
Hooked up the OBD2 scanner to see if worked and sure does. Had a bunch of codes from...
burr haha mines small enough and insulated so with 20 min of the heater its good enough to where t shirt haha.
Almost drove it last night. got brakes semi bled and started backing out and the damn tap welds broke on leaf perches. they needed to be moved anyway so saved me some work. got it...
Well texas was awesome very nice weather 80s all week.
Came home and pushed the jeep out and cleaned all the grinding dust off of it and did some suspension testing.
some pics if it
working on drive shaft for the rear so i can drive it in and out of garage lol
i found a guy selling some 16" king 2.0 air shocks near me cheap. might run over there tonight and check them out. also has a dana 60 rear, stak t case and some treps i want haha
thanks guys. hoping to be driving it soon. Going on a small trip to texas for the holiday so tonight will be the last of progress this year haha. I did start beefing up the track bar mount some still need to weld on the wedge area. Guess i need to heat it up to help it burn in. so gotta borrow...
not alot done last night. got the frame side track bar bracket welded and link painted.
Im hoping i have enough room on the side of coil perch and go behind it. if not ill be doing some thing like yours prolly. Not much room in there haha
yes i plan on hydro assist. trying to decide on what i wanna do. Im thinking red neck ram set up and tapping stock box for now. What size cylinder are u runnig?
Well i got my steering and track bar links all welded up. now just need to drill the pit man arm and weld up the brackets for track bar. making some tiny progress been to damn cold in illinois
damn i need to push jeep out and clean lol
last night i went out to the garage and messed with track bar more. Got the DOM track bar tacked in and made some flex and stop to stop clearance checks. all looks good so far.
this is ride height .8 degree off between track bar and drag link at equal lengths
compressed clears nicely...