MT Mike
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- Helena, MT
Any worries about cracking your windshield by using hot washer fluid on cold glass?
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5.3L MJ D44 and Junk.
- Thread starter xj+rcks
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xj+rcks
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- New Hampshire
I'm not worried about it, Mercedes uses a very similar setup on their washer reservoirs. By the time that the washer fluid gets hot the truck has been running for awhile and the windshield is already warm, so the thermal shock isn't that great.
xj+rcks
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- Location
- New Hampshire
Started on a hydro e brake setup. Only to be used on low friction surfaces...
sandsgg
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- Location
- Sierra vista for the time being
Mmmmm 12 gauge yummy. I'd like to see how this plays out
sandsgg
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- Location
- Sierra vista for the time being
I'm digging the owl art as well
xj+rcks
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- Location
- New Hampshire
Thanks, the owl is made out of 41TE transmission parts. It has valve spring legs so it wobbles as well. I can't wait to plumb this puppy up.
MoparManiac
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- Location
- Amherst, NH
You better be coming down to NACfest next year.
xj+rcks
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- Location
- New Hampshire
Is it great?
Thanks to Blake's tip on used NASCAR lines on eBay I made a little catch can setup.
I don't really like the little cone filters, so I opted for this chrome unit. I'm pretty happy with my progress on alloy welding, lots to learn still.
Despite their amazing offroad ability I decided to ditch the TSL's for tires that are round. I debated on lots of different tires but settled on the KM2's. They look like mini Krawlers, are amazing on the road, can actually be balanced and have a good reputation off road. I am very pleased with the street manners, such a huge improvement.
Got my hydro setup install and functional. I plan on upgrading the master from a 5/8" to a 3/4" to shorten my throw a bit. That said it is so much fun to mess with, albeit a bit frightening at times. Nothing like sliding a tall swaybarless truck around sideways.
sandsgg
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- Location
- Sierra vista for the time being
Nice
yossarian19
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- Location
- Grass Valley, CA
It's like a dirt-nasty pickup truck made a man out of a formula drift, and this was their love child.
Exxon Valdez Jeep
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Temple TX
are those 37s or 35" KM2s?
xj+rcks
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- New Hampshire
Thanks, I am quite pleased with how it drives, needs a few more upgrades for me to be truly happy though.
They are 35's, I built it for tires that size. I know the D44 rear wouldn't be happy with a much bigger tire, and it keeps my unsprung weight down.
xj+rcks
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- Location
- New Hampshire
Decided it was time to mount rear bumps and make real shock towers. Sadly I had to make everything out of steel. My interest in alloy is unfettered though, more is coming!
Another question, I plan on using a three wire 92+ XJ VSS. On our Snapon brick it says it needs an 8 volt reference signal, which is odd. I bought a Dakota Digital universal speedometer interface so I can change the square wave output into a sine wave for the LS computer, but will the VSS work with a 12V or 5V signal?
- Location
- Rainy side of Washington
You should be able to feed it 5 volts no problem, I'm not sure it'll survive 12 but those VSSes are pocket change/free at the junkyard, try 12 and see what happens.
Are you running a cable driven or electronic speedo? If you're doing a cable driven one, just use an early 90s YJ / 87-93 (iirc) Dakota VSS, it's an 8 pulse/rev reed switch and has a passthrough speedo cable port. One resistor (if the dakota digital box doesn't have it built in) from the VSS input to whatever reference supply the box has will give you the same signal a 3 wire VSS would have.
Are you running a cable driven or electronic speedo? If you're doing a cable driven one, just use an early 90s YJ / 87-93 (iirc) Dakota VSS, it's an 8 pulse/rev reed switch and has a passthrough speedo cable port. One resistor (if the dakota digital box doesn't have it built in) from the VSS input to whatever reference supply the box has will give you the same signal a 3 wire VSS would have.
MoparManiac
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- Amherst, NH
I just went through the fun of drilling out spotwelds/pulling off the factory shock brackets and X crossmember in the rear of mine when putting in the fuel cell. What a PITA that was.
Looking good dude.
Looking good dude.
xj+rcks
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- Location
- New Hampshire
Ugh, that sounds terrible. Is the rear frame section galvi? It seems like it.
MoparManiac
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- Location
- Amherst, NH
I don't think it's galvi, but it's definitely some type of coating.
Sucked to clean down/weld to.
Sucked to clean down/weld to.
Red91Laredo
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- Location
- Portland, Oregon
I just had chassis stiffeners installed on my XJ and my fab guy said the same thing about the coating (he is a member here & is pretty familiar with the XJ/MJ).
xj+rcks
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- Location
- New Hampshire
Things are coming along.
New panel for the top of my summit heater unit, bit of alloy welding.
Some pretty powder coating.
Playing with solid rivets, made a little cone filter cover, cuts down on the noise a little bit.
Rear shock and bump stop setup is killer, I can wind out third off road and it feels amazing. My friend and I took it down a trail after it was back together and we were giggling like little girls at how awesome it was taking bumps.
Stepped up my hydraulic e brake master size to .75" and it works great, seriously want one in everything I own. Such a handy little device.
Took it to Granite State Dyno today for a tune. It has been rather flat and I thought it was due to the poly motor mounts causing the PCM to pull timing. The PCM that was in the truck was tuned with EFI live and wouldn't take a HP tuners tune so I ran down the street to a junkyard and picked one up for $50, the joy of having a common vehicle. Got a tune in the ol bastard, still wondering where all my horses are though. I used a VSS from Jags that run and it works!! Alex got the computer to read the correct speed and all is well and good. I do have two O2 sensor codes, I think its a wiring difference between early and late PCM's but I'll look into that later. It only made 186 WHP though, so I am going to do a compression test tomorrow, see what's up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McbvBlDOFQE&feature=share&list=UUHf-wciWNV5UiFzPRP5kGHw
Sounds good though.
New panel for the top of my summit heater unit, bit of alloy welding.
Some pretty powder coating.
Playing with solid rivets, made a little cone filter cover, cuts down on the noise a little bit.
Rear shock and bump stop setup is killer, I can wind out third off road and it feels amazing. My friend and I took it down a trail after it was back together and we were giggling like little girls at how awesome it was taking bumps.
Stepped up my hydraulic e brake master size to .75" and it works great, seriously want one in everything I own. Such a handy little device.
Took it to Granite State Dyno today for a tune. It has been rather flat and I thought it was due to the poly motor mounts causing the PCM to pull timing. The PCM that was in the truck was tuned with EFI live and wouldn't take a HP tuners tune so I ran down the street to a junkyard and picked one up for $50, the joy of having a common vehicle. Got a tune in the ol bastard, still wondering where all my horses are though. I used a VSS from Jags that run and it works!! Alex got the computer to read the correct speed and all is well and good. I do have two O2 sensor codes, I think its a wiring difference between early and late PCM's but I'll look into that later. It only made 186 WHP though, so I am going to do a compression test tomorrow, see what's up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McbvBlDOFQE&feature=share&list=UUHf-wciWNV5UiFzPRP5kGHw
Sounds good though.
