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Touched up the cage a bit. I'll end up taking the seats out and doing it all the way after Katemcy, but I need something on there for now to keep rust away. I also covered the cage and etc... with a little help from Frick and laid some paint on the body. I only have the grill, hood, and front fenders left to do tomorrow. Frick advised that I lay another coat down which I'll do as well.
Ordering new pinion yoke and maybe some chromo shafts for the front this week. Surprisingly my RobbieFab welding held up and kept the u-joint in but I'm not going to push my luck. Oh, and I had to eat my own words....that welded inner shaft DID break not even 100yds. into Waterfalls. Mark's supposed to be sending me a new one.
Also, I had to eat my own words on the hp p.s. line. I'll be getting it press fit this week. I'm an IDIOT...there I said it.
Hopefully I'll be able to get the chromo shafts for the rear from Ryan and get the fronts ordered too. Not much of a cheapjeep anymore...
I really learned alot from this trip and what I need, I will also be getting a highlift, steal my dad's Warn m12000, onboard air, and a spare. I think that covers what I need?
After that I'll be picking out a c.b. setup I was "given" at Christmas and some sort of head unit/speakers. Make the dash a nice place.
I ended up having plenty of room for my cooler, tool box, spare driveshaft, hubs, fluids, etc... in the back for the trip, I was surprised I actually fit it all in there.
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looks like a wallyworld crawler :gigem:
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Starting to get things together for TCC. I still need to get that shortside inner shaft measurement for the guy. I'd like to go chromo all the way around but we'll see how much skrilla it's going to take. I'll probably take it home and do some work on it before the spring break trip to Port A. While I have it there I'll "borrow" the m12000 and set it up, lower the rear end, take out the shims and move the perches, get a u-bolt pinion yoke for the front, high pressure p.s. line, powertank air, and a highlift. I need to decide on a C.B. setup but not too sure where to start. :confused:
you just can't go wrong with a cobra 25 and a 24" firestick. that will be all you need for the trails, but you can jump up and put a little mo' "skrilla" in to it and get a 29WXNV (thats a 29 with noah weather and a blingin green backlite for night wheelin). And if you just want to go super redneck, get a texas star linear (one about 800 watts or more) so you can #### up everyones cellphone and crappy stereo systems. :cheers:
I am going with a 29wxnv, cause my 29ltd crapped out on me. I could get it fixed but it would cost more than I payed for it.
Well I brought the jeep back with me today so I can do some wrenchin' on it over spring break when I'm not down with the group in Port A. I'll start work tomorrow and see what I can get done by Saturday. I'm pretty sure I'm just going to get chromoly shafts for the front and be done with it. Anybody know who has the best deals and ships out fast for chromoly shafts?
I'm probably going to get the h.p. line made and fab a bracket for the winch tomorrow. Maybe go shopping at 4wheel parts....we'll see.
Yukons are the lowest price and are probably 98% as good as warns. You may have a hard time getting them fast because yours is not really a common axle. If you're going with the shafts you might as well get the good joints too. I don't see any point in upgrading shafts and using stock joints when I was able to break plenty of stock u-joints with stock shafts.
Ryan, let me know when I can get those chromo rears from you.
Who are some chromo shaft dealers for yukon and alloy on the web? because I know you can give them the measurements and they'll cut the shaft's for you. I would get upgraded u-joints if I got chromoly's anyway, I can't remember how much ctm's run though.
As far as the steering goes, the original line wasn't really intended for high pressure use, plus using hose clamps wasn't the brightest idea I've ever had. It worked fine in 2wd but as soon as I put it in 4wd (or should I say 3 because the shaft broke right after...) the line formed "tumors" and blew off. I'm going to take all the fittings and have a line press fit or whatever. I talked to Fred and Kopecki awhile back about getting the stock bracket and all but they don't really carry anything before 76 and there's a difference that keeps them from being interchangeable.
But if someone finds me a bracket that'll fit my early model block I'll do it. I've already been junkyard diving looking for one around here and found nothing. I do have a saginaw pump that I think was left over at Bill's that I guess I should pick up...I hope that ****'s still there. You think I got joo'd on that one...saginaw for a rolls royce??? hmm? :confused:
Well even if the bracket off a later model straigh six doesnt fit perfectly there is a little thing called welding we can do to make it fit. You know the same thing they did with the RR pump but this time with a practical purpose. For the shafts, I think Warn has decent priced ones. Honestly, I'd get a stock one that isnt fubar'd and run it and then if it breaks, you know you need chromo's. No sense in wasting the money if you dont need to.