Last week was a little crazy. I had a busy work schedule and it was my birthday. We had a BBQ poker night and that took some prep work. On Sunday after the party I went down to the you-pull-it salvage yard and found a Jeep XJ limited (I think …
The first drive has exposed a few (hopefully) minor issues. The first was the sway bar links. When I put the front end together we left the sway bar detached because the bushings on the links were shot. So I got some Moog links and got them installed. That makes …
Today was a long day but a good one. Rented a ball joint removal tool from Advance and that made the whole process a lot simpler. Getting the ball joints out wasn’t difficult, but my body is definitely feeling the effort now. The lowers were in there nice and snug. …
Today I took a break from the Jeep as I was selling the minivan and spent some time with family. I did, however, receive the wheel bearings and ball joints. Yay! I also got my positive battery terminal in so I went and got those installed along with the new …
This project just keeps on going. I’m not complaining, I just can’t wait to drive this beautiful beast. I got the front diff cover pulled off. There was some milky fluid in there but I’m pretty sure it’s from sitting in my previous garage for a year that wasn’t insulated …
Started later than I thought we would tonight but we got a lot done. Started by removing the old dummy axle from the 2wd setup: Once that came out we started working on getting the front diff in. The only real problem we had, besides the general struggle of holding …
There was a little delay in process over the weekend as I had a wedding and rehearsal to attend Friday/Saturday. However, I spent all day yesterday working on the Jeep. On Friday I picked up all 5 u-joints so that I’m all good there and shouldn’t have to worry about …
Drove an hour and a half each way to get the correct transfer case (finally). Looks pretty clean. The only thing I think I need now is whatever wires go into the transfer case besides the speed sensor. Then after a few hours we got the Jeep running perfect now. …
Well, it runs. We had a little hiccup as apparently when I torqued down the intake and exhaust bolts the intake somehow got stuck on the little stud and caused an obvious huge intake leak. So, we corrected that and got it fired up. Cooling worked perfectly. It purred like …
Good News Last night we made a ton of progress. We got the AC mounted up, got the radiator installed, got all the cooling hooked up and the shifter cable for the transmission. Now it’s here: Bad News I’m a dumb ass and when I was pulling the radiator/ac condenser …
