oscar the grouch
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Real progress today. On the new tires everything is installed just need to finish the alignment and new upper arm bushings
Oscars WJ overland build
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Ranger Steve
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Looks awesome. I gotta get off my butt and put my lift in!
oscar the grouch
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Gleeping Diary #5
All done.
Rubs a little at full lock while backing up. Need to trim a little.
Need to swap out the bushings but that can be done later.
All done.
Rubs a little at full lock while backing up. Need to trim a little.
Need to swap out the bushings but that can be done later.
oscar the grouch
Jeep Nut
Gracious. Need to trim some but that's not an emergency.
I did find a power steering leak. Cleaned it all up and am going to start figuring out where its coming from. Appears to be on the bottom side.
I did find a power steering leak. Cleaned it all up and am going to start figuring out where its coming from. Appears to be on the bottom side.
oscar the grouch
Jeep Nut
Gleeping diary entry #6.
Wow was the recommended lengths in the instructions wrong. Caster was off by 8 degrees. Rear tire wasn't centered. Had some pretty serious driveline vibrations but those are all gone thanks to the alignment guy at Firestone. Dude is a jeep head from way back and he did an outstanding job.
Had to trim the front bumper just a tad but she flexes well.
Also pulled the blinker relay and fixed the broken soder joints. All my lights are working again.
Wow was the recommended lengths in the instructions wrong. Caster was off by 8 degrees. Rear tire wasn't centered. Had some pretty serious driveline vibrations but those are all gone thanks to the alignment guy at Firestone. Dude is a jeep head from way back and he did an outstanding job.
Had to trim the front bumper just a tad but she flexes well.
Also pulled the blinker relay and fixed the broken soder joints. All my lights are working again.
Ranger Steve
Adventurer
Flexes very nice.
oscar the grouch
Jeep Nut
yeah i was surprised. a stock JKU has a hard time making it up that far. I need to add some bump stop to keep that rear out of the metal.
Next thing i need is front recovery points. Junk yard time try to find some cheap tow hooks
Next thing i need is front recovery points. Junk yard time try to find some cheap tow hooks
oscar the grouch
Jeep Nut
is there a way to disable the TPMS?
oscar the grouch
Jeep Nut
any idea on how to find that out? id hate to have pull build sheets for everything in the junk yard
oscar the grouch
Jeep Nut
like how you trimmed the fenders. was it difficult?
BCobe
Adventurer
Fronts, not really. Rears....... Honestly probably not that difficult but I went a little to far on the drivers side and ended up with a small hole. Hard to explain. If I did it again I would do small little slits and then bend them in.
Hard to explain but have your cut line terminate were the point of your rear bumper is (were the bumper meets the body) You do that and you are golden. On thing is that it is not like a regular fender, there are two different pieces of metal, one for the body and one for the tub of the fender so you will have to seal it some how. Some people used body panel adhesive, I used silicone, but I think doing the slit cuts and bending the metal up would be the best way. Then seal the metal with silicone and paint.
Hard to explain but have your cut line terminate were the point of your rear bumper is (were the bumper meets the body) You do that and you are golden. On thing is that it is not like a regular fender, there are two different pieces of metal, one for the body and one for the tub of the fender so you will have to seal it some how. Some people used body panel adhesive, I used silicone, but I think doing the slit cuts and bending the metal up would be the best way. Then seal the metal with silicone and paint.
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oscar the grouch
Jeep Nut
Hmm not sure if ready for that yet but knowing me I will soon. I always end up doing all that stuff