What did you do to your Expo Jeep today?
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siebermd
Adventurer
Who are you referring to? If it was me? Those are Mammoth Wheels with Mickey Thompson MTZ. Not an expensive set up, however on a budget, it fits the bill nicely.
Kmrtnsn
Explorer
Changed oil, greased and finished wiring the switches for the lights.
Also installed the Cryin Bob Off Road brake line guide kit. They seem to work nice and keep the longer brake lines out of the way.
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Where'd you find them?
Testing Disconnected Suspension, Arb Air down, Viair compressor
Took the Jeep up north to kinadapt.com
Took it off road for first time with front and rear sway bars disconnected, Stillen rotors and pads.
Aired down 235/80R17s to 18 psi and did some technical climbs, rough rocky ascents / descents and fire roads.
Did some high speed fire road testing with low air and sway bars disconnected. Jeep was very stable even at 40 mph and more.
When it was all done used the Viair to bring all four tires back up to 35 psi including switching between tires in 9' 30".
All in all a good outing with some good off road stuff. Jeep never really missed a beat or spun a wheel other than clambering over 8-12 inch rocks on mud woods roads.
Driving with no sway bars connected makes the Jeep float over rocks, ruts and obstacles like a totally different vehicle. Photos in woods don't really capture how steep hill was, but wasn't really concentrating on photos, more on the drive, and components.
Took the Jeep up north to kinadapt.com
Took it off road for first time with front and rear sway bars disconnected, Stillen rotors and pads.
Aired down 235/80R17s to 18 psi and did some technical climbs, rough rocky ascents / descents and fire roads.
Did some high speed fire road testing with low air and sway bars disconnected. Jeep was very stable even at 40 mph and more.
When it was all done used the Viair to bring all four tires back up to 35 psi including switching between tires in 9' 30".
All in all a good outing with some good off road stuff. Jeep never really missed a beat or spun a wheel other than clambering over 8-12 inch rocks on mud woods roads.
Driving with no sway bars connected makes the Jeep float over rocks, ruts and obstacles like a totally different vehicle. Photos in woods don't really capture how steep hill was, but wasn't really concentrating on photos, more on the drive, and components.
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I found out about them on a jeep site but had to buy off of EBay as the only place that would ship to Canada...
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Thanks for the vote of confidence, I'm in the process of fixing it now, I've got one side of the rear rail done, tackling the otherside after work, then a couple other soft spots, but over all it's really not too bad, better than i expected. I started a build thread if anyone wants to see how it goes. http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/159758-1979-CJ7-QuadraTrac-Build
Yes, I did build it. Here is a link to the drawings.
http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f8/cj-file-sharing-dxf-dwg-1521626/
The drawings can be cut on a CNC plasma close to you for little $$. They can be tweaked to suit your needs. The bezels were purchased from dashman on ebay for 2-1/16" Stewart Warner gauges. The switches are K-4 and the boots are silicone covers. The leds are also K-4 and the hoops are from dashman as well but are really just u bolts in 1/4". Lots of bling! The two left upper and lower control the winch, one is winch power the other is in/out/ The lower led flashes red to tell me it is active and powered, the top led is solid when power runs through it. next upper and lower are ARB lockers and so on ten in total all used LOL. The labels are put on a thin piece of aluminum with "water slide decals", these can be printed in color and your choice of font, depends on your skill with photoshop or like software. Once it is printed, label is soaked in water and literally slides off a backing and then is stuck to aluminum piece and clear coated with krylon gloss clear rattle can.
Anyone have experience with Gobi? I am having the worst customer service with them. I've called multiple times per day during their business hours since Monday, left voicemails with no return calls, and when I finally got someone to answer and put in my order, I still don't have an order confirmation email. I've called twice now this morning and a voicemail.
heehawhardy
Adventurering
30x9.50x15 Geolanders on Wrangler Ravine wheels
I've ordered various mounts and brackets directly from them on two different occasions, it takes a few tries to get them on the phone it can be a little frustrating, but once you get through to talk to somebody the customer service was very good.
jjohnson1892
Adventurer
I worked with them when I was missing a small part when the rack was delivered, had great customer service from them. I have seen other posts across forums about them being hard to reach though.
