Topic: nice weather, time to get under the hood

[BigCountry]

anybody doing any work to their jp's now that weather has fully turned for the better?

i just ripped out the old fan and put in an electric one.
tomorrow i'm gonna install the 4.0l throttle body and the cold air intake. hopefully i'll see a decent difference on the gas pedal.

[chardrc]

been dieing to work on my jeep but school is taking all my time  .. but i have been helping me dad change the front axle on the willys because the old one's housing cracked at the kingpin... had an extra axle setting around so had to clean it up, throw the locker in it, and put the disk brake outers on it...

[Mozman68]

Ready to start...just got back from FL today.  Beautiful out....need to button up my exhaust....

[Jeffy]

Hahah, I just swapped out my thermostat and thermostat seal since the seal was leaking and while I was there I might as well swap the thermostat good or not. (actually it's still good.)  Then I find that the lower radiator hose leaks when under pressure which is causing the gauge to bounce around 200*.  I think I fixed it though.

I also can say, I love the look of the roof rack but it's really slowing me down.  It's like a sail and I'll probably remove it once it stops raining.

[drunkencityworker]

Would love to get a bunch done but I am broke..Did some tool organizing helped my boy bleed his moms solara brakes and wired up a tj trailor harness for a case of beer...lol  I have been scraping loose rust and brushing rustoleum on frame for the last week of and on tho...lol

[FourbangerYJ]

I also can say, I love the look of the roof rack but it's really slowing me down.  It's like a sail and I'll probably remove it once it stops raining.

I was wondering why you run around all the time with it on. How do you seal up the holes?

[Jeffy]

I was wondering why you run around all the time with it on. How do you seal up the holes?

There are hinge plates that bolt to the top.  You remove the bolt holding the hinge together and the rack comes off leaving the other side on the Jeep.  The PO of the top did this.  I've thought about buying a new rack but this one was basically free with the top and the holes are already there so I'm not complaining.

[Sine Deviance]

Here's a list of things I'd like to get done on my Jeep this summer:

*New thermostat/coolant hoses and maybe some vac hoses.
*Proper tune-up w/ new plugs/wires/dizzy cap/rotor/fuel filter/air filter.
*New bolts for the transmission inspection plate.
*New halftop/tonneau combo from JC Whitney for the rainy days. I need a new top anyway and the price is excellent. (http://www.jcwhitney.com/cab-top-and-tonneau-combination/p2002742.jcwx?_requestid=5564047#)
*New chrome mirrors.
*Stainless mirror-relocation brackets.
*E-Fan swap w/ Delta Control box.
*New carpets, the ones I have now are an embarrassment.
*New OEM-style exhaust manifold with a header-back system of some kind.

Money is always the limiting factory

[BigCountry]

sounds like there are some great projects coming. i only manage to do the e-fan swap over the weekend, and after i finished, jeep wasn't running right. started fine the first time, but after that it was real sputtery and had to start it half clutch, in gear and moving a little. also really strong gas smell when starting it. not sure what i did, probably should have pulled off the serpentine before tightening the fan pulley back down. but it had to happen during the fan swap cuz i ran the jeep to pepboys for the parts a half hour before starting. typical of a pepboys trip too, go for a simple thing like a gasket and some sealant so i could do the throttle body swap and walk out with a shopping cart with an e-fan, cold air intake and accessories and the things i actually had planned on buying. btw cold air intake is a universal kit from spectre that ran me about 60 for the kit, plus another 30 on vaccuum sensor relocator, bigger filter, and a 90 degree piece to run it to throttle body. kit specs: aluminum 3" tubing, filter, plastic hose to force air, and all connectors, has vacuum lines already set in the pipe, but how i'm doing it, my hose wouldn't reach, so got the relocator.

anyway gonna try and fix whatever i botched before doing the throttle body and intake.

[OH-YJ]

We had a beatuiful weekend in Ohio. I got my Borla exhaust installed and finally cut off the rear track bar.

[Jeffy]

Funny thing, it rained all yesterday and today.  Found ouy mu Jeep still leaks.  This time it's the windshield cowl.  The windshield needs to be pushed back so it compresses the seal more.  That will have to wait till a weekend where it's sunny though.  That means having to readjust the top and probably the doors as well.

[blacknblue]

My jeep is up on jackstands and it is starting to wear on me the amount of work I need to do to it before summer. I finally removed the stock transfer case skid from the stripped nutserts.  Now I have to drill out the nutserts, grind the welds, and remove them completely.  At that time I plan on fabricating a shop vac attachment to remove the build up of mud and rust flakes from the inside of my frame thru the 5/8" holes.  Then it's time to take a wire wheel to knock off rust flakes in all the knooks and crannies of the entire undercarraige and then use the High Performance Rustoleum Rust Reformer rust treatment on just about everything under my ride...and topcoat it with Rustoleum Hammered Areosol.  Then I need to install the Skyjacker transfer case shifter relocation bracket.  Hopefully by the time I finish my shifter bracket install,  I can afford some new 1" motor mounts and a transmission mount.  Then I can bolt up the skid and see how bad my driveline vibrates and fork over some more dough on an Advanced Adapters SYE and a Tom Woods CV driveshaft.  Then I can at least drive it for the summer.  I wish I had a pile of money,  and a few weeks off to just go to town and build this thing all at once and do it right.  Definately watching the weather right now since there is so much painting going on...looks good for a few days here in Chicago. 

[BigCountry]

My jeep is up on jackstands and it is starting to wear on me the amount of work I need to do to it before summer. I finally removed the stock transfer case skid from the stripped nutserts.  Now I have to drill out the nutserts, grind the welds, and remove them completely.  At that time I plan on fabricating a shop vac attachment to remove the build up of mud and rust flakes from the inside of my frame thru the 5/8" holes.  Then it's time to take a wire wheel to knock off rust flakes in all the knooks and crannies of the entire undercarraige and then use the High Performance Rustoleum Rust Reformer rust treatment on just about everything under my ride...and topcoat it with Rustoleum Hammered Areosol.  Then I need to install the Skyjacker transfer case shifter relocation bracket.  Hopefully by the time I finish my shifter bracket install,  I can afford some new 1" motor mounts and a transmission mount.  Then I can bolt up the skid and see how bad my driveline vibrates and fork over some more dough on an Advanced Adapters SYE and a Tom Woods CV driveshaft.  Then I can at least drive it for the summer.  I wish I had a pile of money,  and a few weeks off to just go to town and build this thing all at once and do it right.  Definately watching the weather right now since there is so much painting going on...looks good for a few days here in Chicago. 

that sounds like a hell of a bunch of work going on...best of luck with that

[oldjeep]

I have to fix my O2 sensor wiring again.  Finally got a plug to replace the one I melted on the last trip out.  Wire colors were different but I thought I saw a pattern - looks like I was wrong.  Check engine is intermittantly coming on and its running really rich.  So today I get to take the FSM connector diagram and figure out what I screwed up.

[Jeffy]

I might try to do an oil change today as it's sitting in the street.  With the sure-drain, it's pretty easy to do oil changes anywhere.  Its not raining but it's overcast.