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Originally Posted by boots4  Findings:
When I was under the rig just looking around I found that I had a clearance problem with the ram and that it had contacted the oil pan. It must have happened last wheeling trip since I got to flex out the front end on a couple of spots. It actually left a very small dent on the oil pan, nothing needing to be fixed but something needing to be addressed. I had planned to go wheeling so I spent the day before lengthening the bumpstops.
I also found that my passenger side motor mount is going to need replacing if I start wheeling it harder. I'll study it some more to see if I need to redesign/modify that mount for better weight placement.
So I wheeled it yesterday and got some more motivation to get some sliders fabed up and get a front bumper together for some better winch/tow points. Driver side rocker got dented and I have a little gutter work since I peeled it down in one spot (the hole tells me it won't seal up very well). The place we explored had some serious overgrowth so that part wasn't much fun for me. I got detained on two obstacles where being locked front and rear would have helped so I had to use the strap. My jam nut on my driverside TRE kept loosening so the ram would spin the tie rod and bind. Not a problem on the street but sawing back and forth on wet, muddy rocks with a little go pedel applied more force on the parts to loosen them up. I've got my TREs tilted opposite ways (as suggested when mounting a ram to the tie rod so it doesn't spin) so I might try swapping the tilt on them to see if that makes a difference. I wheeled it harder this time and found once I got back into town that it felt "funny" when I try to reverse, like something is rubbing or not meshing correctly. It's only in reverse and I got home just fine. I didn't drive it today to work because I didn't get a chance to further troubleshooting it. Ujoints were fine and nothing looked like it was rubbing the tires so I plan to pull the diff cover and have a look inside. If it's spider gears I've got some to replace them, if it's a tooth on the R&P I'll be working on that 14bolt sooner than I thought. I'll have to go up the line from there if I don't find anything: tcase, doubler, tranny. Any of those will make me sad. |
HA!
After my SOA, I lost a top caliper bolt on the DS front in Death Valley...Made a GOD AWFUL noise and scared the SH!T outta me being in the middle of NO WHERE. I was SOOOOOO relieved that was all that was wrong.
Im so glad to hear thats all it was for you to. Id hate for you to have to go back into everything to track down a needle in a haystack.
Nice job!
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