Recent content by Zjohnsonua

Are you needing a longer bar or is stock length ok?

You want the idler anyway if you regear. Those decoupled pitch circles of the earlier sets are poorly done.

Why only early 80 cases? 100 cases don't have the VC either, have a less damage prone actuator, and the guts are quieter (only matters for awd). Auto for the win, but I get the install obstacles.

No transmission oil is good for hundreds of thousands of miles - no matter what a manual says. A 30k mile interval is very reasonable, maybe a little brief, although it needs to be done as a series of drain/fills or exchanged through the cooler circuit. Power flushes are no good. Anywhere from...

Thanks for the tag, Godwin. @cshell, I'm planning to be in Nashville this Tuesday for the STLCA meeting. I'll shoot you a PM to see what we can arrange.

One and the same. Maybe I'm understating the whole pull-the-ring-gear thing.

Diff has to come out and be opened. I mean, its deep, but none of it is difficult.

Little bit of ARB tech: Their latest implementation of seals uses viton x-profiles on the carrier seal pair, and a similar design on the bonded internal seal. In practice, these seals don't have a lot of tolerance before they bleed air. (If they lose ~0.010" theyre puking oil out the air line...

Treeee fiddy

Tire review time. TL;DR: Yokohama's XMT is an excellent tire, especially for Southeastern US terrain. I'm unaware of another tire behaving and performing this well on and off road at any price point while keeping offroad performance at the forefront. Usage: I racked up ~30k miles on this set...

I left off that there are at least three different V8 4R air box tops. Choose the one that best fits your installation. Early models take a round MAF, have a lower profile, and support a ~90mm tube. Mid models had a tube size change and support a ~95mm tube. Later models (06+) have a higher...

With or without a top? There are two around there

Why does temp data matter? Those limit specs aren't released and for good reason. Just wanna see more data for data sake?

Big assumption here is a healthy battery. Get it load tested - especially if it's new - new means you have 0 history with it, not that it's good. From healthy charge to 12.2VDC over a week is a small draw. The dome light pulls enough to draw the batt down past that in a few hours. What's the...

That was a reference to a joke from the Andy Griffith show, man.