Just wanted to start tracking all the great stuff I’ve been doing to my Jeep. I tried to sell it because I have too many cars but it didn’t go very well since I was asking more than anyone wanted to pay for a 18 year old Jeep with almost 190,000 on it. So I started working on it again and plan to drive it for a while. I love how easy it is to work on!
A few years back I put all new old man emu suspension, steering stabilizer, jks quick disconnects and Currie upper and lower control arms. A throaty Gibson exhaust. A front and rear bumper with space for a winch and swingout tail gate that holds my spare. And Cibie lights with Osram bulbs fed on their own wiring loom and relays. Much much better lighting.
Last year I installed a sweet pioneer head unit that has outputs for highs, mids, and lows. I put in Alpine speakers with a Fosgate amp to feed the speakers and an alpine sub woofer. This setup took a lot of time and money but is well worth it! Albeit I don’t think I’ll undertake something like that again.
Also last year I performed a bunch of maintenance like new alternator, valve cover gasket, water pump, all new radiator hoses, flushed coolant, and I replaced the spark plugs which looked better than my rebuilt FJ60 plugs. I also replaced all the brake pads and turned the drums and rotors. Along with that the brake booster finally got replaced. It didn’t really show bad, but the brakes have never been very good and I’ve been trying to figure it out. Turns out even though the booster tested fine, after replacing it the brakes are better.
I keep up with changing the fluids regularly. Recently I changed the oil with synthetic, flushed the power steering, flushed the brakes, drained and refilled the transmission and I plan to do the diffs and transfer case again soon.
This week I’ve pulled and replaced my wheel bearing hubs (timkin), axle u-joints (spicer), upper and lower ball joints (spicer). The ujoints seemed fine as did the ball joints but the driver’s wheel bearing had play so I’m glad I’m doing all this. It was a huge battle though. 9 hours today and 5 yesterday just to get everything off and apart and cleaned up. Will put new parts in tomorrow. I could bang the passenger side joint down when I had it off and in a vice, the driver’s side wasn’t like that so I think it’s good I’m replacing them even though there was no movement when I used a crowbar to check them and they didn’t make noise on the road. Same for the U-joints, not a lot of play if any at all, but really loosey goosey. Everything is just old and welded in place so now it’ll be ready for another 190,000 miles. I plan on putting some SS extended brake lines on it tomorrow as well. That has helped stiffen up the brakes when I put them on the 60. Last but not least my tone ring was cracked on the driver’s side, I had intermittent ABS light but it never stayed on long enough for me to get it checked. I’ve gotta figure out how to get the tone ring off, ordered a Spicer replacement
Lastly, this week I put a new Napa Legend Battery, windshield and 31x10.5” BFG KO2s replaced some lousy Duratracs
A few years back I put all new old man emu suspension, steering stabilizer, jks quick disconnects and Currie upper and lower control arms. A throaty Gibson exhaust. A front and rear bumper with space for a winch and swingout tail gate that holds my spare. And Cibie lights with Osram bulbs fed on their own wiring loom and relays. Much much better lighting.
Last year I installed a sweet pioneer head unit that has outputs for highs, mids, and lows. I put in Alpine speakers with a Fosgate amp to feed the speakers and an alpine sub woofer. This setup took a lot of time and money but is well worth it! Albeit I don’t think I’ll undertake something like that again.
Also last year I performed a bunch of maintenance like new alternator, valve cover gasket, water pump, all new radiator hoses, flushed coolant, and I replaced the spark plugs which looked better than my rebuilt FJ60 plugs. I also replaced all the brake pads and turned the drums and rotors. Along with that the brake booster finally got replaced. It didn’t really show bad, but the brakes have never been very good and I’ve been trying to figure it out. Turns out even though the booster tested fine, after replacing it the brakes are better.
I keep up with changing the fluids regularly. Recently I changed the oil with synthetic, flushed the power steering, flushed the brakes, drained and refilled the transmission and I plan to do the diffs and transfer case again soon.
This week I’ve pulled and replaced my wheel bearing hubs (timkin), axle u-joints (spicer), upper and lower ball joints (spicer). The ujoints seemed fine as did the ball joints but the driver’s wheel bearing had play so I’m glad I’m doing all this. It was a huge battle though. 9 hours today and 5 yesterday just to get everything off and apart and cleaned up. Will put new parts in tomorrow. I could bang the passenger side joint down when I had it off and in a vice, the driver’s side wasn’t like that so I think it’s good I’m replacing them even though there was no movement when I used a crowbar to check them and they didn’t make noise on the road. Same for the U-joints, not a lot of play if any at all, but really loosey goosey. Everything is just old and welded in place so now it’ll be ready for another 190,000 miles. I plan on putting some SS extended brake lines on it tomorrow as well. That has helped stiffen up the brakes when I put them on the 60. Last but not least my tone ring was cracked on the driver’s side, I had intermittent ABS light but it never stayed on long enough for me to get it checked. I’ve gotta figure out how to get the tone ring off, ordered a Spicer replacement
Lastly, this week I put a new Napa Legend Battery, windshield and 31x10.5” BFG KO2s replaced some lousy Duratracs
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