What did you do to your TJ today?
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I have a hood prop but almost never use because it restricts access and I prefer to open the hood completely. I hated resting the paint on the metal light bar so added the bumper to keep it from damaging the paint.
Touched up the many scrapes along my rock sliders and bumpers. I painted everything with rustoleum bed liner and it’s so much easier to touch up than normal paint. It just blends right in and honestly looks a lot more like textured paint than bedliner.
Changed the (manual) transmission oil. More iron filings on the drain plug magnet than I would have liked, plus both silver and gold colored specs in the drain pan. As the transmission sounds and shifts just fine, I'm going to ASS-U-ME that a PO was a gear grinder and not worry about it until proven wrong. Nothing else to do about it anyway!
Did some other piddly stuff - cleaned up the windshield washer reservoir, dumped the pure water out of it that the dealer had filled it with and put green glop in instead, primed the recess of one of the door handles that was showing some rust, finished up the install of a backing plate for a pair of relays, and made an attempt at solving the rain leak I observed. Since that rotten spare tire blew up yesterday, and I have a new wheel being delivered tomorrow, I set the old wheel and tire at the curb for tomorrow's garbage collection.
That is all.
Did some other piddly stuff - cleaned up the windshield washer reservoir, dumped the pure water out of it that the dealer had filled it with and put green glop in instead, primed the recess of one of the door handles that was showing some rust, finished up the install of a backing plate for a pair of relays, and made an attempt at solving the rain leak I observed. Since that rotten spare tire blew up yesterday, and I have a new wheel being delivered tomorrow, I set the old wheel and tire at the curb for tomorrow's garbage collection.
That is all.
xxdabroxx
TJ Addict
I
think it’s worse during the day. Not many people that aren’t from around here understand how dense it gets. I’ve been driving down my residential street and couldn’t see either sidewalk.
I got caught in Tulle fog once, at nite, pulling a 5th wheel travel trailer. Headlites of oncoming cars didn't become visible until about 1/2 car length ahead. I was down to 20 or 25 MPH much of the time, people would fly around me like I was standing still - if there had been an oncoming car, it would have been all over before I even knew anything about it. But I was reminded of WHY I was going so slow - suddenly I encountered some *%(**$$)@!#$ FOOL who had friggin' STOPPED in the middle of the damn road! Thank Goddess the visibility had opened up to about 50 feet at that particular point - laid on the horn big time! He got the hint...
I have suspected for a while that the little bit of water on the passenger side of my Jeep when it rains was coming in at the seam between the top and the windshield frame. It was doing it with the soft top and now the hardtop. No hard proof of the soft top. Plus when I found the screw hole in the cowl, I thought maybe that was it. Well, not all of it. I would occasionally see water on the top of the door panel, but only a couple drops. I had looked at where the hard top meets the windshield frame as well as the door weatherstrip. Just hadn't gotten around to sitting inside and having the wife run the hose to pinpoint the root cause. Today when I came out from work, it had rained. And, I was able to see more evidence, and took a closer look.
I need to see if it's running down or in the seam between the top from the header or just coming in at the spot where the door weatherstrip crosses over the seam.
I need to see if it's running down or in the seam between the top from the header or just coming in at the spot where the door weatherstrip crosses over the seam.
I use my hood prop as a handle to open it all the way back to the windshield.
Nimbley
TJ Enthusiast
I've been bored at home and finally did the double din upgrade today. I'd been waiting for last year's Pioneer 8500 price to drop because $800 isn't in the budget just to have GPS. Because I'm impatient I ended up buying a really cheap Chinese Android unit. I figured the cutting will now be done so I can upgrade easily if this one dies. I loaded it up with about 20 GB of music and offline maps for the GPS. I have to say so far i like it more than I expected for $140. The OBDII app alone is almost worth it. Fast Bluetooth and WiFi are pretty handy also. I'm going out in the desert tomorrow or Friday to test the GPS maps offline. I still need to mount the backup cam somewhere but the cable is ran.
I had one laying around from McMaster but a stock hood bumper would look much better. I will probably upgrade it later so it matches the others
xxdabroxx
TJ Addict
Yesterday I washed it and took the top and doors off. Today I took the long way home.
Got my Jeep back after the regear. Went from 3.07 to 4.56 with truetrac. Yes, it was very expensive, but worth. The installer had some suggestions for a few more things to tighten it all up. He also suggested I may be able to get by with a 1” tc drop vs the 1.5” I have now and remedy my shifter issue. It may work, may not but $50 is a lot cheaper than the SYE and such.
I may keep the 35s. I planned on downgrading to 33s, but I like how it’s driving now.
I may keep the 35s. I planned on downgrading to 33s, but I like how it’s driving now.
keep saving, that skid needs to be tucked to at-least the factory position. You are on the right track.
You went to the expense of the regear and you sound pretty happy. Save up and do the sye and dc driveline and you'll be even happier.
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