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What did you do to your TJ today?

In my continuing “refreshment” of my new to me TJ I replaced all three of my brake hoses and gravity bled all four corners. I was happy to discover that both my master cylinder and L-R wheel cylinder looked to have been pretty new. Also the brake fluid in there was nice and clear. So at least someone had been doing some maintenance.

I also removed my Rough Country seat covers and happily discovered that all of my upholstery is actually in very good shape.

I forgot to add that while I had it in the air I greased everything. I was disappointed to find my upper ball joints and rear SYE driveshaft were pretty dry. Oh well… everything is happy now.
 
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Finished up the day trying to figure out my tailgate lock mechanism. Some Bubba had bent the tailgate outer skin in order to fit a door latching arm, backwards, to the tailgate lock cylinder and jammed two other unknown latch pieces (Ford, I think) onto it to hold it in place rather than using the proper E-clip. After a bit of shopping I gave up on finding the proper actuator arm so a quick bit of surgery to the wrong arm with an acetylene torch and a drill and it’s suddenly the correct arm! Somewhere in my garage I’ve got a bunch of E-clips but I finally gave up looking for them and ordered a $7.00 assortment from the jungle. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll be able to put the back half of this Jeep back together.
 
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Fred is back for the season ☠️🤘🏼
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Don’t have another one yet. Looked at 4, all over priced TRASH. One 2002 advertised as exceptional and priced at $17,000!!! I wouldn’t give the owner $7,000 for it😡.
The search continues.
 
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SPECWAR said:
Don’t have another one yet. Looked at 4, all over priced TRASH. One 2002 advertised as exceptional and priced at $17,000!!! I wouldn’t give the owner $7,000 for it😡.
The search continues.
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I was Jeep-less for almost four years. I only started looking to get another one a few months ago. The one shocking discovery was that there was absolutely no consistency in pricing. The very first one I looked at was also priced at $17k and looked like it belonged in a junk yard. I ended up paying $9,700 for my ‘99. I probably could have found one in similar condition for a bit less but I was tired of looking at junkers.

At least being in AZ finding rust-free examples is pretty easy. I wish you luck in your search.
 
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Continued my search for a transfer case leak. Dumped about a qrt of pepto out of the fill hole and pulled the transfer case. Everything is dry so I guess I’ll finish draining and put it back together
 
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Has a rogue clunk on right turns up driveway curb cuts.. And an incessant rattle I couldn't find.. Turned out to be the heim joint in the drivers side Zone quick disconnect. Installed a set of JKS.

Also replaced the rear lower CAs.. JKS as well.

The Jeep is back together after yet another transmission/ clutch service. I need to put more miles on it but I think I found the source of the popping and clicking when the clutch is actuated. It would be nice to worry about getting stuck.
 
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Six months after moving to beautiful Georgia from hot and marvelous Texas, I finally got around to actually changing tyhe plugs in my 2006 LJR. Was getting P0303 on and off for about 3 weeks and bought the plugs about 4 months ago. Cancer surgery and radiation put Jeep work on hold. I would not wish that on anyone!
Almost healed, temperature in the 70's and ready to work — could not find the plugs. Bought new plugs, Champion 7304. Had to set the gap on every one. Most were set around .050; changed to .035. Getting the coil pack off was the hardest part of the whole project. My '78 CJ had one vacuum line and 2 heater hoses. This thing has got more pipes, hoses, and wires than I could count. And, that connector on the end! What rocket scientist came up with that?
Eventually got old plugs out - they were the originals and had rusted pretty well to the block. A little penetrating oil took care of that and out they came. Every one of them was at least .050". Number three was almost .070". I don't know how it even sparked. Well, I guess it didn't sometimes, hence the error codes.
Got it all back together and she runs like new. No misses, smooth idle, and no codes. Garage wanted $150 to do this. Only took me four hours.
BTW, getting old sucks (75). I finally have all the tools, but I don't have the energy to use them. I suspect the radiation may have had something to do with that.
Anyway, got 'er done and runs great. Thanks, Everybody!
 
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Dr. Internet said:
Six months after moving to beautiful Georgia from hot and marvelous Texas, I finally got around to actually changing tyhe plugs in my 2006 LJR. Was getting P0303 on and off for about 3 weeks and bought the plugs about 4 months ago. Cancer surgery and radiation put Jeep work on hold. I would not wish that on anyone!
Almost healed, temperature in the 70's and ready to work — could not find the plugs. Bought new plugs, Champion 7304. Had to set the gap on every one. Most were set around .050; changed to .035. Getting the coil pack off was the hardest part of the whole project. My '78 CJ had one vacuum line and 2 heater hoses. This thing has got more pipes, hoses, and wires than I could count. And, that connector on the end! What rocket scientist came up with that?
Eventually got old plugs out - they were the originals and had rusted pretty well to the block. A little penetrating oil took care of that and out they came. Every one of them was at least .050". Number three was almost .070". I don't know how it even sparked. Well, I guess it didn't sometimes, hence the error codes.
Got it all back together and she runs like new. No misses, smooth idle, and no codes. Garage wanted $150 to do this. Only took me four hours.
BTW, getting old sucks (75). I finally have all the tools, but I don't have the energy to use them. I suspect the radiation may have had something to do with that.
Anyway, got 'er done and runs great. Thanks, Everybody!
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I was in Atlanta and Dallas this week and I can concur, the weather there was awesome. Glad you got it running right again.
 
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