Crusty looking leftovers

[mxracer919]

Had a pretty bad driveline vibration. The axles were under a cj7 before so pinion was pretty pitched up. I used a set of shims I had which wasn’t ideal but was quick, but still wasn’t enough. I pulled it into the shop today and cut the perches off the axle and corrected the angle without shims. Much better!

 

[mxracer919]

Put a few miles on it thisafternoon. Waaaayyyy better with pinion angle corrected. Wrapped up a few other loose ends.

It rides like a cadillac but needs a sway bar in a bad way! Ran over to my parts stash tonight and pulled one off one of my parts Jeeps. Shift points are a little off, but should be able to get that corrected tomorrow night.

The blazer blower motor moves a ton of air, but I wasn’t getting any warm air, was cool enough it warranted driving with the hood up on my hoodie. Ended up checking basically any and everything......ended up being the temperature cable had came off the linkage. With that corrected it was like a sauna in there!

 

[mxracer919]

Well I made my self imposed deadline everything is in place and works now. I didn’t build the tent rack as the weather forecast for south Texas for the next several days includes rain every day. We decided to stay local, going to take it to the track tomorrow and then run it to Branson for a silver dollar city trip.

Was an eventful couple days though! The shift point that were messed up weren’t from the tune, but the rigged VSS. I plugged my scan tool in and was able to view the speed from the VSS. It was all over the place. I assumed I had a bad sensor. Pulled t case and pulled t case adapter off the trans. The drivetrain already had an advance adapters reluctor ring kit installed. It was kinda rigged up, as it wasn’t really meant for the 6 bolt adapter like this one (or atleast that was what I gathered from reading on their site). The spot where the last guy positioned it he had to flip the ring on the output shaft around backwards so it would read due to the sensor not being able to go any further forward. Doing so made it difficult to get it square on the shaft. With correct orientation it seats properly, but backwards it’s easy to get it just a little crooked.

Anyways, replaced the sensor and double checked the reluctor ring when I had it tore down. I was able to square it up better than it was. Reinstalled everything. Nothing. No shifts at all, no speedometer reading on scan tool. Read some more on the advance adapters literature and the clearance was supposed to be .010-.012” and I was positivie there was more gap than that.

So my best guess is that before when the reluctor ring wasn’t square it was wobbling and getting closer on the one side (when it would pick up) then further on the other side (when I would drop). So pulled it back apart. Messed with the mounts ring surface where the bung goes into the adapter housing and got the clearances right. Put the original sensor back in there and works like a champ! Shifts like it’s suppsed to now! It’s amazing what .010” too much will do.

Cleaning it and one of the dirt bikes up thisevening, looking forward to spinning some laps tomorrow.

 

[mxracer919]

Well, got the chance to go ride, managed to have a get off in a 3 gear sweeping corner. Wasn’t charging into it and leaning out over the bars. Managed to land on my left shoulder and separate my collarbone from my shoulder, same shoulder that I broke collarbone 12 years ago...awesome! Spent the rest of the afternoon/evening in ER, now need to follow up with ortho to see what the next step is.

So that being said I didn’t get any pictures of the Jeep hooked to the trailer. Ended up taking the truck to Branson as my wife was driving and she didn’t care to drive the scrambler, lol. Didn’t really feel like a silver dollar city trip but suffered through it for the kids!

 

[mxracer919]

Shoulder finally felt decent enough today to clean up my bikes from last week. Rinsed off scrambled while I was at it and grabbed a few pictures. Never showed any of the Laredo interior installed or the engine compartment. Still have lots of tidying up to do, needs a different air filter setup....was just trying to make due with what came on it. Need to wire the winch, get door panels in it, tidy up some engine wiring, and other odds and ends. Threw the full top on it for the family trip, but anxious to get it off there and throw the half cab back on it for the classic scrambler look!

 

[barrys]

Looks good with the full top. Is it an AJ's?

 

[mxracer919]

I’m not really sure. I bought it off the forum a couple of years ago. I always thought it resembled the rally tops.

 

[mxracer919]

Playing around with buffing coumpound. Doing it by hand, don’t trust myself with the buffer on this one.

 

[mxracer919]

Caved and broke out the buffer, was taking way too long by hand. I’m super happy with the way this thing is shining up.

 

[mxracer919]

Still lots of areas to do around the Graphics that I’ll do by hand, but didn’t really thing this thing would shine up this good.

 

[mxracer919]

Pulled the full top off for now and put a halftop back on it. Looks way better. Getting ready to swap springs out with another set of yj springs. The ones I put on were broke in to the point that they have completely de arched.

 

[mxracer919]

Little update on the Jeep. Getting a few miles put on it this week around Buena Vista......only problem is I don’t own it anymore.....?. On to the next one!

 

[bigwalton]

 

[Belizeit]

It does sound like it presents a problem if you want to drive it much

 

[mxracer919]

Crusty looking leftovers 2.0? Crusty tub and TDK frame coming in hot!

 

[barrys]

We know where that went went

 

[Scramblin Man]

Kenton

Was that the green tub and TDK frame for sale in N Texas ?

 

[mxracer919]

Kenton

Was that the green tub and TDK frame for sale in N Texas ?

Yup! Picked up a set of TNT tube fenders from another gentleman as well on my swing down. Had a set on the shelf already planned for the crusty looking jeeps replacement, but figured a set would go nicely on one of my cj10a’s.

Only problem with this tub, it actually is crusty....haha. Where’re the last one looked it but was solid, this one has some rust. Definitely workable though for what I have planned.

 

[Scramblin Man]

It will live again and probably soon at that !

 

[sdsupilot]

Haha! Thank you for buying that. It was tempting me as it was only an hour or so away. Looking forward to your next creation. Have you ever been to Crossbar Ranch in Davis?