My 97 ZJ

tharlanjr · Dec 4, 2007

Well, these are quite possibly the last pictures of me wheeling stock...

This is from this weekend out at the Desert.

Not many good shots, but they were cool.

(Friends 5.9 *Just Towed stuff, no playing)

Back at Fiance's House

redzjon31's · Dec 4, 2007

Looks like fun, i hate sand at least over by alatoona lake angelous knows what i am talking about

Angelous · Dec 4, 2007

Beau...theres a diff between sand and QUICKSAND!

redzjon31's · Dec 4, 2007

whatever that stuff was if sure was fun trying to get back out

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

swoop95 · Dec 6, 2007

Nice man! I guess you'll never run out of light

What kind are you running?

tharlanjr · Dec 6, 2007

My lights are Harbor Freight limited edition, lol, 15.00 a pair, 100 Watt...

They are plastic, but for that cheap you dont have to worry about breaking them.

Great quality though, installed them a few months back and have not had any problems with them.

My fiance's dad is going to be buying a few for his buggy...

tharlanjr · Dec 27, 2007

Well, I finnaly started lifting it. Started the front end at about 730 this morning, was done by 1 having to go to the store and help the two sick parents...

Gonna start and finish the back tommorrow, then in the shop for alignment and brake bleeding...

Unless someone can tell me how to do it effectively and cheaply, lol

They wanna charge me 80 bucks to bleed em!

Toby42 · Dec 27, 2007

Congrats, bro! I'm glad you finally are getting 'er up there! That's a pretty sweet lookin' ZJ - it'll look nice w/ a lift. Too bad you don't live closer, I have some 31s I could unload on you. They're just getting too small for mine, but I hang on to 'em for trail runs. Anyway, man, looks good! [smilie=bal_cool.gif]

GreyZj · Dec 27, 2007

Bleeding the brakes is easy just open the valve on the caliper , have it drain into something and depress the brake pedal until its just fluid coming out.

BLACKZJ · Dec 27, 2007

GreyZj said:
Bleeding the brakes is easy just open the valve on the caliper , have it drain into something and depress the brake pedal until its just fluid coming out.

Sooner or later you'll have to take your foot off the brake pedal. [smilie=bal_ask.gif]
IF you are going to give advice on how to do something, ESPECIALLY something like brakes, make sure you know WTF you are talkin about. :angry:

tharlanjr · Dec 27, 2007

lol, I tried that and was doing it by myself, I pushed on the brakes then leaned over to see if it was fluid, and it had squerted like 3 feet under my jeep, oops, lol

I will just take it some where to have them do it right. Started the back today, have one side going.

Does anyone know where they measure from. Its says 17.25", but eyelid to eyelid, or one end to the other...

Just called my tech guy and got the answer, eye to eye...

BLACKZJ · Dec 27, 2007

You need a second person to bleed the brakes. One person uder with a wrench on the bleeder and one person in the cab with foot on brake pedal. Put light pressure on brake, other person opens bleeder, your brake pedal will go down to the floor, do NOT let up on pedal until other person completely closes the bleeder. Repeat, check and refill master cylinder, continue to repeat until your fluid is clean and air bubble free. Start with passenger rear, the furthest away, then driver rear, then passenger front, fially driver front. I would stay on each one until you get all clear new fluid coming out with no air bubbles. Alternate method, but takes forever. Loosen bleeders one at a time starting the same way, furthest first, let it sit and drip until new fluid come out, checking M C to keep fluid topped off, then close bleeder without touching pedal, then do the same for the rest.
Good luck

swoop95 · Dec 27, 2007

They have one man bleeder kits, but I've never used one...

that being said...

X2 its just easier with two people.

froggy79 · Dec 28, 2007

hey I see my signature got made into a decal....looks good

tharlanjr · Dec 28, 2007

Took it to the shop, got alignment, brakes and new serpentine belt. I had the same belt that came with the jeep almost 11 years ago, lol.

Man, driving this thing is AWESOME...

Drove around, took it on the freeway, no wobbles...

Tommorrow I am going to get back under there and make sure everything is staying tight!

Will post pictures then

swoop95 · Dec 28, 2007

Sweet man post em up!!

tharlanjr · Dec 28, 2007

Not the best pics, but its dark outside. Tommorrow I will get better ones, and this weekend I will get some in the dirt, lol

Toby42 · Dec 28, 2007

Dude! Lookin Sah-weeeeet! Did you do some trimmin to it? 'Cause it looks like it's up there a ways...

mud_slinga · Dec 28, 2007

Nice man, looking good. Toby that is about how mine looks with stock tires

I need 33's and ditto on needing 2 ppl to bleed brakes. one pumps the pedal, one cracks the nipple on the caliper. pretty easy to do. Pump teh pedal about 4-5 times then hold it down as hard as you can. while it is pressed down crack the bleeder vavle about 1/2 turn. Fluid will shoot out so have a drip pan under the launch path, and if it gets on your paint make sure to whipe it down, that stuff will eat paint

Note it is also bad to get it in your eye! :lol: Okay back on topic. DO NOT let off the pedal until the bleeder valve is tightened back up. If you let off the pedal before you tighten it you suck air back in, which then all you did was squirt dot 3 all over the place and in no way getting closer to the end goal of having your brakes bled. repeat the process until you don't have any air in the system. Do one side at a time and make sure the Master cylinder never runs out, cause then, you guessed it, you get to start ALL over to get the air out. Also if you think you have gotten all the air out of the system and you go to push in on the brakes and they go down to the floor but pumping them gets the preasure where it should be, your not done yet

That was probably clear as mud right? Good luck :mrgreen:

tharlanjr · Dec 28, 2007

No trimming, just got rid of the bumper :lol:

Those 30's looks kinda small now. I think when those burn out I will get some 31'' mudders, but I havent decided. No bigger than 32's though.

Yea, I tried the one person thing and shot fluid clear under my jeep and all over my drive way. I just drove it to the shop and payed someone to do it.

MUCH better, the drive down was interesting, but my brakes work so much better now.

But only two days by myself, I dont think I did very bad at all...

I need a bumper though, looks kinda scary to people in front of me, lol

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