[fuzzy59]

Hes alive!!!!

He's employed!

Um, kid on the way, too many bills and three dead vehicles, (check my non-build thread haha), post some pics Fuzz, I need the entertainment!

Grats on the I know I am really sucking in posting up. Tonite seems like a fair time to start uploading

 

[GreenZJ]

He's employed!

That was fast! Its been 12 days since your last duty experiance. Get on! lol

 

[magnumcherokee]

Dude, whats hot fuzzman?? The Zj get anything done to it lately??

 

[fuzzy59]

If photobucket wasn't being a whore I'd have some pics up. But I am in the process of posting some updates. Hopefully we can get some more work done on it this weekend. I am loving Maxx's skidplate

 

[jeeperoni91]

you havent even been online to play the new map pack you bum!

 

[RockZJ]

you havent even been online to play the new map pack you bum!

Yeah and this coming from the guy that wont play with me , you afraid son? HAHA

RocKZJ

 

[jeeperoni91]

Aint my fault you're never online rock

 

[RockZJ]

I are, but usually during the week I dont have time with my class schedule. My CoD night is Thursday nights. Thats when I get to sit around and not do a fawking thing. Be on Thursday and me and Rog and the crew can get you in on some murdering

RockZJ

 

[fuzzy59]

Wayyyy behind on posting but we've done some more work on the 9er since I last posted.

So we went to Advanced Auto Parts and rented a seal puller to pull the rear tranny seal and front input shaft retaining seal out of the transfer case.

Shiny new tranny seal

Transfer case front seal shot

And coming apart

New seal malleted in

PLENTY of RTV and in!

Popping the rear tranny seal out

And malleting the tranny seal in

And bolting that ***** back in and with success! No leaks!

 

[fuzzy59]

Part Duex

Also started to rip the cladding off in prep for a Herculine party

Side shots

Before and after of some pounding on the fender walls

Still need to pound more out but for now it's functional

And gave her a good washing after I was done.

 

[RockZJ]

Thats awesome fuzz! Did you happen to measure your input shaft on the 231? Im gonna be doing the same thing in a few weeks and wanted to know what your length was. Are those both factory spec seals or did you put a special one in the trans to stop the leaking?

RocKZJ

 

[GreenZJ]

you posted the sane fender pic twice, tard

 

[fuzzy59]

Fixed you sane man.

 

[fuzzy59]

We got a chance to start cutting the stock rockers out the other week since I ordered my steel in for the new rock rails.



First things first lets start cutting in!

More cutting and peeling back the steel.

Stoopid rust, bah

Sanding the body down for prep.

Plating to help retain its strength.

More plate

Well done sir Maxx.

Patching up.

Bought some box tubing 4x4 1/4" steel for the rockers. Cut a 12' piece in half so we had a 6' piece for each new slider.

Some of the aftermath.

 

[fuzzy59]

Page 2

Respraying the passenger side unibody stiffiner

Trac bar sanded and repainted!

Another shot.

New gromet and linkage put back in the for 231.

More work getting done each day

 

[JeepNeed]

Sweet work! Can't wait to see those sliders when there finished.

 

[fuzzy59]

No idea on the shafts. I did use my 249 shaft though so don't get rid of it!

The rock rails are getting tube on them as well, I'm excited

 

[fuzzy59]

Posting up some more work. Got quite a bit done. Replaced the steering box with Pat's former box. We heard some chattering coming from the front end so I decided to take the whole thing apart to see if anything was glaringly obvious.

First things first checked the rear diff and added a little fluid to top her off.

After we got to Maxx's we started on replacing the steering box. First thing used a pair of channel locks to remove the bolt under the drop pitman arm. This is a HUGE ***** the first time you do it but since we just replaced mine with the beefier Clayton's arm it popped off rather easily compared to the stock one.

Dropping the drop pitman arm.

Dropped half the KOR steering brace to allow for the bottom of the steering box to move, another mod I highly recommend to help to anyone's jeep.

Using a 1/2 on the steering box to remove the shaft.

Removing the lines in this pic. Be sure to have a cup or container to catch all the fluid that will pour out.

We used an 18mm to pop off the 3 bolts on the side of the steering box.

We actually sheered one of the bolts. Bah.

The old next to the older.

You can see the bolt still sitting in the box.

 

[fuzzy59]

Page 2

POS bolt next to the reusable ones.

New box going in!

Tightening the brace back up for support.

Tightening the lines down

And pitman arm.

Topping off fluids.

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Victory drink!

Back to work. Time for some front end work. Removing the trac bar.

Drilling out the adjustable mount to make room for some beefier bolts.

Checked the trac bar out and it looked good. Bolted it back up.

 

[fuzzy59]

Page 3

Pulled the old stock cover off and put the new Solid diff on.

PLENTY of rtv.

And that guy is in.

Took off/apart the tires, hub assembly, wheel spacers, calipers, axle shafts, etc to try to find the grinding. Checked out the wheel bearings and u joints, nothing.

So of course we took the other side apart as well.

More removal.

And reassembled.

Well whatever we did worked because its quiet now and drives great.

Trimming some more to make the 4x4 fit.

More trimming to help fit the rockers.

Overall a good day