And a bumper!
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'86 Jimmy 4in Lift, 40’s, tons, 8.1 Swap- 700r4 said PNNNNN
- Thread starter GWeakland620
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This is not a dedicated trail rig, but does trailer to the destination usually. I am currently in the planning phase of doing a 52/56" spring swap, and getting back to being more road worthy.
I have the grille still. I just need the filler underneath to support the grille.
Yeah I need to add some toobs and make a bumper.
Just a brief video messing around in the back yard on some frozen dirt piles. Frostbite is next weekend so I had a couple of small things to check off the list before negative temps and snow this week.
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The list of mechanical stuff is getting pretty low. Possibly looking at some cosmetic stuff this summer.
The original color is the blue that’s on the front fenders. I’m definitely going back to that blue, but I’m having a hard time figuring out how much work to actually put into bodywork versus doing a tintable bedliner from the body line down in the factory blue. I’m thinking the bedliner from the body line down would help hide a lot of wrinkles and help protect the body from future damage from smaller impacts. The original bedliner that was sprayed in was way too thin, and needs to be double or triple the thickness next time.
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The list of mechanical stuff is getting pretty low. Possibly looking at some cosmetic stuff this summer.
The original color is the blue that’s on the front fenders. I’m definitely going back to that blue, but I’m having a hard time figuring out how much work to actually put into bodywork versus doing a tintable bedliner from the body line down in the factory blue. I’m thinking the bedliner from the body line down would help hide a lot of wrinkles and help protect the body from future damage from smaller impacts. The original bedliner that was sprayed in was way too thin, and needs to be double or triple the thickness next time.
You don’t need that for a grille, I don’t run that piece.
Two tone.
Martin
Martin
How would you apply that with bed liner?
So here’s the deal, my center section is missing the 2 tabs that connect to the headlight bezels. For some reason the upper holes are not strong enough to support the grille.
I use small zip ties where the top screws go.
It wouldn’t be called Frostbite if it wasn’t cold as crap.
Never took it off the trailer?
Martin
Martin
Frostbite was fun, but also a letdown. An hour into the trails my pump mods proved to be too aggressive and took out another pump. Took another hour to get off the trail with almost no steering, but it drove up on the trailer so not a complete failure.
The trails were crazy slick, so hill climbs and descents were pretty sketchy.
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This was pops with my oldest.
And this was loaded up to head home.
The trails were crazy slick, so hill climbs and descents were pretty sketchy.
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This was pops with my oldest.
And this was loaded up to head home.
Too bad it broke. Downhill like that makes the butt pucker real good. Done it in loose dirt too.
I did it on the Rubicon coming down the granite slabs with ice and snow.
It was definitely butt puckering.
The smaller jeeps decided to winch down.
I just put it in gear and let idle down and at the bottom there was a sharp left turn, if you were too fast you slide off the cliff.
My wagoneer made it with inches to spare...
Yep, almost identical break.
New pump is back together with all OE parts. No more pump mods. Tossing that in tonight to see how it holds up this time.
New pump is back together with all OE parts. No more pump mods. Tossing that in tonight to see how it holds up this time.
So your belief is that the pressure was too high?
Perhaps you should go to an actual hydraulic pump if you continue to have issues.
Something is going on with the setup to split two cases like that. It's split in the same place twice right? What are the pump mods that you've mentioned?
Yes my mods from West Texas Offroad proved to be too much.
This is the last used unit I have. After I got the pump back together, a buddy informed me he has a PSC pump if this last one doesn’t work out.
Yes they are identical splits. I didn’t follow the thread correctly and I think I did too many mods at once. I threw that fitting in the trash lol.
I got the rebuild pump back in the truck and finished up. When ahead and took care of a couple other items. Wrapped the hydro hoses with heat sleeves. Fixed the exhaust manifold leak also.
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