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I crawled under the thing to find that one of the tracbar bracket bolts I thought was tight was a 1/4 insh from even touching the bracket. got home cleaned everything up, busted out the breaker bar and tightened it all back down. fingers crossed my front end issues are over, getting really tired of this crap.
noticed that the front pinion was looking a little low, so I let out some caster by lengthening the upper control arms some more. Squeaks are gone, also had a stripped nut on a upper control arm, and a loose jamb nut on the other upper control arm. always better safe then sorry no matter how much of a time crunch you have check your work gentalmen.
dropping in for an update. road manners have been much better since the castor adjustment and I ordered these
33x12.50R15 Dick Cepek Extreme Country's. I will be doing a review thread of these tires in modified tech. Not much feed back on these tires yet I'm hoping for good things.
Was fun going through you Build Thread. So did you end up buying some thing else for your wife's DD?
yup she runs around in a 2nd gen prius. the thing makes me money its so cheap to run. that and i dont care about door dings and scratches with that either
quick update. I got to show the jeep a little love today. I had to fix the passenger door hinge again because it sags really bad when its not welded in just the right place. Which brings me to the 2 things I've done so far that have totally not been worth it #1 removable doors, more of a pain then they are worth, I think they are much more forgiving on the early style hinges but none the less, wouldn't do that one again. #2 The B Lee steering is Beef! but with it located utk it limits my right hand steering radius just enough to need to take extra cuts where I didn't before. Just some food for thought.
I also pulled my locker out of my old front end today and used the grind a tooth method to get the center pin out without removing the carrier. I will not be using this method when installing it in the front end I'm using right now. I just don't like grinding on the gears it just seems wrong.
went for a ride with my jeep group up to LMFT. we couldn't find medusa early enough in the day, so ended up running upper wombus backward and then forward. All in all a great day, not allot of pictures everybody was mostly focused on the trail. The Cherokee performed awesome, I only think we bypassed 2 or maybe 3 obstacles.
got some more fine tuning to do. To my surprise I had some rubbing up front to the fenders need to be trimmed more, I feel the rear is too low with my gear in it so I will move the shackles back another hole, and I have some drive line vibes up front which I feel I can get better with by adjusting the control arms a bit more.
home alone for the morning and decided to jump into those tweaks that I thought the Jeep needed after our day wheeling sunday. First bumped the shackles another hole forward then let out a ton more caster so my pinion would line up with my t-case. the thing looks awesome now, the front end is pushed out even further and the rear is up just where I hoped it would be, even ended up with a lil mo flex
dropping in real quick. The cherocar is dialed in. On road manners are great goes down the highway smooth with no problems and consistently keeps up with wanglers on 35's. upgrades will probably slow down, but hopefully much more wheeling to come.
09-04-2015, 10:05 AM
. got home cleaned everything up, busted out the breaker bar and tightened it all back down. fingers crossed my front end issues are over, getting really tired of this crap.
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