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Everyone needs a screw extractor in their garage. Had to replace a broken grease fitting

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Is there nothing Harbor Freight doesn't sell! Actually found grease fittings there

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Painted the "new to me" long arms. Covered the beat up Rough Country gray

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By the way, the grease fittings were standard size and not metric. Tag: rough country long arm

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Got the bumper painted and attached. Definitely adds an unfavorable feel to the Jeep since it is so heavy, but guess it's worth it cause it looks awesome

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Also, started painting the 6" rough country springs today. Have quite a few deep gouges, where the plasticky coating is coming off. These things have definitely been on multiple Jeeps

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Pulled the cross member from the MJ. Had to do a little cutting from the few spot welds used to secure it in place. Little grinding and won't be able to tell they were there

cbs_24

Nice Jeeps! Its nice to see someone from my area.

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Pinion seals and gasket maker arrived. Amazon continues to have the better prices on these particular items. Install picks coming soon

docmedpros

keep it up, loving the progress

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Guess what this is gonna be?

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Guessed yet? Can't figure out how to attach multiple pics to one post on the ap

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My new invention...calling it the Pensacola pinion wrench. As an added challenge, I'll be using a 6" long handle wrench to set my pinion preload to spec! Been working out haha

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So, took the pinion out of the front Dana 30 axle and the outer bearing slides easily off and on so unable to set a preload. Guess I'm adding a new 4.56 ring and pinion to the shopping list. Anyone know if it's possible to change just the pinion? Don't exactly know the brand or model.