Rear diff opened up, fluid draining. Gears look excellent and no metal at all in the oil.

New fluid, walmart brand, cause its cheap

and yes, i also added the friction modifer.

 

Rear diff is done. didnt do the front one because my dumb*** friend didnt realize the fluid was dumping out of the hole, so i lost some fluid on the ground. gotta buy another bottle or i wont have enough for the front diff. driving the ZJ home tonight, my dad wants to help me with the trans so were gonna take it to his friends shop in a couple weeks. ill do the front diff there.

 

yeah i kinda whish i did start a build thread but i wasnt sure anyone would really follow it since stuff gets done so few and far between, i will say next week i have a full set of drilled and slotted rotors going on the zj along with a full set of ceramic pads lol..... but i must say i,m thouroghly enjoying watching your build thread though keep up the good work!!

 

thank you! i keep telling my dad the brakes on mine are fine, but he wants to put new ones on beofre i start driving it in april.

 

i got a good hook up for brakes and rotors for 156 shipped hit me up and ill send ya a link if you guys decide on doing them

 

Check out what showed up today:

only $13 from RockAuto
Cap and rotor is also on its way (had to ship from a different warehouse)

 

these are the wires i have, http://www.summitracing.com/parts/ta...grand-cherokee

 

expensive! i paid $13 for mine

 

Next cheap-@$$ mod im going to do is get some of that expanded mesh $hit like that stuff you put in your rain gutters to keep leafs and crap out and cut it up and put it in my grill, to make it like a niner grill.

 

end result should look something like this:

except im going to paint the mesh white so it matches

 

cool idea

 

pikced up a couple sheets of the mesh stuff yesterday, will start working on that after school today. stay tuned for pictures

 

Started and almost finished the grill mesh today.
First I cut out all the plastic slats:


Then I filed down all the little nubs that were left over:

Make sure you dont cut off the mounting tabs!!
After that, I painted the inner part of the grills white (they were black).
Old:

Painted:

Used this:

Matches really damn close to the factory Bright White.
This is the expanded steel mesh I used:

Came in a 12" by 24" sheet for 10 bucks at home depot.
(I bought 2 but you only need 1, im taking one back tomorrow)
Now I cut pieces out that were 7.5" by 3.5" (openings in the grill are smaller than that but you need some metal to wrap around the sides).
I set them on the inside of the grill and used the back of a wire cutter to bend the sides flat with the sides of the inner grill. (kinda hard to explain)
Once they were bent, I painted them white:

That picture is only 4 of them, there are 8 total.
Only thing keeping me from putting it all together is I need to go get some epoxy to hold them on with.

 

Oh, and cutting the mesh stuff is no easy task with regular side cutters. Really helps to have an angle grinder with a cut off wheel, or at least a small pair of bolt cutters. I did the whole thing with side cutters, my hand feels like it was run over by a truck.

 

Thought about it some more, and decided that I'm going to go with Firestone Destination A/T tires in 30x9.5R15. theyre about 30 cheaper per tire than the BFGs and that money could be spend elsewhere on the ZJ.