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Old Jun 12, 2012 | 09:15 PM
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Okay for day 4 I had other things to tend to mostly but I did clean my head and block up, went back and cleaned it, and polished it to a shine took about to 2 hours all and all
Sorry no pics for today
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Old Jun 14, 2012 | 07:46 PM
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Today I rested an spent some time with my girl, jeeps runing but not right... Lifter tapping really bad, pulling the oil pan and checking the oil pump in the am, might as well replace the rear main I guess, this jeep WILL RUN AGAIN! (Correctly any way)
Side note new head pipe going on the jeep, high flow cat, flow master s 44, and stock rear pipe
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Old Jun 15, 2012 | 08:32 PM
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Okay jeeps runing like a champ now also ill show you guys what I did today,

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Now I'm looking for 33's! Woot!
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Old Jun 15, 2012 | 08:48 PM
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Where in roanoke are you?Love to see more locals on here.
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Old Jun 15, 2012 | 09:01 PM
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Garden city area
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Old Jun 15, 2012 | 09:25 PM
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Originally Posted by jeepsurfer1
Garden city area
Check out the roanoke local thread,we have trail rides often your more then welcome to come.
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Old Jun 15, 2012 | 09:44 PM
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Nice man star city crawers?
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Old Jun 15, 2012 | 09:58 PM
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Originally Posted by jeepsurfer1
Nice man star city crawers?
Yessir.If you'd like to pm me a phone number i can keep in touch if we ride out.
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Old Jun 16, 2012 | 11:35 AM
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Pmed but, I want to get my 33's and have a spare before I hit the trails again, plus last time I went out was privite land and I poped a tire and rode back in the baby spare rim (it was flat)
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Old Jun 18, 2012 | 10:57 AM
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Meassured lift from axle to uni body, 6" rear, 5" the pass side front is about 1/3" lower sadly, I think my rear bumper will level my rig some what.
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Old Jun 18, 2012 | 12:23 PM
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Heres a few pics i took helping out the OP'er, thought they were nice enough to share lol
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Old Jun 19, 2012 | 08:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Parsnip
Heres a few pics i took helping out the OP'er, thought they were nice enough to share lol
And I'm glad you helped bud! I don't know what I would have done with out it
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Old Jun 22, 2012 | 04:54 PM
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So today I got things inside done, center console to match my "blue theme"


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Old Jun 22, 2012 | 04:57 PM
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Also I got my dash lights working... again, this time off a switch and fused as well...

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Old Jun 22, 2012 | 05:02 PM
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So you guys know I have my trans temp gauge! I love the gauge! Well I also hate the pod... So I found a pod that holds 2 gauges above my rear view mirror

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New mock up

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