lol.... did he buy ya a pizza at least?

 

Nope. I'm a bad friend...

My unibody is completely FKD. Driver side took an hour. Pass side? try like 8 hours.

 

 

I request a steak dinner for my efforts.... ,|,,,,|,

 

Zac can be swayed with SuperDawg...

 

I second that. Though it carries no weight.

I really hope that's a hotdog

 

No, I think that carries a lot of weight. Fire up the grill Brandon!



Not just a hotdog, the BEST hotdog.

 

HAHA!!! There ya go. Bon appetit!

Nice! I must quest for this "SUPERDAWG"

 

Gotta come up here to chicago then.

Superdawg is Zac's calling. He claims he can tell you how far he is from superdawg from anywhere at any given point within 15 miles.

We were picking my jeep up from getting the cage driving through Lousville kentucky for fun, and I asked Zac how far we were for the heck of it, and he answered within like 7 miles I believe.

 

HA! That's awesome. Kinda reminds me of the pizza joint on how I Met Your Mother. Hey, how far are you guys from Kentucky anyway? My parents live in Dry Ridge - which is about 45 minutes south of Fort Mitchell and probably about an hour from Covington.

 

About 4 and a half hours for me. 6 for them.


Well I definitely need a front axle soon. Bearings are all shot, vibration is getting worse by the day. Pinion has like 1/2 inch play side to side and up and down. Not to mention the backlash is all sorts of F'D. Hopefully it lasts atleast until after the cliffs trip.

Driving down a rocky road today, a stupid friend decided to take off like a jerk, and rocks came up and busted out my passenger headlight, and cracked my light bar. Only sucks because I had aftermarket headlights with h4 bulbs. Back to stockers for now.

Also I let my friend flex on my tire, and told him to try and get onto my fender bar. Needless to say my driver fender is now screwed. Oh Well. Once I find a new job I had planned on taking the jeep off daily duty anyway.


Fender

Meh, none of the panels will be straight one day. and now maybe I can get anthony to put his front tire on the fender bar.



Had a nice fire at a buddies place though


Ripped out the front half of the head liner earlier. Just front sound bar forward due to sagging. Also threw in a nice new LED dome light up between the sun visors and actually got rid of the normal dome light. Since this is a base model it doesnt have under the dash lights or anything. So now I just flip the switch on this light whenever I go doorless to turn it off. Woo!


Little slots in the braces around the roof are great for clipping knives onto...


And holy hell yes the light is bright.

 

That's actually much less than I thought.

That's why ya need some of theeeeese:

 

Thats a pretty good idea. I remember seeing that on your build.


Now where do I start about the weekend? Lets see... Went wheeling saturday at the cliffs. Pulled out of my driveway and my brother looked at me when he heard my front axle making noise like "Were really going to drive 70 miles wheel this and then drive 70 miles back home?" YEP!

On top of everything I forgot my lug nut key at home... And both front wheels had to come off at one point...



Me, Anthony, and Rob's jeeps were out.

To after a bit of wheeling, Anthony still doesn't have 4lo. We approached Jimmy's Crack at the cliffs, Anthony was like I'd go for it but no 4Lo. So i went in, man its like a sink hole at the bottom!






That blew out the driverside wheel bearing. Didnt have lug nut lock socket, so Zac pounded a 16mil on there and changed the wheel bearing out for a new spare I had. (Zac fixes everyones jeep when you go wheeling with him, exact reasoning is "Everyone else is too slow so I do it myself"... Fine with me

Back together, back on the trail, Front end is making ungodly noises. Got pulled up some stuff a few times. Then I broke the passenger side axle shaft! Well Zac got the 16m back out and tore that apart and fixed it with a spare shaft I had...



And my Farm jack isnt working either, so we had to use anthony's both times..


Heres a picture of my shackle relocators doing work... Fully tucked driver and fully dropped passenger


Get home, front end is making ungodly noises and barely working, passenger tail light is busted, driver front wheel bearing is bad again already, spit out a driver side axle shaft u joint cap. Don't know what's up with my front end right now but the carrier is out, axle has a lot of chamber, and toe is all out of adjustment.

As much as I need a break from throwing money at this thing right now, James(aresfab) has a 3.07 d30 for me and I'm thinking about throwing 4.56 gears in front and rear along with new ball joints, truss, and a rear locker... Wallet rape...

I love daily driving this thing, but it's getting to the point where I don't know if I should be doing it anymore. I'm at a point where whatever I do next is gunna be a grand most likely. So it almost makes me want to just save a little more and buy a daily, but then this still won't be fixed and I'm not about to miss wheeling trips. I technically have a vehicle I can drive, but its not 100% mine so I feel terrible driving it even though it sits 97% of the time unless I drive it.

 

Holy crap, sounds like a weekend for the books! The best mod I ever bought for my rig was a cheap Civic.

 

Owie! I will say that crooked out left wheel looked like it was going to turn out to be much worse than a wheel bearing.