Thanks man! Trying to keep it somewhat clean

 

Wrenching party

 

Still hard to turn, much less harder, but still not normal. Probably ruined the steering box driving like that for that long. Need to take it for an alignment since I shifted things around down there, pulls to the right a bit much. But hey, steering wheel's straight!

 

Had super high idle randomly. Thought I had a bad vacuum leak somewhere, but it turns out my throttle body was just really dirty. Cleaned it up and at first it did nothing, then bam. Fixed. Bit better throttle response too (at least the butt dyno thinks so.) Might change the IAC sensor just to be safe though.

 

Then this happened on the highway.





Realllllly hope it's just the IAC sensor

 

Just ordered some new upper and lower ball joints, mine are toast and there's alot of play in my right front one, it's actually the thing causing my steering problem. The CEL code is literally nothing, "No Crank Relearn", my jeep is mad I put an aftermarket sensor in (6 months ago) and not an oem one, still runs better since I cleaned the throttle body. Still need to do the brake lines. Hopefully I'll be getting my rockers done this month, as soon as I get a day off.

Here's a pic of how a park at the gym.

 

Also blew a seal in my steering box somewhere, starting to slowly leak. Might aswell upgrade to the Durango box then right?

 

I've heard of alot of people upgrading to durango box and not liking it. Unsure why though. I know one of my friends went to an S10 box and loved it though.

 

Never heard of using an S10 one, does it bolt up the same?

 

It does, I believe he used a 96 4x4 GMC jimmy box to be exact but same thing as an s10 or blazer.

 

Ball joints arrived. Hopefully I can just send the jeep over to the shop across from my work and just have them deal with it while I'm working. Fingers crossed that goes well (being my jeep who knows what'll happen) and I'll have normal steering again. Last step is brake lines.

Front brakes are getting pretty warn too, being about a year and a half I think their time is up and time to upgrade. Was looking at the Black Magic pads and rotors, pricey, but I'm not going to throw cheapo ones on when it comes to stopping power.

 

Nice build man. Love the look. How have the truck lights been in the icy/snow weather? Looking at getting them soon.

 

Thanks! They've been great, so far we really haven't gotten crazy snow, just alittle here and there, and haven't driven in the wet ones yet, but it hasn't been affecting the lights. What has been though is the salt being kicked up, covers the lenses quite a bit and I'm always wiping it off. I can notice the little difference in brightness after a decent drive when salt's been put down.

 

It needs to warm up so I can wash the salt away

 

that is a slick jeep... Any problems with rust from driving in winter