Not much going on with the Jeep unfortunately. I had to replace the engine in my other project car twice, and that obviously took a lot of my wrenching time over the past few months. With gas prices having gone crazy since then, I haven't been driving this as much as I'd like. I was hoping to take it to the paint shop, but it's sprung a pretty substantial oil leak and I don't really want them having to deal with that. It's dripping down the back of the oil pan and front dust cover of the transmission, which could really be from just about anywhere. So, I've decided to try to address it from the top down, front to back, and most expensive to least.

I checked the valve cover first, everything immediately under it is dry.

Second, everyone's favorite seal to remove, the oil filter adapter housing. I'm pretty sure this has leaked since day 1 despite using Mopar seals for only this one location. Thankfully this didn't take the strength of Thor as I had previously replaced it on the engine stand.



I did take the chance to upgrade my toolbox and bought some long handle box end wrenches for more leverage on the T60 bit than my normal wrench set.



I also snugged up the oil pan bolts, just to try a free fix.

Ever since the manual swap, the transfer case cable shifter hasn't quite been adjusted right. I couldn't just yank it back into 4 full time, as the detents had shifted enough that I would begin shifting into t-case neutral. It was a frustrating process but I got the shifter cable adjusted, and now it has a hard stop right at 4 full time, and shifts cleanly into all other ranges.

While I was under the thing knocking out projects, I finally installed some new rivnuts into the manual transmission crossmember and mounted my transfer case skid again.



I need to go get these parts dirty! I still haven't been off roading after the manual swap.

 

Unfortunately the leak remains, and several drops of oil are under my Jeep in the parking lot at work this morning. Seems like I'm going to be replacing a rear main seal here soon, joy.

 

I had a shop replace the rear main and oil pan gasket about seven years ago and it leaves its mark all the time these days - I too need to get under there and redo that job.

Are you in NC? If so - Uwharrie trip!? I want to take my "little Jeep" there this year again.