My exhaust will definitely hit because I crushed it into the pan, but I'll just make it work for now and then I'll take it to the exhaust shop. As far as the powdercoat maybe I was thinking of stinkyfab racing's skid then.

 

Hmm i thought SFR was the only brand that made a aw4 skid. I like that fitment and that it comes powdercoated. SFR posted a while back about running Zinc plated skids.

 

This one looks like it hugs the pan much better at the front than the SFR one, but it may just be the angles of the pictures or something.

 

I bookmarked it, thanks for sharing. I also like their bolt on oil pan skid vs the weld/epoxy on styles most sell.

 

I went with the weld on for price

 

The oil pan is with my brother-in-law waiting to be welded up, I ordered some new 5-760x u joints that I'll put in one of my spare sets of shafts and I'll put the iron rock offroad almost alloy kit on them since my current shafts keep trying to push the clips out (ears are probably getting worn from so many hard miles), the motor should be back from the machine shop any day now, transmission got a new torque converter and TCC solenoid since it had a pending code and an output seal because it was $2 and I don't want to pull the trans back out anytime soon, plan to order bearings for the dana 30 soon and that should be everything to get it back wheeling strong fall semester.

 

while I was in the mood for taking stuff apart I decided why not check the tcase input seal while it's convenient to get to... well I found out where the leak was coming from

 

That seal gave up a while back. lol

 

Surprisingly it didn't leak that bad

 

Put a new seal in so I'm one step closer. The seal I took out was a single lip seal, but the new seal was a double lip seal which I found strange, but that's what WIT recommends so hopefully it's good.

 

Alright, I did the hard part of putting it together, so who's going to come help me put it in?

 

Just leave it on the hoist at night.
The engine elves will install it while you sleep.

 

You got the crank issue taken care of I take it?

 

Both the company I got the crank from and the machine shop said it was fine and the guy I talked to said he had the same crank in his Jeep and was worried about it when he got it, but said it hasn't leaked a drop. They said that every single scat crank has come like that for the past 7 years. Anywho it runs and drives and has 35s again

 

Wow, thats crazy. I have never seen another crank with that same finish for the seal. Well lets hope it doesnt start leaking on you! Glad to see its back up and running too!