Thanks and can you shed some light on a socket trick? Think I could have a idea using a vice and socket but wanted to see what you meant first.

I heard the YJ ones work but from what year?

I also have BPE eliminators on my rear now wanted to get away from those as they can cause issues Bar Pins that is.

 

Thanks I really appreciate the help...I would imagine any shock coming off a super duty is gonna be too stiff like you said. Most vehicles are interchangeable depending on size the issue though is the ride comfort. Like the ones I have now with the sleeve jammed in there are for a 90s era F150. Some a friend told me that will work which is right I just ran into that small hiccup with metal sleeve. These are for rear only and the lower part of shock mounts on axle stud but with that metal sleeve inside bushing its not fitting over stud. Once I remove those sleeves it will fit perfect.

I'll keep you in mind if I change my mind and thank you again!

 

Socket trick

 

Thanks looks pretty simple and right after the socket trick was mentioned this was identical to my thoughts. Except maybe the magnet portion but I have some welding magnets that will work too.

 

Alright so I'm going to do that trick with my shocks to have as a spare. I say this becuase I have never been one to do things half *** so to speak and I'm not entirely convinced the shocks I have will in fact work with my lift. They were Gabriel shocks designed for a 90's era F150. So maybe they will and maybe a little stiffer than I needed but I decided to just toss in some PROCOMP White ES3000 shocks to solve my problem. Yea it was $80 I didn't want to spend but at least they were designed for this lift and should work. Thanks to those who provided some feedback quickly to try to save me some cash.

On another note I was never satisfied with how my current lug nuts sat against my new wheels so I ordered a brand new set of black lugs that are designed for this wheel type. They should be here next week and at least I will feel safer. I was just worried the old ones would damage my wheels or never seat properly and come loose. Maybe I was overthinking it but oh well!

Still tackling the cross member side brackets. I'm in the process of drilling out the uni frame to mount those on but what a pita using a cordless Dewalt drill. So off to the store this weekend to purchase up a heavy duty electric drill that I had but was old one and going to replace the one I have. Hopefully that will help with the drilling and can finally get that done. If all goes well Sunday I should have the Jeep out to play a little and will take some photos. Enjoy the weekend everyone!

 

Alright got cross member brackets done today! Amazing weather here in PNW too!!!!!!

Once I got that done which was super easy drilling frame once I purchased a heavy duty hammer drill lol.

Helped out with some honey projects. Later on this evening my son and I took real jeep and RC trucks for a spin.

Managed to break both RC trucks in the first five minutes of playing lol. Both were steering problems. Temporary fixed one to let my son play with so I got to play with real jeep.

Flexed her legs and arms today. About the max I could go as I didn't install front brake line extensions yet still sitting on my work bench. This next weekend that is a must.

Bad thing I still get a terrible popping and binding noise when I place it in part time and try to climb. Normal drive around in part time its okay.

Now put it in full time and its bad!!!

I don't know what's going on but gonna have a buddy come over this week and see what he thinks.

Can't be going on first shake down 23 of Mar with it doing that.

It stills climbed but I don't like what I hear.


My son driving jeep Rubicon under it.

look closely in first photo I picked up a Axial Wraith super fast and a lot of fun. It was sitting in back of jeep after broken track bar.

 

The noise could be many things, but most common are a stretched t-case chain or a bad u-joint. Could also be as simple as greasing everything up. I would grease it all up first, then check for your axle and driveshaft u-joints, and if the noise still persists, suspect the chain. But that's just from doing a few searches on Google, I don't mean to scare you.

Jeep looks good. Loving the progress, hope I can catch up to you in the future.

 

Thanks yea I'm not expecting to really have an answer on my issue unless you guys could hear it or in person witness the noise. A lot of variables but I'll certainly start with the basics and ensure everything is greased up. Then I'm also still in need of pulling diff covers to verify gears look good, freshen with clean new oil. I didn't suspect any vibrations with the lift so it seems as if a SYE is not needed or transfer case drop kit. However if I do have to pull T case to check chain, etc I might just plan to put a SYE in. I'll be sure to check u joints as well. They all appeared to be in good shape just by visual inspection. That's though without taking them out and looking.

I'm not scared I mean it would suck but if it required pulling t case then it is what it is. Swap it or I'll rebuild it.

If its gears that's going to suck that's not cheap. And not something I can do. I got s good group of buddies out here with spare jeep parts so its possible I can just swap parts to get me going until I fix mine.

 

It's not cheap, but from what I have seen you do already I think it is something you could handle with a few pics now and then and some help from the guys here as you go along with it. It's trial and error to set one up even when you are good at it. Tighten it up, check it, then take it back apart move shims and try it again. Repeat until it finally ends up where you need it. It is painstaking but not that hard.

 

So your saying I should attempt to do the axles if there is a problem with them? I thought this was something left to the professionals to handle? The T case I'm not worried I mean the hard part is going to be dropping it out of the jeep but once on the bench I don't think it will be hard. I have watched some videos and bleepin jeep offers a great video on how to do a SYE kit. He also breaks it down and shows how to do that so changing out the chain doesn't appear to be difficult once you get it apart. That is assuming I will need to take it that far.

 

As for rear axles I have my spare C8.25 so if my D35 is shot I can always swap those out. If I'm going to take the D30 apart I might as well look at locking the axles when tearing them down anyhow.

 

With good guidance setting up a differential is not as hard as it is made out to be. It's just a tedious process that everyone has to deal with, even the most skilled. It's a pain in the rear but not that hard in concept of how it works. Whatever you are comfortable with, but I think you could do it fine with a pointer here and there from the guys here who have done it.

Everyone says you are supposed to take a lock cylinder to a locksmith too. But once you take one apart you realize it is actually quite easy and all the predisposed notions go out the door. lol

 

I'll defiantly take your advice into consideration because hell the way I see it I want to learn and willing to accept the challenge. Only one way to learn right?

I got rear weather stripping seal fixed today bought it awhile back never had a chance to install. After driving around yesterday with hatch rattling lol I had to do it. So that's done and hopefully one less leak now.

I also found the culprit to my marker lights not working lol fuse "dummy" however I was pretty certain I pulled right fuse. Now the question is what caused it to blow because they did work then one day they didn't so now I'm tracing that gremlin.

 

Really... it's not that hard... just a pain taking it back apart and putting it together several times before you finally get it right. lol I think over the years I have set up at least a hundred. Most of these for racing. The rest were on Dodge trucks because they put soft gears in them.

 

X2. Setting up the mesh isnt hard, just time consuming. If you are just changing bearing, then the shims it currently has will be very close to perfect.

I say go for it. Same with the t-case. Dive in. They are simple.