I thought i'd share where i work for four weeks and can't work on my Jeep.

I work on an anchor handling/tug vessel in the northsea, we move oilrigs, "tie" them up to the bottom whit anchors, we have oil recovery equipment, if any oil is spilled we can suck it up. we also have a ROV, a unmanned submarine, computer controlled for hooking up to anchors on the bottom.

we have two Bergen Diesel Straight nines, at around 9000 Bhp
we also have four auxilary CAT V16, 3000 Bhp
a total of 27.000 Bhp we can tow oilrigs whit, we can tow up to 280 tons! thats a big winch!
the whole boat weighs around 4000 tons.

we're basicially a pretty big powerful tug boat!


this is the boat:

Bergen Diesel Straight nine

we have four of these CAT V16's:

Rigmove

a anchor

Bergen Diesel straight nine


Some of my tasks aboard:

The Scorpion Mechanical workshop:













off course we also do other stuff, like maintaining the engines and everything we need to make the engines run,

 

"An engineers mind cannot rest"


I manufactured my own coil spacers, couldn't find any measurements so I took my dimensions off a brand new seat, almost exactly the same as yours except I measured 26 degrees for the angle.

I've noticed most you can purchase seem to have a flat across them, as with yours, mine don't, what's the theory on the flat edge.

 

I think it has something to do with hitting the inner fender, i'm not really sure, i think i will make them without at the first but maybe cut the flat later if i find out what the flat is good for...

i'm not home until 12.oktober, my jeep stands in the barn waiting for me to come home work on it!

i'm hoping to get my shackles and coilspacers together to test them as fast as i can! i'm not sure if my brakeline will be long enough, i'm looking at 4,5" - 5" " lift when i get them on!

Does someone know if i have to replace my brakeline with 4,5"-5" lift?

 

Found some more pictures of my XJ and some other stuff, can't wait to get home in 10 days (miss my Xj..) haha...

i desided to put my spare tire on one day, i've had it in the back for weeks, and when i put it on i figured out this:

a little stone was lying between the rim and the tire on my main tire, it was leaking as hell! even though it's just a 235/75R15 it looks kinda big... :O

last time i left for sea i left my cherokee like this:

when i came back, it was like this: all outa air, my dad had liftet it of the ground to save my tire though!

 

Parked next to an old stock limited one day, had to take a picture to show how much higher mine sits! the limited was a bit weary though!

 

About a year ago i desided that i wanted to learn a blacksmiths profession... so i started with a cutter torch and some old steel and a sledge hammer, that was an easy way to do it. then i figured i wanted to make a forge, i had several tries in our big woodstove in the workshop at the farm. but i couldnt get enough temperature.
so i desided that i'd weld myself a forge, at first i got ahold of an old rusty (veryveryveryvery rusted) rim from an old truck. i welded some feet on it, a meshed steelplate in the bottom. air pressure to ad oxygen to hold the heat up. but the rim was to big and it was so rusted i could bash my hammer through it. i wouldn't hold the heat i need to forge the proper way.

so i desided i'd get a hold of a brake drum from a truck, then one day i was over in an old quarry to get some sand i saw a old brake drum lying there, it was just minor rusted, so i desided to fetch it some day's later.

so here it is: was heavy to lift into the high jeep...

one of my many designs for a forge:

 

Hey!

I though I could show you the size the D-rings we have on the boat is:
120 tons!



I've gotten ahold of two 2 ton d-rings to use on my jeep.

 

Today i took of my valve cover, sanded it down and painted it red with engine paint..


anyone know what that thing i put a red ring around is? the pipe from the manifoild broke when i was struggling to to put the valve cover back on... an now my jeep is rough at idle and stops when i start it :O it might also have something to do whit the "thing on the back of the valve cover, who also goes down to the intake manifoild...
this is very annoying!

 

map sensor.


thanks for the spacer drawings.