I've been assuming the regular powdered stuff. I'm going to do the flush when it warms up some. If ever!

 

hmmmph!.... alrightythen.... never heard of that, but I'm anxious to hear the outcome.

 

Yeah I just used the regular powdered stuff. It dissolved in the water eventually. I figured if it's safe enough to clean dishes then why not give it a shot in my cooling system. And I think I actually heard about it on here first.

 

Oh, totally makes sense - just never heard of it.

 

Where's the update's!!!!!!!!

 

He started lifting it yesterday... probably rolled it already. I mean he's probably out having fun.

 

Lol. I doubt it. He loves the jeep too much to roll it on the first day

 

LOL...funny thing is, JeepinJimmy helped me all weekend to get the beast lifted. It's all done and working awesome now--big shoutout to Jimmy and Jamison for all of their fine help with it and the use of their tools and sweet shop.

Alright, let's start from the top. In the shop, wheels removed, ready to start tearing that old junk out. Xj gets to hang with Jamison's sick 1-ton MJ all weekend (see the build thread here)



First snag of the evening...bolt sheared right off

Jimmy ended up grinding that off and welding a bolt on to fix.

Amazingly, all of the rear shock bolts came out without breaking. 3 of the 4 were 15mm bolts, and the 4th was a stock 10mm bolt. It was apparent that these shocks were replaced years ago with Autozone specials, and those 3 must have broke and whoever worked on them tapped the welded nuts for larger bolts. I only had to fish one replacement 13mm / 5/16" bolt through. Pretty lucky!

Next was removing the rear leafs, which was the job I was most afraid of. Again, turns out I got really lucky with this, and all 4 bolts came out without much of a problem.



Rear leafs out:


Meanwhile, Jimmy was working on the front end. He ran into a bolt seized in the bushing on the frame side / driver's side LCA.




That took a bit of time to saw out with the sawzall and angle grinder joined on that party as well.

We finally got that out and finished Sunday morning and bolted up the new control arms and Iron Rock track bar. Didn't take many more pictures because I was focused on banging it out. Everything is sexy, and I'm happy with the kit I put together so far. End result...



Of course we had to test it out on the wood pile!





We also threw a 35" on for funsies...fit pretty well surprisingly. This was on a 10" rim though.


I'll wrap this up with this cool shot from outside the shop.


Current to-do:

-install new upstream O2 sensor
-SYE (no vibes yet surprisingly)
-Attach front bumpstops
-Fix rear passenger bumpstop
-NEW TIRES

 

Looks good man!

 

Saw the picture on Facebook. Looks so freakin' awesome. /drool

 

What tires do you plan on running

 

I am not 100% sure on that yet. My buddies are telling me to go with 35's or I'll regret it, lol. I was thinking 33's but they are probably right. There's really not a big price difference between the two.

 

I vote 35s. If you're gonna have to re-gear you may as well go big

 

Bigger tires= more breakage.

 

well said and so true