Took the old girl fishin

 

took it through some water from all the rain and flooding....saw a guy in a lifted yota dodging mud while i was hitting it all!

 

Got new wagon wheel rims the other day before I left for vacation and tomarow I'm sending them in to get sand blasted and powder coated. Cant wait to get them back and on the heep.

 

made room in the garage today for the xj!!!!!
Tranny is done on the wifes yj.......

 

I fixed the power window motor on the driver's door. Since I just bought the jeep, I have no idea how long the driver's side window hasn't worked.

Today while I was driving on a gravel road, I held the window switch and the window went down. It wouldn't go back up though. So I just bit the bullet and tore apart the door. I ended up duct taping the glass in the up position and removed the regulator and motor.

I took the motor off of the regulator. Then I took the motor casing off of the rest of the assembly and pulled out the armature. I found my problem. The brushes were really worn and the commutator was just coated in black crap (the brushes material.) I cleaned the armature with contact cleaner until the commutator was shiny copper again. I cleaned the brushes. I put everything back together and the motor is much louder and faster. I cleaned the regulator track and re-lubed it with white lithium grease.

Now that it's all together, the driver's window goes up and down twice as fast as any others.

I see a lot of people talk about replacing the regulator when they have problems, but I bet cleaning the internal motor armature would solve a lot of problems.

I thought I'd share, since I bet other people have this problem. I should have taken photos, but I was doing the work for the first time, myself, so I was focusing on not breaking anything. It's pretty straightforward and there aren't any 'gotchas.'

 

new mtrs for the rear. fit my 31" spare in the stock location, didn't have to move anything and makes me happy. Installed new steering stabilizer and rear brake line. embarassed my buddy and his yj off road. all and all a pretty good day.

 

Well today i decided to see what was wrong with my rear brakes.....

I pulled the rear wheels off a the drus and found mud,crud and a whole bunch of other crap i cleaned all that off sprayed it down with wd-40 and everything is working the way it should now......

 

Pulled my gauge cluster to do a write up on replacing idiot lights with full gauges.

https://www.cherokeeforum.com/f2/gauge-swap-15559/

 

I broke my interior door handle and lock. Actually the cables inside the door that connect to the lock and handle with plastic broke. I guess after 9 years they wanted to be replaced..and so the google search begins for interior door handle.

 

thinking of... should build my own rock-sliders or buy them

 

^^^ deff build your own i built mine for about 80 bucks total. oh and today i started removing the arms on one side and adjusting them to the correct lenght tomorrow i will do the drivers side. then i will get the steering recentered

 

i think i will , the guy down the street is a baja race car fabricator and
has a tube bender. he said he would help me with the rack and stuff
will see.....

 

^^^ i did mine pretty simpel used some 2x3 square stock in 1/8th inch thick i have been thinking about adding some tube to the side like a steep and slider but i don't know anybody with a bender so i might just do it out of square stock

 

Unable to get expandable freeze plug to set flush with the back of the head this AM with the few tools on hand I have at home.

Will bring more tools from my business/shop this PM to finish repair I hope.

 

You sprayed the rear brake shoes with WD-40?