Spent 2 hours replacing the drum brake hardware on one side, spent half that time trying to get the new shoes to fit. After a while i decided **** it and put the old shoes back on. but the handbrake works a little better now!

Just for future reference, what part number are the shoes? '92 Dana35

 

Blasted through snow. Got her into and out of a pretty decent ditch. Slipped and slided all over the mountain road. All in all. I fell in love with my xj all over again

 

Which reminds me, i almost killed my neighbor. He came speeding down my street in his little Hundai or w/e, locked and went sideways, almost took out the Jeep and an F-350. Then i went off and had some fun in the snow too :P

 

Played in some snow and slush puddes!!!

 

Nice!!!! I'm close to that mark. But I prolly won't remember to ****** a picture

 

Got a new battery today so it will start

 

Wired up my new hella 550s and put in my rampage headlight conversion kit

 

Here's the pics

 

Slipping and sliding all over the roads. Might take it out and do some light snow wheeling tonight. Maybe find a person or two along the way to pull out of a ditch or somethin.

 

If you got the extra primer it wouldn't hurt to do another coat

 

I did the 231 to 242 transfercase swap. Pulled one the same year out of a u-pull it yard for $50. hoping I would get the same spline count which I did, tore it down and checked everything out, new gaskets and seals. Started at 10:00 a.m. and finished at 4:00 p.m. with a lunch brake. Gotta admit it was a pleasurable job. Did it in my grease pit. No snafews, same rear driveshaft length and no rusted bolts or skinned knuckles. I'll wire up the dash lights later when I replace the radio. It is a bit trickier to get out of full time or part time than the 231 but that is the nature of the beast. I use this everyday 50 miles round trip for work and encounter various road conditions and was a pain shifting in and out of 4 wheel drive, now I just put it in fulltime and forget it. I love it.

 

How'd you mount those Hellas to the bumper?

 

How is ot a pain to shift a 231 in and out? Spent all day doing it today. Its second nature. Harder to turn on my freaking wipers

 

I don't blame him. He has good justification in my book, given his situation.

 

Hit my buds xj. Brake pedal went soft and I went right into his receiver. Otherwise his jeep looks just fine. Getting a new master cylinder tomorrow.



It was fun driving 20 miles home using e brake to stop.