I was getting a little movement in my front seat one night driving. Light turned green and I hit the gas and whoops I'm sitting in the back seat just about trying to grab brakes. The bolt hole got elongated from the rocking over time and finnaly gave out. I took a steel plate ,big fugn washer and patched it with the steel plate and mixed up some JB Weld and slapped where it contacts seat frame and 10,000 miles later holdings like a champ and seat still operates as it should. I'm a Huge fan of JB Weld lol. And the better you prep area the harder it grabs.

 

Still wouldn't recommend it for recovery gear lol

 

Isn't that when the problem solves itself?

 

No hell no lol . Anything load bearing and especially a recovery point and jb weld is no bueno.

 

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Since I don't like how cool my xj runs now where should I get a 195 thermostat? I got the water pump and 180 at napa. Closest dealership is about 30 miles away

 

Nothing beats the dealership one

 

Iv got:

High flow thermostat housing
3 row radiator
High flow water pump
All new hoses
Heater core bypass
91+ style open cooling system
Zj heavy duty clutch fan
Toggle switched electric fan
1" hood spacer
16lb radiator cap
180* thermostat
New CTS
Removed a/c condenser
A/C delete also
All parts have less than 2500k miles on them.


At times my jeep does run cool, but the only thing that would effect is my gas mileage correct due to the sensors adjusting for tempature? Brcause if im not mistaken it keeps the it in "cold" mode and uses more gas with an incresed idle to try to continue to warm it up. If thats the case im not worried about mine because my cracked exhaust manifold is having more of an ill effect than anything.

 

Out with the old and in with the new. Replaced the forward 2 O2 sensors this weekend. The idle smoothed out A LOT! and it runs quieter and smoother. The MPG seem to be up as well from the read out but time will tell better.

Also attempted to install the Rough Country Control arm drop brackets, but my the heads on the upper controls arm bolts on the body side are rounded real nicely. It seemed like there was enough to hold it while I worked the nut off on the opposite side but I didnt have enough time to deal with issue that might come up. Plus I figured it would be good to soak the bolts with PD blaster for a bit and go at it again.

 

What exactly do the brackets do? Or help with? I have to get new upper and lower control arms (every single bushing is cracked) and I'm going with adjustable ones, would I need to get drop brackets?

 

LCA drop brackets lower the body mount side of your LCAs to reduce your LCA angle and, in turn, improve ride quality and down travel. It's a cheaper alternative to a LA lift, but you lose some ground clearance.

 

Sounds awesome, are they beefy enough to take some hits?

 

Depends what you buy. Some go on with two bolts, and others are full weld. I'd personally save up and go LA if I still planned to go that high, but it is a big price difference.

 

Yeah I'm not going that high anyways so I shouldn't be worrying about it lol jw what they were.

 

They drop both arms