as long as three pieces are there!!!

 

Exactly what I'm gonna do and I have so many stickers I don't know if the old girl could handle all the HP

 

Pulled the old 242 for the swap

 

Picked it up a new oil filter, and some T4. Mixing it with some Castrol GTX 5W20 to save a few bucks since its been in my garage forever. Just poured 4 different motorcycle oils together in with some T3, ha ha ha.

 

Found my nice oil leak is coming from the distributor gasket at the block? Is that common or is my blow by that bad?

 

Got the rear bumper painted and mounted today. Decided to use rustoleum hammered paint to hide any of the weird looking marks and weld joints. Still have to do some finishing touches like aligning the side panels but other from that, very impressed with the design quality.

 

I greased every zerk fitting I could find. Probably should have done that a while ago. We will see if it stops some of the clunks when I drive it tomorrow.

 

I need to do that....especially on the rear shackles.

 

[QUOTE=shooptube;3361877]Got the rear bumper painted and mounted today. Decided to use rustoleum hammered paint to hide any of the weird looking marks and weld joints. Still have to do some finishing touches like aligning the side panels but other from that, very impressed with the design quality./QUOTE]


FINE-looking bumper job, good on you!

'Did similar last summer because the factory one just disintegrated...weird, as 'rest of the 96 Sport is in great condition. Went with factory spec replacement as he's mostly an urban ride and does not tow anything.

Query; did you have a terrible(!!!!) time getting the old one off?

In this instance, everything was wretchedly rusted together. Old bumper came off in 5 "large" and 5,413 small pieces. Mounts needed a week of Blaster, pounding, wrenching, Blaster, pounding...but all 8 bolts ultimately came out without snapping. Replaced all of them with new.

Brush-on truck-bed-liner plastic will "even out" more of the weld mark etc. and do some protection, too.

 

Bought my XJ a WJ to keep it company

 

Bad mistake

 

Yeah give us an update. The only time I do this is when I do suspension or steering work so I can never tell a difference because I grease new pieces lol.

 

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Shoot I missed those ones. Guess I will crawl back under there tonight.

 

Well it seems to have made most of the clunks go away. I was also getting a weird wobble in the steering wheel around 45-50mph. That seems to be better too. The steering feels a hair tighter now.