Wish my floors were in that good condition. Had to replace everything from firewall back.

 

I ordered a 12 point impact socket for those three hub bolts. I bent a pipe on this one.
Grunt grunt!

 

Went to the pull-a-part, spent the better part of two hours trying to remove the front toe hooks and skid plate. I didn't take my breaker bar and broke a ratchet, but I finally got the front skid plate and toe hooks off. I could not budge the bolts on the rear skid plate. The tow hook brackets are bent to crap, so I was basically after the hooks themselves and the reinforcing brackets.

Anyone have any OEM toe hook brackets they don't need?

I may go back tomorrow with bigger tools and attempt the rear skid plate again.

Or I may just go to Lowes and swap out my broken Craftsman ratchet and call it a day. It's cold here!

 

The rest of the above story: I went back up with bigger tools. I got the rear skid plate off only to find it rusted out where it is sandwiched between the frame and hitch. So, I came home empty handed.

I may have to rethink trying to find parts up here in the Midwest for a Jeep that doesn't have any rust on it.

I did exchange my ratchet at Lowes though and they gave me one of the "better" ones with the 120 click gear vs the standard 72. A little bit of a silver lining, I suppose.

 

I replaced my engine mounts today. This is the easiest vehicle to replace engine mounts on I have ever dealt with. Took me 15 minutes? Insane.

18mm main bolts. 15mm nuts ( three ) and one oddball 13mm bolt on the top drivers side. Used a floor Jack to hold up the motor placed at the bell housing end.

Old 22-year old mounts were a tad long in the tooth…

 

My 92 looks much worse than this. The carpet and padding IS the floor about 10% of the area. Trying to decide if I want to tackle. MY 91 is great [only 'lite' surface rust underneath], and trying to decide if I should take measures to KEEP it that way. **OOPS, this was meant to be a reply to the 'rusty floor' of a previous post.

 

https://www.fn-jeep.com/ many used parts out of Colorado Springs.

 

I'll have to check them out. My son is stationed there and he could pick the parts up for me and hold them until I visit or he comes out here. Thanks.

 

Designed and 3D printed a new shifter bulb holding bracket.

 

Definitely need to sell these, i would buy one and I’m sure many of us would

 

I could do that. I know not having replacements for obscure parts sux.

There’s one tweak to the design I need to make. Plus I want to cycle it in the XJ a bit before I offer it to anyone.

 

The alternator went in last week, apologies for not shooting pics as promised. It was raining and I just needed to get it in fast.

As luck would have it I did have to grind a little more off the bracket that attaches to the front of the block. This alternator was a little more beefy and it just wouldn't clear without another 1/8" but it's not particularly robust and was fairly easy to do.

I was worried about the smaller pully maybe requiring a smaller belt but after experimenting with a 93" and a 94" belt I ended up just using the 95" Gatorback that was already installed--just had to adjust it to all the way in pretty much. The other belts proved too small for this. After install I'm constantly charging above 14v but I'm not sold 100%. I am guessing the regulator limits how much juice gets to the battery, pretty sure that's something I could find if I looked it up. Anyways, all in all I'm happy with the purchase and it seems to be alternating current just fine. FWIW cutting and splicing the "block" for the new alternator proved to be not a big deal, and I was glad I did the "big 7" upgrade on cables a couple of years ago so that was already in place before I did the new alternator--something they suggest anyways.

Now to fix the front pump seal on that "new" tranny which is leaking on startup and is costing me and the environment about a quart of fluid a month at this point. SO not looking forward to pulling the transmission to do a $3 seal.

 

Freakin' wheeled it, brohs!

 

Installing my new 1 ton steering I built. (Pics to be posted after install is complete)
EDIT: Here's the finished install.

 

Installed new fuel gauge sending unit. Can't imagine why this one wasn't working anymore...