What did you do to your Cherokee today?
05-17-2011, 09:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Basslicks
Back to the subject though... haven't posted in a few days, so here's the progress from friday to yesterday.
1. Installed the HID's
2. Found out my housings absolutely suck, but still work great for the low beam HID's
3. Found out my factory headlight wiring sucks, but still works great for the low beam HID's
4. Pulle off the pass side front door panel because the speaker was vibrating really bad... found out the cone had actually separated from the rubber surround. CRAP! So, since the back speakers weren't working at all, I figured it must be the wiring, so...
5. Pulled the rear hatch panel and pulled the rear speakers to swap into the front. Hooked them up and... nothing. Closely inspected the speakers and noticed copper windings coming up the center coax... alrighty, coils are shot.
6. Found a 2-way Boston 6x9 speaker and rigged it "free-air" style to the back hatch... left both door panels off till I could find speakers... to my surprise, having 1 speaker in the front and one speaker in the rear hatch sounds halfway decent...
That night, I went to a cookout at my brother's place... gave me 4 aux lights... now I have to figure out if I want to mount them all to a roof light bar or two on the bumper and two on the bar... hmmmm.....
Sunday morning I found some mud and did a little "factory suspension" flex as well as snap a few pics of the HID's... though you'll have to wait a little bit for that... pics are on the computer at home.
Monday, I spent some time expecting the U-joint 'cause my brother's practically fell out on him the other morning... so I figured I'd take two minutes and check mine. Joints are still good. Checked a few other things while I was under there... numerous leaks.. nothing critical... HEY, WHAT THE HECK IS THIS HOLE IN THE FLOOR PAN OF MY CARGO AREA!!! Oh well, also not critical. Did figure out why the rear end of my jeep looks like it sits lower than other factory sprung jeeps... 'cause the leafs are saggin so bad, they're arching the other way. Yes, my springs have lost the war against gravity. Think I'll be hitting the JY soon for some springs that will do me until I get my lift next year.
That's about it for this weekend.
1. Installed the HID's
2. Found out my housings absolutely suck, but still work great for the low beam HID's
3. Found out my factory headlight wiring sucks, but still works great for the low beam HID's
4. Pulle off the pass side front door panel because the speaker was vibrating really bad... found out the cone had actually separated from the rubber surround. CRAP! So, since the back speakers weren't working at all, I figured it must be the wiring, so...
5. Pulled the rear hatch panel and pulled the rear speakers to swap into the front. Hooked them up and... nothing. Closely inspected the speakers and noticed copper windings coming up the center coax... alrighty, coils are shot.
6. Found a 2-way Boston 6x9 speaker and rigged it "free-air" style to the back hatch... left both door panels off till I could find speakers... to my surprise, having 1 speaker in the front and one speaker in the rear hatch sounds halfway decent...
That night, I went to a cookout at my brother's place... gave me 4 aux lights... now I have to figure out if I want to mount them all to a roof light bar or two on the bumper and two on the bar... hmmmm.....
Sunday morning I found some mud and did a little "factory suspension" flex as well as snap a few pics of the HID's... though you'll have to wait a little bit for that... pics are on the computer at home.
Monday, I spent some time expecting the U-joint 'cause my brother's practically fell out on him the other morning... so I figured I'd take two minutes and check mine. Joints are still good. Checked a few other things while I was under there... numerous leaks.. nothing critical... HEY, WHAT THE HECK IS THIS HOLE IN THE FLOOR PAN OF MY CARGO AREA!!! Oh well, also not critical. Did figure out why the rear end of my jeep looks like it sits lower than other factory sprung jeeps... 'cause the leafs are saggin so bad, they're arching the other way. Yes, my springs have lost the war against gravity. Think I'll be hitting the JY soon for some springs that will do me until I get my lift next year.
That's about it for this weekend.
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05-17-2011, 09:19 PM
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Did my ball joints upper and lower and got Ol' Red back on the road slinging mud on the Benzs' and BMW's.
Great day ordering my 35" thursday morning and can't wait to hit up the offroad park again next weekend
Great day ordering my 35" thursday morning and can't wait to hit up the offroad park again next weekend
05-17-2011, 09:24 PM
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05-17-2011, 09:28 PM
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fixed my headliner, got my back doors to open finally(which is actually quite easy, shoulda made a write up) found some mud, realized my sway bar end link bolt is rubbing on the trac bar mount, now what would cause that??
it sheared some metal off!
it sheared some metal off!
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05-17-2011, 11:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Basslicks
Feel free.... just don't use it for an avatar or a sig... TIS MINE!!! you can use my old one for that though.
05-17-2011, 11:39 PM
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picked up the stuff for making my sway bar discos
got the stuff for my fender flares to mount...
also picked up the stuff to seal the freshly cut rear fenders and some under coating
and MY NEW TIRES CAME IN!!!
got the stuff for my fender flares to mount...
also picked up the stuff to seal the freshly cut rear fenders and some under coating
and MY NEW TIRES CAME IN!!!
05-18-2011, 12:06 AM
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Where did you get them? The old style Wrangler MT/R are hard to find.