The Green Jeep - 94 YJ Sahara

Wrapped up the front end refresh with some new shocks. The old white tube specials were toast.
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Heading to the ranch in a few weeks so I started the pre trip bolt/grease check. Went to pull the rig out of the shop and AGAIN it had no fuel. Pump was running but wasn’t pulling fuel. Checked what I thought was everything, still nothing. Pulled an old E2000 apart and found this little rubber detent and spring on the outlet side. Bench tested the pump and same thing. Pump spins and just air locks essentially. Nowhere for fluid to go so it won’t pull. I smacked the pump on the workbench and the spring and detent hit the floor. Sure enough it was swollen and stuck not allowing it to open up. Out of curiosity I pulled it out of the pump in the rig and it fired right up and pulled fuel just fine. Won’t hold my breath but hopefully that’s the last of that shit.
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Need to figure out a little belt squeal that comes and goes and grease the superjoints but that’s about it for pre trip at this point.
 
StretchASU said:
Heading to the ranch in a few weeks so I started the pre trip bolt/grease check. Went to pull the rig out of the shop and AGAIN it had no fuel. Pump was running but wasn’t pulling fuel. Checked what I thought was everything, still nothing. Pulled an old E2000 apart and found this little rubber detent and spring on the outlet side. Bench tested the pump and same thing. Pump spins and just air locks essentially. Nowhere for fluid to go so it won’t pull. I smacked the pump on the workbench and the spring and detent hit the floor. Sure enough it was swollen and stuck not allowing it to open up. Out of curiosity I pulled it out of the pump in the rig and it fired right up and pulled fuel just fine. Won’t hold my breath but hopefully that’s the last of that shit.
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Need to figure out a little belt squeal that comes and goes and grease the superjoints but that’s about it for pre trip at this point.
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Thank goodness.
Let's wheel soon. Last time we did my wife joined us and coincidentally that brought the freak out.
 
Jody Treadway said:
Thank goodness.
Let's wheel soon. Last time we did my wife joined us and coincidentally that brought the freak out.
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Once I get the tow rig back from repair I can plan a trip for sure.

She was just fired up about a little ol TJ gettin down with the big boys. We are going to try and make the unofficial URE meet and beat, I mean get together, and have both rigs there.
 
Another Ranch trip done and dusted. Great weekend in the woods with friends. The YJ was point and shoot as usual. Only hang up was the cooler bouncing into the fuel pump on Chadalack and loosening the connections. The new springs and shocks made for a much more enjoyable ride between trails but the shackles inverted at some point on Cripple Creek and was fixed quickly by throwing the winch up into a tree and getting weight off the front. I’ll weld in some stops to keep it from being a regular thing. At some point the belly pan will have to come back off and the frame inserts replaced as a couple tend to loosen up over time even with loctite like the threads are toast.

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StretchASU said:
Another Ranch trip done and dusted. Great weekend in the woods with friends. The YJ was point and shoot as usual. Only hang up was the cooler bouncing into the fuel pump on Chadalack and loosening the connections. The new springs and shocks made for a much more enjoyable ride between trails but the shackles inverted at some point on Cripple Creek and was fixed quickly by throwing the winch up into a tree and getting weight off the front. I’ll weld in some stops to keep it from being a regular thing. At some point the belly pan will have to come back off and the frame inserts replaced as a couple tend to loosen up over time even with loctite like the threads are toast.

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I used a hole saw to the side of my frame. And run nuts and bolts. Plus can wash the frame out a lot better. Screw those nutserts
 
StretchASU said:
Another Ranch trip done and dusted. Great weekend in the woods with friends. The YJ was point and shoot as usual. Only hang up was the cooler bouncing into the fuel pump on Chadalack and loosening the connections. The new springs and shocks made for a much more enjoyable ride between trails but the shackles inverted at some point on Cripple Creek and was fixed quickly by throwing the winch up into a tree and getting weight off the front. I’ll weld in some stops to keep it from being a regular thing. At some point the belly pan will have to come back off and the frame inserts replaced as a couple tend to loosen up over time even with loctite like the threads are toast.

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I get pregnant just by watching you wheel.
 
StretchASU said:
Another Ranch trip done and dusted. Great weekend in the woods with friends. The YJ was point and shoot as usual. Only hang up was the cooler bouncing into the fuel pump on Chadalack and loosening the connections. The new springs and shocks made for a much more enjoyable ride between trails but the shackles inverted at some point on Cripple Creek and was fixed quickly by throwing the winch up into a tree and getting weight off the front. I’ll weld in some stops to keep it from being a regular thing. At some point the belly pan will have to come back off and the frame inserts replaced as a couple tend to loosen up over time even with loctite like the threads are toast.

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I ran a set of MORE boomerang shackles on the front of my old YJ and for all the years I beat on that thing it never inverted a shackle or even tried to bend a spring. May be a cheap easy upgrade worth looking into.

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Boomerang Shackle for Jeep Wrangler YJ (1987-95) & CJ (1976-86) Front or Rear

When you take the skid off just knock the factory nutserts loose and a 1/2" nut fits pretty well in to the hole in the frame to weld in place. I did almost all of them that way on mine as they stripped out or came loose.
 
Hokie_YJ said:
I ran a set of MORE boomerang shackles on the front of my old YJ and for all the years I beat on that thing it never inverted a shackle or even tried to bend a spring. May be a cheap easy upgrade worth looking into.

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Boomerang Shackle for Jeep Wrangler YJ (1987-95) & CJ (1976-86) Front or Rear

When you take the skid off just knock the factory nutserts loose and a 1/2" nut fits pretty well in to the hole in the frame to weld in place. I did almost all of them that way on mine as they stripped out or came loose.
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Thank you for reminding me I have a set of boomerang shackles in my parts cabinet from the old build. 🤣
 
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