What have you done to your rig today?

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The girlfriend wanted black rims for her Jeep, scored some for a steal, cleaned em up a little and painted them (did the best I could), got them on her Jeep, the tire place reinstalled the centers but she didn’t like it so off they went....the last pic are the pacers that came off, gonna attempt to clean them up and sell them if anyone is looking
 

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Had to modify my new doors, beef em up too. Scored some 3/16 expanded metal from scrap guy. These doors are freaking awesome now.
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And my rig got a little facelift, hardly no jeep left lol, little more work to tub the rear
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NickMaul said:
So many chances to triangulate and you just said “nope.”

Respect.

Fuck the system


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Keep rollin on man


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I don't know what you're talking about, there's plenty of triangulation in there lol....or there's enough plus I'm not done. I gotta tub the rear, and add few more "triangles" if you will throughout the whole cage but ran out of the 1" and 1.25" tubing and all I got is 2", too big but it's coming along though.
 
No fries said:
This is all the 6 ton jack stands are good for now. Thanks to the wife for helping out.
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I’d be terrified if my wife attempted to use anything in the garage besides the garage door opener. Let alone my grinder or any other power tools for that matter. Guaranteed injury or carnage. That’s pretty cool that your boss lady will dive in.
 
Wes said:
I’d be terrified if my wife attempted to use anything in the garage besides the garage door opener. Let alone my grinder or any other power tools for that matter. Guaranteed injury or carnage. That’s pretty cool that your boss lady will dive in.
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Yeah she is great and always wants to help out when she can. She does get bored with the tedious stuff. I have no complaints, she pressure washed the driveway and she ALWAYS cuts the grass. I can tell you I've probably cut the grass maybe a dozen times in the last 20+ years we have been in the house. (I do trim and edge). She is 10X a better person than me.
 
No fries said:
Yeah she is great and always wants to help out when she can. She does get bored with the tedious stuff. I have no complaints, she pressure washed the driveway and she ALWAYS cuts the grass. I can tell you I've probably cut the grass maybe a dozen times in the last 20+ years we have been in the house. (I do trim and edge). She is 10X a better person than me.
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My wife keeps asking to mow here at the house to help me out since she works in the school system and has summers off(which implies she gets on my zero turn Bobcat).

"Nah, I'm good babe but thank you...I really appreciate you offering"

My other reply is normally along the lines of "you won't drive my F350 a mile down the road but you wanna hop on this zero turn..."

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rcalexander105 said:
"Nah, I'm good babe but thank you...I really appreciate you offering"
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Most of the older rich guys I know have wifes that LOVE mowing on a zero turn :lol:

Time to accept your fate and allow her to show you how it's done :flipoff2:
 
CasterTroy said:
Most of the older rich guys I know have wifes that LOVE mowing on a zero turn [emoji38]
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Funny thing is it is just a standard JD 22" self propelled mower. Granted we only have .25 acres. She does want a tractor when we move and get some land.

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CasterTroy said:
Most of the older rich guys I know have wifes that LOVE mowing on a zero turn :lol:

Time to accept your fate and allow her to show you how it's done :flipoff2:
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Fortunately for me, I'm neither old nor rich :flipoff2:
 
Chris_Keziah said:
Hang on did you wire edm the width for the shackle? Looks good though.
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Yup, along with the hole. You know you need to hold .0002” on those d ring mounts. [emoji23]


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No fries said:
I have no complaints, she pressure washed the driveway and she ALWAYS cuts the grass.
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Damn...I should have called when my mower ate itself!

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I know a lady in Concord that mows 30 acres with a zero turn & absolutely loves it! She's on it so much her husband put a golf cart roof on it to keep her cool/in the shade so she could stay out longer!
 
Posting for @moldman05.

On the last trip out at the top of mason jar, my dads front driveshaft and carrier bearing quit, while the 502 was on the rev limiter, and the 43” sticky SX’s were smoking.

Nothing major was hurt, other than front driveline, and took out rear brake line. Dented the oil filter, and wrinkled the 1/8” aluminum floor. The old setup was PTO-ish parts and a generic cast iron pillow block bearing.

We have been working to get it back together and wanted to show the setup we have now from Dave @ Olivers. My dad Russ also wanted me to post the pictures of his atlas shifters he made last year. The cable shifters never really worked well for him, so he ditched that and went to direct levers.

We made the front driveshafts equal length, so in the future, will only need to carry one spare for both front shafts. We also installed a carrier bearing from Olivers that is way more stout than the previous one. All 1410 joints and 1/4” wall on the lower shaft.

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Some of y’all will appreciate this. For some of y’all, it will confirm you’re suspicions that I’m an idiot. Haha.


So for a while I have been running stock YJ steering pumps. After 4 yrs on the same pump, mine was getting very noisy and angry.

My pump has the stretched spring and drilled orfice. Steering was great but got noisy and frequently got hot, bypassing a ton of fluid at idle.

So last weekend I swapped to a new (parts store) pump. Put my orfice outlet fitting in it, and used the non stretched spring, only stretch a tiny bit, to get the pressure back down some.

New pump was quiet, but wouldn’t stop seeping around where the line attaches.

So yesterday I decided, let’s change that o ring 4th time again, and while I have it apart, I’ll put on my fancy alum reservoir.

Swap reservoirs, bleed system, no leaks. Good to go. After running a few minutes, this pump gets horrendously noisy. Screaming and hot.

So, I say screw it, I have a trail gear pump on the shelf, supposed to be for a build, screw it, let’s get it on there.

Now, to mount the TG pump, I have to drill and tap the holes out to 3/8 for it to attach like the factory YJ pump. The YJ pump uses all 5/16 hardware. So this turns into milling out the adjustment slots to fit the new 3/8 hardware.

The holes in the TG pump were too big to tap 5/16.

Get that done now onto the lines.

The TG inlet is -10 an, and outlet is -6. But my YJ still had factory GM metric o ring lines.

A-ha. Remove the TG -6 outlet fitting, drill stock YJ outlet fitting to same size orfice as TG one, and boom, TG pump to YJ hose.

So I go this morning and get a -10 line made up at my local Napa for the feed line.

Get it installed, bleed everything, get all the air out, and finally fire it up.

Problem solved, pump is quiet and isn’t bypassing a ton of fluid at idle.

Everything is great. Ready to get the rest of the jeep ready to go next weekend and clean up.


So I let it run to warm up and say, let me just turn the wheel back and forth to make sure everything is good to go.

Wham. Psssshhhhhhhh. Shit.


Apparently the YJ outlet orfice fitting is slightly under size at the threads compared to the TG -6 an outlet fitting. Despite me checking everything between both pumps on the bench and both fittings, and it all assembling and tightening correctly,

It blew the outlet fitting out of the pump and most of all the fluid on the fender/hood/floor.


Now I’m cleaning up and going home to order another $200 worth of hose and fittings and adapters to make this weekends trip. Makes me want a new hobby.

Sorry for the pic clarity, my phone on the fender got covered in hyd oil as well.

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