What have you done to your rig today?

Wrenching party at my place tonight.

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Its 4:45 am... 6.5 hours since started... and I just realized why the steering linkage wasn't connecting on my daughters new ride from Santa....

I had the effing thing reversed....

In my defense, it matches exactly to the sucky directions that came with it showing it installed wrong... and the extra curved hole in the floor just made me wonder if I was missing a piece.

Anywho... fixed in record time by the light of a lit tree. I think I'll go to bed now...

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This Amazon electric fan was a pain in the ass to install. I’ve also learned why people say making your own shroud is super easy.

Also getting this whole wiring job almost complete. Just two more circuits to complete for the smaller circuits then need to run the big cable front and rear for the aux power.

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Put the hardtop and doors on the CJ and drove it 150 miles round trip to work and back nearly all highway speeds passing people with my 37 year old relic on full width tons. Good time
 
Finally got around to changing the belt tensioner on the truck today. Only to find this issue (pictured). My solution, undo pulley closest to me, let the tension from the belt shoot it toward the ground, now the belt was loose and I could finish. Also finally got around to doing the steering stabilizers after having the truck lifted for months
 

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Changed the spark plugs before work this afternoon. Went from an NGK TR5IX to a TR6IX. I'd have never thought that just changing heat ranges would have made such a difference, but it's a completely different truck. I thought the old plugs were gapped out to .060. I checked them and they were at .045. The new ones are at .040, I had to open them up a touch. They always say not to gap platinum/iridium plugs, but to hell with that. They were all slightly different and only at .035. NGK says you can gap them as long as you don't change them more than .008" from what they were out of the box.

Anyway, glad I swapped them out. The old plugs looked fine and only had 22,1xx miles on them. Very interesting stuff.
 
I pulled the batteries out of the 93 today. Since I got the 15 I haven't been driving it much and the last time I did I had to jump start it, then after driving it around for a bit it wouldn't start again. Date on the batteries was 11/14 so I don't know why they didn't want to hold a charge anymore? Price on new batteries has gone crazy too. Tomorrow I'll get the new batteries in and drag out the snow plow, which will basically ensure that we won't get any snow this weekend :rolleyes:

Duane
 
Trying to do a spacer lift on the ol lady’s TJ today and, I don’t think the sway bar end link is supposed to separate like that
 

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93redzj said:
Trying to do a spacer lift on the ol lady’s TJ today and, I don’t think the sway bar end link is supposed to separate like that
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That's pretty normal. Just lower it back down, beat around it with a hammer to tighten it up, and then stick a couple zip ties around it.
 
Makes me really glad that none of my stuff has sway bars!
 
CLRracer said:
I pulled the batteries out of the 93 today. Since I got the 15 I haven't been driving it much and the last time I did I had to jump start it, then after driving it around for a bit it wouldn't start again. Date on the batteries was 11/14 so I don't know why they didn't want to hold a charge anymore? Price on new batteries has gone crazy too. Tomorrow I'll get the new batteries in and drag out the snow plow, which will basically ensure that we won't get any snow this weekend :rolleyes:

Duane
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I know you already bought the batteries but check out the Battery Shop in Wilson’s Mills (919) 934-2233 over behind the Polaris place. They sell seconds, which are batteries that sat on the shelf too long and were taken back and checked/fixed/charged. I have bought a dozen or so over the years and all have done well but one (Lasted 2 years). I think they are $54.95.
 
ponykilr said:
I know you already bought the batteries but check out the Battery Shop in Wilson’s Mills (919) 934-2233 over behind the Polaris place. They sell seconds, which are batteries that sat on the shelf too long and were taken back and checked/fixed/charged. I have bought a dozen or so over the years and all have done well but one (Lasted 2 years). I think they are $54.95.
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Makes me wish I would have shopped around a little when I bought mine a few months back. One went out on the truck, so I replaced them both, think it was around $400
 
ponykilr said:
I know you already bought the batteries but check out the Battery Shop in Wilson’s Mills (919) 934-2233 over behind the Polaris place. They sell seconds, which are batteries that sat on the shelf too long and were taken back and checked/fixed/charged. I have bought a dozen or so over the years and all have done well but one (Lasted 2 years). I think they are $54.95.
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Hate to break it to you, but he's gone. :(

New folks don't have all the seconds. They can order a batter for you though, at the same price as napa
 
awheelterd said:
Hate to break it to you, but he's gone. :(

New folks don't have all the seconds. They can order a batter for you though, at the same price as napa
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Dang! Well I have been out of JoCo for a year. The one in the International 424 is over 4 years old. They were like $40 back then.
 
ponykilr said:
Dang! Well I have been out of JoCo for a year. The one in the International 424 is over 4 years old. They were like $40 back then.
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Yeah I put 3 in our old international yard truck a few years a go from there. $50 apiece. Went looking a battery for my generator last year and the guy had sold out and retired. I was missing that place today. 2 big batteries for a spot truck set me back $287 from sellers :(
 
awheelterd said:
Hate to break it to you, but he's gone. :(

New folks don't have all the seconds. They can order a batter for you though, at the same price as napa
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Since when? Daddy got some from there in the late summer early fall, but he had to take one back because of a dead cell and the only other ones they had at the time were smaller batteries. I started to go there and get some, but Napa had 15% off on their batteries and I figured I got 7 years out of them so if I get 7 out of these then it wouldn't be too bad.

Duane
 
CLRracer said:
Since when? Daddy got some from there in the late summer early fall, but he had to take one back because of a dead cell and the only other ones they had at the time were smaller batteries. I started to go there and get some, but Napa had 15% off on their batteries and I figured I got 7 years out of them so if I get 7 out of these then it wouldn't be too bad.

Duane
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The original guy is gone. The new folks didn't have anything in stock, at least they didn't when I went by looking big truck batteries last year. They gave me a quote for a big battery for my generator but sellers was the same price for a new one. Maybe they have gotten back on track since then 🤷
 
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