What have you done to your rig today?

My Ranger likes spending weekends with my wife's ZJ. Unfortunately, the logistics were kinda crappy.
Not anymore...
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Made my own HD light bar bracket for the Yukon. The second half of the design involves an all aluminum bull bar with integrated rod holders.
But then it got dark last night so.... this is where I stopped.
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Got under it to figure out why I had early signs of death wobble. Ended up swapping a really bad tie rod out with a spare. Also figured out that all the other tie rods are worn plus the track bar at the frame side. Debating on what to replace it with.

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Started tearing the head off. Finishing up tonight
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Head is off and looks to be ok. Looks like somebody used stop leak and it plugged the holes in the head gasket and caused it to blow out. It's off to the machine shop to be checked thoroughly get new valves and shave the head 10 thousandths.

Also got the new front lift springs in and I'm loving where it sits.

Good help is hard to find. I'm bolting the shock back on, I hear him laughing, turn around to see this and he yells "LOOK! I'M IRON MAN!!!"
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@JSJJ388

Look closely at the combustion chambers for cracks. I've seen a few be cracked, or at least mention it to your machine shop to look before machining.
Hes going to clean it and run die. If it's cracked, hell find it. But yea I've seen them crack there before. I don't think it's cracked because I shut it off before it got hot. The engine just had gotten up to temp when it happened. If it is cracked I'll pull the head off my xj and put on it.

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Killed the same wasp twice that has been watching me work under my Ranger project. He set up shop in the passenger side rocker panel 3 weeks ago. Just a heads up, non clorinated brake cleaner doesn't have shit for a hearty wasp.
 
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