What have you done to your rig today?

jeepinmatt said:
Between me, you, and @jcramsey we’ve got quite the XJ on gray Icons club! :laughing:
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I've got 2 XJ's on gray Icon's 😎

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Pulled the engine and transmission separately from the parts truck. Did it all without cutting anything in case someone wanted it intact. Drove it in a little after 10:30 and took this picture just before 2. Would have been a little faster if I didn't round off an exhaust nut and have to chisel it off. I will say it was so much easier being just a 2wd and the "HD" having all the extra room with the taller frame to accept the diesel/ Allison combo.
Now just need to re home the rest.

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Silverado_Express said:
Pulled the engine and transmission separately from the parts truck. Did it all without cutting anything in case someone wanted it intact. Drove it in a little after 10:30 and took this picture just before 2. Would have been a little faster if I didn't round off an exhaust nut and have to chisel it off. I will say it was so much easier being just a 2wd and the "HD" having all the extra room with the taller frame to accept the diesel/ Allison combo.
Now just need to re home the rest.

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How much for you to come swap my blown up Cummins for my not blown up Cummins?
 
More work on the loaner.

The struts and shocks were wore slap out so I thought I’d take advantage of Black Friday deals and ordered Koni struts/shocks and H&R springs. I also figured it would be a good time to replace all the rear bushings so I picked up some UHMW bushings and uniball shock mounts from Condor.
I replaced the front control arms and bushings with uniballs earlier in the year. So now the car should be nice and stiff.

The front McPherson struts and springs took about four hours to replace.

The rear. Wtf. This ain’t no first gen mustang. Getting the subframe out was a pain and now these dang subframe bushings are whooping my butt.


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New power stop pads on all 4 corners of my 2011 ram 3500. Dark out by the time I got to it so no pics. Had to free up the lower slide pins on all 4 corners. Took her down the road to set in the new pads. Rotors spec’d out okay so didn’t changed em as they were smooth. Guess we shall see how it goes but it’ll about put you in the dashboard now.
 
Cut the douche cannons off the 2door Tahoe now that I'm going to drive it some while I work on it. Went through 2 owners I know of since I sold it around 2013-14. Poor thing definitely had a rough decade before I got it back. Still more work to be done on it from neglect and abuse and more douchery to be undone... But removing these were therapeutic

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Finally took it out of 4wd yesterday morning.
Gotta find a carwash today.
 
I've always hated the clutch master/slave setup in my CUCV since I did the Cummins swap. I used a early 90s Ford master and the 2nd Gen Dodge slave. GM clutch masters are angled, but I bolted mine flat and had to change the pivot point on the pedal. That lost a LOT of pedal leverage. It was also a temporary setup that I did 18 years ago :lol:

Now I can use a stock GM clutch master, go back to the factory pivot point, and it uses a 98-02 2nd Gen slave cylinder. The bore sizes will match up and work well. I should also have a much more user friendly pedal feel and regain all of the pedal travel. It's somewhat minor, but I'm super excited about this! It's always been my main drivability complaint.

I got an 85 K30 master, 01 Dodge 2500 slave, a 12mm to -3 AN adapter fitting, a -3 to SAE o-ring fitting, a 48" -3 AN line with one straight end and one 90°, and a generic various model GM clutch master reservoir. Everything goes right together in perfect harmony and was 176 bucks total.

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