What have you goofed up on?

Keith1138

Keith1138

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So in my rush to get parts ordered to start to build my cherokee I completely forgot to order shims since I'm doing a sye. I didn't realize my mistake until I'm sitting here reviewing instruction and videos for my lift and sye. Since I'm installing it tomorrow. Looks like I'm going to have to drop my crossmemeber until I can get shims. Live and learn

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Don't feel bad. I had panic ordered a full striker rebuild kit. Compleatly forgot cam bearings. Funny thing is, I'm still driving on that motor but the low oil pressure had the rods " knock knock knock in on heavens door".


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It was just a major face palm moment. I'm hoping the 4wd parts store here in Charlotte has some because it's only 20 minutes away

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Keith Odom said:
So in my rush to get parts ordered to start to build my cherokee I completely forgot to order shims since I'm doing a sye. I didn't realize my mistake until I'm sitting here reviewing instruction and videos for my lift and sye. Since I'm installing it tomorrow. Looks like I'm going to have to drop my crossmemeber until I can get shims. Live and learn

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Unless your buying steel shims that you will weld in when set. Stick with the cross member drop. Shims spit out under load. I have been running a dropped cross member for years with no issues.
 
Jeff B said:
Unless your buying steel shims that you will weld in when set. Stick with the cross member drop. Shims spit out under load. I have been running a dropped cross member for years with no issues.
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^^^ This. I know for sure the 4wheel parts in Charlotte has some cast alum procomp shims if you're in a pinch but I'd remove them as soon as possible. I ran a set of them for all of 2 months before one was cracked, and the other had the center pin hole wallowed out and was working its way out. I ended up making some steel ones on my mill and tacking them into place on the perches.

As far as a recent goof up, I guess that'd be me not lengthening my driveshaft long enough after doing a RUF swap on my toyota. Dropped the front driveshaft out on the first trail at URE a few weekends ago.
 
I've goofed on plenty!

I can count of my hand the number of projects I've started that went "as planned" and in the timeframe I estimated. I'm 44....and I can count those times on one hand...you caught that right?

Try as I might to have EVERYTHING I need to star/finish a project, inevitably there's one small detail or item I hadn't accounted for and I either improvise or wait on that one part. Given my background and profession it's typically improvised UNTIL I have that solution in place. As long as it's not the permanent solution (I.E. Randy-fied)

What REALLY kills me, is when I take on a task, finish it, and I'm proud fo my work, then come on HERE, post pics and am ripped apart by folks with many more years of experience and expertise and I have to go back and REDO everything :kaioken:

It's a kick in the gonads and pride, but beats screwing up something. So...in a way...maybe this will BENEFIT you in the long run if others have a better solution (some serious XJ experts on here)
 
Financing a project.
In order to get it done and ready to sell I had to come up with a few grand really quickly ($6k loan). TERRIBLE mistake!
However, it happened, I sold it, climbed completely out of debt, paid off one school and immediately enrolled in another one. It worked out but damn... :eek:
 
I think either works. Well the cursed rear shock bolts on cherokees took me out at the knees today. Because my jeep is having to sit in the matinence shop at work for the weekend with Carolina squat until Monday

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I couldn't figure out why my k5 wouldn't run.... injector harness on the throttle body wasn't seated all the way.... it stumped me for 3 weeks. I lashed the valves twice, pulled the dizzy and made sure I had it timed right twice. Needless to say sometimes you over think it, lol.
 
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