scull20's Build of "Equinso Ocha" (aka White Devil)
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scull20
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I suppose we'll just have to bend it more on the next trip!...I'll tell Nicole we're getting a full-float 60 as a..uh...wedding gift?
JeepJeep75
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The part about you making the drill bit smaller as opposed to making the hole bigger just kills me.
maybe it's the 4 or 5 ciders I've had this s evening. [emoji482] Part of the problem is your trying to drill into spring steel, which is the sway bar. Your best bet is to try to get a grinder type of bit in there. Something like a die grinder or a burr type bit. Drilling it is gonna smoke more than a couple brill bits. Sent from my iPhone using WAYALIFE mobile app
scull20
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The part about you making the drill bit smaller as opposed to making the hole bigger just kills me.
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I was laughing on the inside...and cursing on the outside lol. Thanks for the tip, I'll give that a go next time.
:cheesy: You and me both! It can be tough drilling through the sway bar. A good bit and a little cutting oil does help.
DeJkUnlimited
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I had to enlarge the holes on my front sway bar for my Synergy links. That was a real bitch. I was able to do it with one Bosch Cobalt bit though, took about 45 to do both sides.
RamP
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scull20
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Awesome!!...name your price.
cozdude
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Ugh so jealous. I'm trying to find a good deal on a 45 myself
scull20
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You can dump you junk in my cooler Jerry.
scull20
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Brake chirping issue appears to be "resolved", at least for now.
I pulled the caliper and pads earlier to give everything a once over and found that I was missing one of the metal clips that fit into the brake caliper bracket that the pads ride in. After putting a new clip in and cleaning and regreasing everything the brakes are quiet again.
The flange is still bent, but I'll wait until it gets worse and then swap in the shafts I got from Jim.
I pulled the caliper and pads earlier to give everything a once over and found that I was missing one of the metal clips that fit into the brake caliper bracket that the pads ride in. After putting a new clip in and cleaning and regreasing everything the brakes are quiet again.
The flange is still bent, but I'll wait until it gets worse and then swap in the shafts I got from Jim.
scull20
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Pics to follow from this weekend...
Some "minor" carnage, nothing really crazy. My ProTek crossover skid really needs to get dropped and beaten back into submission. It took some good whacks this weekend. I popped the bushing out of the end of the steering stabilizer that was bolted to the drag link flip bracket. Hinrichs was saying that this happened to him too previously, and he pressed it back in with a vise. I'll work on that later, but I'm thinking that I'm going to add a small spacer to keep the stabilizer parallel with the track bar, and also add a big washer on there to keep the stabilizer from popping off the bushing. Driving home the 2 1/2 hours on the highway was totally fine without the stabilizer. However, driving 15 min around town last night was interesting. I got some minor wobble in the steering wheel a few times...followed by full-blown death wobble after hitting some crappy areas of pavement at about 45 mph. Beyond that I pinched my exhaust shut on the beginning half of Cemetery...I'll be grabbing the quietcrawler set up soon enough.
I also have a video from my GoPro that was suctioned to my windshield with a 3 axis gimbal. Its pretty neat that the camera is stable and you can get a sense for how much movement is going on down below with the Jeep. I'll post that up later as well.
Some "minor" carnage, nothing really crazy. My ProTek crossover skid really needs to get dropped and beaten back into submission. It took some good whacks this weekend. I popped the bushing out of the end of the steering stabilizer that was bolted to the drag link flip bracket. Hinrichs was saying that this happened to him too previously, and he pressed it back in with a vise. I'll work on that later, but I'm thinking that I'm going to add a small spacer to keep the stabilizer parallel with the track bar, and also add a big washer on there to keep the stabilizer from popping off the bushing. Driving home the 2 1/2 hours on the highway was totally fine without the stabilizer. However, driving 15 min around town last night was interesting. I got some minor wobble in the steering wheel a few times...followed by full-blown death wobble after hitting some crappy areas of pavement at about 45 mph. Beyond that I pinched my exhaust shut on the beginning half of Cemetery...I'll be grabbing the quietcrawler set up soon enough.
I also have a video from my GoPro that was suctioned to my windshield with a 3 axis gimbal. Its pretty neat that the camera is stable and you can get a sense for how much movement is going on down below with the Jeep. I'll post that up later as well.
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scull20
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Pressed the bushing back in and bolted the stabilizer back up with an 1 1/2 stainless washer on the outside to keep the stabilizer from popping off again. Pressing the bushing in was more annoying than I thought it was going to be.
In other news, the exhaust loop is contacting the crossmember skid. It might just be time to replace this skid overall. My xfer case skid is bent too.