What Did You Do To Your Jeep Today?

Today was pretty satisfying, but also slightly frustrating.

First, the satisfying. I installed Brennan Metcalf's Suzuki brakes on the passenger side of my dana 30 swap. It looks like I'm not going to need longer wheel studs either

If you look closely, you can see the detroit green axle yokes. I think it's a subtle but cool accent.


The frustrating/annoying part comes from the long side. I hammered in a new u-joint, but I can't get it to drop down enough to put in the clip. I suspect one of the needle bearings fell under the end. It moves fine. I'm going to have to go rent the tool again, because whacking it with a hammer isn't doing anything good lol.

 

Agreed, it looks like the Inline Cable housing is fine, but the inner cable needs to be about 3" shorter. I was just guessing by eyeballing under the Jeep when I came up with my 4-4.5 number.

 

I'll do some more measuring tonight. jpflat2a noted some lengths from the parts book in this recent thread: 71 Clutch Cable

It would be good to hear from others who have used this cable and if they had to modify it. It seems like it would be about perfect for a T98/T18 Jeep.

 

Good news from the body shop, my cowl is ready for paint!
The rust on the cowl I was so worried about was only surface rust under the paint and was simple to eliminate. They still need to refinish the windshield frame that I had sandblasted to remove some rust on it.

 

Applied decals today.

 

^^^ That looks great!

 

Thanks, takes a lot of patience and the heat gun is your friend.

 

The JKU window nets showed up, so I replaced the ratchet strap dog netting on the '71 (What Did You Do To Your Jeep Today?) with something better looking.

Zip tied the middle link to the rear top hoop:


I added some hooks to a top rail bolt for the rear strap. Used some squeaze links because that's what was kicking around:


Put hose clamps on the rear hoop for the upper straps to pull against and not slide down the hoop. Sorry for the poor picture:

 

I like those..... + , they'll do the Job.

 

Are the letters cut out so that your base color shows through ? I'm also glad you figured out the other side . My OCD asks you to please do your ' Jeep '
tub letters in black. Thanks .

 

why no oil pressure?

 

Some people want to adapt a plow to a Volvo, some others have a snow plow Jeep, I modified to cut the grass with my Stihl...

 

Had a heck of a time getting oil pressure when I had my Fhead apart. Seems like I had to put a 12v pump direct to the oil pickup with the pan off, or something crazy like that. And yes, I mean with the engine runnin.

 

Dear Howard my Friend,
It is Imperative that any new oil pump install with gears , must be packed with Petroleum Jelly. It's the only sure fire way to create the prime that I know of . Please stop running it dry like that . You'll be rebuilding the bearings again very soon.