What did you do to your XJ today? 1M Views
 

post anything. Did you wash her today or did you start fabbing up that custom axle etc?

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Swapped the 33's back to 31's for this weekends trip - bushies aint on yet

removed rear seat, organised rear storage and put the swag and camping stuff in the back

noticed my roof lights, on same switch, but diff relay as main front narva 170's didnt work. cleaned up the wiring. blew three blade fuses and didnt have a spare - and the roof lights still dont bloody work - lost

Took her down to Car Magic in Mundaring and blasted all the mud off from the Jeep fight club trip, what a mess:D

drove to work and back home
hard to imagine it is the same xj that was covered in mud
at jeep fight club yesterday

hmmm.. almost traded it on a '99 grand!!!:o

Repaired a small ding on the left rear guard (sanding and filling). Now have prepared bonnet and roof ready for primer surfacer tomorrow.

Mine sitting at the bobyworks getting fix.

finished sound deadening the passenger door
cut a bigger hole to fit a 6.5 speaker
started deadening the driver's door
replaced the rivets that hold the locking system acuator with some m5 bolts
yes, i'm on vacation untill october 1st and the jeep is getting a lot of attention :D

Just pulled out a front speaker to get the size to have them replaced (how did upsizing go ?). putting a full sound system in this weekend so getting all the parts I need. Also ordered some sheepskin covers tailormade for the XJ. He said 4 weeks to make them - guess they couldnt find any dark grey sheep around here.

i'm posting some pics of the usizin tomorrow :)
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^ the rest of the work done.

Drove her to work and back. How do you guys get so much done on a monday?

just greased all the nipples and joints

I just drove it to work and back too. I did start designing a new rack to carry a land yacht on top though.

Stipped down the D44 for the front waiting for highsteer knuckles.

Drove around it with my other car because my wife took the keys to work but left the Jeep at home :rolleyes:

Walked past it, looked at it, and got in the pffft mobeel and went to work. ;)

missed the courier that was delivering my rubicon 5.5" leafs

doh !

drove it to work
just like every other day

just sat and looked in awe

pulled the back diff out to have new bearings fitted :( hopefully won't sound like an old taxi when i get it back

Got a quote to have the bearings in the rear diff done... $1100...

Ordered a new radiator for it this arvo.

picked up my starter motor from the auto electric's
who would have thought $55 for a new solinod fitted
now i have to put the basstard back in
shame its a diesel

Took her into the bush near where I live to scout out some tracks for a club trip. Found some ripper tracks in the middle of a gorgeous pine plantation

dreamt about future mods...

I packed it full of parts (dash, guards, roof lining) for my silvia!

after much messing around trying to sus out why my roof top lights didnt work in conjunction with my front spotties i found the problem........... a simple earthing at the rear of the car where i run the wires. crap

walked passed my D44 and thought have to clean it up soon (some slag left after plasma cutting the crap off TJs need a few weeks ago) ready for some weld, gears and locker....confirmed parts coming soon

Tried to get rid of the sparrows but it looks like new uni's are needed :(

Cheers
Steve

Replaced bearings, retainer and seal in rear axle. After some numnuts did the brake conversion, they didnt check the torque (i dont think he owns a torque wrench) on the plate retaining the axle. I dont know wether this caused my bearings to fail, but I did have the axle moving in and out about 40mm. Now, after using the torque wrench to spec, I have no movement . HOORAY Its very exciting to be able to work on your own vehicle ( with lots of help, thankyou mr wooders & brookers brakes) :)

between Jeep Fight Club and now i have pressure washed it, aired up, reconnected, fixed the broken battery cables causing a flat battery, removed the transfer case bash plate for rebending (it was grounded against the transfer case - howd that happen?:rolleyes: ), examined the rather large dent in my rocker sill under the driver door (howd i do that?:rolleyes: ), examined the rather large missing chunk out of my right rear wheel (howd i do that?:rolleyes: ), examined the 1/2" of caked mud on the driver floormat (i KNOW how i did that!), threatened to clean it up more than a few times but drank beer instead, cleaned the water out of my distributor cap (ok, mud), pressure washed it again and then drove the tj while its been drying out all week...will get around to washing it next month (or the month after)....actually it should be summer before i wash it :cool:

might be time for rock rails hehehe

yeps, is in the works after i get my new tig next couple weeks :D

what i did yesterday cos today is fathers day went to work in the morning fitted auxillary fan in front of radiator and started to do the wiring it will be two speed low for the aircon and high for when the temp starts to rise or when im wheeling in low next will be a front mounted oil cooler

x2 :D

oh yeh. snapped my panhard rod today !

I cleaned it!!!

And put the rear flares back on.

And finished my install of a new Kenwood MP3 CD w/USB player. No more skipping while bouncing.

today? um. fed her. put some ULP and LPG in. also pumped up the rear tyres to 45psi and the fronts 32. filled the back seat up with more rubbish (tools what not) did some installing of wiring for the amp.

oh and topped up the wiper bottle full of water/soap and no smear fluid.

she had a big one

swore
bashed knucket on something metallic
got my spring + 2" spacer in
got one of my control arms off in addition to point one and two above
couldnt adjust control arm due to not having a large spanner
swore
packed up and quit

Fixed the rear washer (the tube had come off INSIDE the rear hatch!UGH!).
Then took off the rocker cover, undid the rockers on cyldr#4 and put the pushrod back in.. GRRRR

Didn't know I had a rear washer!

put my coilspacers in which are 2", adjusted the LCA's to 17", put the 33's on and yeh, the pinion angle is insanely out on the front - hub to guard (without standard flares on, just metal) - 27"

i dont get it, the frontis all ********ed up, gonna have to look into that....