What did you do to your WH/XH today?

[briteway]

Originally Posted by GMEMUD

As for the threaded nuts moulded in on a angle, I just used a hair dryer to heat it a bit around the nuts and threaded a stud in and straightened them.

That's a good idea mate. I even have a heat gun . One day I'll install a snorkel on mine .

[GMEMUD]

I used a 95mm saw and that gave me enough clearance to fit some edge rubber around the hole after painting exposed metal.

[pmac]

2007 CRD LTD WH. Black with Sunroof.

I fell in love all over again with my Jeep (well I had never fallen out of love actually).

Gave her a clean, took her for a drive, put my foot down at the bottom of a steep hill, and as SF778 says, she pulled like a steam train all the way to the top.

The new suspension makes her ride smooth as silk, and handle very nicely too for a 4wd. One thing I noticed, I have always had a very minor vibration coming from the front end at certain speeds. I have a thread on here about it a year or so ago and the recommended remedy was to change the diff bushes. I did the two easy ones but not the hard one, and it wasn't fixed, so I just lived with it. The lift somehow fixed it.

A recommendation: if you have the old style green display radio/CD stacker, swap it out for a new style, with rear video camera, and bluetooth streaming. It was a painful experience doing it, and I have to speak German to my EVIC, but if I knew the difference it would make, I would have done it the second day I had the car.

Now I've just got to get the front clunk fixed and I will be a happy man. I believe it is the bushes holding the front sway bar, so I tried to disconnect the sway bar and take her for a drive to confirm before I ordered them, but sadly my 18mm socket has far too small a handle, and not enough leverage to get the bolt undone.

[briteway]

Originally Posted by pmac

Now I've just got to get the front clunk fixed and I will be a happy man. I believe it is the bushes holding the front sway bar, so I tried to disconnect the sway bar and take her for a drive to confirm before I ordered them, but sadly my 18mm socket has far too small a handle, and not enough leverage to get the bolt undone.

I did the ice cream lid solution as Multihull suggested a month ago on my worn out swaybar bushes and no more thumping, even after an offroad trip. If yours is a clunk instead of a thump, then I'd say it's the hard to get to upper front diff bushing, unfortunately.

This is how you'd know:
- if it's thumping over bumps while driving, it's swaybar bushes
- if it's clunking when selecting reverse and/or driving off, it's the front diff upper bushing

[Doc]

Finally fixed the inner guards all the clips had broken that was a job and half just trying to source clips on a Sunday luckily autobahn had something that would do the job
I hope I never have to do them again also did a machine buff and polish only got the front and one side and back done after a few trips to Melbourne the bugs don't wash off any more now a couple panadol and watch some TV LOL

[briteway]

Originally Posted by Clarky

Thanks' James, I re-read your install yesterday and am soaking up all the info I can. I have an 88mm hole saw and a 95mm, should I go out and buy the 90mm as per the instructions?

Hey Clarky, I didn't get a chance to look at how you did your snorkel during the trip, so what size hole saw did you end up using?

[Clarky]

95mm & then a soft rubber seal the type used on oven doors.
You can borrow if you want, but only when I'm not drilling 95mm holes all over the place
I have plenty of the seal left too you can have.