What did you do to your WH/XH today?

[Bloke]

Needed new tyres and came across these JKU Rubicons with near new tyres and balanced for $400. Courier $200 from Sydney to Port Douglas, so $600 for 4 tyres and bonus rims. 255/70/18. 32", bit big for dailies (want 255/75/17 for the bush which I will eventually fit to the current Wranglers I have). But wanted 18's for daily use. Will post a pic once I get them on. Probably will paint them grey

[JamesLaugesen]

Originally Posted by WhO

I'm thinking of a 35AH aux battery like a NPC35-12 that i'll try and shoehorn between the firewall and strut brace on the passenger side. Only weighs about 12kg and although not of huge capacity should be plenty big enough to run the engel overnight

What kind of capacity are you anticipating with lifepo4's James?

I had one of those Super Mini Booster jump-starters (cranks my tractor engine easily.) in that spot, wired as the cranking battery. Then used an Optima blue-top in the stock location wired as aux.
Wasn't keen on the heat though, and I wanted the jump-starter back, so just have a relay/breaker box there now.

Hoping to fit 100AH (2 x packs of 4 50AH cells.) in some dead space around my drawers/sliding floor in the boot now (insert disclaimer about "lithium" batteries, I know what I'm doing, etc ). Only because I grabbed 8 cells cheap off this guy; http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/182139222485
Otherwise I was gunna use 4 CAM72 cells (72AH.) which are the most dense widely available prismatic cells atm.

I'll have a pretty conservative charge/discharge on them to be safe, probably end up with ~60AH usable from the 100AH.

PS; One reason for going lifepo4 is that I want to try an induction cooker. AGM or spiral deep cycle wouldn't survive the burst current.

[Parso]

Originally Posted by Bloke

What type did you go with? Rola or Rhino?

Pics?

It was actually one made by a local fabricator here in WA, found it on gumtree as an ex demo rack that fitted perfectly over the roof rails. To install I drilled through the factory rails and bolted through. Originally I was going to make up my own replacements for the factory rails so I wasn't fussed putting a couple small holes in them!

[Parso]

Also finished up the dual battery install:

[Bloke]

Needed new tyres and found these rims with 90% tread for $400. Will fit tomorrow to see how they go. Hopefully they clear the pinchweld. 255/70/18.

[Clarky]

Replaced my Transfer Case today, 6 hours from go to woe.
No more thud when going from drive to reverse.

Chain is probably stretched to its limits after driving on tar in low rang for 50/60 km's.

Now to rebuild my spare transmission, current one is getting a bit tired.

[Bloke]

Originally Posted by Clarky

Replaced my Transfer Case today, 6 hours from go to woe. Now to rebuild my spare transmission, current one is getting a bit tired.

I wouldn't mind manualising my shift module like you did. These are my list of repairs plus 4Lo still not working. I figure I would need to buy a new gear shift module. Not sure.