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

[slr1981]

Installed a sweet 260mm led bar on on my tailgate of the XJ, it has a built in switch! So now lift the tailgate and turn on the light, great for camping, heaps of light.

[Mudmonster]

Originally Posted by layback40

No hurry.
I have always thought that it cant be that hard to rebuild the hubs.
Have been told that its not such a big job to modify them so that they dont have the axle as one of the bearing surfaces. Or was that the back ones?

I will go to the bearing centre monday see if I can get the bearings, then I will do a write up on haw to repair them if any one is interested??

Took me 30mins to pull it appart.

[anthonygubbin]

Originally Posted by BLAKLISTED

Been a little busy on mine:

New 12000lb winch installed(el cheapo rydge ryder with rope for 500 bucks)



Craig Davies Transmission Cooler and Trans temp gauge now installed and fully operational.



Installing this tomorrow:



3.5 inch RE lift, cant wait to have a crack putting it on. Next will be 31's.

Nice lift kit there Blaklisted. Also I have a similar winch but ebay one. It pulled me out a few times while I was away and I loaded it up to the max in a swamp. Only slight prob I see is like you we now have the fair lead brackets sticking out from the bar. I am thinking of cutting mine off but don't want to wreck the powder coat.

Regards A

[anthonygubbin]

Originally Posted by ace

Wooders sells steering stabilizer relocation brackets. Think they are Rugged Ridge brand. I needed to fit one for my lift, the original mount point made it foul on the other links. Try that, it's a square plate with two u bolts. Much stronger solution.

Yerr might be an option. It will ceratainly get done quicker. My engineer takes like a week to do a small job. I will call them Wooders.

Regards A

[anthonygubbin]

Originally Posted by layback40

No hurry.
I have always thought that it cant be that hard to rebuild the hubs.
Have been told that its not such a big job to modify them so that they dont have the axle as one of the bearing surfaces. Or was that the back ones?

I looked at rebuilding one but from asking the very question on here it seems not economical enought to bother with, CBC's have them for about $130 now. Someone did post up a pic a month or three ago.

Regards A

[bruggz351]

Originally Posted by Mudmonster

well this arvo i moved my blue jeep (towing it) to get it on the car trailer for its makeover, it was making a very odd noise, next second the front left side droped like it fell in a big hole, i hoped out to investigate and turns out the front wheel fell off.
first i thought i didnt tighten up the wheel nuts, then i noticed the disc was still attached to the back of the wheel???

the wheel bearing fell apart, guess you need the axles in to hold the bearing together???
and to think i had been driving this around.

so had to drive all the way back to my house and dig out an old wheel bearing, knew i kept them for a reason

at least now i can see how the bearing are put together.

fun times

Well. That answers my question then..!

I was thinking of driving around with the center and axles out until I can get around to doing the front diff.

Spose not then...

[Cypher]

Thought I might fix my leaking thermostat housing...dropped bottom bolt which promptly vanished into another f'king dimension...ARGH...pulled thermofan and water pump pully to find it, no luck

why do the simplest things end up being so f'king hard >:(