Oops, I did it again...

[TheRookie]

Pizza is good, but I have been wanting lasagna recently

 

[sn0border88]

Id kill for some icecream right now.

 

[SuRrEaLNJ]

I like chocolate milk

 

[IZwack]

LOL SuRrEaLNJ -- thats gotta be the greatest cartoon being shown these days!

 

[IZwack]

Looks like Spas got the right lines this time : http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6349054#post6349054

 

[Spas]

Looks like Spas got the right lines this time : http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6349054#post6349054

Durn tootin', buddy Keithflux sent me lines with Jeep round banjos instead of the more common Ford square ones but told me they'd work just as well and they do. My new lines are freakin awesome!! Kevlar lined and 32" long, I doubt I'm going to rip these *Knock on wood!!* Once I've washed all the salt off the truck and properly secured them to the shocks instead of using mini-bungees I'll take pictures.

On a side note, as of yesterday Morgan is 100% Maryland legal Still have some bugs, chirps and rattles to work out but for the most part I'm finally done, woohoo!!

 

[Spas]

Finally got the damn OX cable all figured out.. if anyone else ever gets one, make sure you thread the short end into the cover BEFORE you put it on, it's very important to make it all work : The cable rubs in a few places, which can't be helped, so I sliced some thick rubber line and ziptied it around where it makes contact (did it after I took the pics). I'm still struggling with the best way to route the passenger side brake line since it's either in danger of imminant (sp?) squishing between the leaf spring plate and frame or frighteningly close to contact with the tire at full right turn depending on which way I pull the line through the retainer. Right now it's balanced between the two, but I still don't trust it. The lines themselves are Kevlar coated and beeeeooootiful

No problem routing the driverside, probably because the frame mount is behind the shock... on the pass side I had to move it in front of the shock. Check out my home made brakeline retainers

Routed the cable under the leafs, up the frame rail and under my swaybar (which never comes off, I just disconnect it and fold it up, tying it outta the way when I mean business). From there it goes behind the shock tower, along the frame, behind the fuel filter, up over the X-member and thru the t-case linkage hole in the floor (which I had to enlarge : )

Like the cheerful shift knob Rookie MADE me get?

This look a little negatively arched to anyone else?

I find this amusing... in the last two weeks, my coworker Konstantine put a rod through his 4 cyl '99 Wrangler's block and today Joey managed to strip the axleshaft in his '98 Grand Cherokee. Both events happened on the street, under 20mph! Must be a J**p thing?

 

[frickea86]

hey i think your x is growing big round "sticks"...it has three??? mine only has one an its much shorter then those...

lol....whats the silver one for?? Probably dumb question?

 

[Spas]

hey i think your x is growing big round "sticks"...it has three??? mine only has one an its much shorter then those...

lol....whats the silver one for?? Probably dumb question?

Haha, my stick's bigger than yours! :X

The silver one is what actuates the front locker. 'O' is Open, 'X' is locked.. hence the name OX locker I haven't had the chance to try it out yet, but it seems to shift in and out without any trouble..

 

[Spas]

Well, I found a downside to owning a lifted and locked 4x4 today... even when there's 6" of snow with 4" of ice on top of that and the freezing rain still hasn't stopped:

My boss says I, "of all the people here at the dealership, have no excuse not to be in today" :

 

[Tilt168]

yeah when we get a bad storm either one of my srgs or my maj e-mails/calls me and wants me to either drive ppl or something for crack ass of the morning pt....part of the curse of havin a 4-wheeler heh?

 

[Blee1099]

Bah this sucks.. dunno whats worse the freezing rain under the snow or the freezing rain on top of the snow..

 

[JDraper]

Yeah..I know I had to go to work today. My boss has seen my truck.

We've got about a foot of snow on the ground with another 4-8" on the way, plus tonight it's supposed to be 0° with 50 mph winds.

 

[Spas]

Yeah..I know I had to go to work today. My boss has seen my truck.

We've got about a foot of snow on the ground with another 4-8" on the way, plus tonight it's supposed to be 0° with 50 mph winds.

Did you guys get ice on top of that or is it all snow? We got about 3" of snow, then another 4 of freezing rain so the top layer is hard as a rock. No good for snowballs

 

[JDraper]

Did you guys get ice on top of that or is it all snow? We got about 3" of snow, then another 4 of freezing rain so the top layer is hard as a rock. No good for snowballs

Got a foot of snow, then a couple of hours of sleet, now it's snowing like blazes and windy as hell now.

Just took this pix a minute ago...brrrrrrrrrrr!!

 

[Spas]

Well Micah, I can't make fun of your shock towers snapping off anymore.

I was chugging along a road I rarely travel and hit what I thought was a small break in the pavement... and it broke my driver side shock tower and shock off again. Mind you, I was only doing 30mph, which is the posted speed limit. The next day I came back to take a picture of the fissure and went over it doing 15mph so I could turn around, and it managed to remove my PASSENGER side shock and mount, too :fire: I've been doing some research and I just ordered a set of mounts for a '96 f350 after checking out my coworker's truck. I believe these are the same ones that BMX used in his swap, but I'm worried that they may tilt the shock too far towards the tire, since the original design entailed the shock being straight up and down perpendicular to the frame rail. We'll see soon, if I have time to get down to Wolf's this weekend and grind off the remains of the old stuff and mock up the new ones.

I'm also having a bad problem with the truck leaning hard to the driver side since one of the rear leaf packs gave up the ghost. I replaced both front springs with new JC Whitney specials p: ) hoping to alleviate the problem, but he's still sagging He does handle really well even without shocks now though, lol. I have a new parts truck that I'm going to pull the packs off of here soon, and Rookie kindly donated a pair of 2" factory lift blocks to make the rear sit more level with the front. Now I just need to find time to do all this WHILE moving into my new place

 

[IZwack]

thats pure biship -- while you be at Wolf's, yousa might as well get him to make you a set of shock towers that are stronger than those bambaclat F-series pair.

 

[TheRookie]

Intresting word IZ. you worry me sometimes

 

[Spas]

thats pure biship -- while you be at Wolf's, yousa might as well get him to make you a set of shock towers that are stronger than those bambaclat F-series pair.

Aya mon, some brakeets onna bottom a dem fiddys mounts and dey gon be bamboner, trust me!

 

[IZwack]

Aya mon, some brakeets onna bottom a dem fiddys mounts and dey gon be bamboner, trust me!

Ahah fantastic, glad to hear we're all speaking the right language now.

btw: nice word choice