What Did You Do With Your Rig Today?

Graeman said:
Broke said:
Saturday I took mine for an alignment. Everything is good. So I am ordering more parts... death wobble is fun!
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Did you recently install wheels and tires? Out of balance will cause the wobbles, suspension components not torqued to specs, stock star washers that hold the rotors on will also cause the wobbles. I had new tires installed and I got the wobbles really bad. Took it to another store and found out the 1st one did a terrible job of balancing the new tires. Cleared it right up.
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I know what it is (maybe), caster angle, too short of shocks and too short of sway bar links. I am waiting, 5 days now, for LCA relocation brackets, longer shocks and sway bar links to arrive. I have already eliminated the usual suspects, unit bearings, suspension links etc.

If that doesnt work I will be buying adjustable ball joints. Thus far I feel the JKU is way more susceptible to 'issues' than other jeeps I have owned.
 
Took my rig to the shop. ABS and brake light went on a couple of days ago. Dealer say it has intermittent issues pointing to ECBM sensor ($$$).
 
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Kilo_17 said:
@Brett L. This is why I asked about the trim piece haha
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This was from one of those cheap oil car scents that clip into your vents.... apparently if it leaks it will eat/melt your shit :frowning:
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Thanks for posting this. My wife uses those and now they are going to the trash.
 
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New Bilstein 5100's and got scene lights for the rear just how to mount them? 5100's ride great. Took them for a ride this weekend and are a lot better than the won out shocks that I had. Did a 1" key lift on the front.
 
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Well, I didn't do it all today, but finished a bunch of it up yesterday and Today.
Installed my hidden winch in the bumper, well behind it.
Added a step to get in and out. This will be removed on the trail.
I also hung an Army duffel bag on the back as a budget "Trasheroo"
I needed an Awning and could not find one that I liked that would arrive in time, so I made my own. Sorry, no pictures of it deployed. It is 8ft x 10ft.

Today I also finished packing for out WABDR trip in the morning. WooHoo!
 

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oldmopars said:
Well, I didn't do it all today, but finished a bunch of it up yesterday and Today.
Installed my hidden winch in the bumper, well behind it.
Added a step to get in and out. This will be removed on the trail.
I also hung an Army duffel bag on the back as a budget "Trasheroo"
I needed an Awning and could not find one that I liked that would arrive in time, so I made my own. Sorry, no pictures of it deployed. It is 8ft x 10ft.

Today I also finished packing for out WABDR trip in the morning. WooHoo!
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Very cool hidden winch (and everything else).
 
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Mekcanix said:
Picked up a used bed slide. Apparently it came out if a 2005 F150. So I needed to do some mild mods to get it to fit into my new to me 2016 Rebel. And I installed a level in the front a week agoView attachment 158593
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Those BedSlides work great! No more crawling the bed of the truck especially with a tonnau cover.
 
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Our fridge let go on Friday, so had to find a fridge in stock somewhere that suited our needs, and they they’d let me take home in my truck... that was shockingly hard to find. It BARELY fit under the rack! Once I got that unloaded and setup, went out and laid some tracks with the kids looking for some good spots closer to home...
 

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Cowl intake mod using the stock airbox. Keeps the exterior stock looking and even underhood it doesn't look out of place. Drops IATs to about 10 degrees over ambient at speed and moves the intake from behind the headlight to the base of the windshield. All of my XJs but my first one have had this modification done.

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rumbledawg said:
one of our work trucks threw a C0265 code, EBCM. checked the wiring and found a pinched wire. maybe worth checking wires and all the connections


pretty colorful!
any "enhancements" or all stock?


nice cheap mod...i like it



my "special" parts showed up today. how do i know their special? cause the boxes says so...lol
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and for everyone that thinks stock is the be all to end all, check out these non-stock parts....pretty much puts the factory stuff to shame. should have put these in yrs ago, more robust, waaay more reliable, tougher to break, waaay less likely to leave me screwed on the mountain again....
check out the idler, Moog unit, a beam arm, much bigger joints, and a much better frame mount.....stock more reliable?.......ya, sure...
even the Detroit Axle cv is 5/64 bigger than the ac delco...and no tone ring in the way, my truck don't need it.
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Thanks for the tip! I'll definitely have them check it out a pinched wire if it continues to be a problem.

Big difference in the aftermarket parts. Def. more hef to them!
 
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