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Post by dan on May 18, 2016 4:44:52 GMT -4
Good stuff, glad you are puting your progress on here, i really like the re-indexing of the t-case.
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Post by dan on Mar 19, 2016 20:59:03 GMT -4
I have 2x4 in my ZJ too
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Post by dan on Mar 18, 2016 16:13:17 GMT -4
Yup. In the bg picture, new steel is cheap. Will save hours in labour for whoever does the work.
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Post by dan on Mar 16, 2016 17:15:50 GMT -4
Plate the outside of the "frame" from front bumper mounts back to lower control arm brackets and from rear lower brackets to back. Plate outside and bottom of rails from front control arm mounts to rear control arm mounts. Brace from front trac bar frame bracket to passenger side frame, and replace rad support with heavy duty version.
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Post by dan on Feb 29, 2016 6:45:57 GMT -4
Im loving this thing, now get it done already, would ya?
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Post by dan on Feb 1, 2016 18:57:42 GMT -4
Can niether confirm nor deny that one john.... But yes..
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Post by dan on Feb 1, 2016 7:24:28 GMT -4
So now that the barn was finally de-cluttered on one side again, Dad hired a guy to come in and lay the mesh, pex pipe, and do the floor pour. While he waited for that to start, he took some of the old insulation I took out of my house while rebuilding it, and started stuffing the walls. Pex and wire all laid down makeshift pressure test manifold and the floor just after floating. We think there was an issue of sorts with the concrete, because it was poured and floated by 11:00 AM, the stove and electric heater were both going all day, keeping the barn at 25° all day and through the night, but the concrete guy wasn't able to get on it with the power trowel until 7:30 in the evening, and was trowling until 5:30 in the morning. It turned out good though eventually. Next came more work on the walls. I had some leftover 1" foil-covered foam from when I re-sheathed my house, so I gave it to Dad. we started strapping the walls, and between the strap, put the foam, for a little extra warmth. Then put on a row of cement board for a bit of fire-retardency. That's where things are at now. The plan is to rebuild the wall with the double doors and make a new 9' wide opening, move the window, and then we will start the re-wiring. Dad is thinking about putting in a separate service for it, since it only has a 60A panel run off of the house right now.
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Post by dan on Feb 1, 2016 7:11:51 GMT -4
Soo.. since there was nowhere else to start putting up a building because of the insane amount of snow in the yard, we put it up in the only place that wasn't snowed in at the time. We got a roof on it later in the winter, after Dad built the trusses, then boarded it in and covered it up with some tar paper. once summer came along, we got back on track a little. Dad borrowed his brother-in-law's backhoe, and I dug him a perimeter footing, while learning how to run backhoe controls. I am pretty well versed with SAE controls, but never spent any time trying to get used to ISO. Then we frames up some footing forms, and got it ready for concrete. We dropped some steel mesh in for good measure, after laying plastic in place. Dad then ordered up the concrete, and had it poured. We obviously didn't have the forms braced well enough, because as the concrete was being poured, the walls started bulging out. there was no pushing them back, so they got braced some more and held from pushing out any more. With the footing and floor finished, it was time to move the building. we thought about rolling it on pipes, but instead, (insert redneck ingenuity). Borrowed another one of his brothers-in-law's single axle, I picked it up before dawn one morning, blocked it up on the body, and drove it to its new location. Since then, it has been shingled, and board and battened, along with sliding barn doors. now it holds piles and boxes of junk and a couple of benches and anything else that was in the way.
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Post by dan on Feb 1, 2016 5:59:41 GMT -4
gonna bring this back from the dead.. We had some setbacks in the progress of getting the barn finished. every time a side cleared out enough to prep for concrete, a project ended up getting shoved in and torn apart. Anyways, we finally made some progress last winter. I had a trailer load of Class A delivered from work just before Christmas, and we started hauling it in to level up the floor., Then I borrowed as Jumping Jack from work, and compacted it, then followed up with 2" of foam around the perimeter, and 1" foam over the inside. Then Dad decided he needed to make some more space to get the rest of the barn cleaned out so we couple get the other half cleared out and leveled up.
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Post by dan on Jan 27, 2016 5:43:18 GMT -4
Yup
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Post by dan on Jan 19, 2016 5:36:04 GMT -4
Let me know when i can come by, ill take them off your hands.
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Post by dan on Jan 19, 2016 5:34:51 GMT -4
Works awesome too
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Post by dan on Jan 12, 2016 18:43:28 GMT -4
John, ill take the springs and yj hood, and tj hood if chris doesnt take it.
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Post by dan on Dec 29, 2015 7:53:45 GMT -4
Hopefully you didnt bend a connecting rod when you tried to start the engine. Should be the same process, pull plugs, crank over, put them back in. It will smoke until it clears the oil from the cylinders. shouldnt have to change your oil, just check the level.
If it doesnt knock, you should be fine.
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Post by dan on Dec 13, 2015 6:11:22 GMT -4
Have you used a meter to check the true voltage from the alternator? My volt meter in the dash always reads close to 17 volts, but actually only gets about 14.4
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