I'll post some pictures when/if I can figure out how to get them small enough. Glad to be here

Last weekend some friends and I installed my Rough Country 2.5" lift. I already have the JKS 1.25 BBL and MML. The install went pretty smoothly except for one rusted shock bolt on the front passenger side. Thanks to the sawzal, it came off pretty quickly! The rear was a lot easier than the front. I got the track bar relocator to keep my rear axle centered. My front seems to be almost centered, so I'm gonna hold off on an adjustable track bar for now. The ride is about the same as before but I definitely notice that my calf hits the body when getting in as opposed to before. I have pics in my gallery if anyone wants to check it out!

After having all four wheels balanced and rotated, it still wobbles at about 65 mph. Maybe not as bad as before, but it still wobbles.

I've got to get my hitch put back on and start getting ready for York in a few weeks.

got the tom woods custom ds and all the u joints keep burnin the bearings out of the caps the angle is good has sye kit installed the 6 mos warranty expired and they quit sending life time joints said no more i say screw emm there ds are junk and my buddies were goin to replace our machine shop with theirs but i was test dummie and saved them money now i got to get a new one made up the drive shaft is 10 mos old and had 9 u joints go thru none broke but just keep burnin the bearings

this web site is so confusing to use i just want to make a post and idk how.... and put up pictures in my profile... but idk how... can anyone please help me?

Newest member of the I hate torx club... Getting ready for the only mod I can afford, Herculining the Jeep. Not surprisingly in the Canadian climate, I had a decent amount of rust on the floor when I ripped up the carpet. So I decide to be thorough, and make sure I clean up under my roll cage. All but 3 of the bolts came out without too much frustration. But the last 3.... f*#*^Y%.

I drilled one bolt out clean, with the biggest drill bit i have (1/4"). That did absolutely nothing. I broke off a drill bit in another bolt, and I broke off an extractor bit in the 3rd.
With no options left, I take it into the closest shop (Canadian/Crappy Tire). I decide to leave it up to the uncertified professionals and come back half an hour later. The "installer" was quite pleased that he had successfully knocked off all 3 heads of the bolts. Now he just had to worry about the threaded part. (is this common practice?? don't most people just grind the edges off so they can grab it with pliers and a torch?) It took over 2 hours to extract these reasonably accessable bolts, AND he claimed that when he hit one of the threads, it burst into flames and melted a huge section of my interior.

SO I don't have any springer-inspired final deep thoughts, but when Torx go bad, they go really bad. And maybe there should be a special class on them in the non-existant "installer" school that teaches you how not to melt someone's vehicle if they are giving you money.

I left my YJ at a dealer yesterday to get inspected and to get the wheels balanced. I figured I'd through them a few extra dollars for the wheel balance and a rotation. I'm curious to see this morning if some of my 65mph wobble is gone after the balancing. (I subscribe to the thought process known as 'it can always get worse') Incidentally, the YJ did not pass inspection. It passed the emissions test, but they said I have to replace 2 of the body mount bushings to pass the vehicle inspection. There was a long list of other stuff too, including all my leaks that I haven't taken care of yet. They were looking for about $800 to do the work. I said no thank you. When I was picking up the vehicle I commented to the cashier about how dirty my paperwork was in comparison to all the new jeeps that were there. She offered that I could trade in my YJ. Wow. Why would I do such a thing? I don't plan on going back there any time soon. At the very least, they didn't tell me anything I didn't already know about the Jeep so I feel pretty good about having a handle on what's right and wrong with my YJ.

yea for me just noticed i reached the 1000 post point



can ya tell its been a long day and im easily amused at this point

Just got into the jeep thing. My grandfather had a 78 cj-7 which fosters some memories. I just bought a 69 cj-5 that I plan to model (style wise) after his old jeep. When I got my jeep, it was completely rusted through. You could see the street from sitting in the back looking through the floor. The two seats in the front were bolted to a metal fence post that was only lodged into place. There is no exhaust after the manifold. Most of the gauges are faulty. The front right fender is beyond repair and rusted. The front left fender is bent but fixable with some heat. It was covered in mud from all inside the engine compartment to every inch of the undercarriage. The good news is that it starts and stays started. If it had brakes, it would be driveable. The first thing I had to do was remove everything that might be destroyed by water so that I could attempt to wash this beast. Afterwards I washed with a pressure washer everything that looked like it might have mud on it and the mud turned out to be clay and was very resistant. I still was able to manage to get most of it mud free. Then I took out the rear floorboard because grinding it down even would have been pointless. I would have ground right through it. I then used a drill and a coarse wire brush and de-rusted the entire back half of the frame and the removed roll bar, and then used Rustoleum's anti-rust metal primer to paint both. I finished with Rustoleum anti-rust enamel.
I am not at the point where I can begin moving forward instead of backwards in terms of restoring things. I just found the wheelhouses online and will wait to order those until my next paycheck entirely too far from now. That will free up the framework to begin welding the floor and other components into place. To waste time until then, I am taking the paint off of the exterior.
I never have done this intense of work before so the learning curve is quite steep. I had to acquire tools $$$ and then get some parts like the rear floor panel and then get some more tools $$$. I have now a flux-core wire welder. Grinder with multiple attachments, drill for things like the wire brush, body repair hammers and stabilizers, tin snips, wire cutters, etc.
Thats pretty much where I am at this point. I'll keep you updated.