General Tech What did you work on Today?

[zmotorsports]

We were able to get more work done on my son’s WJ winch bumper on Saturday.

We started by clamping each wing to the fab table for knocking down the welds and metal finishing all of the pieces.

Winch mocked into position to determine light placement.

KC LED lights mocked up in place.

Lower valance metal finished and bolted in place.

After closing up the shop for the day the wife and I decided to go for a drive. We took the truck to stretch its legs and it rolled over 100k miles on the way home.

Thanks for looking.

Mike

 

[Jinx]

Wow Mike! That turned out AWESOME! Please tell me you are just going to clear coat it and leave that look!

 

[zmotorsports]

Wow Mike! That turned out AWESOME! Please tell me you are just going to clear coat it and leave that look!

Thank you. Yeah, my son said the same thing, clearcoat and call it done but it needs to be body color.

Thanks for the comments.

Mike

 

[glockman]

Turned out very nice!

 

[zmotorsports]

Turned out very nice!

Thank you. This one has definitely been the most intricate of the bumpers that I have built so far, especially trying to keep it matching the lines of the Grand Cherokee and not have it look like a flat plate or eyesore hung on the front.

Mike

 

[Troop92]

....especially trying to keep it matching the lines of the Grand Cherokee and not have it look like a flat plate or eyesore hung on the front.

Mike

You mean how mine will look when I'm done? ? I'm okay with that, though. Learn as I go.

 

[crimsonride]

Did you weld it or use the mtntk kit? Looks sweet!

mtntk kit. It worked great! ....the second time around. Leaked the first time so I had to cut it again. 7” total.

 

[Herzog]

Kinda silly but I made a coms rack for the tacoma, mainly to get my ScanGauge into a spot that I could easily see since I have the speedometer corrected on it.

3/4 inch tube with some various mounts

Nutserts keep it a little cleaner I suppose

The Anker mount on the left is magnetic mount for my phone. The CB mount is temporary until I find a way to lose the ghetto clamp... but it works.

 

[jedi]

Do you like the scan gauge? Been thinking about one for my first gen tundra.

 

[Herzog]

Do you like the scan gauge? Been thinking about one for my first gen tundra.

It's a nice addition and I like that I can watch trans temps too.

 

[zmotorsports]

Last night I broke everything down, blended the last piece (center section) and prepped everything to take to the powder coater.

Thanks for looking.

Mike

 

[Medsker]

That looks great! You've got some serious mad skills there.

 

[zmotorsports]

That looks great! You've got some serious mad skills there.

Thank you. That was a tricky bumper to make look clean and match the lines of the vehicle. Hands down the most intricate bumper I've built thus far.

Mike

 

[N-Smooth]

looks great but now let's go out and bash it into some rocks!

 

[Tonkaman]

Do you like the scan gauge? Been thinking about one for my first gen tundra.

FWIW I loved using the scan gauge on my 1st gen Tacoma. Trans temp and being able to clear codes was invaluable.

 

[zmotorsports]

looks great but now let's go out and bash it into some rocks!

Go out and use it yes, bash it into rocks, I hope not.

My son babies his Jeep nearly as much as I do mine so it will see off-road but not flogged on.

Mike

 

[The_Lobbster]

Worked on this boiler today. Old burner had literally exploded and blew out the side.

 

[DAA]

Yesterday I made an attempt at curing the clunk. Bar pins on the rear Falcons thunk and clunk on the slightest imperfection in the road surface and it's driving me crazy. Every little tar seam or manhole cover or quarter laying in the road - Kunk-Clunk-Thunk. The bar pins are really loose in the bushings, both side to side and up and down.

Have a Harbor Fright E-clip collection on the shelf, and had the bright idea of using them to take the side to side slop out of the bar pins.

That did take all the side to side slop out of them. But didn't help at all. Still driving a clunk-mobile.

Don't like the idea of losing uptravel with BPE's. Seriously considering just putting my old 100k mile Bilstein 5100's back on the rear and putting the Falcons on the shelf - that clunking has taken over space in my head and it's driving me nuts.

- DAA

 

[glockman]

Teraflex makes bar pin eliminators that put the pin above the cross member and shouldn't reduce up travel. Not sure if the Falcon will fit.

Teraflex 1244800 Rear Upper Shock Adapter & Relocator Kit for 97-06 Jeep Wrangler TJ & Unlimited

The TJ rear upper shock adapter and relocator eliminates the bar pin, and relocates the mounting position up one inch to allow long travel shocks to be used. Because the mounting point is raised, a one inch body lift is required.

www.quadratec.com

 

[DAA]

Teraflex makes bar pin eliminators that put the pin above the cross member and shouldn't reduce up travel. Not sure if the Falcon will fit.

Teraflex 1244800 Rear Upper Shock Adapter & Relocator Kit for 97-06 Jeep Wrangler TJ & Unlimited

The TJ rear upper shock adapter and relocator eliminates the bar pin, and relocates the mounting position up one inch to allow long travel shocks to be used. Because the mounting point is raised, a one inch body lift is required.

www.quadratec.com

Hadn't seen those. Tera should know if they'd fit. I'm sure they could be made to fit. Or something like them made that would fit.

Not sure if I want to mess with BPE's or not. I might actually be able to get the bar pins out without ruining the bushings - they're pretty loose. Tera should have spent another dollar each and used vulcanized bar pins like every other even half assed decent bar pin shock in the world. But, if the bushings are ruined, and replaced, ehhh... I don't know. If I end up getting rid of the shocks it might be better to leave them unmolested.

Edit to add... I'm not absolutely 100% positive it's the bar pins clunking. I am positive it's the shocks, both of them, clunking goes away with them off and comes back with either one put back on. It sure sounds like the bar pins to me, and they are loose as a goose, but it could possibly be another component of the shock I suppose.

- DAA