hackster
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- Joined
- Jun 17, 2011
- Location
- Portland Or.
Took another day off on Saturday to go play in the woods, epic day in the snow, the little JK does shockingly well, big front bumper and low ride height had me pushing snow with the grille at times. My buddies are both on 37's and the Toyota owns the snow.
We were in feet of snow on the trails it was so awesome. Aired down to 12 PSI and was suprised at where a mostly stock rubicon would go.
Sunday I worked on this old **** box again.
Started off the day by tackling the Roll Steer Correction kit from Kaplenkhe Racing. Sure wish there would have been instructions somewhere for this stuff, I looked all over the place for them, the forums, the website but no go. I had some mock up arms from Ben with bad castings before so I could get things bolted up.
Pretty sure this is how they should be assembled...if I am wrong please say so.
Passenger side went on without a hitch, just ****ty doing it on the car.
When I got to the drivers side is where I ran into a little snag. I had 3 of the stock bolts holding on the temporary arms as one of them is a bitch to get in. When I went to install the new arms and use the supplied bolts I found that they would not thread all the way in to the bolt holes. So everything back apart and run a tap up into the strut on the car, upside down with a 1/4" wrench on the tap as its too close to the rotor assembly to get anything in there other than just the tap.
I was pretty irritated with it but its done. Wish that they had just done that at JRZ or Ben's before sending them out.
Took care of securing the brake fail switch wire and getting it heat wrapped, re routed the clutch cable and extended the knock sensor wiring to avoid the exhaust all together and got it all secured and installed.
Had the wife come out and help me for a few hours with brakes. Got the brakes bled, fixed one small leak and have a nice firm pedal. Ill be curious to see how these work but everything seems to be functioning at this point.
Ran out of fluid so the clutch has to wait till tonight.
Should be able to put this thing on the ground really soon.
Going to figure out something for a stereo in it just to have some tunes. I am thinking about how to integrate just a bluetooth connection instead of a conventional radio.....
We were in feet of snow on the trails it was so awesome. Aired down to 12 PSI and was suprised at where a mostly stock rubicon would go.
Sunday I worked on this old **** box again.
Started off the day by tackling the Roll Steer Correction kit from Kaplenkhe Racing. Sure wish there would have been instructions somewhere for this stuff, I looked all over the place for them, the forums, the website but no go. I had some mock up arms from Ben with bad castings before so I could get things bolted up.
Pretty sure this is how they should be assembled...if I am wrong please say so.
Passenger side went on without a hitch, just ****ty doing it on the car.
When I got to the drivers side is where I ran into a little snag. I had 3 of the stock bolts holding on the temporary arms as one of them is a bitch to get in. When I went to install the new arms and use the supplied bolts I found that they would not thread all the way in to the bolt holes. So everything back apart and run a tap up into the strut on the car, upside down with a 1/4" wrench on the tap as its too close to the rotor assembly to get anything in there other than just the tap.
I was pretty irritated with it but its done. Wish that they had just done that at JRZ or Ben's before sending them out.
Took care of securing the brake fail switch wire and getting it heat wrapped, re routed the clutch cable and extended the knock sensor wiring to avoid the exhaust all together and got it all secured and installed.
Had the wife come out and help me for a few hours with brakes. Got the brakes bled, fixed one small leak and have a nice firm pedal. Ill be curious to see how these work but everything seems to be functioning at this point.
Ran out of fluid so the clutch has to wait till tonight.
Should be able to put this thing on the ground really soon.
Going to figure out something for a stereo in it just to have some tunes. I am thinking about how to integrate just a bluetooth connection instead of a conventional radio.....