1:29 pm
Club Member
July 10, 2003
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I am going to tear apart my steering today. I want to fix that death wobble once and for all. Here's what I'm doing.
Remove the panhard bar.
Replace the hiem on the axle end.
Re-drill the bracket to 3/4" hole.
Re-install the panhard bar.
Remove drag link.
Replace the TRE at the pitman arm.
Re-install the drag link.
Remove the tie rod.
Throw it in the garbage.
Re-install a new tie rod with new TREs.
Then I'll get the front end alignment.
[edited for my typical spelling errors]
I used to wheel a lot. . .
1:34 pm
I will be sitting at my desk all day. I will accomplish nothing on the 4Runner. 🙁
1:41 pm
Club Member
July 10, 2003
Offline After the Barrett run, I am going to finish servicing the joints and bushings in my rear upper and lower control arms. I have all the parts sitting in my garage but I've been putting it off for way too long. I'm tired of the control arms screaming and clunking.
Rob and I are going to take a welding class on Tuesday nights. After I get decent at it, I'm going to oreder a grill hoop and weld that on my Jeep.
I'm also going to replace my seats with some suspension seats. I'll tie the seats into my cage with some tubing. I want my seats to be a couple of inches lower than stock to get my head further away from my cage. I'll also add a harness bar and get some harnesses. I'll mostly use the lap belt but I thought it would be nice to have a full harness for some of those nasty climbs.
And finally, I'm going to send a set of wheels I have sitting around to Champion to have them beadlocked. With shipping and all, they come out to less than $200/each. The wheels I have right now are so beat up (inside and out) that they are popping beads and burping air way too often. Plus, beadlocks are cool like Rob and Brad 
That's my list of things to do. Some day I'll do the Genright tank stretch in the rear and stretch my front to get my wheelbase up to about 105 inches and still be semi-street legal.
I used to wheel a lot. . .
1:47 pm
February 5, 2003
Offline "JohnDF" wrote:
[edited for my typical spelling errors]
firefox 3 has a built-in spell checker.
Closed Mondays.
1:49 pm
July 15, 2005
Offline "JohnDF" wrote: I am going to tear apart my steering today. I want to fix that death wobble once and for all. Here's what I'm doing.
Remove the panhard bar.
Replace the hiem on the axle end.
Re-drill the bracket to 3/4" hole.
Re-install the panhard bar.Remove drag link.
Replace the TRE at the pitman arm.
Re-install the drag link.Remove the tie rod.
Throw it in the garbage.
Re-install a new tie rod with new TREs.Then I'll get the front end alignment.
[edited for my typical spelling errors]
I am doing away with all my tie rod ends and going to heim joints..
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1:52 pm
"RobD" wrote:
I am doing away with all my tie rod ends and going to heim joints..
I'm doing away with my steering entirely. I'm going to use a rear axle in the front and bounce off of things until I'm pointing the direction I want to go. 😀
1:52 pm
Club Member
July 10, 2003
Offline "RobD" wrote:
I am doing away with all my tie rod ends and going to heim joints..
That should make things interesting when one of those joints gets loose 😯
I guess itreally wouldn't be much worse than a TRE getting worn out?
I used to wheel a lot. . .
1:54 pm
Club Member
July 10, 2003
Offline "Bender" wrote:
I'm doing away with my steering entirely. I'm going to use a rear axle in the front and bounce off of things until I'm pointing the direction I want to go. 😀
I've done that with a bent track bar before. It's not that bad. You'll get used to it.
I used to wheel a lot. . .
1:54 pm
May 4, 2004
Offline "Bender" wrote: I will be sitting at my desk all day.
Me too. I've got several AIX servers to build and configure by the end of the week. No Jeep work for me.
Maybe I'll get Don over here Friday night or Saturday so I can reinstall his straightened out engine skid plate. He beat the crud out of that thing on Rubicon Round-Up. It was so bent that it was resting on the tranny oil pan which dented and started leaking. If he hadn't had that skid plate he surely would have had transmission trouble.
2:03 pm
February 5, 2003
Offline I need to
rewire the power to my radios, and my ARB switches.
rewire the switches for my rocklights
change fluids.
zip tie my air lines back up
clean the mud out of my rock lights
put new TREs on my spare tie rod.
swap in my spare tie rod
align front
get spare rear DS rebuilt
get a boot for my front DS
swap out my broken tail light, or glue it back together
work on the drop bracket for flat towing
wash the mud off of the inside windshield
replace the american flag jeep stickers (they are fading)
wax the jeep
Closed Mondays.
2:27 pm
"Bender" wrote: I will be sitting at my desk all day. I will accomplish nothing on the 4Runner. 🙁
x2 sucks 😥
2:36 pm
Club Member
July 10, 2003
Offline "Dan-H" wrote:
get spare rear DS rebuilt
I need to return Brad's spare driveline 
I used to wheel a lot. . .
3:07 pm
Club President
April 2, 2003
Offline "Bender" wrote: I will be sitting at my desk all day. I will accomplish nothing on the 4Runner. 🙁
I won't be accomplishing anything on Keane's 4-Runner either, or either of my jeeps.
Let me know if that fixes everything.
3:16 pm
"Dan-H" wrote: [quote="JohnDF"]
[edited for my typical spelling errors]
firefox 3 has a built-in spell checker.
o-ya
6:56 pm
February 5, 2003
Offline "BKGM Jeepers" wrote: [quote="Bender"]I will be sitting at my desk all day. I will accomplish nothing on the 4Runner. 🙁
I won't be accomplishing anything on Keane's 4-Runner either, or either of my jeeps.
Let me know if that fixes everything.
I too won't be accomplishing anything on Keane's 4-Runner either, or either of Brad's jeeps.
I might do some wiring tonight after the kids are in bed.
Closed Mondays.
7:26 pm
Club Member
July 10, 2003
Offline I bring the :censor: when it comes to mechanix. I've been under my Jeep for two hours and have accomplished NOTHING. Somebody must be playing a trick on me because I think they welded my TREs in place. I'm probably going to have to have a new tie rod made because I don't think my old one will stand up to the abuse I give it. My track bar mount hole is elongated and I'm not sure if there is enough room to drill it out to a bigger size. So, I ended up putting the whole thing back together and will have to wait for a real mechanic or take it to a fabricator to fix it all. I suck
I used to wheel a lot. . .
7:44 pm
May 4, 2004
Offline "JohnDF" wrote: Somebody must be playing a trick on me because I think they welded my TREs in place.
What's your normal technique for removing TRE's from the knuckles?
7:45 pm
"Bender" wrote: I feel your pain. 🙁
times eleventy billion!
7:49 pm
February 5, 2003
Offline "FAM" wrote: [quote="JohnDF"]Somebody must be playing a trick on me because I think they welded my TREs in place.
What's your normal technique for removing TRE's from the knuckles?
BFH
Closed Mondays.
7:49 pm
February 5, 2003
Offline and the F = FORD
Closed Mondays.
7:58 pm
Club Member
July 10, 2003
Offline I can get the TREs off the knuckles. The TRE on the drag link is the problem. I can't get it out of the end of the drag link. I think somebody welded it in there as a joke.
I used to wheel a lot. . .
8:03 pm
February 5, 2003
Offline This is one reason I like a male threaded TRE and a male threaded tie rod or drag link and an adjuster collar. You can cut the collar off if you have to and clean up the threads.
Closed Mondays.
8:08 pm
May 4, 2004
Offline "JohnDF" wrote: I can get the TREs off the knuckles. The TRE on the drag link is the problem. I can't get it out of the end of the drag link. I think somebody welded it in there as a joke.
Did you try a pickle fork and a BFH?
8:09 pm
Club Member
July 10, 2003
Offline "FAM" wrote: [quote="JohnDF"]I can get the TREs off the knuckles. The TRE on the drag link is the problem. I can't get it out of the end of the drag link. I think somebody welded it in there as a joke.
Did you try a pickle fork and a BFH?
It's threaded, how's a pickle fork going to help?
I used to wheel a lot. . .
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