What have you done to your rig today?

Finished the WJ knuckle swap and beef links. Now for the 86 E350 master cyl.. I want ALL my pedal back.
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tlucier said:
Routine maintenance on the dd/tow pig - oil & filter change, rotate tires, blah, blah, blah...
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I call BS on referring to that as a tow pig. Your damn trailer hasn't moved from it's safe space my barn in 9 months!!!! :D
 
This redo snowballed and we knew it would. Redoing the headers as the driver side reduced down to a 1x2 cross section. This restriction made the driver side header hotter than the pass side. The old muffler was under the tcase. Moving the muffler to the rear allowed us to drop the case and gain about 4” of droop. Lowering the drivetrain necessitated a new 2” drop in the belly and all new tcase mounts and new X member in the belly and all new skids. It’s eBay headers into 2.5 tubes that merge into a single 3.5” pipe and muffler. New heat shields for everything. The rebuild trans only had 2nd gear. So we swapped governors and valve bodies with a spare stock 400 which fixed the issue.
 
orange150 said:
Another solo transmission install done. It’s amazing how much harder being closer to the ground makes it! Between the creeper and the old school trans jack I got the T5 in there.

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I also gave her a good wash down once I got it down on the ground.

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Hell you had a trans jack. I did it solo with a trans for a 4 banger s10 for my buddy. Never again. Fawk that.


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blakews2217 said:
Hell you had a trans jack. I did it solo with a trans for a 4 banger s10 for my buddy. Never again. Fawk that.


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Had to do a clutch in my EX-GF dad's F150 once. Solo, in the gravel.

I smelled like sulfur for days.
 
Well, my poor dd xj needed a cylinder head.. so I grabbed a spare and had it shaved. Figured I'd put new stem seals in it.. then thought I would lap the valves in, and then figured, why the heck not port it a little bit.. well that ended up starting at 7am and ending at 10pm with a few hour breaks..

Before I started cutting:
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After about 10-15 minutes on the first one:
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After hours on all the rest and getting into the guide area in one port, decided to cut the rest of them the same.. probably could cut the rest out but I'm ready to be lapping valves and installing the head.. I did go over it once more to finish off the rougher patches just
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I considered building a shop vacuum-based "flow gauge". Decided not to. Would have been interesting to see.
 
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a_kelley said:
Well, my poor dd xj needed a cylinder head.. so I grabbed a spare and had it shaved. Figured I'd put new stem seals in it.. then thought I would lap the valves in, and then figured, why the heck not port it a little bit.. well that ended up starting at 7am and ending at 10pm with a few hour breaks..

Before I started cutting:
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After about 10-15 minutes on the first one:
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After hours on all the rest and getting into the guide area in one port, decided to cut the rest of them the same.. probably could cut the rest out but I'm ready to be lapping valves and installing the head.. I did go over it once more to finish off the rougher patches just
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I love it! I spent about 40 hours on my sons YJ stroker. Removed a lot of metal and polished it up. I spent my 60th birthday porting a set of 58 cc , 2.02 intake small block Chevy heads for my burn on propane.
 
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