What did you do to your rig Today? V2.0

Good lord

Nice fire hazard. My jeep had a run of 12-2 Romex under the dash and to the back for something.

It may have been good when he originally did it, but once he removed all of the lights I had a bunch of hot 12 V wires in odd places. Glad it is all gone.

I installed a Novak cable shifter this morning in my TJ.

How do you like it? I have the advance adapters one and man what a difference.

It is nice!!!! I have to relearn how to shift with it. I was so accustomed to having to force it in gear and now it just moves so easy. And before I could not get it in 4hi without it popping out. Now all that is taken care of.

I just installed a set of Metalcloak Duroflex aluminum control arms on the tj. WOW! It is unbelievable how smooth and quiet the Jeep is now. It was obvious just pulling it out of the shop on the gravel, and on the road it is a whole different animal! The adjustability will make setting caster and pinion angle a snap. Wish I had done this sooner!

I have heard a lot of great things about those joints. If we do any control arms on the JK, I think thats what I will go with.

Installed my CB. While I had the dash open I completed the Rubicon locker bypass.

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Now the lockers operate independently without restrictions. And the CB works, too. :smile:

Nice work, I wish that was available for the 2012+ jk.

It is. With my $140 superchip handheld I can do that, fogs with high beams, adjust my tire size, high idle while winching, ect. Very worth it.

Getting the m37 ready for the engine to come out, removed the floor board, grill, and radiator

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Man i like those clutch and brake pedal pads. That is cool how they made them. Better than the vintage jeep ones

There pretty sweet, it has alot of peddle travel, and more mechanical advantage

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Replaced my dented up bumper on my 05 with a 2008-2012 bumper. Turned out pretty good, sticks out just a tad far though. One day Ill drop the mounts and drill new holes. Other than that it lined up just fine.

I need to do body mounts BAD. I am thinking about going with poly, I can't swing the $400+ OEM rubber mounts right now. I just hate that I have heard about fitment issues and squeaks. The stiff ride from poly mounts doesn't bother me... its a driving brick, not a Cadillac. Anyone put poly mounts in their trucks?

Are the body mounts that bad after only 10 years?


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Yeah they are trashed. Tried to get a picture but by the time I get to my truck every day its dark.

Its two rubber mounts that sandwich the metal mount on the frame. The lower rubber mount has completely disintegrated and fell off 3 of the 6 cab mounts. (I haven't even looked at the radiator support mounts so not sure if they are shot). Its about to fall of of 2 others. The big rubber puck above the body mount is crumbling away on almost every one. Its like something started eating away at the rubber. I have awful squeeks and the cab moves around way too much. Going over bumps its like the truck is bottoming out every time.

Joe (or anyone else) have you guys heard what the differences are between the kevlar and regular poly mounts from energy suspension? If the kevlar gets rid of that poly squeek I'll jump all over those. The stiffness doesn't bother me, it rides like a brick anyway.

Never heard of that, the metal falls off mine before rubber goes bad

Pulled the dodge 318 out of the m37, maybe someone can use it for a boat anchor. Now I got a lot of cleaning and mounts to build for the sbc

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I replaced the brakes. In the process I found some of that Uwharrie mud Dick warned me about several posts ago in this thread.

Typed on a phone where my fingertip spans across three or four keys creating lots of spelling mistakes and grammatical errors.