Gears made and installed on a mass scale, as in, for hundreds of thousands of new cars or trucks are manufactured, in part, using a chemical process. Or at least, as best as I understand. This process would be far too expensive for a local shop to do and so the gears need to be broken in mechanically. As in, a controlled heating of them up by driving and then cooling them down.
Oh, now that you mention it, I do need to point out that the air tank skid was made for a factory shaft and with it, there's more than enough room. The new 1350 carrier bearing flange was way too big and so the shop had to make a few modifications to make sure that everything cleared. ACCUAIR is aware of this and has already started making those changes to production kits.
LOL - been kinda feeling like it.
Another update I'd like to make is in regards to the sway bar links. While waiting for the shop to finish up their gear and driveline work, ACCUAIR sent me a new set. Actually, 2 new sets, one that's heavy duty, adjustable and similar to the front links on the JT now and one that looks like OEM but longer.
Here's a shot of the rear links with polyurethane bushings that came on the JT and always clunked from coming loose.
No matter how much I tightened the bolts, they kept on coming loose - EVEN WITH red loctite.
I was tempted to install the HD adjustable link (and may still down the road), I decided to install the OEM style links first. Me personally, I like how they have bonded rubber bushings on one end and a sealed TRE style joint on the other. Assuming they hold up to wheeling, I think they'll be a better and maintenance free way to go.
While I did get new links for the front as well, I decided to keep the quick disconnects on for now and mainly because this JT is not a Rubicon. If it were, I would have installed the new fixed links. If I can get my hands on another sway bar disconnect, I'll definitely swap them out.
My guess is it has to do with the front shock mounts, the Mojave uses bigger bolts/mounts, I loved my Mojave too, and I agree it seemed like everything was “does not fit Mojave” but I do see more and more products coming out. When I was poking around with EVO, Basically to upgrade to longer/king shocks for a lift you needed different shock bushings, so assuming this is the reason for accuair I’d bet that would fix the “issue” with their shocks. Only other think I can think of is the front coil bucket, you can pull that factory hydro bump out and it’s essentially a a normal coil bucket, but not sure how the Accuair mounting points lines with with the Mojave bolt holes in the coil bucket or not. If that makes any sense.
Okay, I just talked to ACCUAIR and was told that you can totally install their kit on a Mojave. They just say it doesn't work because they sell their kit as requiring "no cutting". Ben figured it out but the problem is the bump stop tube. You would just need to cut 1" off the front bump stop tubes to make it work.
That doesn't seem like a big deal at all.
It really isn't. I've done it a few times now to install King air bumps. Super easy.
I'm pretty sure I cut more than that off of my JKs. This is something I'm considering.
