The Adventures of Fiona - '08 JK Rubicon 2-Door

From the pics it looks like you need some longer front swaybar links. It looks like its pulled pretty tight in a straight line. I had that issue when I put in the 4" lift ranchos when you get that much down travel. I'm glad those worked for ya though. I must have measured like 15 times to make sure they would fit considering I started running them when I only had the 4dr coils and a spacer. But the measurements checked out and I agree the 2dr evo2" ome rears on 37s is a hell of an awesome set up

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desertrunner said:
From the pics it looks like you need some longer front swaybar links. It looks like its pulled pretty tight in a straight line. I had that issue when I put in the 4" lift ranchos when you get that much down travel. I'm glad those worked for ya though. I must have measured like 15 times to make sure they would fit considering I started running them when I only had the 4dr coils and a spacer. But the measurements checked out and I agree the 2dr evo2" ome rears on 37s is a hell of an awesome set up

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I do... I have them, but kept burning through drill bits last time I tried installing them 🤪 ... I'll have to try again soon.

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BaddestCross said:
I think I went through two or three before giving up after only getting about half way through one hole. 🤣

Did you find a particular bit that finally worked for you?

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When installing my lift I had to drill a lot of 1/2" holes along with numerous other sizes. I found that the DeWalt pilot point bits worked really well. Held up and cut fast. They just grab when about to punch through so brace yourself.

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jesse3638 said:
When installing my lift I had to drill a lot of 1/2" holes along with numerous other sizes. I found that the DeWalt pilot point bits worked really well. Held up and cut fast. They just grab when about to punch through so brace yourself.

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Did you use them on your sway bar? I'm pretty sure at least one of the bits it ate up was a DeWalt.

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jesse3638 said:
When installing my lift I had to drill a lot of 1/2" holes along with numerous other sizes. I found that the DeWalt pilot point bits worked really well. Held up and cut fast. They just grab when about to punch through so brace yourself.

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Those are exactly the drill bits I have too and I haven't broke a single one. They do great but yes definitely brace yourself because when they grab they grab hard and my knuckles have their fair share of scars to prove it Haha

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desertrunner said:
Those are exactly the drill bits I have too and I haven't broke a single one. They do great but yes definitely brace yourself because when they grab they grab hard and my knuckles have their fair share of scars to prove it Haha

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Yeah, they are the bits I usually keep on hand for my work and they're great. You're not kidding about them grabbing. I've got a few of those same scars as well. 🤣

They didn't break on me, they just got red hot and dull. I wasn't able to keep enough cutting oil on them to keep up with the drill.

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Torqued the control arms again as I was starting to hear that familiar clunk. I've of these days I'm gonna have to pull all the bolts and put some thread lock on them. 🙄

Also replaced the spring mount for my CB antenna. The "heavy duty" spring from Firestik let my 5' antenna wag like a dog's tail with any kind of wind blowing and bouncing around in the trail, fugettaboutit. 🤣

Installed this "super heavy duty" spring from Hustler New-Tronics, retuned the antenna, and problem is now solved! 👍
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I did find out in the last run I went on that the chase light bar I run is causing interference with the CB. Not sure if it's because of the grounding strap I installed or if it was doing it before since I haven't used the CB with the chase bar since installing the new one.

I'm gonna rewire my CB direct to the battery and probably get a choker for the LED power lines... Hopefully that will take care of the interference.

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I went through the same thing with the fire stick HD spring. After watching a video and seeing the antenna all over the map! I switched it out for the one I had on my 102 whip, that's probably older than I am. [emoji23] problem solved.
I get interference from my LED pods if my squelch is to low. I might have to try the choker idea. I have my CB run straight to the battery with all other power lines separated from them.


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black pearl said:
I went through the same thing with the fire stick HD spring. After watching a video and seeing the antenna all over the map! I switched it out for the one I had on my 102 whip, that's probably older than I am. [emoji23] problem solved.
I get interference from my LED pods if my squelch is to low. I might have to try the choker idea. I have my CB run straight to the battery with all other power lines separated from them.


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I think it may be because the light bar is ground switched. Hopefully grounding the CB to the battery will clean it up.

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black pearl said:
I went through the same thing with the fire stick HD spring. After watching a video and seeing the antenna all over the map! I switched it out for the one I had on my 102 whip, that's probably older than I am. [emoji23] problem solved.
I get interference from my LED pods if my squelch is to low. I might have to try the choker idea. I have my CB run straight to the battery with all other power lines separated from them.


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Ha! You know what, I stole your spring idea! Just realized it was your thread that got me looking for a better spring. I'm gonna steal your shrunken head too. 🤣🤣

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Passed her biannual smog check today. 108k miles and still running strong! 😎

One thing that pisses me off, though, is after I did the Seafoam deep soak at 100k she started burning oil. Guess the carbon buildup was keeping the oil in. 🤣

I bumped up to 5W30 this last oil change and it appears to have cut it down by half, so I may go to 10W30 on the next change to see if it gets better.

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