Sheaffadelic
Caught the Bug
Awesome :thumb:
WJCO's Build Thread, 1999 WJ
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GraniteCrystal
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Yeah baby!! Oh man, that's beautiful. When is the installation?
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WJCO
Meme King
Hopefully in the next week or two. Hard to say. As excited as I am to get it on, it's going to be a fairly big project.
NecessaryEvil
Caught the Bug
cozdude
Guy with a Red 2-Door
:cheesy: !!!!!
TOPLESS
Active Member
In the words of Larry the Cable Guy "that's funny right there".
Awesome! Can't wait to see the install.
benatc1
Hooked
WJCO
Meme King
I agree. :thumb:
Sorry to disappoint.
Me too. Can't wait to put it under the Jeep.
Thanks.
WJCO
Meme King
Labricon
Caught the Bug
Looking good....but I don't envy you the wiring and air line routing.
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WJCO
Meme King
Thanks. What's funny is I was actually considering an e-locker because I didn't want to deal with all of this. Even after I already had the compressor! Then I got off my lazy ass and realized I would kick myself in the nuts for going this far with the axle and not getting an ARB. Just like any other project, once I get into it, it's not that bad.
WJCO
Meme King
And a trick I learned about ARB if you are running only one locker with the twin compressor....you cannot use the switch 2 wiring by itself. Power goes through switch 1, so that has to be hooked up first.
Switch 2 uses a green wire which I already had in my garage, so i was going to stick with it simply for color coating. But it didn't work. After looking at the diagram, I realized why. Hooked up switch 1 instead and it's good.
Switch 2 uses a green wire which I already had in my garage, so i was going to stick with it simply for color coating. But it didn't work. After looking at the diagram, I realized why. Hooked up switch 1 instead and it's good.
WJCO
Meme King
CARRY FLUIDS!!!! Went on a very last minute run this morning with Matt from Rancho here on the forum. The day was full of surprises. We started by heading up the dry, warm canyon to our selected trail which was 100% snow-covered and took us by surprise. We've had great weather here for about a week and didn't expect any snow at this elevation.
After airing down, we hit the trail. It was very slippery. I had to break out the winch almost immediately. And shortly after, Matt was sliding on a hill and then had an intermittent engagement issue with his front locker. Being that we both had kids with us, we decided to bail on this trail because we knew it would only get worse as we got higher up. We decided to go to a trail a short distance down the road at a lower elevation.
About a mile into the trail, Matt radio'd me that he had no movement of his Jeep at all. As we started looking at it, we noticed a red puddle of fluid forming in front of his LF tire. He had blown a quick-connect fitting on one of his tranny lines up near the radiator.
After we pulled it off and inspected it, it turns out that the small u-shaped snap ring that was suppose to be in there was completely missing. So we fabricated some damn good zip tie engineering to force the connection to stay clipped.
Although the zip ties appeared to work, his trans fluid wasn't reading on the dipstick and the Jeep wasn't moving. We shut it off quickly and neither of us had transmission fluid. Moral: ALWAYS CARRY ALL TYPES OF FLUIDS. We both learned a lesson today that will stick with us. We spent a good 2-3 hours getting Matt's Jeep turned around so we could tow him out. That thing is heavy. With 3 people pushing it uphill and the 37s having no power steering to move it, it was a very long process that ultimately resulted in using a winch to help us make the 7 point turn.
Instead of me having to tow him, Matt used gravity and no power steering nor power brakes and barrelled down the hill at a very impressive speed. I met him at the bottom and pulled him over to an easy highway pulloff where we waited for a tow-truck. It was dark by the time the tow-truck came, but we all had warm weather gear and extra food to keep the kids happy. Long day. Matt will keep us posted after he gets some fluid in his Jeep and hope that no transmission damage was done.
After airing down, we hit the trail. It was very slippery. I had to break out the winch almost immediately. And shortly after, Matt was sliding on a hill and then had an intermittent engagement issue with his front locker. Being that we both had kids with us, we decided to bail on this trail because we knew it would only get worse as we got higher up. We decided to go to a trail a short distance down the road at a lower elevation.
About a mile into the trail, Matt radio'd me that he had no movement of his Jeep at all. As we started looking at it, we noticed a red puddle of fluid forming in front of his LF tire. He had blown a quick-connect fitting on one of his tranny lines up near the radiator.
After we pulled it off and inspected it, it turns out that the small u-shaped snap ring that was suppose to be in there was completely missing. So we fabricated some damn good zip tie engineering to force the connection to stay clipped.
Although the zip ties appeared to work, his trans fluid wasn't reading on the dipstick and the Jeep wasn't moving. We shut it off quickly and neither of us had transmission fluid. Moral: ALWAYS CARRY ALL TYPES OF FLUIDS. We both learned a lesson today that will stick with us. We spent a good 2-3 hours getting Matt's Jeep turned around so we could tow him out. That thing is heavy. With 3 people pushing it uphill and the 37s having no power steering to move it, it was a very long process that ultimately resulted in using a winch to help us make the 7 point turn.
Instead of me having to tow him, Matt used gravity and no power steering nor power brakes and barrelled down the hill at a very impressive speed. I met him at the bottom and pulled him over to an easy highway pulloff where we waited for a tow-truck. It was dark by the time the tow-truck came, but we all had warm weather gear and extra food to keep the kids happy. Long day. Matt will keep us posted after he gets some fluid in his Jeep and hope that no transmission damage was done.
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GraniteCrystal
New member
Oh no! I have transmission fluid and probably could've come met you guys to give it to him. Text me next time! Glad you made it off the trail safely though. Hope it's a cheap fix.
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