General Tech What did you work on Today?

[Gravy]

minor. LoL

 

[UPNO4]

OK so a little more than minor but its just a narrowed KP 60. Don't worry its only narrowed to 65 and I did that like 10+ years ago when that was the thing. Now I have the housing and a pretty great place to put it.

 

[Herzog]

Saucy!

 

[zmotorsports]

My son brought his Jeep over yesterday afternoon so we can begin the next round of work.

I then racked the wife’s car and performed a service on it.

It’s supposed to be a cold and wet weekend so it looks like a great time to get some work done in the shop.

In preparation for the colder weather I also vacuumed the gas-fires heater out in the shop and cleaned and inspected the house furnace then removed the glass front from the fireplace and gave it a good cleaning last night.

Mike

 

[Bart]

Looking great Matt.

 

[Harley Jim]

Helped my neighbor put up his trusses

 

[YROC FAB.]

It was upgrade time for chads buggy. We got his radio installed, and a 12v main power disconnect which would of been handy when he had a starter wire melt and run the starter while he panicking trying to disconnect the battery terminals lol. He had also broken 18 steering studs since hes had this thing over the last year. The one time he lawn darted coming down chewy on Pritchett and broke all 4 off at once, that was a fun day. . .

We finally talked him into some Solid knuckles. I prefer them over the Green ones or the Orange ones. The green ones use 4 bolts with a key way. The orange ones use 5 bolts and no key way. The solids have 6 bolts and a key way. Cant loose with 6 bolts and key.


I milled out his old arms instead of buying new ones.

We also installed some bronze upper cone bushings.

 

[I Lean]

Cant loose with 6 bolts and key.

Haha! I see what you did there.

 

[Harley Jim]

I bought another pedal car

 

[zmotorsports]

What a great day working with my son in the shop on Saturday afternoon. I’ve missed that lately.

Started by dropping the transmission pan.

Actually looks pretty good with very little sludge.

While everything was dripping off I machined a bung to be welded in the pan for the transmission temperature sending unit

Used my sheet metal bits to drill the hole once the location was determined.

Welded and painted.

While I was waiting for the paint to dry and while I had the welder out I fixed my 3rd hand and fabbed up a holder for my dust pan and small broom.

Painted.

Bolted to side of my cabinet.

Old trans filter and filter seal removed. Careful when removing this seal to avoid scoring the inside of the seal bore. I will install a prybar until it contacts the bore then back it off slightly to avoid damage.

Deep socket inverted to drive the new seal in flush with the bore. I lubed up seal as well as the filter and installed new filter.

While I had the pan off I also replaced the spin on cooler filter prior to installing the pan.

A small amount of dressing to hold the pan gasket in place during installation.

While we were looking at mounting the aux. transmission cooler locations my son noticed a small trace of coolant at the tank crimp on the radiator. We ultimately decided to replace the radiator while we had it in the shop. We also noticed a slight leak around the power steering hose at the crimp so picked a new one up.

Everything going back together.

More to come.

Mike

 

[4x4_Welder]

Nice. Now you have a draining point for the trans pan as well.
I have a cheap HF 180° hook tool for pulling those seals, it works very well and you'd have to try hard to damage anything. Just stick it through the seal and pull down.

 

[zmotorsports]

Nice. Now you have a draining point for the trans pan as well.
I have a cheap HF 180° hook tool for pulling those seals, it works very well and you'd have to try hard to damage anything. Just stick it through the seal and pull down.

Thanks. I add a drain and/or temp sending unit on all of my personal vehicles and used to offer it as a service to clients which many had me perform.

I have a MAC seal puller like you describe but I've found a heel bar is just as quick and easy but you have to pay a little more attention or you'll damage the seal bore.

Mike

 

[zmotorsports]

Last night my son came by after work and we were able to get the aux. transmission cooler completed as well as the upper and lower radiator hoses installed and most all of the engine bay reassembled with the exception of the battery tray.

I fabricated three brackets to mount the cooler.

Mocked up.

Top of the cooler nestled right under the core support.

Brackets bead blasted, painted and installed for the last time.

I also installed abrasion sleeve on the transmission cooler hoses.

Thanks for looking.

Mike

 

[zmotorsports]

We finished up the cooling system, transmission cooler lines and refilled transmission as well as power steering on my son's WJ the other night. After a road test we racked it again to tear into a front axle seal that was leaking.

Last night we finished replacing the inner axle seals.

Carrier out.

Wear patten looks fantastic.

Wear pattern on the races and bearings looks great also.

We put everything back together last night and my son took it home to put some miles on her and make sure we have addressed all of the leaks. Hopefully this weekend we can finally get around to putting his tire carrier on and completing the bumper/carrier project. We have to address mounting the license plate as well as install his CB and wire the antenna while we're at it.

Thanks for looking.

Mike

 

[zmotorsports]

Saturday my son and I got a few little things done on his WJ. Not as much as we would have liked but these little details took a bit more time than I had anticipated.

We installed his tire carrier that has been sitting on my shop floor for about nine months now.

While I was waiting for my son in the morning I added some stainless steel material to the Destaco toggle clamp for his carrier.

When my son showed up we installed the carrier.

Installation of the dust cap with my machined driver.

We installed the toggle clamp and welded a small tab on the clamp to locate a push pin.

The battery terminals were in pretty poor condition so we replaced them with some high grade marine connectors. We cut the original connectors off as the cables themselves were in pretty good condition and crimped new lugs on with heat shrink.

Next task was to fabricate a license plate mount as now with an externally mounted spare tire the license plate is hidden if left in the OEM location. We used standard 1/2”-20 lug nuts which left about 3/4” of threads protruding. The plane was to machine some standoffs from 1” aluminum with flats for a 3/4” socket, the same as the lug nuts.

They were drilled and tapped with 1/2”-20 threads on one side and 8mm x 1.25 threads on the other. Then placed into my 6-sided collet holder in which to machine the flats.

Machining the flats.

One down one to go.

Standoffs mocked into place.

I cut a piece of 3/16” aluminum plate just a little taller than the license plate and drilled & tapped for the plate and LED light.

Before closing up the shop I ran a couple of wires from his right tail light marker circuit to power the license plate light and temporarily zip-tied the wiring until we can install the CB some time this week.

Thanks for looking.

Mike

 

[Bart]

Excellent work as always. Looks fantastic.

 

[zmotorsports]

Excellent work as always. Looks fantastic.

Thanks Bart. I was pretty pleased with how the license plate turned out as I didn't want something that looked cheap and cheesy on there.

Mike

 

[rholbrook]

Mike,

Have you ever half-assed anything in your life?

 

[zmotorsports]

Mike,

Have you ever half-assed anything in your life?

I'm sure I have, just can't remember off the top of my head. At least nothing that I'll admit to.

 

[Tonkaman]

Every time I read your threads I dream all night long about machining. It’s so sad when I wake up and realize it was just a dream.