Recent content by pc1p

Doing gears yourself is like buying a new welder - you get to make all sorts of new friends on your block or in your Jeepin' group :) Seriously though it's not bad. People - the most famous of all being "Jerry" (yeah, that one) - like to pretend that it's basically rocket science and that one...

Doing some cleaning while the sun was shinning and the days are sunny and in the 70's. I had some mud and salt deposits around seat brackets in the Mrs. Grand Cherokee, so I dragged the Bissell outside. While I was there, I went over Charlotte's Islander seats. Every time I do it, it serves as a...

I just slapped my 285/70R17's on my daughter's Islander with zero lift and it clears everything just fine. Granted, I haven't flexed this thing out but they aren't that much bigger than factory 255's and they clear with plenty of room.

Making some more progress in the afternoons... I got the flares pulled off to give me more access and to start cleaning the body/frame up. I will need to push the Jeep out of the garage once the motor is pulled to give it a thorough power wash, so I'll need my brakes working (see steep driveway...

The 14B is in place! Everything bolted up as expected, though the trackbar is really close to the diff cover. I don't know if it's gonna clear it, or if a different trackbar shape will help, but I'll most certainly need to check clearances soon. Making my (in)famous "carboard checklists" to...

The teardown has begun!!! Finally... They don't look too big on the ground or on the little dolly thing I made, but when you start wrestling around 700 lbs of beef, they certainly get heavy! Finally found where I hid this box (in another box as it were, stupid me!), so figured I'd freshen up...

What Bilsteins did you go with? I don't see any options for 0-2" of lift in the 5100 lineup, only their blue/yellow offerings.

Been there, ate that :)

Oddly, the steps don’t have it too bad. There’s a lot of surface scale underneath - I’m guessing the PO parked it on the grass - but the steps are fine. I’ll definitely put some Rubi rails on; they look funny with nothing there, but that will be a weekend project perhaps. The Islander only has...

We dropped my daughter off at school on Friday, which means it was time to roll my Jeep into the garage and start the tear down... Of course, the day before I was about to start driving her Jeep, her exhaust broke right in front of the muffler... I went with the Pypes kit from Quadratec...

Having spent a week in Birmingham recently, they may want to kick up their inspections :ROFLMAO: :LOL: (j/k, I love my Bama boys!)

It's a balancing act for me. Should free people be able to make personal choices and generally live how they want? Absolutely. But when those choices affect other people, or have such an inherently high risk that there is too much societal "cost" should an incident occur, that's where I draw the...

The inspection stuff sometimes kills me at times, but in those moments I tend to think of the time when I saw a dude in a work truck with about 10 ratchet straps holding his flat bed to the frame - loaded with supplies - turn the corner too fast and the entire thing popped off and slide across...

When I lived in AZ, it was basically the same approach. Back here in the northeast, it’s very regionalized. My local cops know me and even the sheriffs know people like to take their stuff through the woods. Some inspection stations will give you a hard time but it’s rare. Down south in the...

You keep your factory inner fenders forever or did you go aftermarket? I'm looking at these but want to keep the factory inners. PA can be a bit of a PITA when it comes to tire coverage. No local cops or shops will give me issues, but don't want to get headaches traveling around. I think that...