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Had a quiet afternoon with a few cancelled meetings, so I decided to get the truss at least tacked in place to make me feel better… I set the pinion angle to 7° based on seeing nearly every person say that this was about perfect for a 14B on 3.5-4.5” springs. From there, I leveled the the...

I was just having this conversation with a friend... "snow driving" means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. It also means different things to the same person, depending on circumstances. True "snow tires" are ones with specific sipping and compounds for use in the snow and...

Glad you figured it out… a reminder, the head rests fold back when the seat is laid down. I’ve seen some people (cough cough my daughter) try to make them fold forward as they put the seat down. It doesn’t work lol…

The studs I ordered finally arrived, two days late but just ahead of the storm. As you can see, the 610-194’s most closely match the original M14 wheel studs, but in 9/16” thread: The 610-359, which many on Pirate4x4 said was their stud of choice, would appear to work as well, but is really...

Test fitting the Artec truss and brackets... From everything I've seen, plus commonsense, and confirmed by Artec, it seems the best way to do this is to center the Apex truss over the center chunk for best fit, tack in place on all corners, then burn in deep. At that point, it seems that it's...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BY34ZS22?tag=jkforum-20 I used these recently. They're nicely made and offer lots of expandability.

I ran 285/70 R17 (33" x 11.25") on saggy stock front springs on wheels with 4.5" of backspacing. Your JK Willy's wheels have ~6.25" of backspacing, so with 2" spacers, you're at ~4.25" of backspacing so you should clear just fine. Depending on tire tread profile, you may get some slight rubbing...

Dealing with the same issue on my 08... Checked the blend door, "recentered" the cam on the HVAC box controller, etc. I'm getting good heat, but perhaps not enough in the core, so I'm going to flush it out this weekend and see if that helps.

I heard of stories of chaffing the inner edges and face that touches the wheel, causing early failure. Don't know how true it is across the board, but the one person I knew that ran them did eventually get rid of them because of this very reason a handful of times.

Realistically, unless you're double-locked and properly set up for the 6+ rated trails - AND you don't intend to take any bypasses - you'll won't likely need beadlocks. In AZ, a lot of people ran their rigs at 9-11 psig without beadlocks and never (or super rarely) had an issue. I used to run my...

Only real way I can see you being able to do it now would be to pull the pitman arm off the gear - or alternatively pull the gear of the frame, and manage it that way. You may need some persuasion from a BFH, as well as a small amount of heat, as you're not going to get much leverage with the...

Got this done today… Despite cleaning the $hit out of this axle, and preheating it twice with a MAPP torch, my first pass on both sides had some porosity. With a distinct smell of oil, I suspect there was something deep in the junction that worked its way out. I ground it clean, preheated...

Boy getting these lugs off were a nightmare! Spray, clean, soak, spray, on and on for weeks now and I still had to bust out the MAPP torch… Thankfully, none required the smoke wrench! I was able to pull the caliper mount bolts out fairly easily, so I got those off and ready to be core-swapped...

The Bills game was awesome! Cool to say we got to see the longest field goal in franchise history, plus we had an awesome C5 fly-over to start the game (my son is a huge space and aviation fan and was losing his mind!!). My back has been killing me, thanks to 11 hours of driving, coupled with...

Most NFL and professional sports games are insane (throw in concert tickets as well). The Bills tickets we got are kind of nosebleed seats (b/c we decided too late in the summer if we were going to make a game this year or not b/c of my daughter’s schedule, and now she’s not coming anyways...

Been driving her around the past two days, including some highway trips. She’s smooth as butter, so smooth in fact my wife commented on how nice the ride is now (though she is back to complaining that I have a vehicle that she can’t get into… being 5’2” is tough with a Jeeper husband 😂). I...

Used many Novak NP231 parts, including the Super Short SYE and rebuild parts over the years. Always been a great company to deal with... BTW, you weblink was improperly typed in, it takes you to "http://vak-adapt.com/".

Decided to check the toe and tweak the steering wheel centeredness: Toe looked off a tad but was dead on with 1/4” toe-in so I didn’t touch it. I did a slight tweak on the drag link and the wheel is dead straight and drives perfectly centered down the road (on top of the crown of course)...

Yeah, that’s really the only way to do it… I’ll probably set aside a week for the axle swap, spending a lot of time upfront getting the axles in so I can measure for driveshafts, then taking my time getting it all buttoned up, checking clearances, adjusting arm lengths, etc. Thankfully I get...

I got back from my work trip to Tampa and decided to take a few days off of work to get the Metalcloak lift installed. First up was double-checking my inventory and then pre-setting the arm lengths according to the MC instructions: New Crown bump stops since my fronts are totally missing and...