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I think I saw this on one of the FB pages... Given the likely damage, you might be able to simply replace the damaged part. That said, given the hard hit, lift, and likely the age of your rig, it would make sense to simply replace all your steering components. Do you know if you have OEM...

I've been so busy with wrapping up the Islander and some house stuff, now it feels like I've got nothing to do... so back in the garage I go haha... I had some space in the trash, so figured I might as well use it up (trash and recycling space comes at a premium during the holidays!). Since...

I hate underpowered rigs only second to undergeared rigs... For me, on a JK with 35"s and proper gearing, 300hp/300tq is a very useable and streetable number that I would be happy with. I think you make a valid point in that the 3.8L isn't terrible, though that 42RLE is a power-robbing vampire...

It is certainly a slippery slope… Admittedly, I got an older, high-mile JKU with the intention of Hemi swapping it. Had I gotten a newer 3.6L model, I may have kept the 3.6L but would absolutely have considered a 8HP swap - it’s such a smooth trans…

I said I wasn't going to work on the Jeep for a few days... I got the garage cleaned, the trash all cleaned up, some old parts sold off, scrap metal brought to the recycler and the Hemi was just sitting there looking at me. So I did what any sane person would do - start the disassembly...

These showed up yesterday afternoon and I had them smacked together in about 15 minutes... gotta love fresh, clean shafts! Spent a few hours yesterday evening getting it all buttoned up and then torqued down everything today on my lunch break... My sore shoulders, hips, back, and hand/arm...

Same here - I remember grabbing it somewhat recently to remove some adhesive tape that someone had left over when they removed a set of aftermarket window "vents". He was losing his mind trying to find something to dissolve the foam tape with no luck. I grabbed this and we got all 4 windows...

While waiting for the axle shafts to be delivered, I tackled another issue that's been plaguing the Islander - a leaky roof! With 1-2" of rain expected in a few days, I figured this was a good time to get this done... Based on where the water was constantly coming in, I suspected it was the...

And also practice how to winch long before you need to do a pull in the field... watch YouTube, talk to experienced users, etc. Winching incidents happen and happen fast, often with nasty consequences. I have a close friend who lost the tips of two of her fingers due to a simple winching incident...

I find that to get the best deals, you gotta look and look reasonably often, but not be in a "rush"... I got my Warn Zeon 10-S for half the price of retail and it came in the OEM box even (though to be fair, the box had a hole in it and I had to buy two OEM nuts for it)...

With winches, I have found the best deals on Facebook Marketplace (and prior to that, Backpage/CL). I've bought three that were either barely used or new-in-box. People buy them with good intentions and never end up using them, or in many cases, never even installing them.

These were up on Marketplace for a few days and have already sold... either I listed them too cheap ($800), or I just got lucky. I'm going to assume I just got lucky lol... Despite the freezing AM temps, the midday highs still allowed me to get some paint on the cleaned up frame, brackets...

The more I see builds like these, the more they make me want to build a stretched 2-door trailer queen...

Nice Mark! Your products have certainly been a godsend for the Wrangler world... nice to see you dipping in the JK world. Any future plans for rebuilding the earlier JK ABS modules?

One of the rear shocks was so hard to compress that I could barely make it move. It didn't feel that stiff on the road but I'm guessing it is a big contributor to why the Jeep feels like it's jumping across the road when you hit a pot hole or bump... Back is in and break-in done. It rides so...

Making progress… old D44 is out and frame is prepped for some touch up paint tomorrow. The ball joint adapters should be here tomorrow afternoon, so with any luck, I’ll have the new D44 in place and the old D30 pulled and ready…

Got the gears all done in the Islander D30! After years of using long threaded rods and using blocks and old bearing races to pull inner axle seals in place, a friend told me about this thing and boy does that make it easy! Some grease on the lip, and some black RTV on the seating edge, and...

Damn, that's rough! Even looking at your most recent photos, I bet if you hit that area with a needle scaler or ball-peen hammer, a lot more rust would flake and fall off, meaning there's nothing of structural integrity that you could "bite" into, with any sort of mechanical means. I'm afraid...

You have to ask yourself if you trust JB on a plastic fuel line - which, by the way, is already showing general signs of failure and end-of-service-life, with 65+ psig of fuel in a hot engine compartment while you, and conceivably others that you care about, drive down the road... Don't be...

Does your interior light stay on? Do you have a multi-meter? You can usually configure it to test for current draw (usually up to a few amps). You can check your baseline current draw with all doors closed. Then, open each door and observe the amperage draw. The door that you open that DOES...