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The 3.8L is certainly noisier than the later 3.6L and other modern V6 engines, but I wouldn't say it's a particularly loud engine (we have 2 in the house!). They are known for having issues with the exhaust manifold studs, which can make it a bit noisy, especially on start-up.

The best way I’ve seen is to be prepared for it - use a JScan/reader and get the code immediately as it happens. It should tell you what speed sensor was acting up. Might be worth a dive into YouTube as well as I don’t have a lot of experience with it (though I suspect I will have to seeing how...

You shocks must be pretty long too... I was running the Rancho's on my TJ/LJ and it was impossible to get the springs in or out with the shocks attached. Even with the shocks detached, I also had to use a spring compressor to get the RK front springs in place.

What happens is sometimes when you make a turn, the bearing/hub will slightly pull away from the mount/retainer, causing the tone ring to slightly separate from the sensor, causing the system to think that there was a speed change.

Yeah fair point - I saw the shocks connected and didn't realize you fully drooped it out. Those Currie springs must be quite springy to not unseat at full droop like that...

Not sure if you meant to post TJ stuff in the JK forum, but that axle looks like it's gonna need to be pushed out a touch... did you center your bumpstops before installing springs??

We had a busy weekend with my daughter in town, but still snuck out to pick up some goodies... A guy about an hour away had a set of five, low-mile 40" Patagonia M/Ts on a set of 17" Ram 2500 aluminum wheels (one of them came on an H2 wheel). I've seen these on Marketplace for a few months now...

Making some progress on the Islander and even got a little lucky. I ordered 1x new backing plate and 1x "like new" backing plate off of Amazon. Luckily, the "like new" backing plate was actually a pack of two. I messaged Amazon and they told me to keep the second one, so I get to send the new...

Nice, glad you got it up and running again!

You ever find an axle?? I'll have a 3.73 ratio D30 available in a few weeks. I'll sell it to you super cheap to help a brother out...

Unless you had a 90's turbo hatch, there's basically zero HP gain by a catback and CAI. Modern cars are not flow limited in the intake or exhaust, and OEM's have every incentive imaginable to make the max amount of horsepower and engine efficiency. The change in perceived HP is due to your butt...

Trying to find a good spot to mount these rear brake hoses to. There's no good place that I could find that was obvious, so hopefully this one will work. I moved the control arms up and it appears to hit but it takes quite a bit of movement to get there. I suspect I'll be fully on the bump stop...

I've looked for some.. I see lots of JLU options, but not too many JK options (and they're most the black body options, not the Rubi shocks like what's on the Jeep now). I found a set of like new 2014 non-Rubi ones, but the guy will go no lower than $200. At that point, I'm buying some Bilsteins :)

It’s been a while, but curious if you’re still active on here and how you liked those Bilsteins? I’m refreshing my daughter’s Islander and her shocks are toast. I was looking at these as an option for it. How is the valving at speed? I find the OEM shocks a tad soft for road driving but nice...

Pattern here is too close to the toe of the ring gear. You’ll need to take out shims from under the pinion head. I would knock off ~0.010-0.015” and see where it lands. You want to center that pattern on the ring gear as much as possible before you start making smaller tweaks to get a feathered...

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...