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Oh man I can only imagine how exhausted ya were after all those miles limping a truck with issues. Overheating and no brakes, the way of the Comanche!
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One thing I forgot to add to my post: Behold, a video of Kastein cutting the Justy in half! https://vimeo.com/134251545
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iForge posted:One thing I forgot to add to my post: Typical Ken, angry look at the underpowered tool.
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Not enough swearing and things being thrown awkardly https://vimeo.com/134251545
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BRB, moving to New England.
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There is something so satisfying about cutting a car up.
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iForge posted:Loaded. This should be Ken's new av. My son saw this pic and was all 
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Minor update. Went down to Richmond, VA to hang out with Adiabatic, Terriblerobot, and a couple other goons and Terriblerobot and I hit a junkyard before meeting up with everyone else. I scored a headliner for the MJ in great shape, sun visors in great shape, an electric radiator fan for Adiabatic, and some other things that will have to wait to be revealed. We found this Legacy that had been underwater for quite some time    But MJ update, I finally have a headliner and sun visors that don't look like they belong in the junkyard. I had a really hard time taking pictures due to the sun, so sorry about the image quality. Before picture:  After picture:  Old visors:  One thing Kastein might be able to tell me... I used the existing plastic anchors for the new end clips and the visors don't match up. When I replaced the one on the dodge, the hinge bar slid in and out but these don't seem to do that. Are my factory holes off center or am I just doing it wrong? Had a really hard time getting a picture of it so I had to do some photoshop fuckery. 
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Horse Divorce posted:I remember you posting this, remarking that the PS pump cap needed fixing double quick. 9.5 months later, I finally found a cap in the junkyard that will work. I don't know if these have a habit of falling off or something, but they were missing on every jeep I looked at until this weekend when I found 3.
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iForge posted:One thing Kastein might be able to tell me... I used the existing plastic anchors for the new end clips and the visors don't match up. When I replaced the one on the dodge, the hinge bar slid in and out but these don't seem to do that. Are my factory holes off center or am I just doing it wrong? Had a really hard time getting a picture of it so I had to do some photoshop fuckery. I am honestly not sure. I've had a hell of a time getting any sort of visors other than the ones that came with a truck to line up with anything but the headliner that came with a truck. It seems they changed stuff over the years, like I was saying one time I put a headliner and visor clips in and the original visors from the truck were like 3 inches too short to reach them. So basically I have no idea. Interior/trim options and year splits and such are really, really not my strong point.
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Wasn't some of the poo poo a parts bin raid? Like an Oh gently caress we just ran out of poo poo during this production run, just go find something and make it work? I know Chrysler was awful about doing dumb poo poo like that.
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Thread update time! Time to build a limited slip Dana 44. One of my new years resolutions is to get this drat axle built that I've been talking about since I got the truck, so it is time. It came in pieces but everything is there despite a scare with missing carrier bearing caps. I bought all the bearings and shims and whatnot several months ago and made no more progress. I live in an apartment now and it is my first time living somewhere without a garage or even a driveway so I carried it into my apartment to build it here. It is completely degreased but the rest of the parts are not, so they will have to wait to come in. I have never done one, so I will learn as I go. 
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Built my first rear end last year. I'm sure there are tons of guides for Danas out there, so read up as much as you can first. Take your time, check your work, and make sure you're well prepared before you start. I wouldn't call the process 'hard', but it's not easy. Good luck man. You got this.
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Jeep update: Slowly pressing forward. I finally have a decent place to work on vehicles again, courtesy of a goonfriend (absentmindedwelder) who rents some shop space about 45 mins away from me. The past few weekends have been working through the hangover trying to get some bodywork done. I forgot to take pictures of certain steps, but here is what I have. I was using a Lincoln HD125 that I bought on craigslist that had lovely HF wire in it for the wheel well. I switched to good quality flux core wire for the floor pans and the welds came out so much nicer. Wire wheeled the lovely bondo out of the rust hole in the drivers rear wheel well:  Marked and cut out the rusty metal. I had to cut it back a bit farther than the rust holes to find metal thick enough to weld to:  First patch panel boogered in:  Heavy first coat of fiberglass bondo. I had never worked with the fiberglass stuff before, it is supposed to be stronger than the regular stuff, but its a pain to get smooth with a spreader. All it needs is final sanding now, but this is the last picture I have for now  While that was curing, I set up to fix a hole in the tailgate. I missed a few pictures but you get the idea:   Next up is the passenger floor. After wire wheeling it, I found a lot of pinholes so I cut out more metal than it looks like I needed to.   18ga patches welded in and seam sealer spread on top and bottom. I didn't bother smoothing out the hammer marks on the curved piece because it will never be seen once I put down the sound deadening mat.  To end the day, I installed these spot lights that I bought a few weeks ago. Still need to aim them, but they look good.  
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You're doing a ton of work to this little bastard. Nice job all around.
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