Luke
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I still can’t bring myself to watch the final Grand Tour yet… end of an era.
What did you do to your jeep today?
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pics of said mirrors?
and yea, your "roads" in the UK are designed for 70s Minis... not "real" sized cars.
I loved watching Richard Hammond driving around in a TRX with me going "that thing is wider than the road."
Like these, they are ok for what I do.
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derekj
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It was probably the best episode they made.
It drives me nuts, I can get rubbish from China shipped for virtually nothing but parts from America are so expensive nobody bothers, guess it's the same for you.
Depending on what it is, I’ll install junkyard Mopar parts instead of cheap new aftermarket parts. The Mopar parts usually work and they will last a lot longer in my experience. There are certain things it doesn’t make sense to get replacements at the junkyard but often that is almost as good as buying new and saves the budget. For those things that actually require new parts, I will usually bite the bullet and spend the money on OEM.
My Jeep is a Frankenstein monster now made up of many other Jeeps. From the junkyard:
- heated side mirrors
- drivers door window switches
- passengers door window switch
- rear door latch actuator
- rear window regulator
- both tail light housings
- full size spare matching wheel
- cabin air filter housing (mine didn’t come with that option)
- gas tank hanger/shield
- front brake rotors, nearly new
- fuel pump, low mileage
- headlight multifunction switch
- rear axle & differential
… and probably others
My Jeep is a Frankenstein monster now made up of many other Jeeps. From the junkyard:
- heated side mirrors
- drivers door window switches
- passengers door window switch
- rear door latch actuator
- rear window regulator
- both tail light housings
- full size spare matching wheel
- cabin air filter housing (mine didn’t come with that option)
- gas tank hanger/shield
- front brake rotors, nearly new
- fuel pump, low mileage
- headlight multifunction switch
- rear axle & differential
… and probably others
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2005 Liberty Sport (106k miles) - I replaced steering rack bushings and power steering pressure hose.
Parts used:
Gates 352026 - perfect fit
Creative Steel Polyurethane bushings
My power steering pressure hose had a pretty good seep and the fluid was leaking onto the driver's side rack bushing. I replaced the hose which was straightforward but needed a 19mm crowfoot wrench socket for the hose connection at the rack.
Replacing the rack bushings with the Creative Steel polyurethane units was also straightforward but disconnecting tie rod ends on both sides was important as was removing the bolt to the steering shaft.
Trying to be as objective as possible, the steering feels markedly less sloppy with the new bushings. No significant increase increase in noise, vibrations, harshness noted.
Parts used:
Gates 352026 - perfect fit
Creative Steel Polyurethane bushings
My power steering pressure hose had a pretty good seep and the fluid was leaking onto the driver's side rack bushing. I replaced the hose which was straightforward but needed a 19mm crowfoot wrench socket for the hose connection at the rack.
Replacing the rack bushings with the Creative Steel polyurethane units was also straightforward but disconnecting tie rod ends on both sides was important as was removing the bolt to the steering shaft.
Trying to be as objective as possible, the steering feels markedly less sloppy with the new bushings. No significant increase increase in noise, vibrations, harshness noted.
Need to look at mine, it's getting sloppy. Hopefully it's just the bushes.
My aftermarket radiator, which was only 39 months old, started leaking.
I feel like I can use it by re-bending the inlet tank tab, so I'll try to repair it after replacing it with a new aftermarket radiator.
The stock radiator had a pinhole in the inlet tank, so I threw it away.
If I were to replace the radiator on this cycle, I would end up spending $60 a year on the radiator.
When I turned on the heater, it smelled like coolant, so I thought it was the heater core until I tried the internal air circulation mode.
However, two powerful fans seem to blow the coolant odor through the gap in the engine hood and into the outside air intake.
I feel like I can use it by re-bending the inlet tank tab, so I'll try to repair it after replacing it with a new aftermarket radiator.
The stock radiator had a pinhole in the inlet tank, so I threw it away.
If I were to replace the radiator on this cycle, I would end up spending $60 a year on the radiator.
When I turned on the heater, it smelled like coolant, so I thought it was the heater core until I tried the internal air circulation mode.
However, two powerful fans seem to blow the coolant odor through the gap in the engine hood and into the outside air intake.
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CherokeeLiberty
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Deer season is over. My uncle took his ranger home on Saturday, so the jeep hit the field again. Something about bombing across a hay field in third gear feels good.
This is the CRP field, basically an underproducing field that the farmer put into prairie grass.
This is the CRP field, basically an underproducing field that the farmer put into prairie grass.
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DadOSix
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Someone is getting ball joints after breaking down in the school parking lot. The tow bill was a bit steep, but since I already have the parts on hand, it is not too bad. Plus son#5 gets to see why i gripe about hitting every pot-hole instead of evading them things!n. My towing driver is super cool! He even popped the wheel off and set old Vector on a block in the driveway!
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I don't think pot holes have much to do with it, I don't hit them and I had the front left ball joint snap turning into my driveway a couple years ago, that scars up a rim pretty good
DadOSix
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Could well be. This kid hit every hole, every trip for 6 months while learning to drive. Lol. He is much better now! Still gets to help with the job.
I’ll start with the disclaimer that I’m a biologist, not a farmer, so apologies in advance. I think there is a winter wheat that can be planted as a cover crop to reduce erosion and loss of topsoil to the wind during the off-season. To rejuvenate the field it can be left fallow for a couple of years, or one can plant soybeans or something else in the legume family. The legumes have root nodules that house nitrogen-fixing bacteria. The Rhizobium bacteria increase the N in the beans and soil by taking it out of the air. The bacteria get food and a place to live from the plants, and the plants get access to more N. The farmer gets a more fertile field. Win-win-win. There’s the biology lesson for today.
Not only can you plant soybeans to fix nitrogen back into the soil, but there’s a ‘new’ turnip crop you can plant that you just plow under that puts more nitrogen into the soil. But it STINKS while rotting…
That’s cool Leeann. I didn’t know about that.
