rcguymike

I believe you can only get them stock height.

Also Ox-Gard! Cruiser introduced me and I've been slathering it everywhere...lols

CR-Snow

Gotcha. This will be a permanent install so I think I'll just cut the prongs off and solder directly to the stock wires.

Cane

back to my rust questions.

i have an area maybe 2-3" length of the pinch seam (1/2" lip on outside of the jeep, where the rear wheel well meets the floor pan) that is cracking when I start pulling on it. pretty sure I could just rip it off.

thing is, I looked from the inside, under the carpet and it does look manageable, so it's not completely rotted out. basically rust started forming at the seam : https://i.imgur.com/1NGbWbe.jpg?1

of course i plan on cleaning all of that, but my main question is what can i do about the lip / pinch seam on the outside? can I just weld it shut after i buffed all the rust or it compromises the structural integrity of the jeep? from the inside could I just weld along the pinch seam to add even more rigidity and then "delete" the lip?

not my xjs but here is to give you an idea of what I'm talking about : https://i.imgur.com/5cHAzKP.jpg

93XJeeper

Anybody know what's making this noise? I was putting some r134 into the system cause it was low on freon (really low) then it started making this noise. I thought maybe it was the blower motor put I replaced it about a week ago. The AC lines vibrate while making this noise but the blower motor doesn't. Any ideas? Sounds like it's coming com inside the fire wall or that little metal block that the AC lines pass through.


Watch the whole video. The sounds stops as soon as I flip AC off.

salad

Clean it up and see how bad it is. That it's come inside, underneath the seam sealer, is not great news. You'll probably need to cut it back and weld in a patch that bridges the gap.

Cane

i don't really get it either, but like I said I pushed pretty hard on the floor and wheel well and it feels solid. of course the only way to know is to do it which I will probably this weekend, but I want to be prepared in case the seam is indeed rotted so i know what to do.

to make things more simple, can i just cut the whole lip the seam creates, clean all the rusty metal, weld in sheet metal if needed and then weld the floor pan to the wheel well? the way I see it is that it should work, but again because it's a unibody I'm not 100% sure, integrity-wise

salad

Yeah. Tape off the rest of the interior and get the seam sealer off... then you'll see, lol

(This is why people need to use oil-based undercoating!!!)

Well the lip/pinch seam does add rigidity, as well as being super fast to assembly in the factory with a dedicated spot welder. People give the "unibody" thing too much weight (it's a rigid body on a unitized frame, similar but not actually a monocoque unibody design). Replace whatever you can, it'll be stronger than what's rusting out!

Frame stiffeners really tie the whole thing together, if you can swing them. The bodies are 19 gauge sheet metal with a couple of spot welds... they're not exactly bomb-proof. Reducing flex in the uniframe really tightens these vehicles up. Up in Quebec it might be pretty challenging to get some, though!

Cane

got it, thanks

it lived most of its life in alberta, a salt-free province, and for the past 4 winters I had it treated for rust. they shoot oil over all your under carriage and also inside the doors/rockers. even with all this prevention it seems they're still prone to rust in hidden spots. right now the rocker panels, the driver's side floor pan (about 2"x2" if i were to cut around it) and now the rear wheel wells is where I found rust so far, so if I can fix all those, I'll be a happy man.

and like anything else I must order online, I'm pretty used to pay extra for shipping, so if it comes down to it I'll save up for them and order online. my jcr bumper cost me an extra 100$ because of brokerage fees over the border -_- the quality and design made up for it though, i was (still am) really happy with it!

93XJeeper

nobody knows why my jeeps AC sounds like a dying pig? Lol. I tried unplugging the blower motor while the AC is on and it still makes the noise so I know it's the AC line. Why would it make this noise?

Cane

only thing i can think of is that if it was low, you probably have a leak. no clue if it's the source of your problem, but think about the polar bears!!!

salad

Yeah a buddy of mine had a '97 4-door from Alberta. It was pristine, except he banged the body off of rocks. It was almost boat-sided lol. It was in such good shape he gave me the little brackets that hold the fender flares on. It was really depressing lol

Do you have Krown or Rust-Check where you are? They've got several "levels" of coverage, I think with the cheap one they don't drill into the body like pillars and rockers.

What area of QC are you in? I'm guessing not Val d'Or or Trois-Rivieres lol. Brokerage and jacked up shipping are the worst. HD Offroad has free shipping in the contiguous US, so I had them dropped off just on the other side of the border and drove over. Saved a TON of money.

93XJeeper

well,,I didnt have AC for about a year, so I bought all the parts and put it together, went to a buddy's shop, and charged it up as well as checked for leaks, I didn't charge it up all the way and about 2 weeks later (today) I finally got around to finish charging it up, and now it's makes this noise, it's still not charged completely cause I ran out of freon. I'm bout to go to the store and get some more. Could this be making the noise cause it's not fully charged?

CR-Snow

Did you add refrigerant oil when you put new freon in? If not, it can cause the compressor to run really hot and possibly fail.

93XJeeper

yea, both in the compressor and the high pressure line. Also, the compressor runs nice and quiet, the sound is coming from the lines where they enter into the fire wall.

PNWjeeper

I've got a 90 4.0 that's in need of a new exhaust manifold, I can pick up a manifold off of a 92 that's been replaced with one of those crinkle manifolds for $25 I just need to know if it will match up correctly. Thank you