Ralph77

Homemade map pocket doors panels. And what would be a post without me saying I am not POR 15'ing something. Running board supports and brackets prepped, drying, and waiting for 2 coats of POR 15.

CurrySoSpicy

The guys at POR15 are having t-bones tonight!

Ralph77

LOL. Thinking a little bit of a cheaper cut. I pay a little above cost on the POR 15 through the store.

CurrySoSpicy

Ok, minute steaks then! Ha.

NewKindOfClown

Torqued my intake/exhaust manifold bolts, fixed a vacuum leak on the MAP line, retorqued the flange on my 8.8 because two of the bolts were backing out after my test drive (oops), and changed my fuel filter.

I definitely think a new filter was due. The old one rattles if you shake it, and this is what came out

jordan96xj

New Thermostat and battery today. Nothing to really brag about.

Basslicks

...loaded it up with food and clothing for 3 days, along with a chainsaw, gas can, 2 sleeping bags, tent, shovel, and a few other odds n ends preparing for this stupid Hurricane.

I'll be locked in at work until Tuesday, but I wanted to be prepared in case I have to clear the roadway to get back home..... or worse, didn't have a home to go back to.

CurrySoSpicy

Have the wife and kids got out?

Ralph77

Please be safe.

Let the fun start. Can't see from my crappy photo but all POR 15'ed, running board plastic Line-X'ed (turned the green into black), and hardware to reassemble these things. That is the easy part. Will really get interesting when I try to figure out how these go on the Jeep.

Ralph77

So I was just going to put both running boards back together and move on to a few other smaller projects I would like to get done today. But once I put one together just had try and figure out the install. Put the brackets in the driver's side, only with one bolt each, and hung the running board. The front bracket uses an existing hole. Back one I drilled just one hole to put on the bracket. Going to have to lower the back a little, good thing this is a nut and bolt hole and not a rivnut hole, because the running board is not level. I will just elongate the hole a bit. But here is an idea of what the finished project should look like.

aTinker

on my '94 XJ SE Standard

Hired the hood release replacement- beat the socks off doing it myself solo

so Today I had the time to finish some small TUITs

I have already replaced the rubber covers (small boots) on the transmission all I had left was the Interior boot- of all the stuff on that project That was the only salvageable part- I RTV's a couple small tears
Bough the frame gizmo & put the fixed boot on the frame- it has been kicking around my work table for a while

so today I finally got around to taking off the sloppy shift **** ( held in place - more or less- by electrical tape (when I got the Jeep) to Gorilla tape
hardest part was cutting off the old tapes & fining an Allen Wrench the right size
Boot with frame slid on and seems to have "snapped into place ok

Up side is that the previous owners had some bozos at a shop work on the transmission & they broke off 1 side of the opening in the console- because of that I did not run into too tight to shift into 2nd problem

new shift **** went on- is part of one of those pedal cover & **** sets

the other TUIT was getting the gas pedal cover plate on- the clutch plate is the one I really needed ( the extra 1/2 inch helps- I am short and pudgy)
the clutch and break pedal plates went on fine with the supplied bolted toggles

the Gas pedal plate is mad for a different shaped gas pedal so the toggles wouldn't work- I wound to drilling into the original plastic gas pedal and used coarse metal screws ( 3 of them) to attach that.

next project is likely dealing with the rood/windshield leak
because I have gorilla tape over the top of the windshield molding ( this is a transition year April Manufacture so I have the '93 Metal molding) and it is still leaking- I am thinking it is the roof rails
that is a project for another day

Ralph77

I took off the one I mocked. Need to drill more holes and buy more nuts and bolts. Put together the other one and am exhausted. Did not get everything done today that I wanted but that is not unusual.

4WD4EVER

Finally got it to running status after replacing the timing chain with a Cloyes.

Had the t-stat housing and timing chain cover powder-coated a light-gray and installed a new timing chain snubber and crank seal in the cover. The old ones were so hard they had turned to a plastic-like hardness.

Installed a new Mopar t-stat, water pump and harmonic balancer.

Installed a set of Mean Lemons, a.k.a. XJwonders 4 ga battery cables and determined my routing. Cleaned up all the related flex-sheathing and just waiting for some 3M Super 88 tape to clean up and secure the install.

Hoping to get the rest of it put together soon so I can drive it a little before winter...

XJwonders

Useless without pics.

4WD4EVER

Lol! I will when I'm done; it's a mess right now.