Joined the RedTJ club... Kinda

jimbo92 · Mar 22, 2013

Nice those are clean looking

LBarr2002 · May 6, 2013

Since the weather and sun wouldn't cooperate, I used a substitute sun to heat the material of the soft upper doors. If I knew how much trouble these would be, I would have paid the extra for the complete uppers.

LBarr2002 · Aug 4, 2013

I picked up a HP30 this morning. I have an OX locker on the shelf that I got for the XJ and never installed. So, the plan is to truss it and put the OX in with 4.88s. Not sure when that will happen though...

LBarr2002 · Sep 7, 2013

I finally had a day with nothing else planned, so I got a little bit done. We dropped the doors off at Solar Solutions in Lexington to get tinted while we went to breakfast and Lowes. They actually knocked $20 bucks off for just leaving the doors, not the whole Jeep.

Then, came back and tore down the HP30. I wanted to get it cleaned up and painted today but got too distracted with football...

LBarr2002 · Sep 8, 2013

All cleaned up and ready to go to CFS for gears and locker.

97TJGUZZY · Sep 9, 2013

looking good larry!

LBarr2002 · Sep 14, 2013

I insulated the fuel rail with heat tape. Hopefully this will fix my vapor lock issue...

Also spent some time with the CB Guru. Put a new antenna on it and got it tuned pretty good.

Then some more goodies showed up, OME springs

highpockets · Sep 14, 2013

LBarr2002 said:

Nice springs thats the brand I'm saveing up for. How much lift and did you get the extra heavy ones?

LBarr2002 · Sep 14, 2013

They are the heavy weight. I think they call them 2" rear and 1.5" front, so I'll probably need either OME 10MM spacer or a 3/4" spacer on the front. I got them used.

308turbo · Sep 14, 2013

What kinda issues were u having with fuel system?? You check the sock on your pump? I highly doubt that your fuel rail was getting that hot....I have my fuel line wrapped on my frame but that because my exhaust is running down driver side

Sent from my DROID BIONIC

LBarr2002 · Sep 14, 2013

This is the TSB for what it has been doing. It did it pretty bad a couple weeks ago when towing my trailer.

http://www.wjjeeps.com/tsb/tsb_wj_1803103.pdf

highpockets · Sep 14, 2013

LBarr2002 said:

I am wanting to do the same thing. will you change shocks or do you already have them?

LBarr2002 · Sep 14, 2013

It already has 2" lift white body no name shocks. I do plan to change shocks eventually though.

LBarr2002 · Oct 20, 2013

I'm glad I decided to go ahead and knock the knuckles off this HP30 and replace ball joints...

LBarr2002 · Nov 10, 2013

My MetalCloak order came in this week. You may have seen this picture...

I've replaced the rear sway bar links:

And have everything ready to do the front next weekend:

Just waiting on the brake lines to come in, and the front axle.

Any volunteers? I'll buy beer!

LBarr2002 · Nov 27, 2013

Just a hint of what else is to come...

VOLT · Nov 27, 2013

Hells yea man.

LBarr2002 · Dec 1, 2013

I started around noon on Friday pulling the stock 30.

By quitting time Friday night, I had the HP30 loosely bolted in with the new Metalcloak arms and Old Man Emu springs.

Saturday I finished up the axle install and checked for clearance.

Today I pulled it back apart and put a set of .75" spacers on the front to level it back out.

And installed the compressor, ran the front air line, and started wiring.

Steve97tj · Dec 1, 2013

Those arms use the metal cloak joints I'm guessing? How do they compare to Johnny joints from the looks and make up of them?

LBarr2002 · Dec 1, 2013

Yeah, they're the Duroflex joints. They don't have quite the range of motion of a Johnny, but they're completely rubber isolated and aren't supposed to make the noises and transfer the shock into the arms like Johnny's do. Should be good for the DD/mild trail rig, but we'll see.