IntrepidXJ's Adventure Weblog

Warn XD9000i winch ordered today! woohoo!

http://www.warn.com/truck/winches/src/XD9000i.shtml

I can’t wait to get this bad boy and fill that empty hole in my bumper!

Just got home from picking up my Jeep!

4.88 gears installed
front Lockright installed

…and here’s some pics of the other stuff.

ORGS rear raised shock mounts:

ORGS 2″ extended sway bar mounts:

Goferit tie rod flip kit (the tie rod used to be on the bottom side of the knuckle):

you can now see the tie rod is parallel with the axle tube and up out of the way. it used to hang down

Dana 30 Lockright locker got here today. Install will be tomorrow

new speedo gear to correct my speedometer with the 33’s and 4.88 gears

heat shield for above the cat/muffler to help with the heat since the carpet is gone

I’m dropping the XJ off at my friends shop on Monday to get the gears installed finally, and get some brackets welded on the axles. Anyways, I was getting everything out of the shed and ready for Monday, so i decided to take a few pics

everything that is getting installed:

D44 Ring & Pinion

D30 Ring & Pinion

D44 carrier

D30 master install kit

D44 master install kit

D30 carrier

My tie rod flip showed up today so I can flip the Tie Rod End on top of the knuckle for better ground clearance.

My interior all back together

Since I am running rear Old Man Emu ZJ long travel shocks, I had to use the JKS Bar Pin Eliminators on the top to make them work. I also wanted to run the JKS BPE’s on my XJ OME long travel shocks I am running up front. According to JKS, OME shocks will not work with their BPE’s. However, they are wrong. Here’s how.

First thing you want to do is remove the end of the shock you want to add the BPE’s to. In this case, I am doing the bottom of my front shocks:

Removed:

Next, you want to remove the original bar pin from the shocks. What I did was take a screwdriver and put it through one of the bolt holes. On the opposite side i applied some brease to the bar pin to make it slide out easier. Then I took the screwdriver and twisted it back and forth while pulling on it at the same time. It took a little force, but wasn’t too difficult to remove. Here’s the original OME bar pin next to the new JKS BPE:

Now you want to assemble one side of the BPE and apply some grease to it. Push the other end of the BPE through the bushing until it is all the way to the assembled block. In order to assemble the other side, the BPE needs to be rotated 90 degrees from the way it should be installed. This allows you to insert the bolt through the block without any interference from the shock tube. Here it is installed:

Last, you just have to reinstall the shock again:

I got my JKS Bar Pin Eliminators installed in the front today and also got a few more pieces of the interior back in before it started raining. I’m bringing my XJ into the shop on Monday for my gears to be installed, as well as welding up a few brackets to my axles.

The old bar pins:

removed, and next to the new BPE:

BPE installed:

shock installed again with the BPE:

Almost all of the interior pieces I want installed back again:

Since I didn’t have my Jeep with me this last weekend at Summerbash, I ended up trying out my Expedition on the RTI ramp. It didn’t do so well