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Tire factory in king city has a laser alignment machine. They do all our trucks and trailers.

It's a wheeler right?, pull the fender off and lay it on the lawn and massage the dent back out with the end of a baseball bat.

I run 3-AN stainless braided brake lines from speedway. The lines are CHEAP to buy, the fittings are where the money is but you buy them once. I also bought reusable fittings with the last order a year or so ago so if an end gets pulled I can fix it easily on the spot.

Personally I'd pick up a YJ and start gathering parts. For well under your 15k budget you can have a very capable all around rig with better parts than any rubicon was equipped with ever. Nothing wrong with good quality leaf springs, wagoneer dana 44's a non flipped dana 300. Simply look up bobracin...

You can't say powerstroke and ignore the IDI trying to make IH look good.

Thats a small block ford on the engine stand. I'd hope no one would desecrate the memory of Henry Ford by putting that engine in an IH product.

Pull a seal at take it down to Kaman bearing on OR ave. They know their stuff and can easily spec the seal if there are no numbers on it if you don't mangle it too badly removing it.

I hope to have something like this in the near future. One of the things I have a curiosity about is the intake air temp. Cold-air intakes are all the (internet) rage, but I have a sneaking suspicion that warmer air (~140 deg) gives much better fuel mileage. Why would warm air provide better mileag...

You have a JK now so the insulation will be pulled out from under the hood anyway when you install the required hood vents from whichever quadratec vendor you choose.

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If you go 55W, you must use a relay harness. Ask me how I know . . .(WJ factory wires got cooked).

DDM harnesses are all weather pack connectors with a built in relay setup. They are value priced but very good quality with all the right features. Not some ebay turd.

You want 4800K the end. If they're only 35 watt I agree. If stepping up to 55 watt 6k is the limit unless you want blue. My headlights are very light blue. I pulled them out because the housings are pure crap for HID'S and they scatter the light badly. Thats why I only recomend IPF, Hella or if you...

Nobody local carries good H4 housings so you'll have to go online for those. DDMtuning.com has agreat selection of HID headlights and led bulbs but their H4 housings are terrible. You can get a 55 watt 6k setup with hi and low beams ready to plug and play for $60

IPF or Hella H4 housings have a sharp cutoff on low beam so use either housing with either 35 watt hid ignitors and bulbs under 5k or a 55 watt setup under 6k will be white and not blind oncoming traffic. My 6k 55 watt setup has a very slight blue tint to others but its white to the driver.

Leave the springs alone. Replace the hangers with a lower profile version and move the mounting hole back just a touch so the shackles don't stand up so straight.

While you've got the wheels broken down I'd highly suggest hitting lowes for some knurled knob petcocks. Tap the wheel 1/4 pipe and screw them in and you'll be airing down faster than anyone that doesn't have a ripped sidewall.

Did someone get the camera before or after getting a manicure?

I've always used steel bb's to balance offroad tires. My 38" sx's were smoother than any bias tire that large should have ever been with weld on beadlocks. :lol: Any decent DIY beadlock will have the bolts spaced so the bead of the tire rests against them to center the tire. So as long as the i...

House of paint in Pasco on the east end of lewis street is who we deal with.

A light smear of silicone to act as lube and a press is all I've ever used to put the seals in.

Wrench wrote:Gimmick.

WHAT???

Wrench your death wobble didn't go away because the radius arm setup didn't allow it. It went away because there was a problem with the old suspension it replaced.

Central hose on 4th in Pasco can probably handle it.

I have the sears AGM battery and so far it hasn't let me down. I got the group 34 size with dual posts for eventually hooking a winch to it. I'd strongly recommend against hooking the winch to the signposts. (Hijack over.) Yup hooking your winch power leads up to a signpost won't give it the power ...

Did a bit of hookybobbing behind don's truck last night. Hoping for much more snow today so we can go sledding.