Grand_Seltzer 58 Posted July 3, 2022 Well, I knocked out the oil change. Holding off on transfercase and diffs for a week or two. I need cooler weather and more time. I did find I was a quart low on trans fluid. Good thing the previous owners of my house left a quart. I thought I noticed the trans was kinda lungy when cold... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grand_Seltzer 58 Posted July 14, 2022 The LED that almost ruined my relationship. I took a 1 day(3 total, 2 drive days) trip to Illinois to get some general equipment I haven't brought down yet and some wj parts I had laying around. While searching my parents garage for more parts. I found a set of led 9006 bulbs I purchased in 2016.. Score right? Well.. It just about killed my relationship. I popped them in my headlights, confirmed they worked, tossed the originals. 8hours later I finally check the beem pattern and it's a giant box of a Hotspot. Well... **** Now a reasonable person would have gone to a parts store and bought another 9006 bulb.. Not me. Well, I had been sitting on a set of spyder headlight housings since 2017 that was maybe on my last jeep for 3 months. I had given them to a friend a couple of months ago, before I ended up in another wj. They had great hids and led bulbs in them and was lucky enough to get them back in short notice. It took 3hours of traveling to my friends house and back, pick up the headlights, install them... Once I finally got them in and on the road, my gf calls complaining about a pain when standing.. She ended up going to the hospital and pretty much into labor.. And this is her worst case scenario, her giving birth and me not being there. Had I left earlier, had I not installed that led, I probably would have been there with her.. Crisis was luckily averted and I basically can't leave the house again.. But at least I've got cool headlights. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grand_Seltzer 58 Posted July 16, 2022 Finally did the brakes today. Went with Power Stop Z17 Evolution Plus Stock Replacement Brake Kits KOE2149 through summit racingj. It's just a ceramic pad and standard rotor kit. Pretty cost effective. I do regret not getting a kit with new calipers, I found my drivers side caliper pistons where a bit deformed on the faces. Looks like someone used screw drivers to pry and drive the pistons home once and it was a bad decision. At least no more brake shimmy. I did fit one of the new tires and wheels up jusssstt to see if I could get away with it on no lift... I think I'll wait until the lift it is on. It would drive straight, but turning ain't happening.. 1 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grand_Seltzer 58 Posted July 17, 2022 Gmrs time Finally got my gmrs mostly installed. I still need to run dedicated power and I have a cb that I will mount exactly the same but on the other side. But I'm quite pleased with how clean this turned out. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theksmith 3,839 Posted July 17, 2022 (edited) 21 hours ago, Grand_Seltzer said: Finally did the brakes today. Went with Power Stop Z17 Evolution Plus Stock Replacement Brake Kits KOE2149 through summit racingj. It's just a ceramic pad and standard rotor kit. Pretty cost effective. I do regret not getting a kit with new calipers, I found my drivers side caliper pistons where a bit deformed on the faces. Looks like someone used screw drivers to pry and drive the pistons home once and it was a bad decision. At least no more brake shimmy. I did fit one of the new tires and wheels up jusssstt to see if I could get away with it on no lift... I think I'll wait until the lift it is on. It would drive straight, but turning ain't happening.. those wheels/tires are gonna look really nice on there! Edited July 17, 2022 by theksmith 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grand_Seltzer 58 Posted July 17, 2022 51 minutes ago, theksmith said: those wheels/tires are gonna look really nice on there! I really liked them on my last wj. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grand_Seltzer 58 Posted August 24, 2022 Even a factory rb1 gets old. NEW radio went in. I was really torn on what I wanted. There are a LOT of android radios on the market today. And a ton of reasons to get one. I was initially looking at insane audios radios which were direct plug and play replacements but for the price to what it would do with a 4" screen, I really wasn't sold. I looked at a dozen android radios,figured I'd probably do a single din conversion and find something to fit. Ultimately that option led down the fact that most of them would cover the vent and wjs already have terrible air flow so let's not make it worse.. I settled on the t'eyes cc3 after some you tubing 'best android radios today'. The cc3 offers a lot of features including the ability to not only have a backup camera but a 360 camera. I did opt for the backup camera but not the 360 camera. They make this model specially for the wj so a new radio and vent panel are included. Also opted for the canbus reader which kept my steering wheel controls working without any problem. Install was pretty straight forward and so far it's been pretty snappy. It has 6gb of ram and 128gb of rom which should run on x offroad well. I need to make a run to tmobile soon and find out the cost on a tablet Sim card so I don't have to constantly run a Hotspot from my phone. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theksmith 3,839 Posted August 26, 2022 photo no worky Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grand_Seltzer 58 Posted August 26, 2022 Sorry about the bad photo link there. Here's the new radio with its former rb1 above. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theksmith 3,839 Posted August 26, 2022 (edited) that looks nice! plenty big but much more tastefully integrated than the absolutely HUGE screens i see a lot of lately. does it take a few seconds to come on when you first start the rig, or is it just as fast up as a non-Android radio? Edited August 26, 2022 by theksmith Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
