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maddmaxjack67 wrote:

Nice! I like the JK, I tell myself that someday I will own one. Yeah I'm really looking forward to those tires. Last night I went for a little cruise down by the NAS here by the school, and I found...three guys from Nepal stuck up to the doors in a pathfinder. Pulled them out, twice...then headed a bit farther down and found a stuck ridgeline, but some guy in an FJ got to him before I did.

Was a pretty eventful afternoon I would say.

And btw that road has some very deep holes, I smacked the front end of the heep into one of them and bent my bumper.

man that sux! I miss all the fun. I go down there all the time and never see anybody stuck. Just tracks and ruts. I usually toss a few lures in the afternoons across from the college.

GULF COAST PIRATE wrote:

Looks like you guys had fun. Who's up for A Sunday run down the beach?

I'd like to go but depends on what time. I go every sunday morning till about ten. If you guys go later then I can make it. I can drop off my wife and be back out there about noon.

maddmaxjack67 wrote:

These are some pics from Wednesday:

nice bump you got. I got a small one on my front bumper but its from someone backing into me. Yours is way cooler!

maddmaxjack67 wrote:

I am, let's do it. I might go out for an adventure today after 4pm. Anyone interested? Hey Kenny are you still on for the install tomorrow?

wish I could go but don't get off work till after 5.

I have a couple of stands and a floor jack ya'll can use if needed. I used them when I put my baby lift on.

Awesome, awesome I like how this is turning out. I just have some bad news, I forgot to mention that I have church on Sundays from 2:30-5:00. 2:30-4:00 I have confirmation classes and 4-5 is mass. So Sunday I can go but I have to budget my time. I'm about to head out in the next hour or so to hit up some spots gimme a call 956-455-9794.

I went out wheeling today with one of my friends in his stock zj with the 318 in it. He got stuck trying to impress a girl, and I proceeded to try to get him out. My little XJ pulled and pulled, but to no avail. When I stopped I noticed that his ZJ was smoking. I ran up and then I saw it...oil running out all over the ground into puddles. So his ZJ is still out there right now, with its nose still stuck in the mud.

So we pack up to leave, so we can go back tomorrow, I needed to drive through water. Halfway through this pond looking thing, my XJ shuts off. I mean right in the friggin middle. So after six hours, cranking, cleaning out sensors and wire connections, and having the battery drain down to right below 12 volts the Jeep finally comes through.

It didn't want to start, and after pumping it she came to a slow life. At first shaking, sputtering, then she coughed up a bunch of water. After letting her run for a minute or two I made it out, then we ate burgers. So tomorrow sometime I need to go back and try to get his heep.

Stuff to add to the list:

Snorkel!!!!

I'm so glad that my Jeep didn't hydrolock or through a rod. As for my friends ZJ, we can't really tell what happened since it's still sitting in the mud. I'm hoping he didn't through a rod, maybe just the oil pan? or tranny line?

Oh and also while trying FTL, after telling my friend not to use a certain strap, it snapped and flew at my heep, smacking into the rear hatch. Now there is a huge dent in it, and it doesn't open. FML today was a fail.

But it's all good, thanks for reading my rant.

Hey guys my lift got to my house in Brownsville! Now I'm just waiting for rims and tires, they should be there hopefully by Friday.

Jack, Just now reading this thread again, Did you get your buddys Jeep out? need any help?

I'll be gone this weekend, but we can install your lift next weekend whenever I get back, if you want.

Let me know If yall need help recovering the ZJ, I'm off at 3, but may be able to sneak away earlier.

Kenny

Hey Kenny,

We finally got his Jeep out that Saturday, it's still out at the island though in a parking lot.

I'm going home tomorrow morning and I'll be back on Sunday morning.

BTW, I just changed my TPS and spark plugs. The Jeep is running great!!!

Here are some pictures from the recovery, well the Friday when he got stuck.

crazy pics! the third one looks like he slid sideways into a hole.

Yeah that is how he originally got stuck.

Hey guys I have a big update, the Jeep is lifted, the new tires are on the new wheels are on, the new exhaust is in, and my driveshaft is in with a new u joint, my phone broke soooooo I lost all of your phone numbers...

Cool pics!

Nice pictures. Are you planning on rock crawling that rig with us at Katemcy in May?

May rock crawling? I've never had an experience like that! Hopefully I'll have my 4.56's installed by then...

Today my D30 dif exploded I can't drive it something inside binded and I can't back up, the wheels are locked.

Here is the link to my album of the RE lift install

https://s76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/maddmaxjack67/Jeep%20Build/

Recent Pics

I need to get my heep towed back to my hometown of Brownsville, I had catastrophic failure in the front dif of my D30....


I'm so pissed.

No bueno. Can't you just go to th junkyard and get another D30?

That's what I'm starting to think about, since my heep is a 2000 is has a Low Pinion 30, so I guess I might as well go salvage a HP30 at the Upullit.

I also just found a XJ D44 rear for sale on local CL, the guy wants 350 bucks.

I have no clue, I know for a fact that the Pinion bearing? Where the front driveshaft connects to the dif was going out. It finally just totally went, I was able to move the front driveshaft about one whole quarter rotation and up and down about an inch.

My guess is that when the bearing went out so bad, it shifted and upset the gears inside causing them to bind/explode.