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Gave some blood to the CJ gods today replacing the rubber stops on the spare tire mount. Who knew 30 year old metal was still that sharp.
What did you do to your CJ today?
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What is the bulb type/size?
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Sigh,
Got almost every thing squared away and now the valve cover starts leaking again....
Got almost every thing squared away and now the valve cover starts leaking again....
Rockauto has a couple of the Felpro ones on clearance...although shipping might negate the savings if there arent other things you need 🤷:
1984 JEEP CJ7 4.2L 258cid L6 Valve Cover Gasket | RockAuto
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I have a Rockauto code for 5% off good until 4/14. Anyone can use it and it is multi use. If that helps.
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Done a compression test and was disappointed.
Cyl 1 90 psi. Cyl 2,3,4,5,6 120psi. Been having so much blow by it is pushing oil out of the dipstick.
Pulled the head to get a look and didn't like what I saw. Ridge in no.1 noticeably heavier than 2 thru 6.
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Cyl. Walls are so shiny you can see the reflection of the piston in them no cross hatching any where.
Oil return passages in the lifter Valley were all plugged but 1 lots of sludge in the valley. 1 plugged pushrod.
Soaked the pushrods in presol and cleared them out. Cleaned the lifter valley and cleared the return holes. Found a broken exhaust bolt hole during my inspection on the head but there are threads deeper so i will use a longer bolt and deal with it later if i need to. Installed a new head,intake and exhaust gasket and reinstalled the valve cover, intake, and exhaust manifold gaskets.
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Cyl 1 90 psi. Cyl 2,3,4,5,6 120psi. Been having so much blow by it is pushing oil out of the dipstick.
Pulled the head to get a look and didn't like what I saw. Ridge in no.1 noticeably heavier than 2 thru 6.
Cyl. Walls are so shiny you can see the reflection of the piston in them no cross hatching any where.
Oil return passages in the lifter Valley were all plugged but 1 lots of sludge in the valley. 1 plugged pushrod.
Soaked the pushrods in presol and cleared them out. Cleaned the lifter valley and cleared the return holes. Found a broken exhaust bolt hole during my inspection on the head but there are threads deeper so i will use a longer bolt and deal with it later if i need to. Installed a new head,intake and exhaust gasket and reinstalled the valve cover, intake, and exhaust manifold gaskets.
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Well anything that's steel is rust
Went from this old burnt up pos
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To this
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$20 old S-10 housing, welded the weber 32/36 bottom plate to the bottom of the housing, liberally rattle canned the bottom side, cleaned up the housing & clear coated, then used rubbing compound & wax on the frisbee. Almost looks like it belongs. Square filters aren't easy to find, these filters are $7 at napa.
Also found out the parking light fuse has been out for awhile, if the horn works, I might get it inspected tomorrow
To this
$20 old S-10 housing, welded the weber 32/36 bottom plate to the bottom of the housing, liberally rattle canned the bottom side, cleaned up the housing & clear coated, then used rubbing compound & wax on the frisbee. Almost looks like it belongs. Square filters aren't easy to find, these filters are $7 at napa.
Also found out the parking light fuse has been out for awhile, if the horn works, I might get it inspected tomorrow
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Great job on that air cleaner housing.
How about a picture of the plates welded together. !!
Thanks!
Uh, everyone here knows what bird crap looks like & there's a lot of bird crap under there.
Did sorta test it - sprayed with soapy water, blast of air & tacked the bigger bubbles - figure the paint will take care of the little leaks.
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Isn't that what they make grinders for???
I only ground off enough to get it flat, bottom side don't need to be purdy.Isn't that what they make grinders for???
Side note: I appreciate all your posts on here, lots of great info to get this heep fixed up!
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If it works, it's good, You can make it pretty later.
Is there room to offset the Air Cleaner housing in case you want to go with power steering?
Is there room to offset the Air Cleaner housing in case you want to go with power steering?
Already got power steering - am I missing something? Was this not stock power steering?
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Sorry, meant power Brakes.....
I need to start proof reading my posts!!!
I need to start proof reading my posts!!!
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