Crawl back in you box and play with your little guns!
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Crawl back in you box and play with your little guns!
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You and your wife did a Great job.!. I think the lettering job looks good on your rig !
Well, I've been busy for a bit with my attention drawn by other things i've been doing and haven't kept up with your garage. Love the new tires! How are the sidewalls on those? Pretty tough? Also just realized that your front fender wells are a bit thinner. That'll be done over here by the end of the week. Looks awesome! The fishing looks pretty sweet also. Enjoy your free time and the lesser responsibility that goes with it.
Thanks guys! I haven't had a chance to test the side walls yet so I can't comment on that yet the side walls are not as stiff as my last set on road though they have a little more roll running the same psi.
We finally got are yak's all modded up will its a start anyway. We started out with the ascend 12FS we've added a garmin echo 200 sonar in hull transducer mounted. Also added an anchor pulley system as well it allows you to set the point were the anchor holds the yak very easily. We added are batteries to the back using pretty big deep cycle marine batteries we can run our sonar for weeks off these things on like me find a way to add some lights off road light of course LOL
Garmin all wired up
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We used a host at the end to help protect the wires from the gear thats in the crate with the battery.
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A side by side shot we set them up pretty much the same there are small differences his sonar is set way further up then mine
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The green one is mine and the other is the wifes dad's AKA the old man. Now we weren't sure if yaks needed to be christened and named like normal boats. So we decided on our last test trip the boats were ready and needed to be named LOL so we reached into our coolers and pulled out two yuengling s I went first I hear by name this boat Disco Ball LMAO crack goes the other can and before I could say anything he pours his beer and says Canna Catch **** the first word canna is Scottish slang for can't LMAO so I canna do that you guys get it now. No hes searching for a way to put the names on the yaks OMG I'm guessing were going to have some weird conversations this summer when people read that.
The old man out having some fun on our maiden voyage
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My maiden voyage pit stop literally I had to take a piss LOL
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Its going to be a very productive fishing season this year I hop. We have already landed 4 bass out of lake we shore fished a hole bunch and never really got anything never any bass anyway
Cool story, enjoy the ride. I still have not put mine in the water.
I love the painted lettering
hey sal , does the front skid make it a pita to change the oil? it looks like it would at least block access to the oil filter
Dont know about the XK's but on Wks the frontskid is in the way of the drain. The filter can be accessed from the engine bay. Unless you have a drain tube, you've gotta remove the guard. But I decided it was bettwe to unbolt three of the four bolts and swing the guard out and suppport the other end under somethin to relieve stress off the remaning bolt.
Depends on which engine you have. The 4.7 is no issue. You dont need to remove the guard or un bolt it at all. Just reach an arm up there and undo the filter. I believe the 5.7 has to have the guard removed to access the filter. I know nothing about the v6.
Also on the 4.7 there is a catch basin for the oil filter drippings so they follow a channel down and come out a spout between the 4xguard front and engine skid plate. Very easy job ob the 4.7.
the 3.7L also has this basin... but the oil will run eerily close to the guard. But it's still a very easy job that is not worth taking to any dealer... (not even for free).
yeah i think its engine dependent. looking up under my 5.7 i can see that the skid would be in the way. in the event of an oil change, how much time would it take to remove and replace the skid? can anyone take a pic of the skid and where it mounts?
The best pic I have I think its bolted to two brackets you install. As you can see really its just four bolts with my battery impact I can take it off in less then a minuet which I do from time to time to clean the back side an inspect the skid.
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yeah that looks like i could zip it off with an impact real quick
I usually throw afloor jack underneath to support it and impact it off. Maybe 3 mins max.
Gotta say, your XK and your willing to go outside the norm and not accept a cookie cutter Jeep is what brought me to this site. Keep up the good work Sal!
I joined here after sal took his doors off...
I finally got around to making a new wind deflector for my basket. I had a sheet of metal laying around so we cut out a shape hammered it flat put some holes in it and a little paint and it's all done. I just need to test it on the road now to see if the metal was thick enough. I used bolts six of them to secure it I'll get pics of that when I can.
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So I stopped at the truck stop for coffee this morning come out to start the jeep and something didn't seem right. I didn't think anything of it but went to leave today and the jeep struggled to get started :eek: So after a very long day I had to stop to get a new battery:( First stop I made and I knew better but did it anyway and pulled into an auto-zone. Now I did forget yellow top don't list our jeep but I told the guy I need a yellow top for my jeep. No problem and he takes off LOL comes back and starts ringing up this huge black battery and yes it has some yellow on top of it hahahahah I said wait what is this I said yellow top he says ya OMG dude Optima bro Oh he says I thought you meant our brand OMG. I said listen bro yellow top is an optima brand just because you have some yellow on top of yours you can't be calling it a yellow top man. So genius looks at the computer and says well they don't make one for your Jeep DoH my bad quick holster pull on the phone fire up tapatalk and bam dude give me a d34 or d35 crazy look on dudes face LOL Yes I have one ok great oh wait your going to be mad he says. The only one I have is marked sept 2011 hahaahahahah ah man my day is going great. I calmly say no big deal man and walk out go down the street to the O Riley's were I should of stop at in the first place and got hooked up. Auto-zone always busy long lines not great customer service rarely friendly. O Riley's clean stores great customer service and usually knowledgeable people. Well at least I have yellow top bringing my jeep to life now :D
I dont like these auto-parts store people either, 99% of them have no idea about cars, hell I called for a bump stop and the guy goes whats that?!? And got to love when buying some detail supplies and they try instructing you how to use the completely wrong way.. Worthless
You think auto zone would give a crap about how it makes them look and teach them the basics or at least teach them to shut up and listen
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It's all about ambition. Every once in a while you'll find a diamond in the rough at any of those parts stores.... a worker who actually loves vehicles and knows what they're talking about. Unfortunately, 99% of employees are kids who wanted to get their neon windshield wipers for a discount so they got a job there.
Well I'm installing one of those boxing gloves on a coil spring like in the cartoons, and if my tires ever hit an autozone parking lot it will go off and knock me LOL I figured that would be less painful then actually going in LOL I still can't believe he said " I thought you meant one of ours" LMAO
So Sal... being you're {off topic} garage thread.... what's next for "big red"? :cool:
LOL I don't have any current plans right now I'm in the thinking phase mostly at this point. My Jeep gets me everywhere I want it to go and still drives well on the road so not sure. I know I want and will get the SA steel bumpers. But after that I might turn my attention to the inside of the jeep. I have thoughts on the inside as far as gadgets and entertainment goes.
Cool man. Some SA bumpers seems like the next logical step
Ya I want to do some more suspension mods but OME is what half the SL so I was thinking of getting the SL. But the SL is getting up there on my way to a SFA LOL so I'm stalled on that. I might start with a new sound system so the next time some idiot shakes my windows with there gangster crap I can turn mine on and shake his whole car out of the lane.
Ah man the SFA is way beyond the SL. So much customization is needed let alone getting around the computer issues....
I say bumpers now, SL after. :)
Ya I know but LOL
That was a funny battery story - lol.
Pics or it didnt happen