If ya haven’t seen already;
Besides my secondary cat being unnecessary in NYS they melted the protective cover on my front driveshaft. Walker Exhaust makes sections that replace the secondary cats and include bungs for the o2 sensors.
53345 (driver side), 54338 (passenger side).
Top right in montage is an Irwin impact ez out and the F’d up busted bolt I was able to extract using an impact gun…sweet little tool.
Now I need to get a new driveshaft cover…
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I’m not sure what is the true cause of knocking my back window out a couple of times within the past year. Larger tire size (35 from 33”), running tougher trials since my SAS, my bad driving or some combination… I seem to be hitting the tire and pushing it and the hilift into the glass when I’m dropping off an obstacle.
I doubt I’ll pick up any new skills anytime soon so I’m going to try wheeling the truck with the spare and hilift inside instead of hanging off the back.
I got a three point off-road spare tire tie-down and some heavy anchors that are almost flush when not in use. This way I can still have the back seats when the tire is back outside.
These are tested to 5000lb Minimum Breaking Strength in vertical pull.
I hooked the ratchet part into the baby seat anchor in the back of the truck and secured the anchors through the body.
So far three days wheeling with all glass intact!
A couple of weeks ago I went down to Dave’s so that he could help change a bushing in my passenger side control arm that had backed out and might be the cause of the noise the truck makes when climbing. I needed his expertise and press.
After getting that done we realized that the drivers side arm was a bit bent;
So we pulled it;
Yikes! Man my lack of driving skill is becoming kinda blatant…
Anyways after some discussion it was decided Dave would make a jig to hold the arm and we could then put it in his press and try to straighten it;
It worked!
Dave then welded on some tabs we’ve had for some time now to hold my ARB line onto the arm;
Primer & paint.
…and back on the truck;
I’ve purchased a set of
Universal Tube reinforcements from
Ruff Stuff with the hope Dave can stitch weld them on before I ufck the arms up…again.
We also finally got the antisway set up on the truck;
After driving without it for more than a year I didn’t think I’d care…but yeah, it makes a difference.
That's all I got for now, thanks for looking!