- Location
- Covington, Va
The steering stabilizer helped a lot!
Been enjoying these hot days with the top off. Still a dream come true.
Been enjoying these hot days with the top off. Still a dream come true.
Terry's 2006 Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon
- Thread starter TerryD
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- Location
- Covington, Va
All new brake hoses installed today and some custom made rear brake lines on the rear axle.
Had to extract the passenger side brake hose mounting bolt the hard way. It was seized in the frame.
Had to extract the passenger side brake hose mounting bolt the hard way. It was seized in the frame.
- Location
- Covington, Va
Broke down and bought HP Tuners last week. Already made a few changes to the Jeep and I'm really happy with the outcome.
Bumped the timing 3 degrees across the board and man did that wake this thing up!
Bumped the timing 3 degrees across the board and man did that wake this thing up!
- Location
- Covington, Va
Changed the transmission fluid yesterday and wrapped my intake tube in reflective insulation. Maybe that'll help my IATs. Stayed around 150° F all day yesterday in the 100° temps.
I have the ability to do that with the Xterra... only 2 deg though... do you think it's worth trying?
- Location
- Covington, Va
The 2nd Gen Xterra actually checks and learns fuel octane to a certain extent and has functioning knock sensors. If you can tune it, I would look for all the timing tables from the 2005-2012 Pathfinder with the 4.0L.
They required a minimum 89 octane fuel because they have more aggressive timing tables to produce the higher HP they were rated at. I don't know hat their tables look like though. You'll need to data log it under many different engine loads and speeds and watch for knock. It's not just a "bump it in and run" situation.
I've put 20-30 miles on the X in a day running the same couple miles of road, listening for knock and trying to stress it out.
I tried to read the X with my HP Tuners and it wouldn't recognize it. Apparently UpRev is the way to go for Nissan. Stuff.
- Location
- Covington, Va
Ohhh. So they aren't going to put aggressive tunes in those. Check the paperwork and see if they require you to run higher octane fuel with any of the available tunes.
It definitely makes a power difference and depending on where they dial it in, it will improve low end torque and crawl control.
In my Xterra, I always ran at least mid grade offroad. Remember that midgrade is literally low-test and premium blended 50/50 in the fuel pump at the station. I would run down to 1/2 tank on the way to the trail, top off with premium and the run mid-grade till I was done (longer trips) for the added bump in timing. With the increased IAT's offroad, it helped prevent knock even with the mild timing tables they come with.
Then on the way home, switch back to regular for DD use.
- Location
- Covington, Va
285s installed and 1.25" wheel spacers.
- Location
- Covington, Va
"small emissions leak"
- Location
- Covington, Va
I don't know what happened to the rear gear set but it's making a lot of noise. I replaced the pinion bearings and reset them. It helped but didn't cure the issue. I've been waiting over a month on a set of Motive 5.13s for it and Northridge4x4 offered a set of Revolution since the Motive are an unknown ETA.
The t-case shifter messed up on me and stuck it in neutral the other day. Dunno how we got it back working but it tried to hang me again Monday driving in this ice. Just ordered a Savvy shift cable conversion for it so hopefully that'll take care of that.
The t-case shifter messed up on me and stuck it in neutral the other day. Dunno how we got it back working but it tried to hang me again Monday driving in this ice. Just ordered a Savvy shift cable conversion for it so hopefully that'll take care of that.
- Location
- Big Island
Your Rubicon looks way too nice to have all this stuff happening to it! I would love to have one of those but couldn’t mechanic the way you are doing yours. Fun vehicle though
- Location
- Covington, Va
Thanks. It's not as nice as it looks. It was abused and neglected so I'm dealing with those issues. Then there are a lot of poorly designed things from Chrysler that have to be dealt with.
I *believe* the gears are noisy because I overheated them on break in. I had a 2 hour drive home and while I attempted to break it up to allow it to cool, it over hardened the faces of the gear teeth.
It's possible a rear output bearing in the t-case is bad as well. But need to make sure the axle is good before I start tearing into anything else.
- Location
- Colorado Springs
Time for America's Most Wanted. Let them do their magic on it. 
- Location
- Big Island
I never knew you had to breakin the differential gears. Guess I haven’t had enough new things in life!
- Location
- Covington, Va
New cars have already had a break in at assembly for the most part. It's just when you rebuild or regear that you have to properly break them in.