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Although it wouldn’t be OEM, it is hard to believe that another valve could not be made to work if you just need it to work. If this is the case, let me know, I may be able to suggest someone in the Parkersburg area.

No offense intended, but if just a couple seconds at a time does any good it couldn’t have been all that stuck. I have used a oxy acetylene torch with a gas welding tip to heat mine to get loose. And yes, burned all the paint off everything around it. Usually had to heat 3 times and use PB...

ECGS can fix you up with Dana 489 or Dana 60’s

My personal guess and I stress guess would be that with a softer riding more flexible spring the difference in handling would be more noticeable.

Mud? In parts on a Jeep? Crazy talk.

I got a new knee in the works very soon.

Great job, and it wasn’t that bad to start with really, at least compared to mine. My biggest problem has been finding “ any” decent metal to weld to. It is what it is.

Thanks Gilaguy, when it was all together it was hard to tell and my measurements were based on using a tape measure and eyeballing from spring eye to spring eye. It also had a 3” body lift and 35’s, so measures from the ground up were hard for me to estimate based on what stock would be.

Pulling a cord from spring eye center to spring eye center and measuring down to top of leaf spring at axle is 7 1/2". There is no weight of course, but what would be the opinion of the lift kit experts on the amount of lift over factory? When it was on the jeep my best guess was 4" but I could...

Making room

Got old frame stripped down and hauled it away. Really have been needing the room to continue on with this project.

Well I found the American Discovery Trail or ADT, it runs right past me but it is a non motorized trail. I think that I found the one your talking about Trans American Trail. It also comes almost to my door, I’ll be checking this out.

The American Trail, sorry to admit this is the first that I’ve heard of it. I’ll have to check this out.

Yea I have used stripper and it’s not my favorite thing. Used to support myself in between jobs by doing body work and paint jobs. My YJ is going to lead a rough life anyway so I am not going to go through that much work of stripping then painting only to beat the hell out of it. I would do a...

I have seen some bed liner jobs that looked ok, but most have looked like the one that someone put on mine, piss poor. Trying to get mine off little by little but will probably end up just sanding it down some and calling it a day. My YJ will not be a show piece just a functional wheeler. Think...

My brother had a gasoline fueled heater in his VW wagon in the mid 70’s that he hunted up used. They had already been banned. It too would drive you out, even in zero degree weather. It started putting out heat almost instantly. It had its own lawnmower type gas tank and squirrel cage blower. It...

BOAT= Break-Out-Another-Thousand. And I have both, no wonder I have no money.

Excellent find.

The main reason for me choosing steel cable is the fact that in my use of winches I almost never have had an ideal winching situation. The cable is either run over a rock, a log, a hump in the ground, or whatever. And from the reports on synthetic that is a no no, unless you use a sheath of some...

I found the article that I read some time ago, it’s a Motor Trend article on steel vs synthetic winch cable it’s easy to find.