Hunty's Jeep JK Extreme

[Steve F]

So I did read it right. Might have to keep away from whatever track that was on.

Cheers
Steve

[Hunty]

OK if you ask me nicely Ill show you the vid at the next club meeting!

PS - Im thinking of running a SJC trip to the same place - anyone wanna come with me? LoL

OH! and how could I forget to give thanx to all the very kind people, especially the 4 guyz who so ably held on to my Heap as I balanced precariously

THANKYOU SO MUCH GUYZ!
cheers Hunty

[Steve F]

OK if you ask me nicely Ill show you the vid at the next club meeting!

Fixed the video for you, it wasn't a standard youtube link so it didn't think it was a video. Look forward to seeing it.

Cheers
Steve

[Dieselcon]

Hunty you have all the fun...I was stuck at home nursing a buggered knee........you now me always keen to head up your way for a trip if your upto it..... Glad you and your mate are Ok. Amazed that the jeep was still running after it's abuse. Happy to now that "Hunty Assist" is keep are tracks safe!!!! Be safe!
Cheers Jose

[rupicon]

That was one of my work mates trips, they are good trips we split in to two groups and another work mate got hit with the rope when it let go.
I was in the other group but did get to see vid photos etc best keep that on the downlow. got to meet the guy and he was still keen, see you on the trails soon mate
Well done to hunty and darren (360 v8 LC80) for getting him out

[aussiejk]

OK if you ask me nicely Ill show you the vid at the next club meeting!

PS - Im thinking of running a SJC trip to the same place - anyone wanna come with me? LoL

OH! and how could I forget to give thanx to all the very kind people, especially the 4 guyz who so ably held on to my Heap as I balanced precariously

THANKYOU SO MUCH GUYZ!
cheers Hunty

ImUp for it if someone rolled sounds like it could be intresting track count me in on the top of the list.....

[Hunty]

Funny Story; well I wore out a front drivers side UNI (see my dumb@ss yet successful attemp to repair - earlier post) and after I replaced it I went out for a test drive on the grass field behind my office, as I was "testing" aka performing the technical manoeuvre know as grass D'ohnuts when I heard a new noise - sounded like a dead / dying CV. sure enough I had just killed my front driveshaft CV at the transfer case.

After much research I decided to replace my factory shaft with a Double Cardan from Wooders Garage, much stronger and should last more Km's.

Thankfully the old shaft gave me plenty of notice! - infact I went wheelin several times with it complaining whilst I waited for the replacement to arrive.

Replacing the front shaft is a pretty easy / straight forward job.

To make the repair you will need;
1 x small socket to remove the million little bolts that hold the CV to the transfercase adapter
1 x Large Socket to remove the M22 nut in the centre of the flange / adapter see pic

My 2 cents / hopefully helpful advice.
Firstly you will need to remove the bash plate, I did this repair as I do everything, (without a hoist in the driveway) I removed 3 of the 4 bolts that hold it in place then grabed a handful of smart@ss pills, and just loosened the 4th bolt enough to swivel the bash plate out of the way - I did this because I did not want to have to lift it back in place.

Disconnect / Drop the front driveshaft uni first by removing the 4 bolts then put your transfer case in neutral - this will allow you to remove one of the millions of little bolts before you rotate the shaft to remove the next little bolt and so on until they are all out

When removing the centre nut from the adapter flange put the transfer case back into 4L so you can swing on it to loosen it and get it off.

When swapping out flanges be sure to carefully remove the fat little rubber Oring / seal and carefully install it into your new flange - As a total dumb@ss I missed this important step , and as I was packing away all my tools and feeling well pleased with my efforts I noticed the "stupid" little Oring was still embedded in my old flange D'oh, so back on the jack stands, remove the bash plate remove front uni.........blah blah blah....... dumb@ss LoL

If you have any mechanical aptitude you should be able to do the job in around 90min's (unlike me who took a little bit longer, ok a lot longer - LoL)
Cheers Hunty

[SteveC]

Been there, done that. It's a straightforward thing to do. The hardest part was removing the large socket, which in my case I had to go to the tyre shop to use their rattle gun, jut needed a lot of leverage as they are secured with locktite glue.

Good job Hunty.

ps Did you use locktite glue for bolts?

[Hunty]

Hi Guyz
I am still looking for the perfect place to install my Ipad, here is my latest evolution

I can still operate my electric windows and the stereo, just! LoL

Will the Apple Ipad GPS function correctly? will I love it in its new location ? I guess time will tell.

any thoughts / suggestions
cheers Hunty

[Hunty]

Ive been using my aeroforce gauge now for 6 months and am very happy with it

The Aeroforce gauge can be setup to show two things at once or cycle through as many as you like - I mainly use it to monitor battery voltage and water temperature on road and for off road I have it cycling through a bunch more;

When im in the slop I select water temperature and steering angle
water temp so I can see if i have clogged up the radiator with mud as the std JK gauge will show "12oclock" all is well for any temperature between 85 and 112 degrees C

and steering angle so i know when I have the wheels pointing straight as those of you who wheel in the mud will know - sometimes you can have the wheel 1 complete turn from straight and have almost NO idea!

When winching I use the aeroforce gauge to bump up the idle - you can input what ever RPM you want - I usually input 1850 which is a apparently the rpm needed to get maximum output from the alternator.

You can program your Jeep for different gears and different tyre size to correct you car computer and speedo readings.

Reading and clearing DTC - fault codes

Another awesome feature is - the aeroforce gauge has 2 analog inputs that you can connect whatever you want to - I am planning to install a long range fuel tank and will connect the sender up to the 1st of the 2 analog inputs - i have done some research and have determined that the gauge will display anything - 0 - 5v.
it is brilliant, I still have my scan gauge but now it lives in my tool box and comes out only when I want to assist my friends in diagnosing their Heaps.

There are 2 super bright Led's that can be configured to light up in any condition or combination of conditions - I have mine set to light up on high temperature (over 100 degrees C) and / or high RPM.

cheers Hunty



ps
last pic shows ipad in its old location