What did you do to or with your CJ today?

[jzak]

Done and done.

The messiest part was draining a gallon of coolant to get the new temp probe in. The oil pressure gauge is pegging around 60 psi, which is what the old one did. The temp gauge stays around 160, which seems a little low as my old gauge had a 180-190 operating temp. Its not the probe location because I put in the same intake manifold port as the old one.

All in the job cost me about $40:
$9 for the gauges kit + $11 shipping

https://www.summitracing.com/parts/SUM-G29153

$10 Burr Bit
$10 Copper Tube Kit
Considering they're Summit Racing brand gauges and not some cheap Chinese knock off, I think I got a pretty good deal. Time will tell.

 

[jzak]

Merry Christmas guys!! Any CJs decked out for the holidays yet?

 

[Belizean]

Waiting for the flurries to happen.

 

[CJ]

Waiting for the flurries to happen.

I know what you mean. It's a fricken 77 right now!

 

[Istandalone]

New master cylinder. I'll bleed the system tomorrow if it's not too cold. Made a mess as usual.

 

[EatenByLimestone]

I changed the oil, while it was out I put a little JBWeld around the alternative drain plug that the PO installed, probably due to a cross thread in the past. For giggles I decided to see if the pan bolts were tight. Maybe that was the source of part of the leak. I was able to tighten them on the side that didn’t have the starter in the way. I don’t know if that helped, lol. Now that the oil is back in, it started dripping again. I didn’t want to pull the starter unless I had to.

Still playing with the shifter, still playing with the body. I’ve been busy so I didn’t have time to get much done.

 

[jzak]

Catching up on some little things over the holidays. I filled in a couple small rust holes in the upper cowl with silicone sealant. Last time it rained it was dripping under the dashboard. Fingers crossed. While I was sealing up everything, I installed a Kentrol Windshield tie down kit. The hood stops feel rock solid and maybe better then OEM.