2 wheel is better than no wheel

Well last week we took project snow ball out to see some dusty roads to get her re-acquainted with what to expect in the hopefully near future. We decided to explore the back road to Mt. Lemon or at least as far as  we could get with the remaining daylight we had.

Was a very nice day out in the Arizona county side as I put it or just the old desert as my wife says. Ether way we got to have a little fun the groomed dirt roads that any car could travel. Definitely has helped my motivation to get the transfer case rebuilt so I can hit some real trails and show my kids what true off-roading is all about. I have finally found a replacement rod end to my track bar so I'll be ordering that soon, and will have a write up on its R&R. Till all the big kinks are worked out PSB is just going to be limited to daily driving and the bunny trails. I like to thinks she dreams of the rubicon in her sleep.

Just a little bit of radio

Well this week in project snow ball I dug out the old cb radio to install. After reading a few posts on jeepforum.com about ping pong paddles and mounting to the side of the center console I decided to do something a little different.

So being an aircraft mechanic and having access to an abundance of scrap aluminum and an abundance of bordome. I decided that the only place to put the cb was on the roof but I didn't want to drill into my headliner. So after starring at the ceiling for a few minutes it dawned on me that the answer was staring me in the face. I already had two screws to mount right in the center of the headliner. So I made the boomerang cb mount as seen in the pictures.  Now I have my cb were I want and no extra holes in the ceiling, and all the cables routed in the headliner.

I hope that this gives someone a new look to an old questions if you need help to make one send me a message

Np242 rebuild, ready set go

So today I started the process of rebuilding the 242. With a little help from the wide world web disassemble was fairly uneventful. I will say that I was glad I had bought the propper lock ring tool,  which worked well for all but one of the rings. I must give thanks for the detailed write up on the 242 by baxy at http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f13/np242-tutorial-764168/

Now I'm at the typical hurry up and wait for funding to come in moment as many do it yourself jeepers are.  At least it gives me time to search the Web for the best sye set up for the all scarce dollar.

Why sealant doesn't always work

So last week I took the time to fix a worsening leak coming from the transfer case. The kid I had bought PSB from apparently thought some sealant would fix his apparent encounter with a rather large rock.  As you can see no amount would have ever worked, fortunately for me the kid did give me a spare tcase in the deal so I was able to cannibalize the parts I needed. Now though I have found that the 4 wheel drive is shot as well.  My mistake for not testing it during the test drive. So now I will need to rebuild a new tcase, so with that as the next big problem to fix on PSB I keep the motto of the bionic man in the back of my mind "I can rebuild it, stronger, faster, better". But for now I'm stuck in 2 wheel mode for now.