Not much to say

Well not much has been going on with project snow ball, as of late my automotive attentions have been focused on getting my new to me Subaru up and running as now both me and the wife have running vehicles to drive as I will be starting a new job that now requires me to commute. So I must reluctantly give the jeep to the wife as Project Scuby is a stick and the wife refuses to learn how to drive one. Hopeful before winter is over here in Arizona I will be able to take PSB to the snow for a little fun with the kids.

Happy new years and happy jeepin.

Head Job

Well been busy for the past few months with kids, work, jeep, and step-kids. :-( But never fear I'm back on task, and last month of mods to PSB was quite amazing. Only downside was that i had an epic failure of taking any pictures in process of the mods. Fist off was to finally fix the cracked header. With a hefty helping hand from my uncle we ordered up a set of APN headers and he decided we should replace the factory head bolts with ARP studs. After may days of reading up on how to do the job on the bulletin boards, we got to it just after thanksgiving. I arrived at my uncles house at 10am and proceeded to pull the power steering pump. Then the belt and the air box. Next was the throttle body and cables, I elected to leave the cable attached to the TB and just lay it over on the passenger side. After that was to disconnect all the electrical connectors and the pick ups for the injectors. And last was the vacume lines and fuel lines and brackets. Then the fun begins, as you must play find the bolts. Their are the easy ones on top and then the not so easy ones on the bottom of the intake. After all that is done you can simply lift off the intake and presto there is that nice cracked header. then two more nuts on the down pipe flange and bang its out. Now was a good time to clean up the injector pockets with some chemicals and brush. After doing an initial fit check the APN did need a little trimming to fit with the intake. I decided to use header wrap to help combat the dreaded under hood temps that will be back next summer. Re-installation is basically in revers order, however I did run into one problem with the header wrap. At the number six pipe the clearance between the exhaust and intake are so close I had to cut off a section of wrap to get the intake to sit down on the alignment pin. About 10 hours later I was back on my way home with a little bit of new pipe smoke and a much better sounding jeep.