xaza's 98 ZJ 5.9L Build

[xaza]

Yeah I know to stay away from the Rubicon 44's. I think I will just get them geared for now and see how they hold up. Still looking for possible ways to upgrade so when the time comes I can know which way I want to go. The auto tranny is really helping to prevent them from taking a hard launch, plus motor doesn't really stroke until about 2500 rpm. As for now I have some maintenance issues to deal with. Had to drive truck to work today and on way home realized A/C wasn't working so rolled down windows and the exhaust leak right under my door became a very annoying sound. Had to re-charge A/C last year but it obviously leaked out. Prolly just find a shop to leak check, repair and charge it for me...eventually. I might have an excuse to get my exhaust done and wifey wants a louder muffler for her truck and already likes the idea of using my old muffler.

[Popsgarage]

xaza previously posted:

[Hypoid]

I don't know how I got to be an expert. There are a lot of people on this board who can tell me a thing or two about a thing or two.

I never looked too hard at the D-44A. I read that it was a different critter, noticed that it is a c-clip axle and moved on. Now that I see how much extra work, or extra money it takes to put disc brakes on a drum axle, I'll be looking at WJ brakes again.

[Hypoid]

Hypoid previously posted:

[Hypoid]

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[xaza]

Yeah I've been on that forum before. Went ahead and registered and bookmarked, thanks Mike.

[mattzj98]

JUST STROKE IT!

[xaza]

I do plan on stroking the motor I pulled out, possibly for a tube crawler. That is a project that is still way outside the budget, not to mention beyond what I will do without a garage. It will be interesting to compare the dyno runs on the two. Have you put your truck on a dyno? or even know where a good all wheel dyno is?

[mattzj98]

Sure have! there's a good one here in Douglas County, I'm not sure its awd though, I was rwd at the time

[xaza]

Well I burned through my first tank of gas already. Got 243 miles on 20.44 gallons, 11.88 mpg average, about a 4 mpg increase. Was a lot more highway driving than usual so we'll see when the driving conditions are the same, ie up and down wobblefe... I mean Santa Fe.

[mattzj98]

Douglas County Diesel, I check all my trucks in there.. decent. People there too

[xaza]

You just remove driveshaft when you took yours in? What'd it run? stroked to 408, right?

[mattzj98]

I have an Advanced Adapters Tcase so I dont have awd.. and yeah. 408 I don't remember the exact number, dont know where i put the slip.. might have to go again this year.. it was near mid 3 digits though

[xaza]

Kinda short notice but am hoping to be running Wed night at Bandimere. Event starts at 4 pm close staging lanes at 8:45. Won't be there until around 6 unless I can get off work early. Will give it a run or 2 on stock tune, then reload tune to see how much difference there is. I just have to check all fluids and plugs and finish fixing the air intake tube over next couple nights.

[glacierpaul]

Nice Cliff, if you make it good luck!

[xaza]

Finally got around to fixing intake tube from where previous owner had tightened it down with clamp until it crushed tube. I had wrapped it with foil tape to at least make it functional but functional is just not good enough for very long. I simply cut crushed end off and put filter back on. There are 2 different size clamps on intake, they had swapped them. Checked under hood fluids and am looking good to go this week.

[mattzj98]

Good luck on the track!

[xaza]

I found an AWD dyno place not far from my house that I am going to be checking out this weekend. Carz Performance off Colfax and Wadsworth in Lakewood. They also are a vendor for different turbo and superchargers

[Jim]

It'd be sweet if their AWD dyno would be able to tell differential axle rotation - so that you could fine-tune your air pressure front/rear for 1:1 axle rotation.

[Fordguy77]

Glad your trying carz out, I think I mentioned it in the thread earlier, let me know how it goes.