Recent content by RaYzerman19

IN, with toolbox.

Year 1985, Brampton, Ontario .... guess who built the very first YJ at AMC/Jeep/Renault? By hand. Yep, me (and a small team) on a 3D layout plate. The bare body-in-white (no paint) weighed around 250 lbs. (no doors/tailgate). We built 21 of them by hand as pilot engineering vehicles. Only...

Pants, to service the relay arm, one pushes out the bushing spacers, pack with grease, reassemble...... unless you find rust, etc. you have to clean up, or in bad cases, new parts. The rubber bits you see are grease seals. There have been various threads in the past on how to remove...

The owner reported high idle of 2000 rpm, would not drop below that. Sync attempted, then airbox removed to confirm one butterfly (#4) not closing. No measurements to say how much but obviously big enough to cause a significant issue. It was then buttoned back up and will be making a trip to...

Nope, butterfly is not closing, sync not possible. Physical issue. All ofher three are closed...... awaiting further analysis by dealer. That's all I know. Common shaft, shouldn't be.

Rats.... we may never find out the true root cause, which may be different in those two cases. I know of another case of constant high idle where initial indication is that one of the four butterflies is not closing completely (can't be sync'd) and likely a TB replacement will occur there.

I would agree left side is better if the shim is same diameter as the pivot spacer and the bolt shoulder, which are also the same 16mm. That diameter will allow it (if it has to be thicker) to protrude into the larger hole of the clevis and become part of the bearing surface (i.e., maintain the...

My reasoning for the washer idea and hesitation is this....... any washer on the right side (in my picture) pushes the pivot spacer left, so how much washer? Only enough to make the total suspension pivot spacer + washer a line to line fit into the clevis (need to measure the Penske setup to...

I struggle with the article too..... maybe some of it if the suspension was set up very poorly, maybe as some of it applies to race bikes with soft compounds.... never seen those patterns on any of mine either. His approach to suspension adjustment is a little different too.

I suggested that earlier on, however, I re-thought that and I'm not so sure the washer idea is still a good one. Better to use the RaceTech bolt/spacer idea (spacer is 16 mm OD, 12 mm ID and 16mm long) doesn't have to be as long for sure, but anything longer than the OEM bolt's shoulder would...

Very nice RR, Tom! It's a great time of year to ride.

2015's in Canada were same as yers...... '14ES was black, A was root beer. Oops, right you are. '15ES also available in Ass-Fault Grey.

Re-did and made some more measurements if this helps: RaceTech clevis wall thickness - 0.23" Shoulder on Gen3A shock bolt - 0.21" (0.02" difference) (also noted it is not a separate spacer as depicted in the parts diagram) Width of RT clevis opening - 0.184" Length of suspension pivot spacer...

You know, the septic pumping guys tell you on a new tank, you throw in a dead skunk or rabbit to get the process going............ I don't know what else to tell ya.

Amherst, NS would be nice and central to lots of stuff..... we need to con ask one the local scouts to check if there's a decent venue. Freddy on the way in (heard there was a nice girl there), Bathurst and the Gaspe loop on the long way home..... Agree the Nfld. trip is its own adventure.