What have you done to your KK lately

jjohnson1892 · **Posted:** Sun Mar 23, 2014 5:13 pm

Ordered 2 12” led bars on Amazon, $30 each with a lot of great, longer term reviews with little issue with the quality.

Hopefully the weather and my workload cooperate this week so I can get them on my rack, should be in on Tuesday

Gageraid · **Posted:** Sun Mar 23, 2014 7:22 pm

Bmxer524 wrote:

Pulled my front end apart to tighten up some bolts. Had a small squeak and couldn't find it. Did fix it for the most part, now it's really quiet and only with certain bumps. Any ideas on what would squeak? It's not the a-arms or swaybars.

Oh and I greased my a-arm ball joints while I was in there.

I'm chasing a squeak, too. So far only thing I tightened up was the front sway bar.
Seems to be right around the passenger caliper area.

EDIT: Check the sway bar bushings. That's what keeps coming up with my searching on LOST. Even found a video of the exact sound I'm having.
Looks like I'll have to replace them or grease them with some white lithium even thought I'm pretty sure that's not recommended.

Bmxer524 · **Posted:** Sun Mar 23, 2014 9:36 pm

Gageraid wrote:

Bmxer524 wrote:

Pulled my front end apart to tighten up some bolts. Had a small squeak and couldn't find it. Did fix it for the most part, now it's really quiet and only with certain bumps. Any ideas on what would squeak? It's not the a-arms or swaybars.

Oh and I greased my a-arm ball joints while I was in there.

I'm chasing a squeak, too. So far only thing I tightened up was the front sway bar.
Seems to be right around the passenger caliper area.

EDIT: Check the sway bar bushings. That's what keeps coming up with my searching on LOST. Even found a video of the exact sound I'm having.
Looks like I'll have to replace them or grease them with some white lithium even thought I'm pretty sure that's not recommended.

We can always just pull the swaybar :twisted:

I think I found it for the most part.

Gageraid · **Posted:** Mon Mar 24, 2014 10:11 am

Bmxer524 wrote:

Gageraid wrote:

Bmxer524 wrote:

Pulled my front end apart to tighten up some bolts. Had a small squeak and couldn't find it. Did fix it for the most part, now it's really quiet and only with certain bumps. Any ideas on what would squeak? It's not the a-arms or swaybars.

Oh and I greased my a-arm ball joints while I was in there.

I'm chasing a squeak, too. So far only thing I tightened up was the front sway bar.
Seems to be right around the passenger caliper area.

EDIT: Check the sway bar bushings. That's what keeps coming up with my searching on LOST. Even found a video of the exact sound I'm having.
Looks like I'll have to replace them or grease them with some white lithium even thought I'm pretty sure that's not recommended.

We can always just pull the swaybar :twisted:

I think I found it for the most part.

What did you do? I think today I'll try to remove the sway bar and reinstall and pay close attention to the sway bar bushings. They might need to be replaced. It's been doing this even when it was stock.

Bmxer524 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 24, 2014 2:44 pm

Loose nut on the the spring assembly. No more squeak.

Now she needs a bath, too bad its 30* out. Tomorrow I might try to get an oil change, and as usual get the alignment checked. Lifetime alignment ftw!

LKWJeeper · **Posted:** Mon Mar 24, 2014 2:58 pm

I bought the 3 year alignment which was less than 2 alignments. Already needed one so I'd say it's a good deal

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Gageraid · **Posted:** Mon Mar 24, 2014 3:32 pm

Bmxer524 wrote:

Loose nut on the the spring assembly. No more squeak.

Now she needs a bath, too bad its 30* out. Tomorrow I might try to get an oil change, and as usual get the alignment checked. Lifetime alignment ftw!

Got a picture of which bolt? :juggle:

I just spent an hour rocking my Jeep up and down trying to find this squeak.
It almost sounds like it could be inside the engine bay...
Need to diagnose with a buddy to verify where it's coming from.

Bmxer524 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 24, 2014 3:38 pm

No pics, it's the one at the end of the shock. Not the clevis bolts, but up by the body. You literally have to drop the whole spring/shock coilover to get to it. I guess it loosened a bit over the 6k miles or so. Everything else was still tight.

Gageraid · **Posted:** Mon Mar 24, 2014 3:41 pm

Bmxer524 wrote:

No pics, it's the one at the end of the shock. Not the clevis bolts, but up by the body. You literally have to drop the whole spring/shock coilover to get to it. I guess it loosened a bit over the 6k miles or so. Everything else was still tight.

Is it easy to drop the whole spring/ shock to get to it?
I would like to see if this is my issue especially if it's something like a loose bolt.

Bmxer524 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 24, 2014 3:45 pm

Mine was on the driver's side, so I had to do the whole pulling the battery stuff, undo the 4 bolts, undo the swaybar, pop the balljoint on the a-arms and undo the clevis forks so I could slide it down enough to get a wrench in there. It was like doing my front lift all over again, except I didn't have to compress my springs. Took maybe an hour or so.

Gageraid · **Posted:** Mon Mar 24, 2014 3:48 pm

Bmxer524 wrote:

Mine was on the driver's side, so I had to do the whole pulling the battery stuff, undo the 4 bolts, undo the swaybar, pop the balljoint on the a-arms and undo the clevis forks so I could slide it down enough to get a wrench in there. It was like doing my front lift all over again, except I didn't have to compress my springs. Took maybe an hour or so.

Mine is on the passenger side. Are these the bolts I see when looking down at the passenger side engine bay? If so, those are easy to get to especially with the CAI, but I apparently don't have a socket to fit that.

huntb · **Posted:** Mon Mar 24, 2014 4:29 pm

Yeah gage, there are 4 nuts to drop the shock assembly. That's not the nut Bmxer is talking about. I think he's talking about the nut that holds the shock to the strut mount. You'll have to drop the whole shock assembly to get to it.

Gageraid · **Posted:** Mon Mar 24, 2014 4:32 pm

huntb wrote:

Yeah gage, there are 4 nuts to drop the shock assembly. That's not the nut Bmxer is talking about. I think he's talking about the nut that holds the shock to the strut mount. You'll have to drop the whole shock assembly to get to it.

Okay. I'd rather see what I can do before I start tearing this thing apart.
I can't be 100 percent sure where it's coming from yet until I get a buddy to bounce the Jeep while I listen to it.

Bmxer524 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 24, 2014 4:36 pm

Hunt is right. A lot of the bolts are metric. 18 seems to be the most common. I think I needed 18, 21, 10 and maybe 13? Don't remember exactly. I was bouncing my front as my dad looked/listened. We figured it was the shock. So we took everything apart and went through it. Worse case scenario we didn't find it, but had peace of mind that everything was good.

Gageraid · **Posted:** Mon Mar 24, 2014 5:03 pm

Bmxer524 wrote:

Hunt is right. A lot of the bolts are metric. 18 seems to be the most common. I think I needed 18, 21, 10 and maybe 13? Don't remember exactly. I was bouncing my front as my dad looked/listened. We figured it was the shock. So we took everything apart and went through it. Worse case scenario we didn't find it, but had peace of mind that everything was good.

Thanks for the replies. Do you remember what position was best for hearing the noise?

Bmxer524 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 24, 2014 5:36 pm

I was bouncing the front(brushguard is good for something

) and my dad was by the tire looking into the wheel well. We still have some noise, but we think it's the hard plastic boot that Bilstein uses up front.

Gageraid · **Posted:** Mon Mar 24, 2014 5:39 pm

Bmxer524 wrote:

I was bouncing the front(brushguard is good for something

) and my dad was by the tire looking into the wheel well. We still have some noise, but we think it's the hard plastic boot that Bilstein uses up front.

Okay. I was bouncing using the Mopar light bar. I'll update if I can verify anything in the future.

lammarco · **Joined:** Sun Mar 18, 2012 3:37 pm **Posts:** 274

So I have been working on my light bar and my roof rack.
The day has come!
So First I took off the roof rack from my jeep... :banghead:

and 3 of the mounting bracket broke...

I took it down and put the light bar in front of it to see the fitment.

Testing the light bar...All good!

Since the light bar is the same width as the roof basket.
I need to make a special mount for it.

L shape steel plate from Home depot

It fits like a glove. I am gonna paint it black to match the roof rack color

The mount was holding by 2 bolts.

Half finish product (missing the mounting brackets)
The XL roof rack without the light bar

Mount the light bar to test fitment

Sideway

Front of the new light bar and roof rack

After all the testing on the roof, I took it down again and re install my DIY awning. I remove the wood I used previously as it doesn't look that good. I figured out a better way to mount it.

lammarco · **Joined:** Sun Mar 18, 2012 3:37 pm **Posts:** 274

Convert my old signal light into amber LED light...

It's brighter than just using PNP LED bulb... :JEEPIN:

cherox · **Joined:** Sat Oct 12, 2013 6:09 pm **Posts:** 55

lammarco wrote:

Convert my old signal light into amber LED light...

It's brighter than just using PNP LED bulb... :JEEPIN:

I love your Jeep Iammarco.

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