Nice Little Jeep

Jeep stopped manufacturing the JK in 2018. It took PSC six years after production of the JK to create the big bore insulation video. Good job PSC for releasing this video April 2024.

frame side of the bolts upper control arm the shank needs a min. 3” shank. 4-1/2” long bolt might be long enough after torquing with a shank at 2-13/16” and I would have used a 4-1/2” bolt if I didn’t already break a bolt. 9/16”-18 X 4.5 grade 8 bolt Lower control arm the shank needed a min. 3-1/4” shank. 5” long bolt is good with a thick washer with a shank of 3-3/8” 9/16-18x 5” grade 8 bolt A lot of work to shank bolts, I don’t think 4x kit manufacturers don’t understand how to shank bolts or they don’t want to spend the money.

Well, the EVO long arm system!!! Love it, hate it, whatever! I had a failure on the passenger side lower control arm frame side, sheared off the bolt. I had a lengthy conversations regarding this issue. The rabbit hole we all can go down. the fix for my Jeep right now is to shank the new bolts. What shanking a bolt looks like: what a bolt looks like not shanked: I’m adding other pictures just for future references. The existing broken bolt could’ve been under torqued. the reason why I say that is there’s seven other bolts that have no failure and show no signs of failure. so I could’ve under torque this bolt. I doubt!!!! I over torque the bolt. I’m gonna repeat myself, I believe shanking these control arm bolts is the best direction for me.

Time to start upgrading my tool and gear system for some of you, you’ve probably never seen my system so I’ll share my current set up. I started with converting two Justin wine crates into my toolboxes, back in the day my grandfather, would use wooden crates to haul the tools and chainsaw gear. So I created two Justin wine crates into toolboxes to honor my grandfather. The boxes fit nice with chairs, refrigerator, air compressor, welder and recovery gear. if I was going to just do some basic trail and maintain the adopted a trail stuff the wooden toolboxes would work out great. After bouncing across the desert during a couple of hard trail trips and realizing that I might need to upgrade these, I waited a little too long; one broke. this year at Hi Desert Round Up the wood toolbox has seen its time in NLJ. I need to move on and upgrade. i’ve bought Milwaukee packout gear already and that’s what I keep all the welding gear in already. I removed everything out of the two wood toolboxes into two Milwaukee pack out crates. With the packout system, I can adjust my gear based on the trip. For the big trips like Rubicon and Fordyce I’ll pack everything including the welder. But for some of the other trips, I don’t need to pack the welder. example: my family Tahoe trip I don’t need the welder. If my Jeep can’t make a trip like that without being welded, then I didn’t build it right. NLJ fully loaded, my packout gear: All the tools needed to work on my vehicle* Highlift Jack Ax Shovel Welder Welding gear Grinder (battery) Impact guns (battery) Recovery gear A restroom chair (must have) Two chairs A table fire Extinguishers Hammock First aid kit Spare parts Air compressor Cal4Wheel trasharoo And most importantly, a portable bar * Jerry taught me to take my tools out of my Jeep and only use the tools that are in the jeep to work on the jeep then you will know what tools to carry. I might haul more gear than I need, but I’ve been out there where I’ve needed more gear.

After Hi Desert Round Up 2024, I reversed some changes that I made to the rear coilovers. Rear coilover setup now 6/2/2024 10/250 over 12/300* preload nut at 1/2” to snug up springs. *(Back to 300) The preload on the driver side is set at 2”: The preload on the passenger side 2-1/2”: That gives the Jeep 5” of up travel before bottoming out the air bumps. Transfer rings are set at 0”. The reason for the reversal setup is the coil binding seen on the RTramp at Hi Desert Round 2024: This gives 1/2”* to 5/8”* more of up travel to the coilovers before the springs will coil bind. *all about the numbers. These EVO coilovers are not designed correctly. They are Frankenstein coilovers!! They are not standard coilovers!!.. I have talked and listened to Tony Pellegrino from GenRight Off-Road and he has given me some great advice. Tony has great knowledge of how to setup coilovers correctly. Tony has helped me through this process and these coilovers are not his product. So to say the least, I have great respect for Tony and GenRight Off-Road. The great news is the valving upgrade to the coilovers held up to the pressure of the Hi Desert Round Up this year. front setup is correct

I run the stock metal front bumper on my JK and I like that front bumper. If I ever change my front bumper to a aftermarket front bumper, it will definitely be the Krash fab front bumper that’s on Vengeance.

Laundry list of items 1. on the laundry list of items is brakes!! we don’t need brakes because brakes are only for people that want to stop!! so why even put that on the list?? 2. paint front bumper, why?!? Jerry is just gonna drag it all over rocks so why even care if there’s paint on the front bumper? 3. install winch, yeah definitely install winch look who’s driving!! 4. gas tank vent line yeah!! reason why the Jeep has a gas tank vent line is in case Jerry wants to drive this thing upside down!! 5. Rear tail lights, well if you’re not planning on stopping, then you don’t need rear tail lights. 6. finish tailgate, OK!! I need to finish the tailgate. He’s got to keep his tools in the Jeep. He’s gotta fix my jeep when I break down. 7. Install fire extinguisher bracket and fire extinguisher, YES!! well just in case we forget something in the wiring, or fuel lines and we might want to put out the fire. 8. readjust coilovers, yes we need to readjust the coilovers!!! we want to try to lower the Jeep!!!! We spent eight months trying to raise the Jeep now we want to lower it. yeah, just a little Laundry list of items!!

I actually found insulation instructions from PSC. What the hell: https://www.pscmotorsports.com/pub/media/pdf/jk-assist-install.pdf

Well, I have more to add to the PSC installation process, I have two PSC hydraulic assist diagrams. First one is for the big bore steering box set up with the PSC cooler, pretty straightforward, no added notes. Second diagram for existing steering gear box that has been ported for hydraulic assist ports. Focus on the instructions on the right of the diagram on the page. RED LINES (hoses) “The port closest to the firewall connects to the drivers side of the cylinder in most applications. Ford and some other Will use the opposite config cylinder.” Both of these diagrams are correct!! It is based on the PSC kit or the steering gear box that’s on your Jeep.

You would’ve been done, but you would’ve had a Band-Aid on the problem. I did the wire on Jerry’s Toyota back in the day and he never had problems with the wiring. We just got it done the first time.

The white Jeep is in the same status details details, slap it together, and it’ll fall apart on the trail.

Details, Details!!!

The key bracket design to the front track bar from GenRight. Both track bar brackets make the kit. The frame side is standard throughout all the GenRight JK suspension kits.

If you’re running these three products for a track bar setup or any of the competitive systems!, you’ve spent about $800 on your front track bar setup. You still have bump steer, your track bar and drag link are not the same length. For about $250 more you can have the GenRight setup!!! Which takes care of all the track bar issues that ALL the aftermarket lift kits do not solve. **** if you found a aftermarket lift kit that addresses the track bar, please let me know because I cannot find it. ******