Which arms you using?
Whatever the Core4x4 arms are with the JJs on both ends, the only ones they sell like that, as far as I know. Crawl series I think they call them.
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Do you need any detailed pics of Anti Rock installed? if so give me a holler and I’ll get whatever I can with my paltry photo skills. I have tomorrow off for the most part.Front antirock gets here Friday. Today I removed the front skid plate, and electronic disconnect sway bar. Came up with a plan for how I'm going to cut the tusks and maintain support for the winch plate, if I decide to stick with the antirock.
Front axle was perfectly centered left and right at ride height but would rub the inner fender at full tuck on the left, so shortened the drag link and track bar one thread.
Previously had the coil rubbing the track bar and sector shaft brace. Since I've gone hydro assist I figured I don't really need the shitty bearing on the sector shaft, so I picked up a tracl bar brace only, and trimmed it up and painted it. I also shortened all front control arms one thread to move the axle back a tiny bit. Hoping between the two the rub will be fixed.
While shortening the arms I discovered one of the frame end upper johnny joints was worn out already. I've only had these arms on here for a year. Maybe just defective, but I had another one on hand so I rebuilt it. I'm a huge JJ fan but I think ultimately a 2" narrow joint is just too small for the arms on a diesel with 40s.
I have the Crawl series like you. The only small JJ's are on the front upper arms at the rear. They're 2". The rest are 2.5".Whatever the Core4x4 arms are with the JJs on both ends, the only ones they sell like that, as far as I know. Crawl series I think they call them.
With the exception of the rear upper arms where I've gone RK triangulated.
The TJ I had savvy short arms which also utilized the narrow 2" JJ on top but a couple years ago installed the Savvy Mid Arm kit that uses big boy JJs all around
It’s burn fine.
in all seriousness, I wonder if the act of adding a catch can, changes pressures and vacuum enough to catch things that wouldn’t have been a problem with the factory setup.
Back in my school bus mechanic days, Washington's Department of Ecology wanted all of the schools to add filter systems to the crankcase breather tubes.It’s burn fine.
Sound like it’s then legitimately possible that catch can systems change pressure, and create problems that they “solve”. I don’t have a way to prove it, but my 20+ oil changes, all measuring the amount of oil drained, are evidence enough for me.
I just changed the catch can yesterday with a little over 1K miles (mostly interstate).
This is why I think it is a necessity,
I'm more concerned about the color of that oil. Looks like choccy milk...
I agree. I think it’s mostly condensation mixed with a tiny bit of oil. I think these things cause problems that didn’t exist, then catch the problem, making users think they’re working. But there’s never any explanation for where it came from.
Having a Super Duty with a V10, the blowby was bad enough that it would consume 1 quart+ of oil through the intake in less than 3000 miles. Early 2 valve V10's we're notorious for low oil levels. After adding the catch can to it, the intake stayed clean, still had to add oil to the engine regularly, but at least it wasn't coating the upper part of the engine. I got 175,000 miles out of the first engine, the second was still going strong when I sold it at 236,000 miles.
I obviously knew you had one, and I’m not a mechanical engineer either. So I’m just discussing. Not trying to tell people they’re not doing the right thing. Does yours also look like chocolate milk, indicating for me that water is in the can?
That was the first thing I noticed.
IMO they are far less important and typically not needed with naturally aspirated, and unless running a high performane N/A build they are more of a cool factor than anything. If someone is seeing high amounts of oil in the can with N/A they likely have other issues (usually a stuck PCV, removing the PCV, or not installing the system correctly). However they can be very beneficial with forced induction to reduce blowby.
