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Hey guys!
Started on my Rhino conversion today. Part of putting the old Gladiator grill on required me to move the tranny cooler. My AC system is busted, so I decided to remove everything, pump, condenser, cooler, dryer, hoses...
This turned out to be very challenging! After several hours of messing with the pump I finally got it out. Got the new fan belts installed and noticed there was a huge pool of green coolent on the ground. Some where in the process I caused a leak on the water pump. Also discovered that some of the bolt holes started leaking motor oil. Plugged them up the best I could with shorter bolts I had in a scrap coffee can. Did relocate the tranny cooler and got the grill bolted in.
Closed her up for the day and admired my handy work. When I fired up the jeep I noticed a horrible swishing sound. Opened the hood again and its coming from the Power steering pump!!! How in all of this did I mess up the power steering pump?!?!? It was fine when I parked it. Drove it back to the house anyway since I was out of time and needed to come in for dinner and every time I turned you could hear some grinding.
I got a spare off a junker that some guy was parting out, but I'm not sure if it works. Ugh. Can never win with these FSJ's can you?!?!!
I will post pictures of the Rhino conversion once I replace the square headlights with the round and bolt on the pie pans. Gota do some welding for that.
Sean Kelly
Started on my Rhino conversion today. Part of putting the old Gladiator grill on required me to move the tranny cooler. My AC system is busted, so I decided to remove everything, pump, condenser, cooler, dryer, hoses...
This turned out to be very challenging! After several hours of messing with the pump I finally got it out. Got the new fan belts installed and noticed there was a huge pool of green coolent on the ground. Some where in the process I caused a leak on the water pump. Also discovered that some of the bolt holes started leaking motor oil. Plugged them up the best I could with shorter bolts I had in a scrap coffee can. Did relocate the tranny cooler and got the grill bolted in.
Closed her up for the day and admired my handy work. When I fired up the jeep I noticed a horrible swishing sound. Opened the hood again and its coming from the Power steering pump!!! How in all of this did I mess up the power steering pump?!?!? It was fine when I parked it. Drove it back to the house anyway since I was out of time and needed to come in for dinner and every time I turned you could hear some grinding.
I got a spare off a junker that some guy was parting out, but I'm not sure if it works. Ugh. Can never win with these FSJ's can you?!?!!
I will post pictures of the Rhino conversion once I replace the square headlights with the round and bolt on the pie pans. Gota do some welding for that.
Sean Kelly
1987 Grand Wagoneer
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