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The jeepfan.com 2004 Wrangler TJ Unlimited has 195K miles on it and on a recent spring ride the plastic tank on the top of the radiator split. At first there was a bit of an antifreeze smell followed by spray on the windshield then all over the engine and fenders. Luckily we were close to …
Continuing on from part 1 we have completely removed the old exhaust from the manifold to the tail pipe including the old O2 sensors in the manifold. Now starting from the engine we assemble the new aFe system. The new O2 sensors were installed in the manifold and the y-pipe before any parts were started …
The jeepfan.com 2004 TJ Unlimited has 195K miles and might have the original exhaust still on it. The check engine light had been illuminated for a bit, the code had something to do with a fault in the emissions system. It just seemed like a full replacement of the system plus all new O2 sensors …
In 1969 Kaiser, the current owner of Jeep responded to the high performance market with a special version of the CJ-5 called the “462”. This special edition was an extremely low production run and little documentation exists to track this forerunner to the extremely successful Renegade model. Thanks to a few expert Jeep collectors and …
2020 is was set to be a big year at the Bantam Jeep Heritage Festival in Butler, PA. 2020 marks marked the 10 year anniversary of the festival and this year would have brought brings some extras for everyone. At this point the date of the festival is set for June 10-12, 2020 but thanks …
The jeepfan.com 2004 TJ Unlimited was going to get some bigger tires which will impact drive-ability in a few ways, most notably here being the effect of larger tires on gearing. Larger tires will effectively increase the overall gear ratio since the tires cover more distance per revolution. This could make a Jeep with a …
A small group of weekend warriors took advantage of some unusually warm dead of winter weather to take a trip to AOAA to explore some of their ever expanding trail system. Just four Jeeps, all 4 door..2 JKs and 2 JLs made up the group. All were lifted and tire sizes ranged from 34 to …
The factory tail lights on the jeepfan.com 2004 TJ Unlimited were in rather degraded shape. 195K miles puts a lot of road time on them and the plastic was fading and becoming brittle. It was time for a replacement and an upgrade. LED lighting has become more popular than ever. The lights are often brighter …
The coil spring equipped Wranglers all utilized a track bar on the front and rear axle to keep the axle located in relation to side to side. It’s simple really, one side of the bar is attached to the frame, the other side to the axle. The bar is connected at opposite sides. Since the …
When adding larger tires to your JL Wrangler you can often experience death wobble at certain speeds. Unfortunately the Jeep didn’t seem to solve the death wobbly with the JL. Interestingly it seems to happen to some and not others. A small 2″ lifted JL Sport or Sahara can easily run 35’s and a Rubicon …
