Do you know what the factory called that paint color? Any chance you would know the paint code?

Do you know what the factory called that paint color? Any chance you would know the paint code?

43U    WA299C  Woodland Green Met      Enamel Clear Coat.


I liked the color more before the clear started delmainating. You can't tell in the pictures cause I have it waxed but the tops of the flares, the a-pilliars, the hood (till I painted it) and the little lips on the doors area all getting rough and frosty/white looking.

The entire thing is getting repainted in a few weeks to months in Hitachi Charcoal construction equipment paint from the local John Deere repair shop. The hood is painted with John Deere Blitz Black.

Making a tubular bumper. Horizontals are .120 wall, verticals are .95 wall. I drilled 1/2" holes at every joint, plan when done is use it as a tank to hold air so I can air up some after offroading. Guess I'll see how much air it can hold and how many PSI I can raise my tires. May get an electric pump in the future.

Only put 2ish hrs into it tonight. Be working on it more tomorrow afternoon.




What it will probably look like when done.

Got a little more done yesterday. Busy Busy.

Went to Rausch Creek again on Sunday.

I was working my way up the 3rd climb on the left past Lake Christy and got about 3/4 way up taking it easy and unloaded front left so I backed down a few feet and gave it a little gas to get some momentum to carry the wheel till it got traction... well, it got traction and now the front end skips teeth under load.  :disgust:

Guess it's time to get some 5.125 gears from a manual Tracker to swap in place of my 4.30s!

Pics to come in a few days when I swap it all out. Stupid front aluminum housings. Also waiting for my 2" body lift to come Tuesday. My rear tires bottom out in the wheel well so I'm not getting full articulation.

5.125 gears are in the rear, what a difference!. I still need to get a new front pass halfshaft before I can install the front.

Cleaned and waxed it today.



Also, has anybody seen this style end on the rear axles? Sean|removethispart||removethispart|@LROR said he's never seen this as I was asking him about just getting caliper brackets to run disc brakes in the rear sometime in the future.

I've seen that style before, but I can't tell you which year rig I saw it on.  So basically, I'm no help at all. 

Looks good though, I like the snorcle coming straight up rather then off and to the side.  Looks good when all polished up.  Have you ever thought about getting an ARB style square top for the snorkel?

I've seen that style before, but I can't tell you which year rig I saw it on.  So basically, I'm no help at all. 

Looks good though, I like the snorcle coming straight up rather then off and to the side.  Looks good when all polished up.  Have you ever thought about getting an ARB style square top for the snorkel?

The snorkel is all 2" which fit in the stock flex tubing inlet to the airbox with a coupler on it. I lost 5 mph goig up the local "test hill" I keep using between mods. I'll be redoing it in 3" but that will take some cutting and metal work to run it like I did.  It'll all be metal next time so I can weld it and "form" it in tight spots so I don't have to hack the underside of the hood out more.

Think I might pull the fender and cut out some of the upper rail there and droup it an inch and weld it back in.

My '96 4-door had those style axles,  after the wreck they were replaced with 4 bolt ones out of a '93 4-door.

I have never seen that style axle before, but I like that style better.

That style, 5 bolt flange vs. 4 bolt flange, of axle is what's on the 96-98 Sidekick/Tracker models. Don't be fooled by thinking they're beefier. While they may appear to be stronger on the outside because 5 is more betterer than 4 right? However, the metal in the axle itself seems to be inferior. I have broken many 96+ axles and 95- axles too but the late model ones seem to go faster. On the plus side, you should have 26 spine front shafts vs. the 22 spline. That's better! Hope that helps...

-Eric

That axle is what I have on mine.  Having a bit of trouble getting the drum off to get to the shoes.  Chiltons says to use a slide hammer.  Is that how you removed yours?  Anyone else know a trick?

I need some advise too. tried to get my 92's axles out last night (with slide hammer) until I had blisters, then smart me...tried some more MY HANDS HURT!!!! :'( :'( WTF???

I use a 4 way. Wedge it behind the axle plate, have someone hold it and beat the 4 way with a hammer. I've taken 8 axles out this way with no problems.

I used an axle puller/slide hammer rented from AutoZone. Just bolt the 3 legs onto 3 wheel studs and screw in the slide hammer and get to work after removing the brakes and removing the 4 nuts that hold the flange on outside of the bearing.

Just got a warehouse job for amazon.com and getting orientation Thursday. Not going to be fun but $12/hr and up to 60hr mandatory overtime I'll be making some decent $$$ and this project will be going again. Removing rear seat, enclosing behind b-pillar with sliding-glass from a small truck and enclosed down to floor. Spare will be moved to where rear seat was (prerunner style) and from there I'll either be rebuilding the bottom end which has bad scoring and worn rings, or possibly an engine swap?

It's been sitting in the yard with no head on the engine since May when the belt went, luckily again, no valve-to-piston contact.