torque wrench in one hand, paint pen in the other. So anytime you torque a nut or a bolt, mark it with a paint pen, that way you can go back and give it a good visual inspection, see if anything's moved. - Which I did not do, and that's actually, I still have not done, but that's a very, very good point for me. I'm a KZitem mechanic, or I've got my buddies that are much better than I am. I love hearing that. - I make my guys do it. That way when something's done and it's leaving, I'll go out and spot check almost everything my guys do.
But sometimes, I don't get to see all of them, so they don't know what I'm gonna look at or not. But if there's not marks on the bolts that I know that they touched, I'll make them go back and torque everything. - Oh yeah, it's a good idea. - Standard procedure. - If there's not a mark on it, you don't know if it's been torqued or not. - Exactly. - And it's good punishment to remember to mark it next time.
- Do it right or don't do it at all.
- Zach, I have a question for you. This is last year when I went to Eastern Jeep Safari, I was out on Hell's Revenge, and I started hearing a whining noise. I was hoping it wasn't the transmission, it wasn't. It took me a little bit, and I realized what the noise was. Brand new to the Gladiator, but it's the same noise I've heard from the XJ. The power steering fluid was low in the pump, and I was really confused by that because it was even newer last year when I went to EJS,
and I had not had any power steering fluid noise before. Could it be that I was using the power steering so much that it got hot and evaporated or overflowed the power steering coolant? I know that was the fix. I went to O'Reilly's there in Moab and got some fluid, filled it up, and it was fine. It was fine this year too.
- Yeah, I mean, it certainly could be an issue.
Going sideways, overheating it.
I know a lot of vehicles do have power steering coolers. I personally have not been into the front of a JT personally, so I don't know if there's one on there off the top of my head.
My guys would know because they're in there every day.
And then you're overworking it. When you're working, you're power steering a whole lot more, which is why a lot of guys put those PSCs on there.
And then there's a great new product. Give me just a minute. Oh, I have it right here. It's called a steering boost kit from a company called Apex.
This is really supposed to help the JLJTs and they come with a cooler and everything.
It's kind of like a middle of the road solution between just your regular power steering and your go-to-a-PSC kind of system. - Yeah, the Apex opens the flow up. So basically it almost doubles the amount of flow that your factory pump can put out. The problem with the doubling the flow is then you need the cooler, but Apex also supplies the cooler, which is really important. But essentially if you do that on your Gladiator or your JL, it will feel just like you have a hydro assist on an XJ or a TJ. It increases the flow that much. So it is pretty exceptional, but there's no replacement for displacement of a Ram.
- Yeah.
- All right, we got time for one more question in this ask the mechanic segment. Anybody got a question?
- Hey, Zach, I'm gonna ask this for Travis because he won't do it for himself. Say you have an 89 YJ, how long should it take a mechanic to replace your A8s 15 in years? - He's putting an AW4 in that.
(laughing) - Yeah, that's a good question.
- Did you just say he's putting an AW4 in? - Isn't that right, Travis? - The AW4 is waiting long for a YJ.
- But I pulled, I went from the 600 to the 4.0 fuel injected.
Yeah, it's a Frankenstein Jeep and he'll fix it as soon as I give him money for it. - Yeah, what I'm saying is that the AW4, because it's physically longer than any other transmission that was ever in a YJ, the only way that you can make it fit and have good driveline angles would be to move your rear axle backwards at least four inches. - I've got a new rear drive shaft. I didn't do this work, so bear with me. - Oh God, I hope it's done well. - I know I have a new rear drive shaft that I purchased and bought and had built to fit what was done. - Well now, since Greg has told you this, you can check with your mechanic to find out if they understand that things are gonna have to be moved back four inches. Boy, I sure hope they took that into account when they told you how long the drive shaft was. - The driveline angle will be really steep and you'll spit your joints out all the time.
- I've never had to replace it, because again, everything was working great, going good. - It's not an AW4, it's AX15. - I thought you said-- - Oh yeah, if you're AX15, you're fine. - I thought you said it was an AW4 that you were putting. - I don't remember, no. I may have, Tony, I was drinking a lot back in the day. - I was gonna say, you drink and I don't, so I probably remember him right.
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