JK Unlimited Evolution - Dieselcon

[Dieselcon]

Waiting for the car carrier with my new JK Unlimited crd
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The Oberon - ETA 20th sept 10 ...the ship that brought my jeep down under
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The 10 days wait to final pickup the on 1st Oct 10
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Jeep drive home to Wollongong with 29 kms on it

[Dieselcon]

1 day old
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First outing with family- camping at swan lake
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First off road track..... Bit dirty

[Dieselcon]

Week 2
Adventure to Yalwal area--- stayed on dirt tracks. Nothing heavy
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Week 3
First outing with real 4x4....SJC zigzag trip
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Week 4
2nd outing with SJC Stockton beach..
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No need for shovel or winch.. Girls will do for now !! Keep digging girls ..
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These two weeks were a little hard as dieselcon only had fun tyres and worst still, poor thing had belly rash. Time to start upgrading

[Dieselcon]

Week 5
New meater tyres...just what the doctor ordered
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Quality time spent again with SJC -Yalwal carnival....
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Dam shame could't get lift on time
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Scrubed heaps again thanyou for armour!!!!
Monday 8th Nov - in for lift....
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Wow, I'm only short.... need to head to bunnings an get small step ladder

[Dieselcon]

Time to sell other toy
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http://www.carsales.com.au/used-cars...d=12919350813A

[Hunno]

Try Lake Lyel camping grounds - has toilets & showers(20c per 2-3mins). Thinking of taking my 4y girl on her 1st camping trip there the weekend of Rydal Show 5/6 Feb. Not sure if I'm even taking the 4wd but just thought I could start her out easy & go from there. there is a camping fee of about $10 a night.

[jk1978]

its coming up good see u at the next trip

[Dieselcon]

Took it out for a quick spin to monkey gum trail, but this tome from southern end off turpentine rd. Didn't travel to far as I was just one lonely jeep. Purpose of trip was to test new lift. I told ARB that with lift i wanted to extend the swayarm link but they said no need. I heard CraigB did substantial damaged to his steering so I needed to ensure things would be ok before next weekend (killingsworth loop). Felt pretty good, however didn't want to flex to much as the sway arm link looked a bit to close to doubling over.

Jeep has nominal 2" lift, and electronic disconnects

Will organize extension this week

[Miraz]

Will organize extension this week

Get longer rear links, move the rear links to the front....

[tonysrich]

The sway bar on a JK should be parallel to the chassis when the car is on level ground although a 5 degree angle either up or down from that position is acceptable.

Whoever the idiot was at ARB that said that you don't need extended sway bar links either doesn't know what the f**k he is talking about or just doesn't give a shit. Probably both but that isn’t too surprising. It is an unfortunate and sad testament to the 4WD industry in general that we regularly get crap advice like that from 4WD equipment installers that claim to be 4WD experts. Macquarie 4WD is supopsed to have a good reputation but they installed a 3.5 inch lift in my car without bothering to include not only extended sway bar links but extended bump stops as well and unbelievably not even extended brake lines. When I queried them about it after a club member pointed it out to me they simply said they didn’t think it was necessary. More like they just didn’t think at all. But they are the experts and I'm just another dumb arsed customer and a Jeep owner as well. No one in the industry seems to give a shit about Jeep other than the specialist Jeep suppliers.

I’ll be at Killingsworth next weekend, I’ll show you how I’ve setup my rig then if you like. I have a set of adjustable Rubicon Express sway bar links that I replaced on my JK. I don't want them and I'd happily let you have them if you want. Call me through the week, I might be able to get them to you so you can fit them before next weekend.

If you are using ARB Wollongong then I’d guess that you are from the south side like me. I live near Sutherland so if you like we could meet up for the drive up north to Berowra too.

Tony
0410647177
tonysrich@optus.net