dropping the main skid plate on a TJ
#11
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Re: dropping the main skid plate on a TJ
Be careful. If your cat is rattling it could lodge a piece in the
outlet nozzle and back pressure your engine, in the long run you will
probably damage your valve train. If you have no polution laws/checks
I would replace it with a straight pipe while you have things apart.
On 13 Jun 2004 05:20:30 GMT, handywired@aol.com (Handywired) wrote:
>I am gonna try the poor-man's fix to a rattling catalytic converter tomorrow
>and give it a few pokes with a dull punch to see if I can get it to "pin" back
>together and stop rattling. Other than the rattle, the cat is working fine.
>To do this i need to drop the skid plate. Any tricks to this?? Specifically,
>do I need to support the tranny, and would it be OK to run (not drive) the Jeep
>with the skid plate off of there, to check for the rattle?
>
>Thank you!
>
>-jeff
outlet nozzle and back pressure your engine, in the long run you will
probably damage your valve train. If you have no polution laws/checks
I would replace it with a straight pipe while you have things apart.
On 13 Jun 2004 05:20:30 GMT, handywired@aol.com (Handywired) wrote:
>I am gonna try the poor-man's fix to a rattling catalytic converter tomorrow
>and give it a few pokes with a dull punch to see if I can get it to "pin" back
>together and stop rattling. Other than the rattle, the cat is working fine.
>To do this i need to drop the skid plate. Any tricks to this?? Specifically,
>do I need to support the tranny, and would it be OK to run (not drive) the Jeep
>with the skid plate off of there, to check for the rattle?
>
>Thank you!
>
>-jeff
#12
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Re: dropping the main skid plate on a TJ
Be careful. If your cat is rattling it could lodge a piece in the
outlet nozzle and back pressure your engine, in the long run you will
probably damage your valve train. If you have no polution laws/checks
I would replace it with a straight pipe while you have things apart.
On 13 Jun 2004 05:20:30 GMT, handywired@aol.com (Handywired) wrote:
>I am gonna try the poor-man's fix to a rattling catalytic converter tomorrow
>and give it a few pokes with a dull punch to see if I can get it to "pin" back
>together and stop rattling. Other than the rattle, the cat is working fine.
>To do this i need to drop the skid plate. Any tricks to this?? Specifically,
>do I need to support the tranny, and would it be OK to run (not drive) the Jeep
>with the skid plate off of there, to check for the rattle?
>
>Thank you!
>
>-jeff
outlet nozzle and back pressure your engine, in the long run you will
probably damage your valve train. If you have no polution laws/checks
I would replace it with a straight pipe while you have things apart.
On 13 Jun 2004 05:20:30 GMT, handywired@aol.com (Handywired) wrote:
>I am gonna try the poor-man's fix to a rattling catalytic converter tomorrow
>and give it a few pokes with a dull punch to see if I can get it to "pin" back
>together and stop rattling. Other than the rattle, the cat is working fine.
>To do this i need to drop the skid plate. Any tricks to this?? Specifically,
>do I need to support the tranny, and would it be OK to run (not drive) the Jeep
>with the skid plate off of there, to check for the rattle?
>
>Thank you!
>
>-jeff
#13
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Re: dropping the main skid plate on a TJ
Be careful. If your cat is rattling it could lodge a piece in the
outlet nozzle and back pressure your engine, in the long run you will
probably damage your valve train. If you have no polution laws/checks
I would replace it with a straight pipe while you have things apart.
On 13 Jun 2004 05:20:30 GMT, handywired@aol.com (Handywired) wrote:
>I am gonna try the poor-man's fix to a rattling catalytic converter tomorrow
>and give it a few pokes with a dull punch to see if I can get it to "pin" back
>together and stop rattling. Other than the rattle, the cat is working fine.
>To do this i need to drop the skid plate. Any tricks to this?? Specifically,
>do I need to support the tranny, and would it be OK to run (not drive) the Jeep
>with the skid plate off of there, to check for the rattle?
>
>Thank you!
>
>-jeff
outlet nozzle and back pressure your engine, in the long run you will
probably damage your valve train. If you have no polution laws/checks
I would replace it with a straight pipe while you have things apart.
On 13 Jun 2004 05:20:30 GMT, handywired@aol.com (Handywired) wrote:
>I am gonna try the poor-man's fix to a rattling catalytic converter tomorrow
>and give it a few pokes with a dull punch to see if I can get it to "pin" back
>together and stop rattling. Other than the rattle, the cat is working fine.
>To do this i need to drop the skid plate. Any tricks to this?? Specifically,
>do I need to support the tranny, and would it be OK to run (not drive) the Jeep
>with the skid plate off of there, to check for the rattle?
>
>Thank you!
>
>-jeff
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Re: dropping the main skid plate on a TJ
Here's my procedure for dropping the skid plate, I have used it many
times:
1. Remove the 4 nuts in the middle of the skid plate. These secure
the rubber tranny mount to the skid plate.
2. Put a wood block on a floor jack, jack up the tranny so the skid
plate is no longer supporting the transmission. Don't jack up the
tranny without the wood block for a pad. The best jacking point on
the transmission is as far back as possible, but in front of the skid
plate.
3. Support the tranny with a jackstand in front of your floor jack,
just in case the floor jack slips.
4. If your doing this without a buddy, the easiest way (IMHO) to lower
the skidplate is as follows. Remove the bolts holding the skid plate
to the frame, first remove the rear most bolts on one side of the
Jeep, then the frontmost bolts on the other side of the Jeep. In this
pattern, the skid plate will remain supported by two bolts, diagonally
across from each other. Loosen the two remaning bolts about 1/2" inch
out. Hold up the skid plate, remove the last bolt on each side, then
lower the skid pan to the ground. If you have a lift, you might have
to put some blocks to hold up the skid pan as you remove the bolts.
Loosening the bolts gave me enough piviot to lower one side of the
skid plate at a time.
-Jim
handywired@aol.com (Handywired) wrote in message news:<20040613012030.05521.00000872@mb-m17.aol.com>...
> I am gonna try the poor-man's fix to a rattling catalytic converter tomorrow
> and give it a few pokes with a dull punch to see if I can get it to "pin" back
> together and stop rattling. Other than the rattle, the cat is working fine.
> To do this i need to drop the skid plate. Any tricks to this?? Specifically,
> do I need to support the tranny, and would it be OK to run (not drive) the Jeep
> with the skid plate off of there, to check for the rattle?
>
> Thank you!
>
> -jeff
times:
1. Remove the 4 nuts in the middle of the skid plate. These secure
the rubber tranny mount to the skid plate.
2. Put a wood block on a floor jack, jack up the tranny so the skid
plate is no longer supporting the transmission. Don't jack up the
tranny without the wood block for a pad. The best jacking point on
the transmission is as far back as possible, but in front of the skid
plate.
3. Support the tranny with a jackstand in front of your floor jack,
just in case the floor jack slips.
4. If your doing this without a buddy, the easiest way (IMHO) to lower
the skidplate is as follows. Remove the bolts holding the skid plate
to the frame, first remove the rear most bolts on one side of the
Jeep, then the frontmost bolts on the other side of the Jeep. In this
pattern, the skid plate will remain supported by two bolts, diagonally
across from each other. Loosen the two remaning bolts about 1/2" inch
out. Hold up the skid plate, remove the last bolt on each side, then
lower the skid pan to the ground. If you have a lift, you might have
to put some blocks to hold up the skid pan as you remove the bolts.
Loosening the bolts gave me enough piviot to lower one side of the
skid plate at a time.
-Jim
handywired@aol.com (Handywired) wrote in message news:<20040613012030.05521.00000872@mb-m17.aol.com>...
> I am gonna try the poor-man's fix to a rattling catalytic converter tomorrow
> and give it a few pokes with a dull punch to see if I can get it to "pin" back
> together and stop rattling. Other than the rattle, the cat is working fine.
> To do this i need to drop the skid plate. Any tricks to this?? Specifically,
> do I need to support the tranny, and would it be OK to run (not drive) the Jeep
> with the skid plate off of there, to check for the rattle?
>
> Thank you!
>
> -jeff
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Re: dropping the main skid plate on a TJ
Here's my procedure for dropping the skid plate, I have used it many
times:
1. Remove the 4 nuts in the middle of the skid plate. These secure
the rubber tranny mount to the skid plate.
2. Put a wood block on a floor jack, jack up the tranny so the skid
plate is no longer supporting the transmission. Don't jack up the
tranny without the wood block for a pad. The best jacking point on
the transmission is as far back as possible, but in front of the skid
plate.
3. Support the tranny with a jackstand in front of your floor jack,
just in case the floor jack slips.
4. If your doing this without a buddy, the easiest way (IMHO) to lower
the skidplate is as follows. Remove the bolts holding the skid plate
to the frame, first remove the rear most bolts on one side of the
Jeep, then the frontmost bolts on the other side of the Jeep. In this
pattern, the skid plate will remain supported by two bolts, diagonally
across from each other. Loosen the two remaning bolts about 1/2" inch
out. Hold up the skid plate, remove the last bolt on each side, then
lower the skid pan to the ground. If you have a lift, you might have
to put some blocks to hold up the skid pan as you remove the bolts.
Loosening the bolts gave me enough piviot to lower one side of the
skid plate at a time.
-Jim
handywired@aol.com (Handywired) wrote in message news:<20040613012030.05521.00000872@mb-m17.aol.com>...
> I am gonna try the poor-man's fix to a rattling catalytic converter tomorrow
> and give it a few pokes with a dull punch to see if I can get it to "pin" back
> together and stop rattling. Other than the rattle, the cat is working fine.
> To do this i need to drop the skid plate. Any tricks to this?? Specifically,
> do I need to support the tranny, and would it be OK to run (not drive) the Jeep
> with the skid plate off of there, to check for the rattle?
>
> Thank you!
>
> -jeff
times:
1. Remove the 4 nuts in the middle of the skid plate. These secure
the rubber tranny mount to the skid plate.
2. Put a wood block on a floor jack, jack up the tranny so the skid
plate is no longer supporting the transmission. Don't jack up the
tranny without the wood block for a pad. The best jacking point on
the transmission is as far back as possible, but in front of the skid
plate.
3. Support the tranny with a jackstand in front of your floor jack,
just in case the floor jack slips.
4. If your doing this without a buddy, the easiest way (IMHO) to lower
the skidplate is as follows. Remove the bolts holding the skid plate
to the frame, first remove the rear most bolts on one side of the
Jeep, then the frontmost bolts on the other side of the Jeep. In this
pattern, the skid plate will remain supported by two bolts, diagonally
across from each other. Loosen the two remaning bolts about 1/2" inch
out. Hold up the skid plate, remove the last bolt on each side, then
lower the skid pan to the ground. If you have a lift, you might have
to put some blocks to hold up the skid pan as you remove the bolts.
Loosening the bolts gave me enough piviot to lower one side of the
skid plate at a time.
-Jim
handywired@aol.com (Handywired) wrote in message news:<20040613012030.05521.00000872@mb-m17.aol.com>...
> I am gonna try the poor-man's fix to a rattling catalytic converter tomorrow
> and give it a few pokes with a dull punch to see if I can get it to "pin" back
> together and stop rattling. Other than the rattle, the cat is working fine.
> To do this i need to drop the skid plate. Any tricks to this?? Specifically,
> do I need to support the tranny, and would it be OK to run (not drive) the Jeep
> with the skid plate off of there, to check for the rattle?
>
> Thank you!
>
> -jeff
#16
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Re: dropping the main skid plate on a TJ
Here's my procedure for dropping the skid plate, I have used it many
times:
1. Remove the 4 nuts in the middle of the skid plate. These secure
the rubber tranny mount to the skid plate.
2. Put a wood block on a floor jack, jack up the tranny so the skid
plate is no longer supporting the transmission. Don't jack up the
tranny without the wood block for a pad. The best jacking point on
the transmission is as far back as possible, but in front of the skid
plate.
3. Support the tranny with a jackstand in front of your floor jack,
just in case the floor jack slips.
4. If your doing this without a buddy, the easiest way (IMHO) to lower
the skidplate is as follows. Remove the bolts holding the skid plate
to the frame, first remove the rear most bolts on one side of the
Jeep, then the frontmost bolts on the other side of the Jeep. In this
pattern, the skid plate will remain supported by two bolts, diagonally
across from each other. Loosen the two remaning bolts about 1/2" inch
out. Hold up the skid plate, remove the last bolt on each side, then
lower the skid pan to the ground. If you have a lift, you might have
to put some blocks to hold up the skid pan as you remove the bolts.
Loosening the bolts gave me enough piviot to lower one side of the
skid plate at a time.
-Jim
handywired@aol.com (Handywired) wrote in message news:<20040613012030.05521.00000872@mb-m17.aol.com>...
> I am gonna try the poor-man's fix to a rattling catalytic converter tomorrow
> and give it a few pokes with a dull punch to see if I can get it to "pin" back
> together and stop rattling. Other than the rattle, the cat is working fine.
> To do this i need to drop the skid plate. Any tricks to this?? Specifically,
> do I need to support the tranny, and would it be OK to run (not drive) the Jeep
> with the skid plate off of there, to check for the rattle?
>
> Thank you!
>
> -jeff
times:
1. Remove the 4 nuts in the middle of the skid plate. These secure
the rubber tranny mount to the skid plate.
2. Put a wood block on a floor jack, jack up the tranny so the skid
plate is no longer supporting the transmission. Don't jack up the
tranny without the wood block for a pad. The best jacking point on
the transmission is as far back as possible, but in front of the skid
plate.
3. Support the tranny with a jackstand in front of your floor jack,
just in case the floor jack slips.
4. If your doing this without a buddy, the easiest way (IMHO) to lower
the skidplate is as follows. Remove the bolts holding the skid plate
to the frame, first remove the rear most bolts on one side of the
Jeep, then the frontmost bolts on the other side of the Jeep. In this
pattern, the skid plate will remain supported by two bolts, diagonally
across from each other. Loosen the two remaning bolts about 1/2" inch
out. Hold up the skid plate, remove the last bolt on each side, then
lower the skid pan to the ground. If you have a lift, you might have
to put some blocks to hold up the skid pan as you remove the bolts.
Loosening the bolts gave me enough piviot to lower one side of the
skid plate at a time.
-Jim
handywired@aol.com (Handywired) wrote in message news:<20040613012030.05521.00000872@mb-m17.aol.com>...
> I am gonna try the poor-man's fix to a rattling catalytic converter tomorrow
> and give it a few pokes with a dull punch to see if I can get it to "pin" back
> together and stop rattling. Other than the rattle, the cat is working fine.
> To do this i need to drop the skid plate. Any tricks to this?? Specifically,
> do I need to support the tranny, and would it be OK to run (not drive) the Jeep
> with the skid plate off of there, to check for the rattle?
>
> Thank you!
>
> -jeff
#17
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Re: dropping the main skid plate on a TJ
Here's my procedure for dropping the skid plate, I have used it many
times:
1. Remove the 4 nuts in the middle of the skid plate. These secure
the rubber tranny mount to the skid plate.
2. Put a wood block on a floor jack, jack up the tranny so the skid
plate is no longer supporting the transmission. Don't jack up the
tranny without the wood block for a pad. The best jacking point on
the transmission is as far back as possible, but in front of the skid
plate.
3. Support the tranny with a jackstand in front of your floor jack,
just in case the floor jack slips.
4. If your doing this without a buddy, the easiest way (IMHO) to lower
the skidplate is as follows. Remove the bolts holding the skid plate
to the frame, first remove the rear most bolts on one side of the
Jeep, then the frontmost bolts on the other side of the Jeep. In this
pattern, the skid plate will remain supported by two bolts, diagonally
across from each other. Loosen the two remaning bolts about 1/2" inch
out. Hold up the skid plate, remove the last bolt on each side, then
lower the skid pan to the ground. If you have a lift, you might have
to put some blocks to hold up the skid pan as you remove the bolts.
Loosening the bolts gave me enough piviot to lower one side of the
skid plate at a time.
-Jim
handywired@aol.com (Handywired) wrote in message news:<20040613012030.05521.00000872@mb-m17.aol.com>...
> I am gonna try the poor-man's fix to a rattling catalytic converter tomorrow
> and give it a few pokes with a dull punch to see if I can get it to "pin" back
> together and stop rattling. Other than the rattle, the cat is working fine.
> To do this i need to drop the skid plate. Any tricks to this?? Specifically,
> do I need to support the tranny, and would it be OK to run (not drive) the Jeep
> with the skid plate off of there, to check for the rattle?
>
> Thank you!
>
> -jeff
times:
1. Remove the 4 nuts in the middle of the skid plate. These secure
the rubber tranny mount to the skid plate.
2. Put a wood block on a floor jack, jack up the tranny so the skid
plate is no longer supporting the transmission. Don't jack up the
tranny without the wood block for a pad. The best jacking point on
the transmission is as far back as possible, but in front of the skid
plate.
3. Support the tranny with a jackstand in front of your floor jack,
just in case the floor jack slips.
4. If your doing this without a buddy, the easiest way (IMHO) to lower
the skidplate is as follows. Remove the bolts holding the skid plate
to the frame, first remove the rear most bolts on one side of the
Jeep, then the frontmost bolts on the other side of the Jeep. In this
pattern, the skid plate will remain supported by two bolts, diagonally
across from each other. Loosen the two remaning bolts about 1/2" inch
out. Hold up the skid plate, remove the last bolt on each side, then
lower the skid pan to the ground. If you have a lift, you might have
to put some blocks to hold up the skid pan as you remove the bolts.
Loosening the bolts gave me enough piviot to lower one side of the
skid plate at a time.
-Jim
handywired@aol.com (Handywired) wrote in message news:<20040613012030.05521.00000872@mb-m17.aol.com>...
> I am gonna try the poor-man's fix to a rattling catalytic converter tomorrow
> and give it a few pokes with a dull punch to see if I can get it to "pin" back
> together and stop rattling. Other than the rattle, the cat is working fine.
> To do this i need to drop the skid plate. Any tricks to this?? Specifically,
> do I need to support the tranny, and would it be OK to run (not drive) the Jeep
> with the skid plate off of there, to check for the rattle?
>
> Thank you!
>
> -jeff
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Re: dropping the main skid plate on a TJ
At the risk of being too late to give any useful advice, you need to support
the trans while hte skid plate is removed. Yes, you can run the motor to
check for leaks, but do not become temporarily brain dead, and try to drive.
"Handywired" <handywired@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20040613012030.05521.00000872@mb-m17.aol.com...
> I am gonna try the poor-man's fix to a rattling catalytic converter
tomorrow
> and give it a few pokes with a dull punch to see if I can get it to "pin"
back
> together and stop rattling. Other than the rattle, the cat is working
fine.
> To do this i need to drop the skid plate. Any tricks to this??
Specifically,
> do I need to support the tranny, and would it be OK to run (not drive) the
Jeep
> with the skid plate off of there, to check for the rattle?
>
> Thank you!
>
> -jeff
the trans while hte skid plate is removed. Yes, you can run the motor to
check for leaks, but do not become temporarily brain dead, and try to drive.
"Handywired" <handywired@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20040613012030.05521.00000872@mb-m17.aol.com...
> I am gonna try the poor-man's fix to a rattling catalytic converter
tomorrow
> and give it a few pokes with a dull punch to see if I can get it to "pin"
back
> together and stop rattling. Other than the rattle, the cat is working
fine.
> To do this i need to drop the skid plate. Any tricks to this??
Specifically,
> do I need to support the tranny, and would it be OK to run (not drive) the
Jeep
> with the skid plate off of there, to check for the rattle?
>
> Thank you!
>
> -jeff
#19
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Re: dropping the main skid plate on a TJ
At the risk of being too late to give any useful advice, you need to support
the trans while hte skid plate is removed. Yes, you can run the motor to
check for leaks, but do not become temporarily brain dead, and try to drive.
"Handywired" <handywired@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20040613012030.05521.00000872@mb-m17.aol.com...
> I am gonna try the poor-man's fix to a rattling catalytic converter
tomorrow
> and give it a few pokes with a dull punch to see if I can get it to "pin"
back
> together and stop rattling. Other than the rattle, the cat is working
fine.
> To do this i need to drop the skid plate. Any tricks to this??
Specifically,
> do I need to support the tranny, and would it be OK to run (not drive) the
Jeep
> with the skid plate off of there, to check for the rattle?
>
> Thank you!
>
> -jeff
the trans while hte skid plate is removed. Yes, you can run the motor to
check for leaks, but do not become temporarily brain dead, and try to drive.
"Handywired" <handywired@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20040613012030.05521.00000872@mb-m17.aol.com...
> I am gonna try the poor-man's fix to a rattling catalytic converter
tomorrow
> and give it a few pokes with a dull punch to see if I can get it to "pin"
back
> together and stop rattling. Other than the rattle, the cat is working
fine.
> To do this i need to drop the skid plate. Any tricks to this??
Specifically,
> do I need to support the tranny, and would it be OK to run (not drive) the
Jeep
> with the skid plate off of there, to check for the rattle?
>
> Thank you!
>
> -jeff
#20
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Re: dropping the main skid plate on a TJ
At the risk of being too late to give any useful advice, you need to support
the trans while hte skid plate is removed. Yes, you can run the motor to
check for leaks, but do not become temporarily brain dead, and try to drive.
"Handywired" <handywired@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20040613012030.05521.00000872@mb-m17.aol.com...
> I am gonna try the poor-man's fix to a rattling catalytic converter
tomorrow
> and give it a few pokes with a dull punch to see if I can get it to "pin"
back
> together and stop rattling. Other than the rattle, the cat is working
fine.
> To do this i need to drop the skid plate. Any tricks to this??
Specifically,
> do I need to support the tranny, and would it be OK to run (not drive) the
Jeep
> with the skid plate off of there, to check for the rattle?
>
> Thank you!
>
> -jeff
the trans while hte skid plate is removed. Yes, you can run the motor to
check for leaks, but do not become temporarily brain dead, and try to drive.
"Handywired" <handywired@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20040613012030.05521.00000872@mb-m17.aol.com...
> I am gonna try the poor-man's fix to a rattling catalytic converter
tomorrow
> and give it a few pokes with a dull punch to see if I can get it to "pin"
back
> together and stop rattling. Other than the rattle, the cat is working
fine.
> To do this i need to drop the skid plate. Any tricks to this??
Specifically,
> do I need to support the tranny, and would it be OK to run (not drive) the
Jeep
> with the skid plate off of there, to check for the rattle?
>
> Thank you!
>
> -jeff