I decided to do a little mod on the front grill. I have always disliked the large thick slats in the grill so I decided to mod them.

This is the start of the project. The slats I'm talking about are the grill looking things in the center of 8 sections that make up the grill of the early ZJ.

 This is the back side of the grill and you can get a better look at the slats I intend to get rid of. I ust my dremel tool with a cutting wheel attachment to do the cutting. Then I follow up with a Bastard hand file and sand paper to clean things up.

The shocks from Zone Offroad are installed and the ride has improved 100%. No bouncing down the road.

As you can see the shocks were in dire need of some help. The front shocks could be compressed by hand with very little effort and they wouldn't extend unless you tapped them with something. The rear shocks were some kind of air shock but they didn't hold any air.

They new shocks from zoneoffroad.com are made for a 2" lift ( i put on a 2" BB lift) and are a great improvement from what I had.

The Grand Zebra will be getting some love this week. I got tired of bounceing down the highway so I ordered some shocks from Zone Offroad on Friday. They shipped the same day and the "Brown Truck" will drop them off tomorrow. Zone is a great place to order from, every time I order from them they always ship the same day. Good company, good people. I highly reccomened them to anyone with a 4x4.

Snow fall

We got our first good snow fall this weekend.  Now it's time to clean her off.

Old Header Panel

New Header Panel Installed

All back together

Long time since I posted anything. Today I decided to install the the header panel I got from LQK. The old one was pretty busted up, it wouldn't hold my headlights in (had to tape it). So it's in and I'm very happy with how it looks. I was even able to reinstall my fog lights.

Happy New Year 2012

Happy 2012

Heater Saga

on going heater saga;

Since the weather has started getting colder the heater issue has moved it self to the forefront. I had thought I checked all the basic things but some peeps suggested I check the fuses. If I checked them then I must have had my eyes closed. The 7.5 fuse that runs the heater was blown. I replaced it and now I have power to the heater control panel ( hmmmmm, go figure). I ran the self check and here is what I got;

(Fault code - description - problem area)

01 - circuit open - ambient temp sensor
02 - circuit open - in-vehicle temp sensor
03 - circuit open - solar sensor input circuit
04 - circuit open - front panel blower/fan control input
05 - circuit open - front panel mode control input
06 - circuit open - blend air door feed back circuit
07 - circuit open - mode door feedback circuit
16 - feedback to low - blower/fan feedback circuit
26 - coolant temp message missing - collision detection c2d bus inputs
27 - vehicle speed message missing - collision detection c2d bus inputs
28 - engine RPM message missing - collision detection c2d bus inputs

I took the blower motor resistor out, mainly to have a look, found that the cavity that it sits in was full of tree debris (really weird) and that the heat sink (the finned metal piece that the resistor sits against) had a small burn mark on it. Put it back together and no heat. The blower doesn't kick on and I get no heat. The heater control display shows an error and when I do the self-check I get the same fault codes.

Question is;

Where do I go from here and what should I check?