Got my order from Lucky8 in today. It was nicely packaged and the lights were in their original boxes for a change. Installed them in the rear bumper and now all my parking lights are fully operational.

 

I had to order a set of new shock tower retainers. I couldn’t remove the front shocks without a sawzall, then I removed the coil springs after I broke off all the studs on the OEM shock tower retainers.

Yesterday evening I installed the new shock tower retainers, so once the new shocks come in the install should be quick & painless (all the rusty crap is gone).

A friend of mine is telling me to slap on a set of D2 rear springs in the front for a little more lift vs the OME HD’s I currently have. The D2 rear springs are progressive springs & I’m not sure they’ll give me any lift. Think I’m going to keep the coils the way they are. New shocks will be here next Tuesday (would already have them, but the P/N I ordered = apparently don’t exist). Got that sorted and we’ll see how it goes Tuesday evening.

I’ll also have a LR Master Tech friend of mine stopping by over the weekend with a T4 and we’re going to work on the idle.

 

 

Took a nice pic of it yesterday out by the pond.

LR buddy stopped by to reset my adaptions, but his scanner kept dropping communications with my D1. I’ve got to check all the grounds I guess. It kept giving him a low system voltage fault although my Alternator is doing 13.5-13.7v. Idle is still all over the place. For kicks I disconnected the VSS today and with the AC on it’s fine. Turn the AC off & it idles at 1.5k, give it any throttle and it will try to die... Getting very tired of that issue!! When the AC is on it runs smooth as silk & sounds great. AC off and it sounds like a POS & runs like one too.

Today I’m removing the rear shocks (sawzall again), removed F/R sway bars (bushings are completely gone, brackets are pushed up & beat all to hell) it’s a trail truck so I don’t need them, removed rear brake dust shields (bent & rusty), removed rear frame hooks (bent & rusty), also removed front diff harmonic balancer mount as the bracket is bent badly & the weight is gone. Also installed D2 rear springs on the front of the D1 and it leveled it out nicely and I gained 3/4 of an inch on the front (free upgrade).

I should have the shocks in on Tuesday evening after I pick them up from 4WP in Beaumont.

 

I had the same idle problems this time last year. It was a tear in the intake hose

resetting the adaptive values made it ok for about 15 minutes

 

Well the new suspension setup is installed & I’m happy with the results. I’m running OEM D2 coil springs in the front, D2 front shock towers, with 2.5inch extra travel Pro Comp ES9000 RRC/D1 rear shocks F/R. Had a little fun with the front bushings/sleeves, but I got that taken care of.

I also disconnected the VSS and took it for a 15 mile test drive. The ride is excellent, and with the VSS unplugged it didn’t surge. I’ll be looking into a replacement VSS next. Really the only stuff left that needs addressing is a tune up, fluid change, bend the steering rod back (where the steering stabilizer mounts it got hung up on the trail & bent up), replace the steering stabilizer, and call it done.

 

Looking good!

 

Thanks with the VSS unplugged it runs great!

 

Wooooo!!

 

Yep pretty happy with the old XD Rust bucket! Runs really good with the VSS disconnected. A friend with a LR shop is gonna grab me a good used unit. I've taken a few more test runs in it and she's just as happy as can be on the road.