{"id":169,"date":"2015-08-31T14:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2017-02-13T04:38:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T04:38:15","slug":"maintenance-and-mild-mods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Maintenance and Mild Mods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got around to freshening up a few parts on the Jeep. My airbag light had been on for six months or so and was accompanied with a complete failure of the horn. A new clockspring fixed that and now I&#8217;m back to blaring the horn and driving in safety. The second was a little more interesting. The front end had been making a clunking noise during turns and braking. I assumed it was due to bad sway bar links&#8230;and it was, sort of. The passenger side lower bolt had been replaced with a bolt that was too small in diameter, so there was slop in the sway bar. Since a torx T55 head 12 mm bolt was going to be impossible to find on a Sunday, I figured this would be a good time to replace it with a diy quick disconnect. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSC_0353.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSC_0353-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0353\" width=\"288\" height=\"512\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSC_0353-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSC_0353-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSC_0353-800x1422.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSC_0353.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looks great, right? Turns out all the online DIY guides suggest a 7\/16 clevis pin that&#8217;s smaller than the inner diameter of the bushing. So while it&#8217;s quiet at the moment, I&#8217;m expecting the clunk to come back. I&#8217;ll need to source a 12mm pin to get the fit right. <\/p>\n<p>The last fix was to the rear speakers. I had been hearing a rattling noise from the passenger side speaker, which I assumed was blown. Ended up replacing both speakers with a pair of Polk 6.5s. The good news is they sound much better than the old Walmart speakers I pulled, the bad is that the rattle is still there. Something in the soundbar is resonating. Eventually I&#8217;ll need to address that, but for now I can at least crank the stereo without worrying about anything falling apart. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSC_0355.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSC_0355-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0355\" width=\"343\" height=\"257\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSC_0355-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSC_0355-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSC_0355-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSC_0355.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got around to freshening up a few parts on the Jeep. My airbag light had been on for six months or so and was accompanied with a complete failure of the horn. A new clockspring fixed that and now I&#8217;m back to blaring the horn and driving in safety. The second was a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jeep-wrangler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carbio.org\/carlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}