PToombs wrote:All that adjusting and adapting is what takes so long. Especially if you are working around other custom stuff, BTDT myself!
^^THIS!!!^
An example of my world . . . .
All I wanted to do was add a 90* Ell to the pressure switch for the CompuShift right there at the front servo port.
But NO! I had to look back there at the tranfer-case shifter thing!
The damned Governor Pressure port plug and a rib reinforcement on the 47 case was under the transfer-case shifter's mounting bracket. When I blindly installed the shifter, I tighten it on down and apparently bent the mounting flange.
Dang-it!
So, . .
- I pulled the shifter out and ended-up cutting the corner off the shifter bracket to clear the case's reinforcement rib. That required me to weld a plate adjacent to the cut so as to reinforce/hold things together.
- I know pipe-plugs are available that have a recessed Allen-type hex-head. I searched the shop high and low. Nuthin.
- Went to Lowe's to confirm they only had what I didn't need. (DUH).
- Bought a brass plug that had the external four-sided wrench head thingy. I was thinking I could just fill the thing with solder, cut the square wrench head off, and cut a flat-blade screw-driver slot in the thing.
- Got back home and figured I'd need a female 1/8" NPT fitting to hold the plug safely while I cut it.
- Naturally, I only then found the phacking recessed Allen Hex pipe-plug I was looking to start with.
Dang-it!
It's hard to see but, it all fits like it ought to now. PITA!!
Anyhoo, . . .
The now modified rear skid-plate's cross-member clears the transfer-case just fine.
All that crap was so I wouldn't have to modify the remote, fan-assisted transmission fluid cooler's front mount.
OR, the remotely-mounted transmission heat-exchanger complete with supplemental, large, spin-on trans-fluid filter.
I had hoped to get more accomplished before the shifter mess but, ended the day with servicing the battery.
Might get cocky tomorrow and put some fluid in the trans and flush the trans-fluid heating/cooling circuit complete, into a bucket.
Soon.