Any Jeep folks here?

[Triplegreen500]

Judges are trained in the jeep world to go for the most radical vehicle. Personally? I love the originals. Beautiful Jeep!

 

[bm02tj]

A lot of the mall crawlers are useless

 

[Triplegreen500]

A lot of the mall crawlers are useless

Define mall crawler.

My bone stock TJ is a "poseur"...but it's totally capable (and once I install my $500 worth of front and rear Aussie lockers it'll be a REAL four wheel drive)...

Summer/beach trim

And winter toy

No lift, highway A/S tires, stock drivetrain and exhaust...and still a freakin' blast.

Hers is the yellow one

Small lift and I don't like it. Only about 2-3" (PO put it on). Ride quality is crap compared to OEM springs. Admittedly she has better gears (3.73 compared to my 3.07s) due to hers being a factory 30" tire package...but I much prefer the stock suspension. And, hers has an MBRP exhaust - I like the sound. When mine rusts out....

 

[sawdoff]

Actually fairly solid laredo beater

 

[junior340]

I put some new treads on last week
Ready for winter now, old ones were hand me downs.
Mickey Thompson Baja boss.

 

[Triplegreen500]

Yeah...I broke down and put the hard top on for the winter, the other day. Hate to do it - don't like admitting convertible weather is over for the year. Next I'll be treating the Charger's gas with SeaFoam and parking it until salt/brine season is over....ugh....

Recently I also installed a double-DIN Alpine head unit that has Android Auto which is nice. big ol' screen, I can see my Waze maps very well now and it sounds great.

I've been fighting death wobble (intermittent - there's one expansion joint near the house that sends it into wobble) - I replaced the steering stabilizer last spring, better for a while. Replaced all four shocks about a month ago...better for a little bit (the LF was leaking and wet so it was time regardless). Today I determined that I have a worn ball joint on the frame end of the track bar, so I'll be replacing that tomorrow if someone has one in stock (not a replaceable ball joint so I have to get a whole track bar).

I also have a pinging issue under load. It's a distributorless system, so no timing adjust (I was able to bump the pickup a degree or two, and it made it a little better but it still happens). It happens at higher RPM, under load, more after driving for a while compared to cold start...and it has zero power at higher RPM - I'm thinking fuel pump. After driving for a while the pump motor heats up and loses capacity...higher RPM requires more flow.... It also has an extended crank when cold, which tells me the drainback valve is leaking and the system is bleeding down overnight. My fuel rail has no test port, so I have no solid way to check...so I've started soaking my skid plate bolts with Liquid Wrench so I can drop the tank and replace the pump module.

I need to get this sorted out - there's a good chance I'll have an 11 week contract to work in Miami, from January to March...and I'm taking the convertible, dammit!! I'm not worried about "making it down", more thinking "I'll be in a condo, no garage, no tools...."....for 11 weeks....something is gonna fail, I'm sure...lol...just trying to eliminate the largest pains in the *** beforehand.

The other project this week - install my Rostra cruise control. I've got all my wiring figured out, nothing left but to figure out where I'm mounting the switch panel, and just put it all in.

 

[junior340]

Damn Triple I'm getting wore out just reading you to do list. Lol
I'm all over the place too this a weekend before my work sends me back to Washington.
Relax while home or at least try.

 

[Budnicks]

My 05 4.0 6speed.

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In HS class of 77' Baby
I live the town over from the 'Start of the Jeepers Jamboree'
Rubicon Trail
Georgetown Ca. in ElDorado Co., we had a 165 acre ranch in Garden Valley
down the hill off prospectors grade, going towards hwy 193
I just about lived on the Rubicon trail, Wentworth Springs
& another place we called "end of pavement"
all that area was our hangout in HS, away from the adults eyes & ears
just before Lake Edison, before you got to the Y, back then dirt rd.s
to go towards Wentworth Springs
the actual beginning of the Jamboree trail...
My dad's Jeep 4wd/4x4 club was the
Georgetown Stump Jumpers, were incharge of the Jamboree for decades...

Mike Smith the org. organizer lived across the street/hwy from us...

We had guys who'd actually purposely leave rigs in just RWD, not lock in the front
& see if the could get past the slab going up to Spyder lake or farther even
see would get the farthest...
1st time on it (Rubicon Trail, no signage anywhere back then)
in my dad's all OE like 28" M/S lil tires new 73 CJ5, w a rollcage
made the whole deal easily, half crocked/drunk...

I was hooked after that, at 14...

I bought a couple military CJ2 flat-fenders Jeeps we did v8 swaps
at an Army surplus sale/auction, I thought I was bidding on 1,
I got 2 full OE Jeeps a 42 & a 46 for $500, sealed bid, mostly rapped in cosmoline...
Them 5.38:1 gears were ball busters, a suspension lift & blocks 35"+ Q78 tires,
made it way better then the military tires too
helped to tame the gears for road driving, still turd
& a 53 Willys/Kaiser truck SWB I put a 327 in, drivetrain except axles...

I sware you could get out stand there & watch it 4wheel all by itself
great rigs, after the Go Devil or L/Flatheads were removed
old Ford 289s were great swaps, with a different rear sump truck pan
so no front end or crossmember interferences, SBC were easier, but heavier
& back them more value too...

anyway carry on