It's been real...

[Suz]

It was meant to be comforting, though after I typed it, I thought it crossed -or at least got too close to - a line.

I'm glad the spirit of intent was conveyed.


-Jon

Never be afraid to cross the line. That's where all the best conversations begin...

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[Suz]

Speaking of the profile... I know this is going to sound bizarre to you "guys", but since my Jeeps have always been really good ones, needing very little work done, I've never NEEDED to know the specs... so I don't have a clue. Can a man look underneath and just "tell" what everything is with manly intuition, or do you look for nunbers stamped on everything? Y'all make it look easy...

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[Suz]

I thought Ray said

"Rings on her fingers and
bells on her toes and a bone in her nose ho, ho."

Oh, just got that! Ray Stevens?

No, this is from an old English nursery rhyme from 1784. My stepDad used to say this to me all the time when I was little. Always brought to my mind the coolest images of funky, gypsy women...


" Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross,
To see a Fine Lady upon a white horse;
Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,
and she shall have music where ever she goes. "

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[jdulmer]

I had a "ugh" week too, I can relate. .

Good to have ya back!

"Libertatem Aut Mortem"

 

[IOPort51]

Speaking of the profile... I know this is going to sound bizarre to you "guys", but since my Jeeps have always been really good ones, needing very little work done, I've never NEEDED to know the specs... so I don't have a clue. Can a man look underneath and just "tell" what everything is with manly intuition, or do you look for nunbers stamped on everything? Y'all make it look easy...

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we are guys, for the most part, if it were not easy we could/would not do it. And if you don't have to work on your Jeep, you are just not trying.

questions:

6 cyl or 8? we will need pictures of the carburetor.
3 speed 4 speed 5 speed.
there is a tag on the rear "pumpkin" of the rear axle, what does it say? Is the rear axle "pumpkin" round?
Novak adapters is a terrific resource for drive train information.

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[hole]

Suz
Here's a starting place for your vehicle specs providing your 82 8 is stock.
Engine is likely a AMC 258 i6 / 4.2l (AMC 258 i6 / 4.2l ) I6 but could be a 4 banger
Transmission is most likely a T-4 or5 based on shifter in your pics
Transfer Case is a Dana 300 (Dana 300 )
Front diff is a Dana 30 (Dana 30 )
Rear diff is an AMC20

Its also fair to note you likely had a Am/Fm radio at some point but it looks like someone in a fit of rage removed it, but again, this is something I noticed in your pics.
Glad to here you're sticking around

 

[PaRenegade]

Can a man look underneath and just "tell" what everything is with manly intuition, or do you look for nunbers stamped on everything? Y'all make it look easy...

Only us "real" men can do that. It's a Je... , er I mean guy thing!

 

[jdcaples]

Guys know guy stuff because their guy tribe assures that tribal knowledge is conveyed, understood and can be called upon at a moment's notice.

Often there is loving, yet memorable ridicule involved in assuring the knowledge is instilled between the ears of younger tribe members.

Example: "Hey junior, go change the spark plugs on the diesel tractor." If junior actually walks toward the engine, corrective ridicule erupts for miles around, and junior will never forget that spark plugs aren't part of a diesel power plant. Conversely, junior is rewarded if he rolls his eyes at the command to change spark plugs on diesel equipment.

Tomboys were sometimes part of my own guy tribe, but for the most part, mothers, aunts, grandmothers and older sisters assured that girls dressed and behaved like "ladies," (often) using not-so-kind and memorable ridicule. This included keeping girls from acquiring guy-tribe knowledge.

Keeping girls in the dark about guy stuff is probably my biggest pet peeve.

In second or third grade, I remember getting in big trouble for showing a neighbor girl and classmate how to change blades on a lawn mower.

My guy tribe explained to me that grown up women don't want little girls to know how to use a socket wrench or get their fingers dirty. To me, that seemed as stupid back then as it does now.

-Jon

 

[mtnwhlr]

Guys know guy stuff because their guy tribe assures that tribal knowledge is conveyed, understood and can be called upon at a moment's notice.

Often there is loving, yet memorable ridicule involved in assuring the knowledge is instilled between the ears of younger tribe members.

Example: "Hey junior, go change the spark plugs on the diesel tractor." If junior actually walks toward the engine, corrective ridicule erupts for miles around, and junior will never forget that spark plugs aren't part of a diesel power plant. Conversely, junior is rewarded if he rolls his eyes at the command to change spark plugs on diesel equipment.

Tomboys were sometimes part of my own guy tribe, but for the most part, mothers, aunts, grandmothers and older sisters assured that girls dressed and behaved like "ladies," (often) using not-so-kind and memorable ridicule. This included keeping girls from acquiring guy-tribe knowledge.

Keeping girls in the dark about guy stuff is probably my biggest pet peeve.

In second or third grade, I remember getting in big trouble for showing a neighbor girl and classmate how to change blades on a lawn mower.

My guy tribe explained to me that grown up women don't want little girls to know how to use a socket wrench or get their fingers dirty. To me, that seemed as stupid back then as it does now.

-Jon

great post. And for the record I have taught my girls the same as my boys when it comes to cars and I think that is why none of them are married they tend to scare off guys although I have been told that I tend to scare them off what can I say they are my little girls.

 

[jdulmer]

great post. And for the record I have taught my girls the same as my boys when it comes to cars and I think that is why none of them are married they tend to scare off guys although I have been told that I tend to scare them off what can I say they are my little girls.

Does threatening to kill every boy my daughter's bring home count as "scaring them off"? I usually begin with how important she is to her mother and I, and ends with," You know if ANYTHING happens to her, I WILL kill you, right? ".



"Libertatem Aut Mortem"

 

[Suz]

Does threatening to kill every boy my daughter's bring home count as "scaring them off"? I usually begin with how important she is to her mother and I, and ends with," You know if ANYTHING happens to her, I WILL kill you, right? ".



"Libertatem Aut Mortem"

Yeah, that sucked in High School. Actually got stood up a few times before big bro confessed to terrorizing my beaus. Who could blame a guy though. My brothers are both 6'4'...

 

[Petescj]

Can a man look underneath and just "tell" what everything is with manly intuition, or do you look for nunbers stamped on everything? Y'all make it look easy...

You can compare everything under your Scrambler to pictures and descriptions in this section:

- Jeep CJ Comprehensive Database at Jeep-CJ.com

Thats what we put it together for. If your '82 is stock it most likely has the AMC 258 i6 / 4.2l six cylinder. It will definately have wide track axles (Dana 30 front , AMC20 rear) and a Dana 300 Transfer Case . The Transmission is either a T-176 ( handle is leaned back slightly but straight) or a T-4 , ( the other 4spd ) or a T-5 ( 5 spd). If you have a 4 cylinder it'll have the SR4 4 spd.

 

[Suz]

Guys know guy stuff because their guy tribe assures that tribal knowledge is conveyed, understood and can be called upon at a moment's notice.

Often there is loving, yet memorable ridicule involved in assuring the knowledge is instilled between the ears of younger tribe members.

Example: "Hey junior, go change the spark plugs on the diesel tractor." If junior actually walks toward the engine, corrective ridicule erupts for miles around, and junior will never forget that spark plugs aren't part of a diesel power plant. Conversely, junior is rewarded if he rolls his eyes at the command to change spark plugs on diesel equipment.

Tomboys were sometimes part of my own guy tribe, but for the most part, mothers, aunts, grandmothers and older sisters assured that girls dressed and behaved like "ladies," (often) using not-so-kind and memorable ridicule. This included keeping girls from acquiring guy-tribe knowledge.

Keeping girls in the dark about guy stuff is probably my biggest pet peeve.

In second or third grade, I remember getting in big trouble for showing a neighbor girl and classmate how to change blades on a lawn mower.

My guy tribe explained to me that grown up women don't want little girls to know how to use a socket wrench or get their fingers dirty. To me, that seemed as stupid back then as it does now.

-Jon

I so love your writing... and attitude.
I was one of those tomboys. While all the other girls were inside practicing the piano, I was playing with tadpoles in the creek, climbing trees and talking to the squirrels or winning dirt-clod wars with my brother and his buds. They gave up early on trying to put dresses OR shoes on me. Have a very cool big brother, but neither he nor my Dad are mechanically inclined. Last time I went to visit, I actually changed out the blinker bulb on his ML350 to keep him from going to the dealer and paying $90.! They try, but I'm the best man in my family...
I can and will figure this out... I do not like being at a disadvantage over something I can do perfectly well myself. Thanks again ALL of you- you're all pretty Awesome:rock:

 

[Suz]

You can compare everything under your Scrambler to pictures and descriptions in this section:

- Jeep CJ Comprehensive Database at Jeep-CJ.com

Thats what we put it together for. If your '82 is stock it most likely has the AMC 258 i6 / 4.2l six cylinder. It will definately have wide track axles (Dana 30 front , AMC20 rear) and a Dana 300 Transfer Case . The Transmission is either a T-176 ( handle is leaned back slightly but straight) or a T-4 , ( the other 4spd ) or a T-5 ( 5 spd). If you have a 4 cylinder it'll have the SR4 4 spd.

Great write-up in the Database, Pete.
I know it's not all original. The two previous owners are locals. Two owners back, she was overhauled with new motor, paint and whatever else by one of the local rich boys. I believe she's got a Caprice 4.0 motor (will have to find the post-it I wrote that on). I occasionally see the mech that did the work. Can press him for details. She is a 5 speed. Will look and get some pics of her "privates" tomorrow...
What I want to know is: How can you guys just look at a motor and know what it came out of? Is that some kind of male super-power?

 

[Petescj]

Guys are just more likely to be looking at things such as drivetrain swaps in our never ending lust to make it BETTER , STRONGER , FASTER. I blame Steve Austin.

 

[Suz]

Guys are just more likely to be looking at things such as drivetrain swaps in our never ending lust to make it BETTER , STRONGER , FASTER. I blame Steve Austin.

The Bionic Man or the Wrestler?

 

[IOPort51]

Most of our mechanics is original Jeep. This leaves a smaller list of possibilities.

It is beginning to sound like you were "violated" some time in the past. My condolences.

 

[mtnwhlr]

It is beginning to sound like you were "violated" some time in the past. My condolences.

really I can't believe I'm reading this.

 

[mtnwhlr]

Well now I see she thanked you for the post so I guess I don't get the joke, it is late and I'm tired.

 

[jdcaples]

I so love your writing... and attitude.
I was one of those tomboys. While all the other girls were inside practicing the piano, I was playing with tadpoles in the creek, climbing trees and talking to the squirrels or winning dirt-clod wars with my brother and his buds. They gave up early on trying to put dresses OR shoes on me. Have a very cool big brother, but neither he nor my Dad are mechanically inclined. Last time I went to visit, I actually changed out the blinker bulb on his ML350 to keep him from going to the dealer and paying $90.! They try, but I'm the best man in my family...
I can and will figure this out... I do not like being at a disadvantage over something I can do perfectly well myself. Thanks again ALL of you- you're all pretty Awesome:rock:

I enjoy your writing too.

I've lost all my elder guy tribe members to the wasting diseases so common today; all but one.

He's the father of a woman I met in college nearly 30 years ago. Her entire family are math and engineering geniuses, though she's the only one with a 4 year degree behind her. She's mechanically inclined, but her father taught me things no one in my own guy tribe of my dad, uncles and their friends could have taught me: sweating copper joints to bring a lot of water in to my house.

I met her father in '96 and helped him remodel, rebuild or just save older homes in the Seattle area. We traded labor, hour for hour. There was well-meaning ridicule to and from both of us. He put up with me bringing the wrong tools from the van to where he was working and I put up with his misconceptions about how to get the most out of a computer and a network.

He's the reason I have awesome wiring, plumbing and I've lost count of all the other durable over built solutions in my home. I'm the reason he was able to talk his daughter out of being a life long renter, once she saw that I could do it, naturally she knew she could do it. Her mortgage will be paid off in 2019.

My girlfriend and I have breakfast with him, his girlfriend, his daughter and her mechanically inclined boyfriend every other weekend. I'm trying to get the most out of him before he's not with us anymore.

You might learn about tools and tricks by lurking on gargagejournal.com. Finding and reading older issues of magazines for car, truck and 4x4 enthusiasts; read their reviews "new" transmissions and engines coming out of Detroit in the 70s and 80s. Read how people modded their Detroit iron in living color pictures.

As teenager my contemporaries in my guy tribe were in constant competition to know more than the others about older and newer engines, transmissions, axles etc and we'd debate MOPAR/AMC/FORD/GM merits until the wee hours of the morning.

The declining population of tribal elders forced me to forums for the virtual guy tribe experience and I'm glad tomboys like you are part of the electronic, 21st century virtual guy tribe.

-Jon