Lests Hear The Break Down Stories!!!!

[kickitandholdit]

I guess this is the right place to post this?? anyway


So your out camping or trailing or simply getting groceries and you run out of gas or break a drive shaft or your engine completely detonates ECT.. What do yal do?? Lets hear yals crazy stories and what you did and how you got back?

Just to start it off.... "One day in the CJ" the stick shift came out and it was stuck in reverse and we couldnt get the stick back in or stay in so we got a tow to the house. My brother behind the wheel had some slack in the rope and then the other brother towing started to pull off and yanked the jeep and my buddy in the passenger seat was sipping on a wine bottle and he went forward and the wine bottle hit the dash and busted out his front teeth!! Well my buddy with the busted out teeth said it was fine because they were fake anyway (he rolled a jeep a few yrs before and his face hit the roll bar and busted all his teeth out) He has now busted out his teeth in a jeep twice!!

 

[IOPort51]

sorry, don't have any. got a couple of "stuck" stories.

 

[kickitandholdit]

sorry, don't have any. got a couple of "stuck" stories.

Knock on wood! lest hear the stuck stories too ahaha its all good

 

[Rescue Diver]

I would but I've never had one either!

I did have trouble getting her in 4wd the first time I ever took her anywhere(KC Jeepclub Picnic), but that was before I switched to the twin stick Transfer Case shifter. My goal is to make everything so simple and solid that I will either never break down, or at least I'll have the parts and tools with me to fix it good enough to get home.

So far so good!

 

[Duhwhat]

Mines been stuck in my garage since I got it.

 

[kickitandholdit]

Mines been stuck in my garage since I got it.

whats keeping you from getting it out?

 

[Old Dog]

I've got two.
I broke a front axle u-joint out on the trail. I had a spare, so I changed it and had a good day after that.

I towed my jeep 200 miles to go riding.
Then me and the wife decide to run down to town in the jeep to get gas and some other things. The jeep just up and quit on me, and it started to rain. A jeeper that we didn't even know loaded my jeep on his trailer and towed it back to camp for me. Well it was getting late and I couldn't figure out what was wrong. We mised the trail ride the next day and towed it back home. I looked at it the next day and figured out it had a bad ignition module, had it running 1/2 hour later.

 

[Rescue Diver]

I've got two.
I broke a front axle u-joint out on the trail. I had a spare, so I changed it and had a good day after that.

I towed my jeep 200 miles to go riding.
Then me and the wife decide to run down to town in the jeep to get gas and some other things. The jeep just up and quit on me, and it started to rain. A jeeper that we didn't even know loaded my jeep on his trailed and towed it back to camp for me. Well it was getting late and I couldn't figure what was wrong. We mised the trail ride the next day and towed it back home. I looked at it the next day and figured out it had a bad ignition module, had it running 1/2 hour later.

Funny you should mention that. I plan to pick up a spare module and coil to keep in the tool box that I keep in my storage box of the jeep. Those are really the only parts I can see suddenly failing that would leave me stranded other than the two piece AMC20 axles, and I also plan to replace those with hardened one piece axles soon.

 

[Jet]

My girlfriend,her two kids,& I went camping. The kids,&i went for a quick tour, be gone 20 min. HA. We found a mudhole about 3 miles away. We splashed through it 4-5 times,&headed back. The CJ began to sputter,& stalled. It took awhile to dry everything out. When we got back, I went straight to the doghouse.

 

[Duhwhat]

whats keeping you from getting it out?

I have been trying to get my stuff together so I could install the Weber Carb I bought. Finally got everything in place last night and it is running. I will tinker with the timing and idle today and hopefully be running well enough to test drive it. I plan to do the nutter bypass also. WhooHoo.

 

[BusaDave9]

lest hear the stuck stories too ahaha its all good

I once got the CJ7 i used to own in Minnesota stuck for a week trying every day to get it out. It was a low lying trail near a lake. Through cat tails. With recent rains it was particularly swampy. I had my 2 young boys with me. We had to walk to a farm house to call. After dropping off my kids I asked a buddy to help me out. We loaded up his pickup with shovels, tow straps and other recovery gear. We didn't even get close to the Jeep before the pickup was also stuck. After 2 days of trying I called a tow truck. Same story - he got stuck. He tried to tow himself out. As he pulled himself his truck went down as he winched backwards. Going back and forth he always seems to go down. As he winched the tires couldn't get on top of the mud. Instead the mud plowed up behind the tires and bent up his exhaust. He was not happy and I knew this was going to be expensive. He radioed back to town to get us all a ride.
The tow truck driver came back another day with one of those huge tow trucks used to pull out semi trucks. This time he didn't even try to get close. He kept his truck on terra firma near a rail road. He was maybe 300 or 400 feet from the vehicles. He routed his recovery cable directly to the 3 stuck vehicles. He then pulled each vehicle out with the straightest path, right through the brush or anything else that was in the way. He seemed to take less care towing my CJ than the other 2 vehicles. I ended up with all kinds of scratches from getting pulled through bushes. The last thing I wanted to do was complain about the scratches. It truly would have been the last thing I would have done.

 

[73CJ]

Re: Lets Hear The Break Down Stories!!!!

After putting on new springs years ago. A trail test was in order. I dropped a rear wheel in a nasty hole. Then I backed up and bent the rear spring 10" behind the frame spring mount straight up. This cocked the axle, so after getting out it went down the road crooked. Real crooked. Boy did I get the looks limping back into town.

 

[dave123]

Man either you guys are not trying, or you got boring lives. Here are just a few of many stories I got:

1. Once my 73 CJ died on the road. I Finally figured out that the fuel pump had given up the ghost. We siphoned some gas into a large bottle that I found and opened the hood. Poked a small hole into the plastic lid, and I slowly poured the gas into the carb while sitting on the firewall with the hood open (feet on the fenderwells) and we were able to drive it about 2 miles home. This is not as easy as it sounds, not enough gas and it dies, too much and the Jeep surges forward. It was freezing cold and the drive was almost all uphill. I should have left the Jeep and walked home, but it seemed like a cool idea to solve the problem. My friend driving with the hood open about 5 mph and could not see where he was going.

2. Another time, my hood flew open at about 50mph on the freeway. Boom, no vision. I pulled over. The hood was just about ruined, but the windshield survived. I had been driving without one of the hood latches that had broken when a fender got crinkled in an encounter with a tree. (dont' do this)

3. Another time, I was (luckily) going very slow, went to turn, and nothing happened. The U-joint on my steering column (near the top) had broken. Almost hit a car. My friend jumped out, and as I crept forward, managed to pull on a wheel to slowly turn the Jeep to get us off the road for repair.

4. Another time my rear driveshaft U-Joint broke. The drive shaft hit the bottom of the floor so hard it made a dent. I managed to drive home in front wheel drive. The Jeep would shake every time I started moving, and pulled hard in the corners, but I made it home.

5. Another time, my battery died in the woods. My friend (an eagle scout) and I failed to start a fire with gas and sparks (from the dead battery). We slept in the soft top Jeep in freezing temps until morning. This was so long ago, I don't even remember how we got it started and got home.

6. Another time, I smelled oil and my engine began smoking big time. A check of the gauge said no pressure. I stopped and found that the plastic line that had come with my cheep gauge had melted and pumped oil all over my engine. Luckily, I was able to cap the line and put in some spare oil I had in to get home. Now I have a metal line.

7. A couple of months ago, I was headed to the FL. Keys with the wife and heard a loud thunk. I looked down, and the clutch pedal was all the way to the floor. I was in heavy traffic, going about 40mph, and in a construction zone with no way off the road on my side of the road (cement barriers). I knew I had to stop ASAP, and was getting further from home. I noticed a tiny break in the traffic coming at me, shifted into neutral, cut across traffic and off the road on the other side. Under the Jeep, I found that the linkage piece (clutch fork release rod) between the clutch fork and clutch rod had abandoned ship. I knew the only way home was to find the piece. Luckily, we hadn't gotten too far from where I heard the thunk, so the wife and I went back to find it. I described it to her and we searched. The roadside was very cluttered with debris from the construction, and I saw nothing. Finally she said, “Could this be it”? Sure enough, she had found it, a needle in the hay stack for sure. When I put it back in, I could see that it was very loose and would probably fall out again. I used the drawstring from my swim trunks to tie it on as tight as it could and got home without trouble.

I could go on....

 

[73CJ]

OK well

Driving in city rush hour traffic, the throttle froze after winding out in 2nd gear and here comes a red light. I reached over and feathered the throttle by turning the key off and on until I could pull off.

Scared the heck out of me.

I just don't understand why the Prius owners are having trouble. . .