What did you do to or with your CJ today?

What did you do to or with your CJ today?
I stared at my CJ this morning, warning it that this weekend I'd be dropping the top, folding the wind screen, pulling on the dash and looking for gremlins.

The CJ stared back as if to say, "It's your funeral."


-Jon
 
Used mine teaching my granddaughter how to drive a 'stick'. :D
LG
 
I went out this evening and took my 8 year old out tooling around town in the Jeep. Some honey-do work tomorrow then will begin installing my Transmission cooler and doing some welding on my spare tire carrier.
 
Started the big push to the end of my major projects. After re-gearing the rear end yesterday, the gas tank was removed. With a PO modification or two to deal with the whole thing took far longer that it needed to, but it could have been a LOT worse. The tank is down, it had some crud in it, but all in all not as much as I expected. On occasion the jeep occasionally had a very gassy smell to it. It drove me nuts at times. The intake on the sending unit was loose in the housing, I mean wobbly loose with some totally rotten rubber material barely clinging on to the pipe. Without question the CJ will at the very least smell better.
 
After spending an unseasonably warm and sunny weekend driving around town topless and doorless, I put the the ragtop back on a few minutes before the rain.

-Jon
 
Frame and undercarriage paint touch up, soft top cleaning and conditioning. Installed my new winch remote.
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Wooly
 
Connected the engine to bluetooth for live diagnostics.
 
You have diagnostics. What are diagnostics? Do I have those?
 
defibvt said:
You have diagnostics. What are diagnostics? Do I have those?
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Yes, you do.

Your on-board diagnostics are packaged up in a hunk of portable organic tissue called "your brain."

Your brain has various diagnostic inputs including auditory, olfactory, kinetic, vestibular, visual and - though generally recommended for Jeep diagnostics - gustatory sensors (don't taste that fluid!).

Usually your brain uses these sensor inputs real time - just like a ScanGauge! - while driving, repairing or modifying your Jeep.

The advantage is that your brain works without batteries or ignition power!

Real time processing capacity aside, your brain even diagnoses in high-latency conditions like reading forum postings and subsequently recommending a desirable course of action.

Your brain also stores a vast library of memories, especially principles of operation, to assist in the proper interpretation of diagnostic input as well as likely good courses of action to correct unwanted conditions.

Unfortunately (from a marketing perspective) your brain doesn't have a bluetooth intererface. Do not try to upgrade your brain to bluetooth! It's not a DIY kind of upgrade.

That's a big negative for a lot of people; esp a group of people called "Millennials" who, as a demograph, seem to want everything to talk to everything wirelessly.

Personally, I think the sexiness of in-organic diagnostic interfaces is over-rated and - in the grand scheme of humanity - a passing fad.

Jeeps are not a fad. Jeeps are forever. Really!

-Jon
 
Rebuilt my Holley carb last night. Got it put together and mounted back on the manifold. As long as my radiator and thermostat aren't leaking I could be tuning the carb this weekend. Maybe even driving it. :D
 
Put on new rotors - somehow the "little" ones were on there but I have the 6 bolt brackets??? Well, fixed now. I also installed a YJ booster with adjustable rod and MC and have always had a pretty soft pedal - any ideas?


Wooly
 
jdcaples said:
Yes, you do.

Your on-board diagnostics are packaged up in a hunk of portable organic tissue called "your brain."

Your brain has various diagnostic inputs including auditory, olfactory, kinetic, vestibular, visual and - though generally recommended for Jeep diagnostics - gustatory sensors (don't taste that fluid!).

Usually your brain uses these sensor inputs real time - just like a ScanGauge! - while driving, repairing or modifying your Jeep.

The advantage is that your brain works without batteries or ignition power!

Real time processing capacity aside, your brain even diagnoses in high-latency conditions like reading forum postings and subsequently recommending a desirable course of action.

Your brain also stores a vast library of memories, especially principles of operation, to assist in the proper interpretation of diagnostic input as well as likely good courses of action to correct unwanted conditions.

Unfortunately (from a marketing perspective) your brain doesn't have a bluetooth intererface. Do not try to upgrade your brain to bluetooth! It's not a DIY kind of upgrade.

That's a big negative for a lot of people; esp a group of people called "Millennials" who, as a demograph, seem to want everything to talk to everything wirelessly.

Personally, I think the sexiness of in-organic diagnostic interfaces is over-rated and - in the grand scheme of humanity - a passing fad.

Jeeps are not a fad. Jeeps are forever. Really!

-Jon
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Jon, that is awesome and very true. LOL. :notworthy: :chug:
 
jdcaples said:
Yes, you do.

Your on-board diagnostics are packaged up in a hunk of portable organic tissue called "your brain."

Your brain has various diagnostic inputs including auditory, olfactory, kinetic, vestibular, visual and - though generally recommended for Jeep diagnostics - gustatory sensors (don't taste that fluid!).

Usually your brain uses these sensor inputs real time - just like a ScanGauge! - while driving, repairing or modifying your Jeep.

The advantage is that your brain works without batteries or ignition power!

Real time processing capacity aside, your brain even diagnoses in high-latency conditions like reading forum postings and subsequently recommending a desirable course of action.

Your brain also stores a vast library of memories, especially principles of operation, to assist in the proper interpretation of diagnostic input as well as likely good courses of action to correct unwanted conditions.

Unfortunately (from a marketing perspective) your brain doesn't have a bluetooth intererface. Do not try to upgrade your brain to bluetooth! It's not a DIY kind of upgrade.

That's a big negative for a lot of people; esp a group of people called "Millennials" who, as a demograph, seem to want everything to talk to everything wirelessly.

Personally, I think the sexiness of in-organic diagnostic interfaces is over-rated and - in the grand scheme of humanity - a passing fad.

Jeeps are not a fad. Jeeps are forever. Really!

-Jon
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After your read, I thought of all of the threads I've read about experienced members trying to hook up lines to their dash to read vacuum, pressure, etc to get live data while their engine was under load while driving...
 
Woolyworm said:
So have you had a chance to review the info? What are you running for an engine?


Wooly
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Yes. 4.0. Has almost anything you could think of whether you need it or not. Timing advance/retard, air intake pressure and temperature, coolant temperature, oil pressure, oxygen ratio, throttle position, camshaft position and basics like rpm, speed based on VSS and GPS, etc. Can have it set off alarms as you choose and at levels you set it at i.e: temperature is too high misfires, components failing, etc. Another feature of the program is that it will graph any of these settings. I see quite a few of the 4.7 Strokers using this to get the most out of theirs.


Sold my AMC 258 i6 / 4.2l today to one of those Millennials. He said it was his fourth one. He had blown up the other three. Made me cringe and sad for an engine that I had put a lot of work into.
 
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Seam sealed the new floor pans and started prepping for epoxy primer followed by raptor liner. Hope to spray it on my day off next week.

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Investigated a problem with my clutch linkage. Turned out to be the proportioning calve broke free of the frame and the linkage was getting hung up on it. While down there I reduced the clutch pedal free play to about 1.5 inches.

And I unpacked the new rear cross member that I will be putting onto my replacement frame.

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well this took place over a series of weeks. 4.0 head swap with new custom exhaust. new poly bushings, new front spring hangers to replace bent one. new heavier shackles with 1/2" of lift and new shocks. New long range spots with custom switch panel and relays. Cb mounted and wired to new remote fuse block. new rear bumper with swing out almost finished.
Got it all together and it wouldn't run, ended up pulling the carb and found trash in the float bowl. Cleaned and runs great now.
 
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