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Today I replaced my nasty rotted windshield rests and loop. Naturally this took the better part of an hour. Twisted one off and had to cut off another. Putting on that loop is tough for one person. It's quite a reach...
Today I replaced my nasty rotted windshield rests and loop. Naturally this took the better part of an hour. Twisted one off and had to cut off another. Putting on that loop is tough for one person. It's quite a reach...
'85 CJ-7, 258/4.2L 6cyl. Bought new in 1985. Full cage, Warn 8274 winch, Ford 9" rear, front/rear Detroit Lockers w/4:88 R&P. T-5 tranny and 4:1 t'case. 33X12.50-15 BFG/AT, MSD ign, on board air---
The catch is with these, is that they are add on items. So in that case you must buy $25 worth of product before they they'll even these. So once you get to a point where you need $25 worth of anything from Amazon, tack these onto your order.
This CJ made it over the car crush once. But on his second time, the roof of one of the cars got stuck between the leaves of his rear spring. Took a while to get him free.
Sometimes it's the little stuff that makes the biggest difference and has the biggest positive effect on our everyday jeepers lives. I've noticed that the really big jobs are full of stress and constant worry until they prove them selves. It can be the small put off jobs that serve the most good.
A while back I replaced the lower steering rod with a really wonderfully engineered item. The only negative was that the old fashioned steering column was a bit loose feeling and it drove me to distraction.
Then there was a binding problem with my hand throttle. What to do there?
My jeep didn't have seat belts when I got it so a set of lap belts were purchased. Flippity floppity can't find them, what a mess. Besides being less safe than todays three point belts.
The other day all the answers came to me more or less in a dream. And in a few days the everyday troubles were fixed in just a few minutes.
While in ACE I noticed a shaft collar with a nice set screw that would fit my upper steering shaft, that and a nylon washer were all it took to remove the slop in my steering. Remove the lower steering shaft, put the nylon washer (spacer) against the bottom column collar, push the wheel down to remove slack and set the shaft collar in place, push the bottom shaft in place paying attention to having a straight wheel and WHOW it's like new again. No wheel sloppiness.
It took a metal tip from a ball point pen to help take a bothersome last inch kink out of the hand throttle cable. The throttle works like butter.
The seat belts took some real money but a set of three point belts with stiffeners to hold the belt in place only took a couple days to arrive in the mail and since I already set the roll bar up for the top point it only took about an hour and the CJ has three point seat belts in place.
Sure, in the past 6 months I've done bigger jobs, brakes, front and rear axles, gearing, and now I'm working on a Transmission , but it's these little jobs that I appreciate the most. Improved steering, nice comfortable seat belts, a hand throttle that helps on long trips. It's like a new CJ.
Wait. Would ported vac even be solid at a 1000 RPMs with an engine problem?
I DON'T KNOW / REMEMBER!!! This is the first gasoline engine I've owned since 1988.
Hey, when was the last time I even looked at a valve train? Oh man. 1982!!!! ARRGGHH!!!
I can't do engine work! I don't even own a valve spring compressor. Where's my torque wrench... oh yeah, buried a bunch of stuff I was supposed to clean out two years ago....
I'm not strong enough to lift a head on my own. For goodness sakes, a few months ago I wrecked a perfectly good water pump gasket by installing it backwards!!!
I can't do engine work! Did I kill my Jeep? I killed my Jeep. I killed the engine. I'm an idiot. It's gone. Game over, Jon. You lose.
After much swearing and coming within inch of pulling off my valve cover, I decided to check the fitting I used to measure manifold vac.
Turns out it's one of those fittings that kind of shaped like a municipal water tower... kind of a lollipop profile.... and the gauge hose I thought was seated well, was not quite air tight. I pulled out a couple of vac gauge adapters, got a decent-feeling seal and.....
Apparently at idle, I have 19 inches of atomic number 80.
Good thing my serious wrenches were out of easy reach or I might have a bunch of engine parts lying around the yard.
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Very nice! Congrats!
