I replaced the paddle handles on my doors. What idjit came up a design so stupid? It was a struggle getting the old ones out and I ended up using lacing wire to hold the little plates in solidly. My old paddles handles were rusty and the retaining plates kept coming loose. What an adventure.
'79 CJ5, 258 I6, T150 w/Dana20, Dana30 front and AMC20 rear. My first Jeep! I'm looking forward to doing some minor upgrades and restoration while enjoying the ride.
Drove out to get a soda this morning (fountain drinks taste the best) and felt like taking some dirt roads back. Happened past a farm that i had done some metal detecting on and decided to stop since the field had beenrecently mowed. This is just too cool not to share:
Looks like part of a fence post that held all the barbed wire i've been finding.
A Hot Wheels was one of my metal detecting bucket list items to find!
10mm bullet and the tube was some sort of spray.
The bottom says 1973. This is so cool of a find!!!!
84 CJ7 4 banger-owned since new in 1984 bought off truck at dealership - rebuilding 258, T176 with Sniper EFI D300 4:1 Lomax gears Twin Sticked 1 piece axels with locker
That hot wheels is a nice find. 50 some years ago I grew up on a farm and my dad raised a lot of different animals. We raised 10s of thousands of turkeys and we went to the slaughterhouse once, and the women who did the butchering said they like our birds because the gizzards were loaded with beautiful polished rocks and other small items. They break down their food with rocks and grit
'79 CJ5, 258 I6, T150 w/Dana20, Dana30 front and AMC20 rear. My first Jeep! I'm looking forward to doing some minor upgrades and restoration while enjoying the ride.
That hot wheels is a nice find. 50 some years ago I grew up on a farm and my dad raised a lot of different animals. We raised 10s of thousands of turkeys and we went to the slaughterhouse once, and the women who did the butchering said they like our birds because the gizzards were loaded with beautiful polished rocks and other small items. They break down their food with rocks and grit
1981 CJ5/258 4.2L I6, Tremec T-176 4-speed, Dana 300, Power Steering, Howell Throttle Body Injection System, Warn Locking Hubs, Warn Rock Crawler front/rear bumper with Tire Swing Carrier, Full Roll Cage, Pro Comp ES9000 shocks
'79 CJ5, 258 I6, T150 w/Dana20, Dana30 front and AMC20 rear. My first Jeep! I'm looking forward to doing some minor upgrades and restoration while enjoying the ride.
1981 CJ5/258 4.2L I6, Tremec T-176 4-speed, Dana 300, Power Steering, Howell Throttle Body Injection System, Warn Locking Hubs, Warn Rock Crawler front/rear bumper with Tire Swing Carrier, Full Roll Cage, Pro Comp ES9000 shocks
'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---
'79 CJ5, 258 I6, T150 w/Dana20, Dana30 front and AMC20 rear. My first Jeep! I'm looking forward to doing some minor upgrades and restoration while enjoying the ride.
Got the first Jeep mouse in my trap last night. I hope that is the only one. I already installed new plugs in all the floorboard drain holes and I hope that is how they were getting in. Checked my under dash wiring and it didn't look any more chewed up than usual and nothing is not working that did not work before I had the mouse.
Not sure if I mentioned it here, but I have had a spell of bad luck over the past week or so. Last Saturday while taking my daughter to the metro station so she could get to the airport, the jeep backfired and quit. Could not get it started. Had it towed home. Messed with it a bit checking fuel and spark. The distributor was not giving spark. So I got a new one. Installed it. But still not firing. Went to set timing. Sputtered once, but timing was off. Turns out that at TDC, the timing mark was not in the range of numbers on the block. Using TDC I set the distributor and got it to start and run. But starting sounded rough. But it would start. That was yesterday. Started it up this morning and drove it around to test it out. Parked it back in my driveway and tried to restart. It was fighting it. Then just grinding. Checked the distributor gear and cam gear and those look good. Crawled under to look at the starter and it had blown apart. Literally. And after taking it off, the flywheel had a group of teeth torn off.
So it looks like I will be pulling the front off to see how bad the timing chain and gears are since I am pretty sure it skipped a few teeth. And if those look replaceable, then I will replace the flywheel. But this is going to happen over some time. The Scrambler is no longer my daily driver.
Had my 9 y/o niece over this weekend and I am teaching her to wrench. So we replaced the rubber fuel line from the pump to the carburetor with a metal line that is now routed such that even if the connections drip it can't drip on the manifold and fixed the passenger side paddle handle. While we were under the hood messing with fuel lines we went ahead and replaced all the rubber hoses that remain with brand new ones. There was some dry rot and I had a roll of 5/16 fuel hose in the garage so why not right? She had a blast taking the door apart and using the pipe cutter for the fuel line.
Can't wait until my new granddaughter is a couple years older so I can get here addicted to wrenching as well.
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