What did you do to or with your CJ today?

[Scout1067]

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.

 

[j6824]

Trimmed the inner front wells and cut in a pair of louvers...

 

[JeeperChris]

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!!!!


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[Belizean]

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

 

[JeeperChris]

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

That is really interesting. I have wild turkeys out here....... hmmmmmmm.....

 

[shum8]

We had a beverage today....... at home in the driveway




Sent while wondering where all the CCW’s were in Texas

“I heard something fall off but I couldn't see it in the rearview mirror so it didn't happen.” - JeeperChris

 

[JacksonLakeJeep]

Slowly cleaning years of oil and muck off my Transmission and Transfer Case . My Transfer Case just had a birthday, got to sing a song.

I don't normally have issues with photos, but this time I am.

 

[jzak]

Nothing better than taking your working CJ5 out on a beautiful day with the doors and top off.

 

[JeeperChris]

Nothing better than taking your working CJ5 out on a beautiful day with the doors and top off.

Agreed, that's how i've been driving mine to work.

 

[jzak]

Agreed, that's how i've been driving mine to work.

Hope the office window overlooks the parking lot, so you can check out your Cj every once in a while.

 

[Lumpy Grits]

Drove mine to the Trap Range, and shot 4 rounds of Trap.
Shot a 21, 23, 25 and a 24.........
It was a good day
LG

 

[JeeperChris]

Drove mine to the Trap Range, and shot 4 rounds of Trap.
Shot a 21, 23, 25 and a 24.........
It was a good day
LG

I miss doing that stuff. I learned shooting trap in the combat shotgun style from a pro up in Portland about 23 years ago.

 

[Scout1067]

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.

 

[shum8]

Now that you got the mouse, quit stashing twinkies an tater chips under the seats.....


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[Scout1067]

Now that you got the mouse, quit stashing twinkies an tater chips under the seats.....


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[gert]

Dreaming about getting mine out of the shop with a completed inspection sticker..... even my alignment guy is as slow as I am grrrr


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[shum8]

Would it help if I said “Man, I wish you’d hurry up already!!”? Let me know if if would and I’ll say it [emoji106]


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[gr8dain]

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.

 

[shum8]

Oh, man - I hate to hear this....... what do you think started the cascade? I can’t see a starter causing the timing to jump...... [emoji2959]


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[Scout1067]

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.