gmakra
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Post by gmakra on Mar 4, 2014 17:46:20 GMT -5
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Post by neil on Mar 4, 2014 19:00:14 GMT -5
It's nice to have you back on the site Gmakara. It's been a while. Love the CJ by the way
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gmakra
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Post by gmakra on Mar 5, 2014 6:37:01 GMT -5
Thanks Neil it took a few years to build, but it is a very capable Heep and for Brian it does have round head lights. How ever Brian wouldn't like it since it does not a cappuccino maker or heated poodle holder.
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Post by neil on Mar 5, 2014 16:42:58 GMT -5
Do you have any build pics? I don't know about the heated poodle holder, I think it's the lack of a wilderness trailer with a heated poodle holder
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Post by wonk on Mar 5, 2014 20:57:51 GMT -5
You guys are just haters. My new rig has heated leather, Nav radio, Serius XM, power windows & locks, hands free phone, 2 USB ports, 110 volt outlet, and lots of room. I'm hoping to put about 3 or 4 cameras on it sometime soon. A backup, a couple rock cams underneath, and a front/winch cam maybe. YES, I've wheeled it. It's been to Hot Springs (did all the usual trails except Ingrids, and Verticle Challenge), and to Windrock a couple times. I don't do the really nasty stuff yet as it needs some protection underneath first. The longer wheelbase is nice but it does have a few limitations (the gas tank is pretty vulnerable).
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Post by neil on Mar 6, 2014 4:17:40 GMT -5
Do you think it will reach your previous TJ's level, or are still planning on keeping it conservative? It's so hard to just leave it alone, isn't it?
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wonk
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Post by wonk on Mar 6, 2014 16:22:53 GMT -5
Do you think it will reach your previous TJ's level, or are still planning on keeping it conservative? It's so hard to just leave it alone, isn't it? Fairly conservative. I would like to use it more for expedition Jeeping. My goal is to build a trailer and the wife and I heading out west and have Brian show us around. My wife is NOT into camping but she would spend a night or two on the trail but no week long camping. I figure we camp a night, hit a hotel for the next one or two, etc.
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Post by neil on Mar 6, 2014 18:33:11 GMT -5
That sounds like a plan Wonk. I've yet to even get my wife to even go wheeling with me a single time yet. Soooo I can totally understand the single night of camping. although some of those trailers with the upper pop-up style sleeper are pretty slick. The hard part for a lot of the women is a lack of a bathroom and shower. Oh well, that's why the boys have their weekend get-aways
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gmakra
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Post by gmakra on Mar 8, 2014 11:41:25 GMT -5
Well here is what I started with Then there is the picture of the Jeep Slumming with the GF JK And then there is the poser mall crawl shot Attachments:
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Post by neil on Mar 8, 2014 20:35:39 GMT -5
That looks like a pretty clean starter George. I take it that the frame was without the usual rot? It looks like it was in really nice shape. I restored a 78 for a customer and it was amazing that the original frame was 100%. No rot any where. It spent many years in a garage just sitting. Although the original owner decided his build needed a fiber tub and fenders. Still turned out very nice though.
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gmakra
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Post by gmakra on Mar 12, 2014 5:17:51 GMT -5
Yeah it was a CA Jeep so it was pretty clean. Though it had been "modified' I took out two 5 gallon buckets of extra wiring. It had ancient mudders on it that were dry rotted, the suspension was so shot you could not drive over 20 miles an hour with out such bad vibration that it loosened the fillings in the teeth. The engine was very tired, the trans a T-5 was in poor shape. I was driving home with the Jeep the first time and the shifter feel on to the floor while I was driving home on the freeway. When I pulled the T-5 to replace it I shook it and it sounded like I had sand and ball bearings in a can.
So really all I ended up with was a frame and the body all the rest was beyond the effort to repair.
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Post by neil on Mar 12, 2014 14:56:01 GMT -5
That figures
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Post by yjsaabman on Mar 14, 2014 11:25:35 GMT -5
Yeah, but that's all you need to build a proper trail rig! Looks great, hope you're having as much using it as it was to build it!
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