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Old Aug 8, 2009 | 10:52 PM
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i found some kind of military medallion (i contacted the previous owner with pictures and he told me he found it also and left it under the seat for good luck) a snapped driver front leaf spring bolt, stripped sway bar mount bolts, a roach under the driver seat(not the bug lol), some booged up wiring for the roof lights, a broke aftermarket radio just tossed in the dash with the wrong install plate, some broken beer bottle glass in the hatch area. all in all not bad for a 98 for $800 lol ohh and recently found rotted rockers(went to kick off some muddy boots and guess what lol) and right behind the passenger rear wheel in the 1/4 rotted a little.
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Old Aug 8, 2009 | 11:03 PM
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5-6 harnesses with no clear purpose... holes in all the floor boards. Wrong sized wiper blade so it was catching and missing half of the window, $50 walmart gift card, oil in my air filter, exhaust leaks, stems and seeds to a "mystery" plant, death wobble, oh and the ****er decided to run it to fumes and hand me the keys.....not looking i get a couple miles down the road and put phut grumble grumble......i'm empty...light didn't even go on because he had a bunch of fuses blown.....aaaahhh and i'm finding new things everyday.
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Old Aug 8, 2009 | 11:22 PM
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Absolutely nothing, looks as if my PO went through it with a fine tooth comb, erasing any evidence of his existence, even took the lug wrench.

Wait, there was a funnel under the hood, good place to keep em since they get grimy there and become unusable, I don't pour my fluids through a dirty funnel.
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Old Aug 8, 2009 | 11:25 PM
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Well I didnt find anything good.. but i left the guy who bought my wrangler with a nearly full pack of smokes. i bought them an hour before he came and i left them in the console. :[\


i think i left some roaches in there to and not the bugs.
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Old Aug 8, 2009 | 11:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Michigan Jeeper
Well I didnt find anything good.. but i left the guy who bought my wrangler with a nearly full pack of smokes. i bought them an hour before he came and i left them in the console. :[\


i think i left some roaches in there to and not the bugs.
oh and thanks again
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Old Aug 8, 2009 | 11:46 PM
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I found a WHOLE bunch of things lol. The PO of my jeep had metal shim looking things as some of the fuses... It looked like a small washer was cut in half or something and shoved in where fuses were supposed to be. My rear e-brake lines arn't even connected Major exhaust leak... the actual ehaust and the pipe going into the front of the ehxaust isn't even connected. I found a $5 bill ...every speaker was wired like crap the speakers were held in with like 1 or 2 wood screws... Tranny was shot, T-case wouldn't even go into 4x4, rear driveshaft was bent, u-joints were out, head liner was ripped out... people engraved stuff like (jim loves kim and stuff lol not the real names but people cut that stuff in the foam lol. more but i'm tired of typing lol
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Old Aug 8, 2009 | 11:57 PM
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t case dropand rust
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Old Aug 9, 2009 | 02:08 AM
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I found crayons, a coloring book, toys from Happy Meals and other kiddy junk under the rear seat. However I did not find a lug wrench and jack there . The rear seat itself looked like someone dumped an entire 2 liter of coke on it.

Can you say soccer mom mobile!
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Old Aug 9, 2009 | 03:32 AM
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2 short (5-10') ratchet straps in the dash, a well used chiltons manual , a power steering leak that reared its ugly head with a wall of smoke out of the hood the first time I took it up a hill , and lots of pens.
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Old Aug 9, 2009 | 07:39 AM
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Lets see on my 92 the po broke the upper drivers door hinge off and used a carrige bolt through into the interior,passenger front fender has about 50 lbs of bondo theres rot every ware um the windshield is split from end to end and is not attached to the truck and the factory cat the flanges are welded Im still finding things as the days go on
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Old Aug 9, 2009 | 08:52 AM
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When I bought my 93 the guy told me the rear door latch was broken, so I figured no big deal. He forgot to tell me that he screwed the door shut from the outside and BONDO'd over the screw heads to hide it. Would have been cheaper and less time consuming just to replace the !#" latch. LOL
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Old Aug 9, 2009 | 09:24 AM
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Both my jeeps were pretty clean. Did buy a 74 vega panel wagon that I thought had window tint until I went to clean them. Seem PO was into smoking oil. Found enough vials that an aquaintance of mine bought them for enough to pay for the vega!
Scaries was a 70 Olds cutlass I bought in Texas and brought back to Canada. Custome didn't go through it like they normally do and thank god for that found a loaded 9mm handgun and enough ammo to save the alamo. Ammo found a new home with a friend and the gun well lets say will never be found.
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Old Aug 9, 2009 | 09:30 AM
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PO installed an air horn in place of the reg horn and cut all the wires to the reg horn. This became a PITA because I needed it working to get it inspected. I played with the mess of wires for about 3 weeks and finally gave up and installed one of those horn kits at they sell at Autozone with the separate button you have to mount. I crossed my fingers when I got it inspected, turns out you can have a separate button for the horn just not an air horn (in jersey anyway).

Along with that was just a mess of wires that went to nothing, and also someone used rear shocks in the front. They made some sort of custom mount for the upper mounts.
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Old Aug 9, 2009 | 09:35 AM
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had a lovely self install remote start system installed that i didnt know was there, until it decided to try to start itself one day while running.....
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Old Aug 9, 2009 | 10:53 AM
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under my dash i have more wires than what it would take to wire one of those cruise ships, and every wire has a blade fuse holder with a nope not 30, not 50, but a 75 amp fuse. 13 75 amp fuses. wtf did this guy do in the jep, grow pot? wtf could you possibly need 13 huge fuses like that for?
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