I call That Jeep talk. Its just your Jeep communicating with you! Ha

 

So living in the city I don't see much trails unless I drive a few hours, so just now on way home from work, went to post office automated machine came out and due to lack of girlfriend in car and no cars around (and it being 230 am) I found the love that you guys find climbing 60 degrees on snow. No I don't have pics today, was a spur of the moment thing but tomorrow night omw home from work I'm going to do it again and take pics. Just hoping snow don't melt to much. I gotta say climbing is fun as hell

 

Bought a set of 10,00lb tow hooks, for a total of ten bucks... not too bad.
Only problem is they are chrome.

Ordering tow hook brackets...

 

I broke one of my front axle shafts.

 

today I cranked it up and drove to work. Yesterday I did pretty much the exact opposite.

I woke up an hour early, made breakfast, lifted some weights, poured myself a huge cup of coffee, kissed my girlfriend as she left for work then attempted to crank my jeep.. it struggled a couple times then nothing.. dead.. I was going to be at work 30 minutes early too..

sat there for a few minutes then went to a neighbor to ask for a jump.. no answer

walked to my girlfriends moms house to ask her but turns out she has a battery charger. Picked up a sweet hawaiian shirt while I was there

charged the battery..didnt work.

decided to pull the starter. 9/16s wrench worked on the 14mm bolt but I couldnt get the 15mm bolt out so I found a neighbor with one. Got the starter out finally and found...



this. ****. before I took it apart I checked it with the charger and it spun very slowly and clunky. I called my brother (like I always do when I have vehicle problems) who knows more about working on cars than I do to ask him how fast it should be spinning. The convo went like this.

brother: "yo."
me: "hey im having a proble.."
brother: "you bought an american vehicle"
me: "well..yeah..but wait a sec"

The starter also sounded terrible so I was hoping I could take it apart and clean it up but that was a waste of time. The nice old lady who had the 15mm socket also drove me into town to get a new starter. I put it in and it cranks now like it has never cranked before. I bought it six months ago (apparently with a dying starter) and now it's like brand new jeep.

Then I had a beer and continued with my day off from work. This was the extremely short version of the story.

 

Same thing happened to me 2 weeks ago almost word for word.

 

Started to clean some of the trash out before work.

 

Put in an external trans cooler, then drained and refilled the aw-4 with dex/merc III. I wish I would have taken a picture of the fluid that came out of there compaired to the fluid that went in. Definitely due. Already can tell the engine and trans are thanking me. Running much smoother and cooler. Next step is a trans temp gauge for those towing and offroading days.

 

Put new electrical pieces for the transfer-case and transmission on. And a little blue tree on the rear view

 

Did a brake job today got it just in time pulled the drums and the linnings fell out no drum dammage bonus whoever did the fronts last put antisieze on the bolts came out nice and easy. Toped off the diffs new plug for the rear one only 5$ at auto value. Discoverd I need front left shaft berring could be my vibration up there.

 

My 12 year old ( daughter ) is getting her first rifle for her b-day and is already asking for a Jeep!

That's my girl!!!

 

Finished my new bumper-mounted aux lights.

 

Looks nice!

 

Took off my stock fender flares, and went to burn out my back tires. lol Lots of smoke babyy!

 

It rained today, so I took her out to get wet and discovered some leakage. Oh, and I cleaned the carburator(Excited about the rain though, that means mud.)