Well, if you extend the roof basket on the bug and drop in an inflatable mattress I guess you could sleep "on" it if not "in" it

 

We thought about that. My wife doesn't like sleeping on the ground in the open like I have all my life so she has to at least have a tent. We cover a lot of ground when we go out, so setting up and taking down a tent takes up time we would rather spend in a new location. With the bug we just have to do the tent thing is all.

 

A piece of pipe at all four corners of the basket, some PVC pipe to make hoops and a little tarp to make a tent and up off the ground and inside a tent for the wife

Happy wife, happy life!

 

Lol, It would work! She would be happy but then it would bother me. I have issues with tents and tarps. No matter how tight I try to make them they are still too noisy for me to sleep if there is any wind at all.

So the Cherokee cures both of our hangups.

 

So I'll be testing this in a few days to find out. I figured out what to do if it doesn't work. I will fab up a throttle body injector plate to sandwich in and use one of the old windshield washer floor foot pumps to supply it. The rate of pumping speed will control the fuel flow needed under different load conditions.

 

My EMP ride is an '88 E-350 diesel, it's also my work vehicle. If it were manual trans and 4x4 it would be ideal, but at least it's 'flex fuel' and full of tools & has sleeping space. It's currently fueled with the drained fluids from my new '87 xj; engine, trans, & diff oils. The t-case had about a shot glass of black fluid in it so not much help from it. Yes, that hodge-podge is a bit thick, luckily I have old crap gas from some seadoos I drained to thin it out with.

 

I know someone who uses old fryer oil to make biodiesel they use in a diesel powered Samurai for offroading.

I would be starving all the time if my vehicle smelled like french fries

 

I will eventually switch this XJ over to diesel. I Have a friend who builds diesel motorcycles and he gets almond oil cheap from up north and runs it in his. Yes, it smells like almonds. lol

 

I would like to convert mine over to diesel, and will as soon as things slow down a bit.