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02-12-2013, 11:47 PM
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Right out of the gate asking questions
Hello,
Just joined the forum. Plan on spending lots of time on here, picking brains and putting my 2 cents worth in here and there. And I have a big bucket of pennies.
Little about my self. Live in the great state of Washington, the land of eternal sunshine....er, something. I've owned a Jeep or two in my life, 8 to be specific, this being my 3rd xj. Believe it or not though, the first 6 Jeeps, never went off road. I liked the look and they did good in the snow, but I'm no mechanic (getting there through necessity though..lol), so never wanted to break something and didn't think I would enjoy wheelin anyways. Bunch of rednecks and all.. Then, one day out of the blue, call it an early mid-life crisis, or temporary insanity, I just up and bought a 12,000 dollar purpose built rock crawler. It was a '52 CJa. Didn't have a clue what I was doing, but took it out and beat the hell out of it and had a complete blast doing it. I must have been doing something wrong though, cause other than a bad starter...I never broke. Not one thing. Long sad story, short...I ended up selling it and got stuck driving a porsche boxster for the next few years. It did terribly off road..haha. Never could quite get rid of the wheelin bug though. Recently, my wife decided she wanted a new car. I jumped at the chance and got rid of my porsche. I bought an SAS toyota wheeler and 13hrs later, traded it for my XJ. Longest I have ever owned a Toyota. I just realized how long this post has gotten, so you will have to tune in tommorow to find out how 5 years of not breaking came back on me, all in one week and how a non mechanic learned to be a mechanic and built this sad, sad little xj into "my little Monster". Then I'll ask some questions...haha.
Just joined the forum. Plan on spending lots of time on here, picking brains and putting my 2 cents worth in here and there. And I have a big bucket of pennies.
Little about my self. Live in the great state of Washington, the land of eternal sunshine....er, something. I've owned a Jeep or two in my life, 8 to be specific, this being my 3rd xj. Believe it or not though, the first 6 Jeeps, never went off road. I liked the look and they did good in the snow, but I'm no mechanic (getting there through necessity though..lol), so never wanted to break something and didn't think I would enjoy wheelin anyways. Bunch of rednecks and all.. Then, one day out of the blue, call it an early mid-life crisis, or temporary insanity, I just up and bought a 12,000 dollar purpose built rock crawler. It was a '52 CJa. Didn't have a clue what I was doing, but took it out and beat the hell out of it and had a complete blast doing it. I must have been doing something wrong though, cause other than a bad starter...I never broke. Not one thing. Long sad story, short...I ended up selling it and got stuck driving a porsche boxster for the next few years. It did terribly off road..haha. Never could quite get rid of the wheelin bug though. Recently, my wife decided she wanted a new car. I jumped at the chance and got rid of my porsche. I bought an SAS toyota wheeler and 13hrs later, traded it for my XJ. Longest I have ever owned a Toyota. I just realized how long this post has gotten, so you will have to tune in tommorow to find out how 5 years of not breaking came back on me, all in one week and how a non mechanic learned to be a mechanic and built this sad, sad little xj into "my little Monster". Then I'll ask some questions...haha.
02-12-2013, 11:55 PM
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Hello,
Just joined the forum. Plan on spending lots of time on here, picking brains and putting my 2 cents worth in here and there. And I have a big bucket of pennies.
Little about my self. Live in the great state of Washington, the land of eternal sunshine....er, something. I've owned a Jeep or two in my life, 8 to be specific, this being my 3rd xj. Believe it or not though, the first 6 Jeeps, never went off road. I liked the look and they did good in the snow, but I'm no mechanic (getting there through necessity though..lol), so never wanted to break something and didn't think I would enjoy wheelin anyways. Bunch of rednecks and all.. Then, one day out of the blue, call it an early mid-life crisis, or temporary insanity, I just up and bought a 12,000 dollar purpose built rock crawler. It was a '52 CJa. Didn't have a clue what I was doing, but took it out and beat the hell out of it and had a complete blast doing it. I must have been doing something wrong though, cause other than a bad starter...I never broke. Not one thing. Long sad story, short...I ended up selling it and got stuck driving a porsche boxster for the next few years. It did terribly off road..haha. Never could quite get rid of the wheelin bug though. Recently, my wife decided she wanted a new car. I jumped at the chance and got rid of my porsche. I bought an SAS toyota wheeler and 13hrs later, traded it for my XJ. Longest I have ever owned a Toyota. I just realized how long this post has gotten, so you will have to tune in tommorow to find out how 5 years of not breaking came back on me, all in one week and how a non mechanic learned to be a mechanic and built this sad, sad little xj into "my little Monster". Then I'll ask some questions...haha.
Just joined the forum. Plan on spending lots of time on here, picking brains and putting my 2 cents worth in here and there. And I have a big bucket of pennies.
Little about my self. Live in the great state of Washington, the land of eternal sunshine....er, something. I've owned a Jeep or two in my life, 8 to be specific, this being my 3rd xj. Believe it or not though, the first 6 Jeeps, never went off road. I liked the look and they did good in the snow, but I'm no mechanic (getting there through necessity though..lol), so never wanted to break something and didn't think I would enjoy wheelin anyways. Bunch of rednecks and all.. Then, one day out of the blue, call it an early mid-life crisis, or temporary insanity, I just up and bought a 12,000 dollar purpose built rock crawler. It was a '52 CJa. Didn't have a clue what I was doing, but took it out and beat the hell out of it and had a complete blast doing it. I must have been doing something wrong though, cause other than a bad starter...I never broke. Not one thing. Long sad story, short...I ended up selling it and got stuck driving a porsche boxster for the next few years. It did terribly off road..haha. Never could quite get rid of the wheelin bug though. Recently, my wife decided she wanted a new car. I jumped at the chance and got rid of my porsche. I bought an SAS toyota wheeler and 13hrs later, traded it for my XJ. Longest I have ever owned a Toyota. I just realized how long this post has gotten, so you will have to tune in tommorow to find out how 5 years of not breaking came back on me, all in one week and how a non mechanic learned to be a mechanic and built this sad, sad little xj into "my little Monster". Then I'll ask some questions...haha.
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