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Air Gun Home Forum Index » The BS Topic » Beep Beep Jeepy Jeep! Goto page 1, 2  Next    View previous topic :: View next topic  Beep Beep Jeepy Jeep!   Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 9:19 pm radar Silver Status Member Joined: 13 Nov 2011 Posts: 1138 Location: Des Moines, Iowa, USA Howdy all. I'm still alive. Still shooting but been busy. Been playing with (fixing up) my new (to me) "car." cheers, Rob _________________ It's never too late to have a happy childhood.   Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 10:31 pm Slavia Moderator Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 4382 Location: Waseca, Minnesota, USA Nice to hear from you, and the Jeep looks great. No parking brake? _________________ ¡Listo! ¡Apunte! ¡Fuego!   Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 3:18 am Alstone Moderator & Site Supporter Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Posts: 4139 Location: Linconshire, ENGLAND Hi Radar like the jeep but where's the gun rack. Al _________________   Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 8:25 am Big Ern Veteran Member Joined: 31 Aug 2011 Posts: 357 Location: Miami Fl. Beautiful Jeep Radar! Glad to see you are still around too. Great picture by the way.   Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:24 pm radar Silver Status Member Joined: 13 Nov 2011 Posts: 1138 Location: Des Moines, Iowa, USA Thanks all! Good to be back! (Yeah, parking brake is OK but the hill keeps going down to the creek after the driveway and gets steeper. If something did let go...oh boy, whatta ride. ) Fixing up some rust spots (entire windshield frame had to go bye-bye) and catching up on its unknown maintenance history...you know greasing the U-joints and stuff, coolant flush and fill, oil change, etc. Rob _________________ It's never too late to have a happy childhood.   Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 2:31 pm SMP Silver Status Member Joined: 04 Feb 2011 Posts: 1183 Location: Just south of "Out There"- Land O Lakes Ontario Very very sweet. What year is that Rob? I must to confess to being overly biased towards jeeps as I owned them exclusively since about '86 _________________ Sean   Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 6:12 pm mod90 Veteran Member Joined: 04 Jun 2011 Posts: 279 Now that's just beautiful. All that's missing is a winch with cable, a secondary elevated exhaust and as Al mentioned, a nice gun rack. Have you taken her off road yet? _________________ There is no tradition greater than the hunt, passed through countless generations. For those that enjoy the hunt, no explanation is needed. For those that do not, no explanation is good enough.   Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 8:25 pm radar Silver Status Member Joined: 13 Nov 2011 Posts: 1138 Location: Des Moines, Iowa, USA Thanks Sean! Jeeps get into your system, don't they? This is my first but I always wanted one. It's a 2002, about 143K miles. Doesn't burn oil or leak anything. Good old 4.0 straight six with 5 speed gear box. Dana 44 rear end and tow package. I do need a gun rack...put the old Double Disco 9 up there on a swivel, maybe. mod90, thank you! ya, it could use a snorkel too! The POO kept the winch, unfortunately, but I have (for now) a hand crank winch for dire emergencies. I only did a little off roading so far. Never got it into 4 wheel drive though--didn't have to. There is a Jeep playground nearby but you got to join a club to get in and I just haven't done that yet. Best part...it came with cool stuff like 4 new fender flares in case I break them, a mesh top to let a little sun in, a new regular soft-top still in the box, and a quick-on Smittybuilt cab cover in case it rains and the top is down. You know it takes a little time to put the top up on one of these. cheers, Rob _________________ It's never too late to have a happy childhood.   Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 9:05 pm Slavia Moderator Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 4382 Location: Waseca, Minnesota, USA Quote: Yeah, parking brake is OK but the hill keeps going down to the creek after the driveway and gets steeper. If something did let go...oh boy, whatta ride. I worked for a time at a fish hatchery in Guatemala. We had a Toyota Land Cruiser pickup with no starter (and the Ministry of Agriculture had no money). We were constantly looking for parking spots just like yours. Before it snows go to a farm supply place and buy a few bags of crushed granite "chicken grit." It will even out your weight distribution, it doesn't corrode like salt, it doesn't freeze solid like sand, and it works wonders under the tires should the 4WD not be enough. _________________ ¡Listo! ¡Apunte! ¡Fuego!   Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 7:22 am radar Silver Status Member Joined: 13 Nov 2011 Posts: 1138 Location: Des Moines, Iowa, USA Thanks Slavia! I do have some kitty litter in the garage. Seems to work pretty well for ice. I don't like putting salt down either...wrecks the driveway. I usually keep a set of tire chains on hand, too, for whatever vehicle/tires I have. (Yes you can still get them but they have to be ordered online like everything else these days.) Rob _________________ It's never too late to have a happy childhood.   Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 8:51 am SMP Silver Status Member Joined: 04 Feb 2011 Posts: 1183 Location: Just south of "Out There"- Land O Lakes Ontario What Slavia is really pointing to is the weight distribution. On Jeeps the rear end will come around to meet you in a flash. adding a person worth of weight back in the tailgate gate area works wonders. Currently I have a 2004 with 310K on it and still humming along. Same powertrain. I'm really jealous of your extra tops though...thats awesome. Mine has had it. PS you can get pretty good getting the top up in a hurry. Under one minute _________________ Sean   Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 10:15 am Slavia Moderator Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 4382 Location: Waseca, Minnesota, USA With 4X4 and chains no winter will stop you unless you get the frame hung up. Just remember that when the county comes by with those big wing plows it will make the ditch look all smooth and flat and pretty, but it ain't just a wide shoulder. When I was in high school my dad had a 4X4 Suburban with studded tires all around. (Shows how old I am, because they were still legal at the time.) Tremendous acceleration on ice. Only problem was it didn't steer or brake any better than anyone else. In college we had two roomates (on basketball scholarships) that wanted more weight in the rear of their pickup. Their solution was to pour cement in the back - instant lowrider. (I don't think they were engineering majors.) Come spring they realized it wasn't coming out unless they hammered and chiseled - a process that's none too gentle on sheet metal. My favorite vehicle has to be my dad's 1962 Scout. Give a 14 year-old kid the keys to the snowplow and the (long) driveway becomes his personal racetrack. It's that feeling that I wish for you with the Jeep. _________________ ¡Listo! ¡Apunte! ¡Fuego!   Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 10:55 pm radar Silver Status Member Joined: 13 Nov 2011 Posts: 1138 Location: Des Moines, Iowa, USA SMP wrote: What Slavia is really pointing to is the weight distribution. On Jeeps the rear end will come around to meet you in a flash. adding a person worth of weight back in the tailgate gate area works wonders. Currently I have a 2004 with 310K on it and still humming along. Same powertrain. I'm really jealous of your extra tops though...thats awesome. Mine has had it. PS you can get pretty good getting the top up in a hurry. Under one minute Oh yeah, I re-read it. That' good to know. My Beetle used to try to come around with the weird weight distrbution. Anyway, that's good to know. I might put the back seat away for winter for more room for weight. It doesn't get used much. Cool about your '04. I hope to get another 100K miles out of this one. It clatters when it's cold, but I think the lifters are doing that. Runs great and I like the torque. Slavia wrote: With 4X4 and chains no winter will stop you unless you get the frame hung up. Just remember that when the county comes by with those big wing plows it will make the ditch look all smooth and flat and pretty, but it ain't just a wide shoulder. When I was in high school my dad had a 4X4 Suburban with studded tires all around. (Shows how old I am, because they were still legal at the time.) Tremendous acceleration on ice. Only problem was it didn't steer or brake any better than anyone else. In college we had two roomates (on basketball scholarships) that wanted more weight in the rear of their pickup. Their solution was to pour cement in the back - instant lowrider. (I don't think they were engineering majors.) Come spring they realized it wasn't coming out unless they hammered and chiseled - a process that's none too gentle on sheet metal. My favorite vehicle has to be my dad's 1962 Scout. Give a 14 year-old kid the keys to the snowplow and the (long) driveway becomes his personal racetrack. It's that feeling that I wish for you with the Jeep. Thanks man! Me too on the tires. I got such a great deal on studded tires when they first outlawed them. I spent a few hours with the pliers... _________________ It's never too late to have a happy childhood.   Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 10:02 am SMP Silver Status Member Joined: 04 Feb 2011 Posts: 1183 Location: Just south of "Out There"- Land O Lakes Ontario Ignore the lifters...they all do it from 2000 to 2004 after which the didn't offer the 4.0. In the dead of winter they will clatter to the point where your beginning to really wonder if it's on it's last legs. Mine started clattering at the first oil change5k km _________________ Sean   Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 6:21 pm lampy Veteran Member Joined: 04 Aug 2012 Posts: 297 Location: South Dakota I have to agree about the clatter,We had a jeep with a 4 liter at a plumbing company where I was a mechanic. That thing rattled like mad when you started it and was still doing it when I left 5 years later. 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