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I'm considering just using common 10-lug over the road hauler rims because I found I can get them for 50 bucks apiece. I'm not sure backspacing will be right though, I need to take some measurements and do some drawing. I'm definitely going tubeless, I hate messing around with tubes and lock...

I bought a set of top end gaskets including the new style head gaskets on here... think it was from pigfoot63 but not sure. Whoever it was, thanks! Going to have the heads resurfaced and the valves ground while the heads are off this time, also cleaning up the threads on the studs and nuts...

updates, in no particular order: * I am probably buying 6 395/85r20 Michelin XMLs from patracy as soon as my bonus check comes in. * the blasted head gasket blew again! I blame the old style gasket I had to use in a pinch, and possibly did not clean the mating surfaces well enough, though I...

Got it home a few days ago! Fixed the bad oil leak and the oil pressure is more in a range I like now. Also put the replacement turn signal I bought off JB last year, a new window crank handle, new windshield seals, and some other random parts on it... figure the more parts I put on it, the...

Got my replacement oil filter parts from python86, put it all together. Didn't have a couple torque specs I needed the weekend before last, but dug them up here on SS and went up to finish the job last night! Got everything all set, setting valve lash alone was no fun. Just as I was ready to...

Well, I went back up to my friend's place for the first time in months to work on my yard art. He is tolerant to say the least... between the house I bought, the snow we got pounded with, work, and keeping the other 3 jeeps operational, I have had very little chance to work on it. Pulled the...

I'm about a block from the Denny's on Lincoln St. Yeah, I drove mine to work once or twice a week till the head gasket blew. It was amazingly fun compared with even the jeeps... I haven't finished putting mine back together after the head gasket job, hopefully will have it done by next...

rofl I did have the windshield up though... so I guess you could say "topless and wearing glasses".

Nope... but plenty of assorted grit, soil, decomposed paper, and other detritus in my eyes... I had to use a qtip to clean them out at the end of the day. It kinda sucked. Other than the FOD eye problem, and being saturated every time it rained, driving it topless was more fun. I sure needed...

Yeah I really like it. I will like it a lot more once it has better tires, no death wobble, a working engine, seats that don't cripple me, and a good coat of paint on it :D

yow, that's on the pricey side! (at least for my budget) I won't be needing troop seats, it's a cargo transport only so I'm only really looking for bows and the tarp. Thanks though! My MJ is mainly composed of rust and bondo, at least from the rockers down. Slowly fixing it up. It's my DD...

hahaha sorry I forgot about that... didn't own a camera when I bought this beast! Here are the pics from the listing (click for big!) : http://a.imageshack.us/img834/7227/m54a2adrear.jpg http://a.imageshack.us/img6/757/m54a2adcab.jpg http://a.imageshack.us/img42/4297/m54a2adfront.jpg Here are...

A few problems fixed, a few more reared their ugly heads. Death wobble came back with a vengeance. I have determined that the steering box bracket rivets are stretched beyond recovery, and the bolts we replaced some of them with are backing out due to the overload on them from the other rivets...

Fixed my e-brake! Also put an entire large size tube of red EP grease into the thing - and I know I missed at least 5 or 6 grease fittings. Got oil for it, haven't gotten gear lube for the diffs/transmission/transfer case yet, and I know I need to get some filters. Tossed up a classifieds ad...

Sure will, thanks! (to both the suggestion and the rally.) Would have been to the last one (wasn't it last weekend? A friend of mine from my Jeep club went, and actually invited me) but I was in Pennsylvania picking up my truck :driver: Found some of the manuals and stuff, so I'm slowly...

A few plans... 1 - definitely getting restored. It'll be a long, slow restoration, and it probably will be outside-only, because I have nothing capable of lifting axles, transfer cases, transmissions, engines etc... they are simply too heavy and I don't have a garage right now. Pretty much...

Yeah... I view life as an opportunity to learn things. Having to fix something I knew nothing about on the side of the highway definitely taught me a few things! The rainy part of the trip will definitely make me appreciate the soft-top more once I have it.

A bit of backstory... I've been looking for a deuce and a half for years, on and off. Bid on a few GSA auctions in summer 06 while still in college, realized I was insane (first step is admitting you have a problem!) and let someone else win because I had no way to recover anything. Bid a few...