Scramblers What the BEEP!

[Crazyredneck87]

So as many of you may have or still are purchasing scramblers USED that is share the funniest most annoying what the beeps you have found from previous owners...

One of mine for example is...

Today I decided to finally wire in the 6 inch oval LED flush mounts i had laying on the shelf. My neighbors wife was gonna do the soldering and shrink wrap deal for me. So I went to take down the pig tails to take em over...Traced the ground found them running up into the bed siliconed to the rear by the tail gate and taped! I sat there saying ok what the BEEP...After I got the grounds free I pulled down my pigtails took em over to her and started to cut the tape off so we could evaluate the remaining wires to find hack and slash jobs for trailer lights...just taped to bare spots in the wire I said to myself cant get much worse then that on these poor tail lights...then I found the "attempted" soldering job on the second pigtail shaking my head I just replaced both pigtails with new and still want to find the original owner and smack him upside the head....Though after that spree of horrible wiring I decided to take a peak at the remaining rats nest and found he had used a normal extension cord to wire the remainder of the trailer light assembly and jerry rigged the plug to work supposedly..never tested that part and dont plan to...time to replace it but that man had no right touching any wiring in the first place and I still wish I could smack him upside the head...

 

[Robert Slone]

.... and I still wish I could smack him upside the head...

The PO of mine told me rusty metal had been cut out and replaced with new metal. I crawled around under it and the frame looked great. I didn't see any rust anywhere. It had a fairly recent paint job on it and it all looked good. The PO intended to keep it but the engine block cracked and that's when I bought it. About a year later, maybe 2, nasty rust bubbles began to rear their ugly heads. It was probably the third year I owned it when I finally broke down and scraped and grinded rust, dug out the chunks, dug out and grinded away Bondo and cursed the PO. Now it's an annual thing. Also after putting a hardtop on it it's pretty clear that it was smacked on the passenger side. The door hangs out past the top allowing rain to come in. I fabricated a rain gutter that helps. But I know it's my own fault. If I knew then what I know now I would not have bought this Scrambler.

 

[bigwalton]

Mine worked in my favor. Postal had gradually gotten harder to start, to the point the owner parked it and posted it for sale cheap with an "ignition problem". I bought it as a non-starter and swapped in all new ignition bits to no good, assuming the PO knew what was wrong and since I knew squat.

After some head scratching, made one post online and someone asked about the neutral safety switch wand suggested a literally $.25 fix (bypassing the NSS by grounding the lower terminal on the starter relay) and the Jeep fired right up

So doggone it, I got a Postal with a bad NSS the owner "hid"



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[tiber]

My neighbors wife was gonna do the soldering and shrink wrap deal for me.

There's something you don't see every day.

 

[scrambler81]

Mine was only 4 or 5 years old when I bought it, so there weren't any serious body or performance issues for me to worry about. Actually, there weren't any. However, for whatever reason, the previous owner decided that the hard top needed a paint job, and paint it he did. With house paint and a brush! He didn't even remove it from the Jeep before he did it! There were white paint splatters everywhere, and the roll bar had paint all over it where he rubbed the brush up against it. He didn't even use a good brush, so there were bristles painted into the paint all over the top. I used a degreaser and a stiff scrub brush to knock down the stroke marks and the shine, and I picked out as many bristles as I could.
He also removed the nutmeg highbacks, and installed some light tan lowbacks. Honestly, they were probably more comfortable than the stock seats so I kept them for several years before upgrading.

 

[roch207]

PO said the Scrambler leaked a little oil, but they all do. This was gushing oil out of the valve cover. Half the bolts were snapped off and the other half were all different types. Dug out the broken bolts and replaced them all. Still trying to figure out what he did to the dash lights. All instrument lights come on with ignition (including high beam, brake, indicators...)

 

[53D Scrambler]

I had some Rat's build a nest inside my frame. That caused the majority of the rot on the drivers side.

Also, my stock tach pickup wire in the factory harness was just "pressed" against a stripped portion of an ignition wire and held together with duct tape. From the factory I presume. What the Beep!

 

[rispony]

I have these two rusted metal brackets welded to the frame near the body mounts. I always thought it was part of the frame until I saw a frame off build and got puzzled. I'm pretty sure the PO had em welded on for something, but I couldn't imagine what...any ideas?

 

[kgt0001]

The first Scrambler (and worst) that I have owned was a 1981 that I bought from an owner who tried to keep the frame rails from rotting from the inside out (he was convinced it would happen to his even though after 20 years it was rust free). He bought several spray cans of instant foam insulation and filled up as much of the frame rails as we could with it.
What was he thinking....

 

[Crazyredneck87]

The first Scrambler (and worst) that I have owned was a 1981 that I bought from an owner who tried to keep the frame rails from rotting from the inside out (he was convinced it would happen to his even though after 20 years it was rust free). He bought several spray cans of instant foam insulation and filled up as much of the frame rails as we could with it.
What was he thinking....

Ok now that is scarey as hell! I dont get some people,it scares me everytime I see one of these idiotic fixes that they come up with...Like yesterday I helped my neighbor do the fuel pump on his 94 s10...found out the idiot PO had put a fifth wheel hitch in it ripped the bed out so laid a 3/16th steel plate in the back and welded it...

Amazing guys how many stupid people own vehicles or attempt fix them...