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What did you do with your Scrambler today?

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Loaded it on the trailer to go wheelin tomorrow. First time it has been out of the garage since sandblast!!!
 
- Went rummaging around an auto wrecker junk yard first time since a kid looking for old jeep parts. Day was cloudy and overcast thousands of wrecks but only 2-3 burned out TJ's. Erieee place - kind of a auto grave yard. I'll have to go back with some tools to cannibalize a few parts...frankinjeepstien!
 
I decided that since most of the snow is gone, even from the 12"+ that we got two weeks ago, and I can almost see my entire yard area, that it was time to change the daily drivers over from studded tires. I'm anal when I do this since I always clean the rims and tires to look for sidewall damage, nails, etc., and to pry large rocks out of the treads. To give myself a little room (and to get some sunlight on the glacier that had grown next to the Postal), I decided to move the Postal. That required putting a battery in. I've needed to put a proper terminal on the ground, so I robbed the cable and terminal from the "parts" postal, and used my CJ-7 battery. With a couple squirts from some carb cleaner and letting it crank to get some fuel up from the tank, it fired right up and idled nicely!

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My wife was out with some tea and her laptop enjoying the sun, and I had to admit even driving it the maybe 100 linear feet that it moved, that I'm kind of excited about working on it again! I just need a few more pennies to get the replacement tub blasted, and I'd like an indoor location to park my nice Scrambler.

I left it parked there for the 4+ hours that I was doing the tire swap, and then put it back in front of my condo parked the other direction just to prove to the neighbors that it works.
 
Swapped out the mc and booster. No I did not go with Vanco or Navajo. Not in the budget at the moment and not needed for a street queen since that is all i drive it on at the moment. Maybe after the lift and the bigger tires and hitting the rocks.
 
I finally finished my clutch job. New clutch, new pressure plate, resurfaced flywheel new master and slave cylinders, new twin stick. I'm incredibly happy To have it back on the road.
 
Attended the first car show of the year. Took 2nd place in the 4x4 division. I lost to a 95 Chevy short bed that was lifted and had 35s on it. He knew everybody that was there. So, I did well.

Karl
 
Tightened up (2) exhaust leaks. Fixed a backfire issue when coasting. Amazed at how much quieter/smoother it is!
 
Seems like spring is in there air... sold a few things this weekend... the winter had been pretty dry when it comes to selling and acquiring Jeep parts. Met some good Jeep people building up some CJ7's and they were very happy to see the Scrambler. Once guy really wanted to buy it as is, but he wasn't so happy with the price. I put an unobtanium price on it.

I then was going to start working on the Scrambler when it was decided that we needed to extend the garden.
6 holes later in the fine Granite state ground and $200 worth of wood, we have gone from a 14x14 mound of dirt to a 12x36 enclosed garden. It will allow for a lot more growing and a lot more containment so I don't run over the corners with the tractor.


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It needs about 5-6 yards of soil to fill in the newly extended section, but hopefully a delivery truck can dump it right into place... I don't want to do a whole lot of wheel barrowing!

cb
 
Used it for a parts/tool runner as I worked on replacing the oil pressure sender, oil pump, rear main seal and oil pan gasket while adding a mechanical oil pressure guage in the LJ this weekend.
 
Drove this one around this weekend:thumbsup:

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And washed this one:thumbsup:

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Worked on this one:thumbsup:

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Sawed 1/2" off another cheap wheel stud on the "Superior" one-piece axle kit. Put shiny new lug nuts on the Western Turbine wheels. And replaced the oil pressure gauge with a new old one that does the same intermittent reading-too-high thing. And pulled the cheap Ramsey winch off the white jeep to fix the motor after I spooled most of the cable out and couldn't get it to run long enough to spool on.

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Ordered some parts for the the 360 that will be going in soon!
 
Ordered the bushings and u bolts for my new to me springs and shocks. Now to plan the time to lift my Scramble a couple of inches.
 
Swapped the transfer cases between the two jeeps so the tan one has the 4:1 low. Now fifth gear low is lower than first high when it still had 3.31's. And put in a cv-type rear driveshaft. Sure makes the driveline a lot quieter!

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