'Mater - '77 Cherokee S 4-door

[bigwalton]

Talk about timing, this was driving home from picking up the grub.


This is the "after" wheel, got the awesome emblem and badge.


Saved a couple of the All Day IPAs specifically to celebrate.

 

[gr8dain]

Sounds like a great day all around! 👍

 

[jims chop shop]

Sweet. !!!

 

[bigwalton]

Dual diaphragm booster from a J20 is confirmed to be able to lock up the brakes at 40 MPH


Looks messy, but this is something I need to do (in some way) on the Scrambler. Made up a terminal strip for a hot start/run feed for the engine bay. The HEI and electric choke feed are one wire and the other goes to the new relay for the fuel pump that's fed directly from the battery.


Major wire cleanup in the engine bay and rerouted the oil pressure line.




And the dancing bacon is now officially attached. I was waiting until I actually got Mater on the road.

 

[skiptown]

Is there bacon on that pizza?

 

[bigwalton]

No, I ended up eating Laura's breakfast as well as mine this morning since she wasn't feeling well enough to eat, for a total of four eggs, so I kept it reasonable with just mushroom and pepperoni.

 

[MrBeep]

Nice job my friend. We'll have to see about getting a date to try out the towing capability to the Dunes.

 

[Randyzzz]

There is so much "awesome" in this thread today ! Driving pics, beer, pizza, Waggy beer, locking up brakes at 40...



Wow!

 

[Polarfire]

Love that patina! Looking great!

 

[bigwalton]

Love that patina! Looking great!

Just wait until you see what happens when I take polishing compound to the spray paint on the (apparently black) hood Did a little bit just as a test this evening.

Polishing set ordered today to get at the wheels without losing an arm in the process. Also ordered the various things needed to properly fix the rear window.

 

[bigwalton]

Laura was sick yesterday, so Kate and her got their first ride in Mater today. Just up the street so Laura could sit in the middle on the bench.

Attacked the hood and fender, I had to know what this thing might end up looking like and I had a lot of aggression to get out after the basketball final

Hood and cowl look to be black stock paint with crap spraybomb or cheapie Maaco paint. Polishing compound takes off enough to let the awesome patina show through. Was thinking of replacing them with matching paint used pieces, but this likely changes that plan.

Fender on the corner where I polished the one wheel shows that the stock paint is just begging for attention.

Very very excited.

 

[bigwalton]

So very happy with this view.

 

[spankrjs]

WOW, that paint shined up good

 

[bigwalton]

Thanks, I think I need to get some heavy paste wax to build a base gloss coat. This is just liquid stuff that doesn't seem substantial enough.

Open to any and all input from folks with more single-stage paint experience than me, which would be about everyone

 

[bigwalton]

Need help with the license plate. Laura named it Mater, but that's taken already.

7 numbers/letters with spaces allowed, no symbols. Tried (space)MATER(space) and the like, no dice.

These are available:
77MATER
MATER77
M8R - kinda like the way this one works in "8" and is so simple
M8R 77
77 M8R
M8R FSJ - kinda digging this one...

thoughts?

 

[Polarfire]

I like the M8R FSJ or M8ERFSJ

 

[jerseyjeeps]

I like the simplicity of M8R

 

[jims chop shop]

That's the one I thought of before I even read your list ,

2votes for M8R

 

[bigwalton]

Well, they emailed my insurance cert faster than I thought so I was able to run to get it done before they closed today. I'd hoped to take input over the night tonight and think it through, but this was too easy to just get done.

I like the simplicity of M8R

I came to that very same conclusion The idea of having a three letter plate got me all tingly and so it shall be

 

[Kiko]

So very happy with this view.
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It looks like the postal is yawning at Mader and the LJ.

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