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New Scrambler owner! YeeHaa!

That looks like a high dollar fix right there. Hope you didn't take it out or your scrambler may never run right again.....:)

Pman said:
One of the entertaining things about buying used vehicles is seeing what the POs have cobbled together. I had a good bit of work to do around the house today, so thought I'd pick something "easy" to do on the Scrambler, which meant pulling the chrome instrumentation bezel off and replacing it with the factory correct black. As I was removing the aftermarket mechanical oil pressure gauge to fit the bezel on, I found this fancy mounting system: 2 hose clamps connected together in a circle, designed to hold the gauge in place...oh well, I guess it worked. But the ground wire woven into the slots of the clamp? Not even sure what this ground goes to, but I connected it properly later.
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Check out the fancy "grounding" job on the clamp (look for the black wire on the clamp, by the bolt):
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DaveColborn said:
That looks like a high dollar fix right there. Hope you didn't take it out or your scrambler may never run right again.....:)
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:crazy: Dave, the compression dropped in 3 cylinders after I fixed this. (J/k)

I think the ground wire went to the ejection seat.
 
scrambled eggs said:
almost moved to Chapin? don't hear that very often in a 2 stoplight town.
life is good (but hot) here. especially since the aggies whipped the gamecocks last nite... hopefully the tigers will whip up on Georgia this wkd.
only ties I have w/ NE is that we buy some of our metal buildings from a company out there , C



BTW, We almost moved to Chapin SC 6 years ago, but life changed. Beautiful country and beautiful people. Still want to get to the South East if only for a visit. It took me half a day to realize that "Hay" means "Hi".
Have some spicy boiled peanuts and a cold beer for me, if you would.
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I was lining something up with Ellett Bros. Used to own a gun store and I have always been in sales in one form or another.
 
gazzo said:
Hey tell me something do you guys have rust rear of the wheel well along the line where the floor pan meets the side but NOT in the same place on the left? Weird similarity on ours

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My rust is pretty much on the outside, the seams look good (we'll find out after sandblasting) as does the underside.
 
I was lining something up with Ellett Bros. Used to own a gun store and I have always been in sales in one form or another.[/QUOTE]

ellett bros- we built those bldgs. and still do work up there. as you can imagine, they've been bought and sold a few times and their sales have been growing exponentially by 40-50% since Bush left ofc. imagine that.
 
scrambled eggs said:
I was lining something up with Ellett Bros. Used to own a gun store and I have always been in sales in one form or another.

ellett bros- we built those bldgs. and still do work up there. as you can imagine, they've been bought and sold a few times and their sales have been growing exponentially by 40-50% since Bush left ofc. imagine that.
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Very cool! And yes, don't you know their biz went through the roof with Holder constantly running his mouth about banning guns! I think most of the local gun dealers around here order from Ellett Bros.

I haven't touched a blasted thing on the heep for over a week now. Last two weekends have been rained out, and I've been on the road traveling (back to OH tomorrow). I swear once this humidity leaves us I'm putting the full court press on!!
 
So I've really done a "bunch-a-nothin" on the Scrambler lately. Rain, hunting season, traveling with work, blah, blah, all that stuff I complained about in my last post have all equalled zilcho wrenching....until today. Wanted to clean the idle up a bit and I knew the carb hadn't been touched by the PO, but this was just plain skanky::eek:
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Dipped it, threw new parts and a set of bronze bushings in the throttle shaft holes in the baseplate. Unfortunately the choke housing is giving me fits (drilling out the rivets that held the choke cover on). Trying to drill out the old rivets so I can tap the holes and put normal screws on there but this one is giving me FITS. Simply ran out of time, so hope to finish up tomorrow after work.

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I was about to drill the rivets out yesterday on mine, to adjust the choke plate. I soaked everything in carb cleaner and got it all loosened up and didn't drill. This morning, the choke slammed shut when I pressed the throttle down and released. Started like a champ on fast idle, idled down decent but too rich after warming up which I'll sort out. Still 50 degrees here, but I am leaving mine alone until I find I really need it.

Historically I have been able to break anything, anything at all, and I am sure I am still capable of that. My goal now is to fix with the least amount of effort, so this was huge for me, in the aspect of me taking time and researching it. I don't mind breaking stuff while fixing things, at least that means I am off the couch and out doing it. Just trying to increase my success to "oh crap gotta buy a new one" ratio..

I read this link although not jeep specific

http://www.chevelles.com/techref/Adjusting_Automatic_Chokes.htm

and it was pretty helpful in to me. I'd be curious as to what mechanics here might think of the advice.

Thanks for your update.
 
Dave- That's a great link you provided! I skimmed through it briefly (still at my office), but it looks very helpful. Thanks for sharing.

When you say you "got it all loosened up", do you mean the choke housing screws? I'm dealing with the factory rivets that were designed to keep "us" from tinkering with the settings. I've drilled out two sets of choke housing rivets in the past, and I swear these rivets are like Grade 8 material!! I'm headed to the hardware store after work to get some left handed drill bits to see if that will coax out the offending suckers.
 
I have rivets too in mine. I looked for screws for a while, before I realized that they didn't all come with screws and that I was actually looking in the right spot.

Loosened up, means it all loosened up with carb cleaner, and began to operate on it's own properly, without adjustment. Opening and closing.
 
Got up this morning and finished up the carb. Remember a couple of posts up where I was struggling with the rivets? Why do I make things so hard sometimes?? This morning, I pulled my drill press out of a dark, dusty corner of my garage and had those suckers out in minutes.

Got the choke housing installed, got everything back on the Scrambler, cranked her up and....uh oh.....something was wrong. Gas was pouring down the throat of the carb. STOPPPPPPP! After shutting off the engine, fuel continued to pour out. Pulled the top end of the carb off and noticed the bowl was overflowing. At first I thought the float setting was wrong. Backed out the brass fuel inlet and it appeared the new needle had somehow gotten stuck, so apparently it was allowing fuel to flow unimpeded into the bowl. Lots of cussing occurred, buttoned it back up and all is good. MUCH smoother idle after I re-bushed the throttle shafts. Now I just need to replace the intake/exhaust manifold gasket (have a slight intake vac leak there) and it ought to be good to go.

After that, time to start slinging paint!!!!
 
Nice progress Pman.
I think I'm not going to pull the tub on mine this winter, going to spend some time piling up body panels that I know I will need and misc. parts and cash so that when I start I can just do it. Plus I want to drive her til the salt trucks come out for the winter.
 
Thanks ScramblerMan- I'm in the same boat. Getting everything "staged" and will start painting once it cools off a bit here in SC. We are on the coast and it's been raining nonstop!
 
Hunting season has killed (pun intended) my work on Edgar. Good news is I've been having a blast driving it out to the hunting lease!

This past Thursday I decided to ditch the old "off brand" 31's after I noticed a nice little crack around the sidewall of one tire. Hey, it's all about the safety of my family :rotfl:, so it was important that I upgrade to 33 x 10.5's. I agonized over going 32 x 11.5, but I like the height of these plus I didn't lose any turn radius.

Definitely going to try to refurb the top and seals next, then on to painting the body....if I can ever stop driving it.

Here's a pic of the new (and freshly dirtied) tires from this weekend.

 
Looks great Pman! Thanks for the charleston dining recommendations, the steak at Huffs was amazing! Looking to be back soon, next time I may just drag the Whaler down.....you fish?
 
Awesome! Glad y'all had a good time! Shoot yeah I fish! Do Jeeps leak? :crazy:

 
Sometimes it seems like every repair that "should" be fairly easy turns into a royal pain in the arse. Our office shut down for Christmas week, which was the prime opportunity for me to replace the inner axle seal that started leaking after I hauled a trailer loaded with a cord of wood:huh:. Noticed it last week, and at first thought it was the brake cylinder leaking until I pulled the drum and noticed everything doused thoroughly in rear end dope.
So I pull the brake assembly, e-brake cable, brake line, then unbolt the whole mess from the axle flange. Put new seal in. All good so far! Then, go to reinsert the axle and the blasted thing was stopping short (like 1/4-1/2" short). Couldn't bolt the brake backing plate to the flange. It appears that, when I pulled the axle, the bearing slipped! :banghead: Keep in mind that I stared at the thing and fiddled with it for two hours before coming to this conclusion!

Went and bought a cheap replacement bearing to use as a driver on my shop press, and started back at it this afternoon. Well, I apparently was given the wrong size bearing. Back to the parts store again tomorrow!

By the way, now I know why everyone replaces the 2 piece axles with the 1 piece. Calling Moser soon!

Merry Christmas everyone!!
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