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What did you do with your Scrambler today? Feb 2014 version

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Nothing special today, but new. I've been driving the 8 to work for the last few days due to wheel bearing in my vw eating itself. We've had some decent snow but I clean the driveway off and the roads haven't been too bad. Today however we got 3-4" while I was at work. Our driveway is shared by two other houses with ours being the first. I've put down 750 pounds of icemelt already this year. I do my driveway because it's steep and the end of the shared drive where it hits the state route. It's steep and off camber and I try to make it as safe as I can for my wife. The other two houses benefit from this as well. One set of neighbors is older and generally stay in when the weather gets bad. The other set of neighbors have never offered to help with salt, fuel for the snowblower, nothing. I don't really mind because I'd be doing it anyway, but I got a little guilty thrill when their Land Rover got just past MY driveway then ended up sideways in their part. The wife gets out with one of those little 10 pound containers of salt and proceeds to sprinkle it up 200' of steep driveway. NOT. A. CHANCE! They gave up and left to who knows where. I assume they went to buy more icemelt because I saw their rover finally in their driveway later that night.

Anyway, back to today. I got home from work to three or four new inches of snow. I cleaned my drive off and looked at the six to eight inches of snow up the rest of the drive. I locked in the hubs, dropped it in low, shifted to second and proceeded to walk right up the drive to check on the neighbors at the top. I LOVE my B.F. Goodrich All Terrains. This is the tenth set I've owned over the years. I really don't think there is a better tire for snow. I also love how a straight six sounds under load through a FlowMaster. This was really the first test of the four wheel drive and it brought back memories of countless trailrides in my old cj7.

It's nice to have a jeep again...
 
Picked up an AMC 20 out of a Wagoneer.
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Now I need to...
Strip it down
Get it sand blasted
Move the spring perches
Paint it
Re-gear it
Put in a locker
New seals and bearings
Swap in some 70's CJ 11x2 drums and have the axles changes to 5x5.5 so I can run my 15x8 wagon wheels on the axle
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Still working on polishing the whole set.

Oh and get a matching Dana 44 for the front.

So much fun!



 
I duct taped up some of the ducts that don't seal up very well. It's amazing how -10° air mixed with 130° air really cools down a jeep. Added a stuck-open thermostat (probably) to my list of stuff to address when it warms up a little.
 
Never thought I would need it in Maryland, but I took matters in my own hands so I can get some work done. With this I started to lay out the KC lights.

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I saw it buried in the garage when I got the snow blower out!!!!
 
We are supposed to get a bit of snow today and tomorrow. I may get it out to play in it and let the rib drive the LJ!
 
After many years of having a slow leak in my front right tire, I pulled it and sprayed it down with soapy water to find the leak. I figured it was one of the cuts in the tire and not much could be done. It turned out to be the valve stem. All fixed now. It'll be strange not having to add air to that tire all the time.
 
Got a little time before the next trip to put the sideboards I purchased from Treble. Still have to repaint the black to nutmeg but I'll wait for warmer weather. Hey, these brief windows are all I get these days since I'm working when I return from trips..... good to be busy though. Fairlead is removed so I can jam both the Rubicon and the Scram into the garage back-to-back--they make it by a lug nut.....


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I drove the Scrambler to work this morning, errands at lunch and headed back to the office in a bit. Still dry as a bone underneath her as well. And tons of looks and double-takes. I was already offered $5k by a guy at work, and when I said no thanks he offered $6k. Still said no thank you. Having a blast deiving this thing.
 
Spliced an eye on the new winch line.

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I drove the Scrambler to work this morning, errands at lunch and headed back to the office in a bit. Still dry as a bone underneath her as well. And tons of looks and double-takes. I was already offered $5k by a guy at work, and when I said no thanks he offered $6k. Still said no thank you. Having a blast deiving this thing.
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Drove great home and still dry underneath. Really need to do the carb upgrade though. Soon, very soon.
 
Continued installing new Speedhut gauges and Dakota Digital cruise control... Also ordered additional Speedhut gauges to replace the Autometer gauges that I originally didnt want to replace because I really liked them.
 
New clock

IMG-20140214-01187.jpgReplaced the cheap repro clock with a Speedhut one. Nice folks there at Speedhut.
 
I drove home with no heat and minimal wipers in a pretty decent snow. I think my alternator belt is loose. Again. My voltmeter was right at 12V most of the time but would bump up to 12.2 if everything but the headlights were off. I kept the wipers off until I needed them. I just replaced the belt this summer. The alternator is not quite in line with the groove on the other pulleys. It sits just forward of the other two so the belt isn't exactly straight. Any ideas?
 
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I drove home with no heat and minimal wipers in a pretty decent snow. I think my alternator belt is loose. Again. My voltmeter was right at 12V most of the time but would bump up to 12.2 if everything but the headlights were off. I kept the wipers off until I needed them. I just replaced the belt this summer. The alternator is not quite in line with the groove on the other pulleys. It sits just forward of the other two so the belt isn't exactly straight. Any ideas?
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Look for a poor ground - mine has been the same on both jeeps from time to time. Just put a new alternator on the 82 - had 14 volts for a while, now back to 12 something. My new clock (above) flickers slightly when driving and runs slow like the old one did.
EDIT: Just went out to start the jeep so my wife can go shovel and the voltmeter read less than 11 (bad ground) but everything ran fine, though the clock was four hours slow...
Take a pic of how not "exactly straight" the belt is - they rarely are perfectly aligned, seems like.
 
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Finally got around to finishing the cornerstone replacement and doing the nutter bypass and setting the timing. What a difference. Now time to finish cleaning all the unnecessary wires from the engine bay.
 
I can start the jeep and it'll pull 14.7 or so until the engine warms up it'll drop to the low twelves. Occasionally you can hear the belt start to squeal and actually watch the voltage start coming up a tenth of a volt at a time. As for the whopper-jawedness of the pulleys I'd say the alternator pulley is a little more than an eight of an inch farther forward than the other two. Maybe half a belt width.
 
Whew! Got all the computer cabling pulled and the jeep runs. Got a little nervous doing it but took my time, one cable at a time.

What a bunch of cabling.
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This is how it looks now. I need to put the bare cable in a wire loom and then I'm done.
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Is there anything else you see that I can take out?
 
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