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

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Got twin sticks on the Dana 20 today.
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SHLTR2 said:
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Hold on, where's your radiator???

Oh yeah, it's in a box in my garage... :eek:

Pulled Hugh's radiator out of my junk FINALLY after he was kind enough to let me borrow it for one day of wheeling and the trip home from Drummond Island after my fan went through mine :banghead:
 
Speedpin said:
I am sure others know the familiar sound of the tcase shifter rattling as you drive down the road. Just the slop in the linkage pins. Threw an old throttle return spring on it last night. Hooked it on shifter and seat bracket. Minimal tension but enough. Nice and quiet.
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This should be it's own thread. :thumbsup:
 
Postal rear door work today started with a torch to remove the frozen hinges. She's got some significant lower rust but for now I just want to get it working and swinging on the jeep. It was sheet metal screwed shut when I got it.

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Bummer on the door rust, way worse than what I had to deal with...but at least it is just sheet metal.
 
Well at least there dunkin donuts to eat.😋

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revho said:
Bummer on the door rust, way worse than what I had to deal with...but at least it is just sheet metal.
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Yeah i agree .. but as u say i am happy to have one I can work with. I would take another one in this cond to go along with the extra top
 
jerseyjeeps said:
Late last night , ready to go back on. Anatomy of a postal door...

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There's a full build thread on this and you're not just throwing these up in this jumble of a thread, right? Please don't bury this great rescue in here. Pet peeve of mine to see truly great stuff wrapped up in these "What did you do..." threads that people might miss in the litany of posts. :(
 
That would be great I hear you but I simply dont have the time anymore :( My road trip thread is 4 months old now. I am not making excuses, but that literally is what it is. Should I trickle or not post at all ? :shrug:

(I will TRY to get some unique threads going...I really WILL TRY) :wave:
 
Obviously I get it, but it's a pretty minimal difference posting in a dedicated thread over posting here. Just have to enter a title once :shrug:

I'm not saying to post a ton more pics, just put them in a thread where people can subscribe to see the latest in the trickle specific to that cool Jeep's story and not get updates on this one fifteen times in one day from everyone under the sun's post. Just for the postal that you know has specific interest for people as an oddball. :crazy:

Using myself as an example, I have to admit scanning very quickly through these "What did you do..." threads often because there's so many new posts by the time I come back to look at them. I'm sure I've missed cool things as a result but it is what it is. Alternatively, I go to read every post when I get an alert on a specific thread where I know I'm interested in the topic from when I subscribed, as would be the case with your postal :)

I think everyone knows I've not been a big fan of these "What did you do..." threads from the start for that very reason, this ENTIRE FORUM is for what you did with your Scrambler today ;)
 
Yeah I hear ya. But then ill be pissed about all my other threads. The road trip one needs to be updated before I shows this mess so ill do that first. It's a domino effect and I am way behind.
 
jerseyjeeps said:
PS. Glad that this part will be buried in this thread :cheers: :bacon:
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I consider it a PSA and I have to get in my take on these threads every so often, so we got that taken care of at least :D

Now back to your regular jumble of a thread. :bacon:
 
I have suggested to new members elsewhere to have one thread for all their exploits which is easy to maintain update etc. rightly or wrongly. I think that works better than thirty threads from one person. I could be wrong.


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older I get..the more I tend to trickle..not sure wtf that's about.

jerseyjeeps said:
That would be great I hear you but I simply dont have the time anymore :( My road trip thread is 4 months old now. I am not making excuses, but that literally is what it is. Should I trickle or not post at all ? :shrug:
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gazzo said:
I have suggested to new members elsewhere to have one thread for all their exploits which is easy to maintain update etc. rightly or wrongly. I think that works better than thirty threads from one person. I could be wrong.


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Ultimately, folks can do whatever they want, but in terms of following along on a particular fix/issue/build and given the way the notification system works (if you take advantage of it), multiple people talking about an unlimited number of topics in one thread leads to confusion ("Are you talking to me?") and missed posts. At best, it's an incoherent series of posts that don't follow any particular topic, even if you can and want to sort them all out.

A thread by someone on one topic can easily be understood (assuming it stays on topic) no matter how many people chime in on the one topic.

A thread started by someone on "all their exploits" is at least somewhat coherent in that it should only really have substantial updates from that one person, but if they work on 20 different aspects of their Jeep at different times, it can become jumbled and potentially confusing. That said, some of the coolest threads on here are people's "build threads" where they show the entire process and that's why we started a subforum specific for those build threads.

These threads, however, essentially started by no one (whoever first notices it's a new month) and not on any topic, are just a mess of things and, like this little conversation, end up with side discussions that can be problematic. And I realize I'm contributing to that by continuing this discussion, but I think it's worth it and I'm the damn admin so I'll do what I want :bacon: :rotfl:

The other way that I think about it is from the point of view of someone who comes back later and is searching for information. The single biggest value that this forum has is the MASSIVE amount of existing information on virtually every topic on Scramblers. For that person, search is next to useless if the threads returned to them in their search are 40 pages long and rambling/not specific. Yes, there are ways to get specific in searches and to search posts vs threads, but a lot of folks don't know about doing that and will throw up their hands.

If a one thread/one topic approach is used, search results, by default, will be be much cleaner.

The post Speedpin made on the simple spring fix for the shifter rattle is a perfect example. As a single (and yes, short, but who cares?) thread in the Drivetrain forum, someone looking for "shifter rattle" would get a thread that's returned with a title something like "Simple shifter rattle fix". Now, with it in here, that person get's a 75 post long thread titled "What did you do with..."

At LEAST we went to monthly versions of these so that there's not a single 7500 post long thread, as was getting going there for a while.

Not trying to be an PITA or call anyone out, but I've definitely noticed a downturn in the quantity of quality of information the specific forums after these threads started because "it's so easy" to drop something in the jumble here when it would be an awesome and useful thread elsewhere (like Speedpin's nice shifter fix post).
 
I try to post important stuff both in my build thread and in this thread. I love this thread, it brings out the stuff that normally wouldn't be posted, and feels like sitting at the bar BSing.

I really wish search would work better, or maybe just that I'd forget less...
 
Fine. Here's some more jumble... :)shltr2 1028.jpg Had a little time this afternoon... Got the Remflex gasket yesterday and my radiator back today, so I got the manifolds back on, the Weber mounted, and started on the brake MC and booster. Starting to get crowded in there after being empty so long. Ran hard gas line from the pump and got all that mounted and hooked up with the filter and pressure regulator. Discovered that the dual-diaphram booster assembly is a way long thing and looks like it needs support from that fiberglass firewall. Nearly as long as the motor! Had to tinker with the throttle linkage to get it to clear. I see now why every so often you read about the booster bracket being on upside down. Looks like the booster hits the hood, or very close when it's mounted that way to clear the linkage and carb. Not any of it worth yet another build thread, I don't reckon... :)
 
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