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What did you do with your Scrambler today?

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I put 45 miles on it. Unfortunately I NEEDED 50...

About 5 miles from home, (on my wife's first ride in the jeep) it started sputtering and then died. At least it ran long enough to let me get it onto a side road. When I popped the hood there was fuel dumping out of the bottom of the carb on both sides. The drivers side didn't worry me but the fuel on the passenger side was landing on the manifold and boiling. Luckily there was no need for the fire extinguisher I threw in the jeep last night. Anyway, my mother in law came and picked up my wife while I waited for the rollback. Well, there's the first of my four allowed AAA tows...

So it looks like the carb rebuild kit just moved itself to the front of the to-do line. What do you guys think? Bad gasket which finally went that was hopefully causing my idle problem? I guess we'll see. I put a hundred miles on it last night through some pretty hilly downshift to clear the hill type roads. I averaged 15 mpg. Hopefully that'll be the bottom mileage I get. We'll see.
 
flashover604 said:
So it looks like the carb rebuild kit just moved itself to the front of the to-do line. What do you guys think? Bad gasket which finally went that was hopefully causing my idle problem? I guess we'll see. I put a hundred miles on it last night through some pretty hilly downshift to clear the hill type roads. I averaged 15 mpg. Hopefully that'll be the bottom mileage I get. We'll see.
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That sounds like my maiden cruise once home from purchase. 1/4 tank is pretty much empty! But no leaks for me. Check the hoses, then do the rebuild. I'll be happen to see 15!
 
kimsanva said:
That sounds like my maiden cruise once home from purchase. 1/4 tank is pretty much empty! But no leaks for me. Check the hoses, then do the rebuild. I'll be happen to see 15!
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I could see the whole bottom half inch of the carburetor drenched in fuel. The front where the fuel feed is was still fairly dry, so I don't think it was the hose. I have the electric fuel pump wired to a switch temporarily so I was able to kill the pump. Fuel kept coming out of the carb as the fuel filter drained. I have no idea what pressure the fuel pump puts out but I never had any leaks prior to tonight.

On an unrelated note I was able to get it on my buddy's lift last night. The drivers side frame is Swiss cheesy back by the rear spring and the crossmember at the rear of the tank is in need of a Chiefwaho makeover. I knew that but it was nice to get up close and personal and check the passenger side. It's got no rot somehow.

The steering had some considerable slop in it. We tightened up the steering box with the Allen head adjustment bolt. This took up a bunch, but the steering shaft is pretty nasty. Two joints that move like Shakira and the squared sliding joint with more slop than the neighbors hog farm made a BUNCH of movement at the steering wheel that I don't think I can fix. Looks like a new steering shaft in the pipe. The tie rod end from the pitman arm to the drag link is pretty sloppy as well. I found a kit on eBay that has three tie rod ends and four ball joints for $81. What do you guys recommend for tie rod ends and ball joints?
I thought I had a bad wheel bearing but it ended up just needing the two big nuts tightened up behind the hub. Since I was already this far I decided I'd go ahead and swap out the calipers. The old ones are pretty scuzzy and the rubber around the pins is so dry rotted it just fell apart. Got two new calipers but they're different than the ones on the jeep. Mine have the two pins that just go about half way into the caliper and they're about five inches apart. The ones I bought have the pins going all the way through the caliper and the pins are around 9 inches apart. No clue what they fit, but it ain't my axle... Oh well, next time maybe... I gotta make it go again before I can make it stop!
 
Got fenders back from paint today.


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Lots more room for front tires.
 
hi i cut the centers out of two of my american racing chrome hub covers so i could use the large ones in the rear around the new warn hubs on the amc 20 disk full floater project,,,100_5806.JPG100_5807.JPG100_5808.JPG100_5814.JPG
 
Drove to the car show, parked right behind the cars on display. Didn't enter this year, next year with new paint and the bumpers finished I'll enter again. I popped the hood and then took a walk around...the Scrambler drew a crowd for quite a while...
 
Randyzzz said:
Drove to the car show, parked right behind the cars on display. Didn't enter this year, next year with new paint and the bumpers finished I'll enter again. I popped the hood and then took a walk around...the Scrambler drew a crowd for quite a while...
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Sneaky way to enter without "entering". 👍 Scramblers should always draw a crowd.


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Got some new (to me anyway) MT Baja claws 31" I like the look but man their noisy and run a little rough. At Least I wont hear Eric talking crap about my bald tires running the dunes in a couple weeks! LOL
 
I haven't been active on this forum in the past 5 five years (ever since getting married 5 years ago, loosing a job, finding a job, buying my first house and having two babies)... instead, I've been surfing: job boards, home repair/remodeling forums and baby forums. :)

But I did just get a chance to take my oldest son (just turned 3 y.o.) for his very first Jeep ride.

I don't know who was more excited. :D

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Spent the weekend on the beach with two extra couples down for a visit. Extra chairs and cornhole to keep the crowd comfy and entertained.
 
Getting ready to pull the cage out later today to finish welding and paint it. :)


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Asking opinions: I'm very tempted to shut this thread down. Read my reasoning before judging.

I hateseeing all these cool pictures/details on tech items (flat fenders and wheel mods for FF install, just to cite the very recent ones) and photos (smoke photo for a recent example) that, while cool, very quickly become buried in this one insanely long thread in the general forum.

It looks to me that a lot of folks (certainly not all, I do realize that) are ONLY posting these things in here and not on their own proper thread where people could MUCH more easily see them. It seems every time I get an email alert on this thread, by the time I come to look there's five more posts.

I liked the idea of this thread at first, but its become too easy for people to just throw their post on this one thread when the WHOLE SITE is really about what you did with your Scrambler today. I can't post enough "heads up" to make people realize that things they're putting here are deserving of their own threads.

Thoughts? I'm very seriously thinking the convenience of the thread is now outweighed by what it's "hiding" from people.
 
I would tend to agree with you Eric. I didn't think about this thread soaking up the content that would normally have their own threads. As a user of tapatalk, I tend to browse through the thread names and mark them as read and never open them if the subject line doesn't grab my attention. Recently I've been thinking to myself that content has seemed to drop off quite a bit over the last few weeks on this site as a whole. I had been automatically marking this thread as read without ever opening it because it got to be too much to read only to find much of the content not interesting to me at all. I think it would do some good to encourage folks to start new threads for the work the are doing on their 8's.
 
What about letting people post in this thread what they did with one pic and they then start a sepaerate thread describing how and what they used.
Karl
 
Eric,
Probably a good idea for the reasons you mentioned.

when posting the photo of my little boy's first Jeep ride, I was cautious starting a new thread as some forums outside this one can be picky about nontechnical content threads like that burying good technical/topical posts like you mentioned.
 
I plead guilty Eric. I am one of the folks that have been scolded. And I keep putting iff a build thread. And maybe that is partly because this thread is here for me to quickly dump the pics and narrative. Which is much easier than me going back in time and finding a ton of pics.

If you do shut it down I will be forced to start a thread of past stuff I have done. So I guess I am siding with you. ;)

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This thread is almost exactly a year old, with almost 900 posts. Maybe have a monthly version of it. Each month close the old one and roll into a new one. A lot of people probably won't want to post up a day's ride or the smaller events if they need to start a thread about it. I do understand your point on the more tech related things.
 
I like the thread. If I did something that I don't feel is worthy of a seperate thread it's nice to still be in the conversation. If I see something I like (Eric's cage, the 29 Palms photo, the flat fenders, among a bunch of others) I can ask them for info or if they could post a seperate thread. This is where I'll post that I had it brought home via rollback or just took the carb off. You guys probably don't want to click a new thread for that. Just my two cents, but this is my Scrambler water cooler.



Btw, I took the carb off to start the rebuild of the carb that initiated the rollback trip.
 
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