Month: May 2011

And we have always been at war with Eastasia. Wow, it’s been really dead on this blog lately. It appears that the whole working so you have money to work on the Jeep has been really getting in the way of wasting hours in the garage tearing into a 60 year old Jeep. Fortunately, the big project that I’ve been working on for nearly a year at the new place of employment has finally come to a close. That means that my weekends should start becoming mine again. I’ve been on a much needed vacation from work the last few…

It took a little longer than I had hoped to get to this point, but I finally got the engine removed this past Saturday. After dealing with a death in the family Easter weekend, Saturday was the first real Jeep day I had. Fortunately, it was well worth the wait. After spending about an hour beating the hell out of the flywheel trying to get it to move, I called in reinforcements to help. I couldn’t keep the flywheel moving enough and still beat the back of it to keep the progress going. After a trip from my dad I…