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 days, and aside from sleeping, spending time with the wife and dogs, and going out and enjoying the time off, I hadn’t got very much work on the Jeep done. I spent a whole day adding lighting to the garage over the Jeep. Then today I finally got to work on the old guy. I didn’t get too far since it was Memorial Day and the family BBQ took me from the garage, and I figured out that my puller kit just doesn’t work for pulling apart the tie rods.
Since the tie rods were being fairly stubborn, I turned to the brakes. After opening the master cylinder and seeing how little fluid was in there, it struck me that I never really took a look at it before all the driving I did prior to the tear down. A BIG oops on my part for omitting that from my pre-driving check. Luckily I never had a problem with the brakes, and now there is almost no fluid left in the system.
I also got around to removing the exhaust system from the frame. The multi-piece exhaust was so rusted that they wouldn’t come apart. Enter: Air Cut-Off Tool. A few quick cuts later and I had a bunch of small pieces of what used to be an exhaust system.
Tomorrow I’m making a trip out to get some proper flare nut wrenches and another puller to attempt to remove the tie rods. If I get all that done, I’ll pull the tires and wheels off, and get started on removing the axels from the frame.
Ike’s almost all apart!