…to bring you a possible change to the time frame. That’s right, I’m getting restless. Ike is a fantastic and fun Jeep. I am consistently impressed with what he can do, even in his 60-year-old, rusted-through, leaking every possible fluid including gas state. He’s like the old man that just won’t give up his independence. Either that, or he’s the old man yelling “I’m not dead yet” when the body cart comes rolling through town. In any event, I’m starting to rethink my time frame for striping Ike down to the frame (you see what I did there?). The only…
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There is nothing that annoys me more than when someone doesn’t fully understand the capabilities of the vehicle they are driving. Most of the time, this is someone in a little sub-compact or compact car attempting to outrun a light with an underpowered four-banger with a ridiculously loud muffler. However, there is a special class of people that drive trucks that have no idea what a truck is truly capable of. Rather than trying to do too much with their vehicle like the 17 year old attempting to redline a 20 year old Honda, they treat their trucks like a…
2 CommentsOne of the items that was part of my first parts order was a new set of white oak hood blocks. They aren’t anything special really, just some blocks of wood attached to the front end of the hood. They serve two purposes on the CJ-3A. The first is to keep the hood sheet metal from rubbing against the windshield frame. The second is to keep the windshield frame, and sometimes more importantly the windshield wiper arms, from rubbing against and digging into the hood sheet metal. Now, keeping with my theme of going as original as possible, I also…
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