Old77's Jeep Thread

[Old77]

Just bring me the dually an I'll get it all handled for ya

I wouldn't wanna make your obs dually jealous ya know. That'd be just plain mean of me to do that!!

 

[animal]

Well, dang! Glad y'all are ok!

Although, it looks like @animal was right about you not having it come summertime. Too soon? Lol, sorry.

I wuz thinking it...I just wasn't gonna say it.....

 

[bluex]

I wouldn't wanna make your obs dually jealous ya know. That'd be just plain mean of me to do that!!

These things just multiply somehow

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Cleaning this one up for a buddy. Wheel polish (farmed out lol) interior refresh and door jamb painting. Of course it's snowballing like always too.

 

[Old77]

These things just multiply somehow

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Cleaning this one up for a buddy. Wheel polish (farmed out lol) interior refresh and door jamb painting. Of course it's snowballing like always too.

And why they all haz 2 b white??

 

[bluex]

And why they all haz 2 b white??

This one was silver someone raptor liner it white because they put red power doors on it. I don't understand that unless the stock doors were beat up. Why they didn't just change the guts over is a mystery.

This was the best part

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It's a decent truck otherwise. Has a bored out 454 with a big cam, also a 5 spd NV4500, all the factory electronics are gone an it has a sniper. I need to look at the vin an see if it was a 6.5 originally too. The only real negative to it will be the liner paint job once I'm done. It needs tires something fierce too, they are nearly slicks....

 

[HotRodPC]

Intro and info about the rig
About 6 weeks ago I bought my first Jeep and now have spent the last 6 weeks trying to learn as much about Jeeps as possible. At my roots, I'm a GM guy but have always wanted a Wrangler and TJ was as new as I wanted to go. Found this, it was overall very solid and ran well so I jumped at it. She's a 5 speed with the 4.0 and 190k on the clock so she needs a freshen up but has good bones.

Only real mods it currently has is a 4" Skyjacker lift on 33's and a couple Kicker subs in the rear with an aftermarket head unit. Does have LED headlights but not sure that's really a mod.

The audio doesn't currently work because the previous owner said a couple RCA's melted. So I've already ordered a new head unit and new RCA's to get it back up and running. Once it's warm again I'll dig into that and figure out why the RCA's got hot. Seems super odd but maybe a grounding issue?

I also grabbed a couple of replacement seats out of another TJ. See the pics. My stock seats are pretty roached LOL I also have some surface rust on the floors (NO HOLES!! ).

I've also got a couple new front fenders on hand to replace the rusty ones that are currently on it.

I've grabbed replacement Skyjacker shocks as it looks like this lift has been installed for a while. I'll also be replacing the sway bar end links and lower arms to freshen things up below.

All the body mounts look good except for the ones right in the middle about where the steps would normally be so I'll have to give that some attention there pretty soon as the body mounts are essentially gone and there is some rot that needs fixed. Luckily I stumbled across a patch kit that has some replacement pieces for that area so that must be a common issue. Once that's done, I also tracked down some steps to put back on. My wife and younger kids have a hard time getting up into the ol' girl so steps are required LOL Main thing for me was mechanically pretty decent and frame in good shape (which it is).

Plans
Overall refresh of everything
New Tires and Wheels. I'll most likely stick with 33's but may move up to 35's if the deal is right
Window Tint
Get audio working again
Exhaust
"Big 7" Upgrade
62mm throttle body upgrade and "cold air" intake
Fix exhaust on rear part of body (see pics)
.....and whatever else hits me as time goes. I'm still learning a lot and just looking to have fun with it while daily driving it.

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Ohh no. Now you got bit by this bug too??? Turning your back on squares now. hmmm !?!?!

 

[HotRodPC]

The End

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Yes, she’s fixable. No, I do not have time for another project. This accident happened last night. Tonight, she’s got a new owner.

Synopsis of what happened: heading northbound on the hwy a couple of women decided it was a smart idea to stop dead in their lane because of a dog on the hwy. couple of cars in front me darted out of the way, then I saw them, brakes locked up and I hit left rear corner with my right front corner which resulted in me being on my side. My 14 year old was in the jeep with me. Both of us were belted in and were absolutely fine other than a bruise or two. I would have swerved but going 60 mph I thought the jeep might flip and was trying to avoid that. Well, here we are anyway.

So dually is back to DD duty for a while.

Adios, Jeep. Not sure what I’ll get next. May just save up for the K5 I’ve always wanted. There’s one local that’s decentish for 8k. Don’t have that right now so will have to save my pennies and may make that goal a reality. We’ll see

DOH !!! That didn 't last long. An d here's it's taken me a year to find this out. 2025 needs to be a better year for me. I mean it won't be, but at least be here more often. I'm missing so much here. But the good news is, this place still exists. Honestly, I thought the Shagster shut it down. For some there reason, there was 2 days I tried getting on here and it's like gmsquarebody.com did not exist at all. Probably the system I was on had it blocked. I have a feeling that's what it was. I was on a secured network.