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Not a welder myself, but rather a teacher. Can one of you guys post a picture of CLEAN steel, ready to be welded? I think that might help here, and I don't have anything suitable. Plus it's cold outside. lol

Kind of like calling 911 to complain about the government.

So true....no one makes a rig like my 48: ....but then again, I absolutely love the KJ I bought the wife last year. Great urban assault vehicle. When they get cheap like $2000 or so, I'd like to SFA one for the trail.

Same to you too. :)

Garmin 60CX. My wife rocks!

Like mentioned, both are pretty equal....don't buy it to swap, but maybe as a replacement.

Isn't it only 0 Celcius there? :yes:

www.earlycj5.com Good site for reference. :bowdown:

Good. Replace both when you get a chance. :yes:

Can you claim it as work expenses? I say go for it.

If you are not, you need to go here and sign up onto a local forum....nothing like buddies who run jeeps who are willing to come and help swap an engine with you. http://www.pajeeps.org/

LOL. :yes:

Here she is....I have a welder, but I don't know how to use it yet. Not enough to properly repair her. So she waits. http://share.shutterfly.com/share/recei ... Tbt3LZowv4

Eagle is correct. I have an old rusty CJ3B that many people here have told me to forget about....but it is rare, as there weren't many of them to begin with. Each and every MJ is salvageable. I would hate to see this one lost because you started out with just as much enthusiasm as we all had when we were very younger. Don't get discouraged. Don't delete this thread. Learn from it, and look back on how far you have come in a few months. :cheers:

Then you need to start doing a lot more research first. Why not take a course on welding? Learn how to weld on scrap.....then actually do correct welding on your rig.

Okay, as you may remember I am from Prince Edward Island...for those of you who never knew that, it's in the middle of the Gulf of St. Lawrence (all salt water). Like Dipper Harbur, freakjeep93, it's a "mild Canadian" climate....-20C or so in the winter, +32C in summer roughly. Very moist (he's off the Bay of Fundy) ALL YEAR ROUND. No one on the forum knows rust like you and I do unless they are from the same type of area....saltwater and humidity all year round, couple with salted roads in the winter. If they are not and they think the rust they get is bad, they can go back and look at the first pictures that you posted....that is NORMAL rust on a 20yr vehicle in areas like this. Nothing out of the ordinary here. Living in practically rust free Alberta out here now, I can now say that I have seen the best (and lived through the worst) of rust. That being said, you are not a welder. Your father is not a welder, or if he has, he hasn't taught you anything properly or completely (thinking you know how to do it because he showed you some stuff is different from taking the time to learn from him properly) . If he had, you wouldn't have made the mistakes you did so far. The extension cord is an example....any good welder worth his salt (pardon the pun) knows that an extension cord is like a water hose.....the longer it is, the less pressure coming out. And electrical power equals water pressure in this comparison. Having another 18 year old on here tell you "yeah, go for it" is not a good indicator of whether it advisable to do so or not. Having some very experienced welders on here advise you of your mistakes is a much better route to take. Rust will not go away if it is not cut out. And where you are, it's even more important. You will probably not find a frame that is rust free (could possibly b a barn find I suppose) - and the best ones you find will probably make most people on here puke with the amount of rust on it. But you simply cannot afford to cut corners because the rust situation is so bad with your vehicle....it is crucially even more important to do a complete and well done job on your rig.

We have had over 2 ft here in the past few weeks. The local lake that the town is built on freezes over and become a winter playground for all. Lots of snow to play in out there. :D

That's what I was referring to. Here in Canada, the blocks crack. Had one of the Calgary forum members lose a Cherokee engine that way last year/

Seen that before....nice toy. :)

:yes: I figured you misread it. lol

Th MJ is more of a "truck" than my 03 Dodge 3500 will ever be. :(

You know he's talking about Greenland, right? Only named so to encourage Vikings to settle there during the Medieval Warming Period?

That's okay. Like Dirty Comanche stated, I'd rather be clothed warmly, lying on my back on the snow working on a rig, than on wet ground. Only thing is that plastic parts like to snap....all necessary Canuck parts should be 100% metal instead of plastic. ;)

Oh, yes ... it'll do quite a bit. It will very effectively coat the entire engine in hot coolant. There is a way to burp it via the pressure bottle, but you don't drive it. You fill the system as well as you can and get the bottle about half full. Leave the cap off (or very loose) and start the engine. Let it idle until the coolant boils and you see/hear bubbles in the surge bottle. Shut off the engine and wait. After 2 to 5 minutes as the system starts to cool down, all of a sudden you'll see the coolant in the bottle getting sucked back out the bottom, into the block. Pour in more coolant. Don't fill the bottle, but don't let it get sucked dry or you have to start over. Once it stops sucking, refill to half, start the engine, and repeat. It usually takes between four and six cycles of this to purge the air out of the system. Sort of like bleeding the air out of a power steering system. Good explanation.

I'm normally a long way from the coast. So it does get bloody cold. -40 is normal in a lot of the places I work, and and it will get colder than that (-45 and windddddddddddddddddddddd). But, PG isn't bad, normally it only gets down to -35ish, -40 for a couple days at most, and often it hovers around -10 to -20 for most of the time. The suckers in Vancouver have it easy for the cold, -10 is about the limit, and not much of it at that, but it rains all the time. Victoria and the southern parts of the island is best. Like I said, I'd rather it snowed than rained. If it sits about -10 or colder, you won't get wet if you have half decent clothes. If you get wet, it's nasty. Probably the worst night of my life was doing an inspection on a helicopter (all night) in the coast mountains, it was fall and it hadn't gotten cold yet. Actually, it was probably the first snow fall of the year. Of course, it rained for about 3 hours before it turned to snow, so we were soaked long before the temperature went below freezing. Then we continued to slog it out in soaking gear and heavy snow fall. The next day was great, above freezing, no rain or snow, but the inspection was due the night before :doh: I'm from PEI, and I live in Alberta. Gets damm cold here, but it is a dry cold. Drove to work on Tuesday and it was -42 Celcius....PLUS whatever the wind chill factor was. On the other hand, -25 Celcius in PEI FEELS colder than -42, due to the humidity in the air out there. My wife is from Alberta, and we met at university out east. She'd come home to Alberta at Christmas and run around in a spring jacket after being acclimatized to the weather out east.