MiNi Beast

Next time I'm over we will have a pin stripeing pow wow.

Work of art. Nice set of skills you have there. Thanks for allowing us to tag along with your build.

Almost have me inspired to take on such a project myself. Almost almost. Keep up the great progress.

You need some miracle grow. I can get away with that but you sir can't. You have a clean build going don't let the standerd slip. maybe I'm your worse critic, made respect for you which is why I have to tell you pin stripes need be on point or they just ruin the overall first impressional look. Understanding me ? Hell I know you do. Ocd a blessing or a curse..

Tps sensor sounds like what you might be after. Next to the iac on the throttle body.

Well we made the 448mile road trip back to the Trailer Mansion. Pushed the old girl gentley and she did not let me down. Smooth spot was about 62 and quieted down enough to not be annoying down the highway. Slow and steady is the game. Found the gas leak with a full fill up, so now only fill to 3/4 full. Add that to the list like the big jeep also needing a fuel tank and pump. It was great fun driving "baby jeep" back north. Night and day difference driving experience and comfort by far. never remember the cab being as quiet as it was. But I like it. I tell you I did the bare min to get it going again and make this trip. This machine is just a machine that dosent quit if you take of them. I love the realibilty with these 4.0s. Now I will have to go through all of cruisers tips for sure being I plan to maintain the renix setup on her. Need to check them damn grounds. Glad to have all 3 MJs home again. MJ is a little pooped out after our road trip adventure. Got to see her buddy Rusty as we camped out last night creek side. Last min decision being the fuel pump was going out or I was just running out of gas. I added gas after we left and seem to run fine for the last 20 miles and i. The cool morning. Also aided me driving at night when its cooler out and less traffic. Made for a smooth road trip. Now that I'm back I may even grease things now.

Just a random thought...have you checked your fly wheel bolts? Possibly loose or oveled out. Only saying as you seem to check most the common areas with no luck yet. Seems viable but I'm just guessing.

Yeah it might help.

Just what I needed to refresh my mind. Thanks for posting.

Currently resting we could say. here's a flash back to when I first got the the Baby Jeep. Soon to have the pair together again.

Have some stopping power and about ready to hit the road. Still working on lights and grounds and fuses. Shifting wasnt right, maybe because of a blown 7.5 fuse... Mj is ready to go. Full moon its time to move. Sooonner then later mostly.

Brake work.

No compression no fire.

Well after several trips I found the right shoes for her and goinng to bypass the real load valve. Found a bad line after much pumping 9f the brakes. Good news i think being i was worried about the booster. So with fresh new parts hope to get it plumbed and hilding pressure by end of day. Time is running out. ready to ride.

Well after draining couple gallons of some very old fuel by jumping the fuel rely and draining at fuel filter. That was replaced with new fuel hose as well. So added 5 gallons of premo gas with some gunmount system cleaner. And having found a 550cca battery locally for $40, went picked it up on my bike, fit well in the milk crate. With that score I was feeling good about it firing up for me after all these years sitting. Figured it to be about 8 years. None the less, its back and I'm bring her back to life. As per the plan this is baby jeep and will be made pretty and kept nice and serve as reg dd. For now its just getting it going and getting back north before winter. So after several attempts to get it going by flushing the bad gas out at the fuel rail. Took a bit but finally got to some clear vs yellow gas amd it smelled a lot less like turbintine. So it was rolling good and seemily poping but not enough to start the ol tractor motor. So figured Id best check the cap and plugs. Surly they needed some attention. Indeed they did so back to parts store on the reliable bike to get jeep part. $87.87 got me a new cap, rotor, 6 plugs, autolite platinum being only the cheapest at 4.99. And a pack of hose clamps with a new fuelfilter. I think I forget how much these jeeps nickel and dime you. I can't expect nothing less as I love these 4.0s and jeeps. Plentiful and realiable. Ins is decent as well. Glad to have my dd back. So furthermore, go back to swap the cap with plugs one at a time to not mess up the firing order...to old, to young, just right. Fired right up it did and I yelled "its alive!" . Amazing the difference fresh gas and new spark plugs will do. With that she is running like 170k 4.0 with no sounds but that loud exhaust as someone got the cat off it. So with it running it has held pressure and no leaks in cooling system. Has the resoviour open system still. Everything looks to be working good, few lights and rely with fuses need gone through for sure yet. Did a quick lap around the farm but I has no brakes. no fluid present as leaks anyways. No pressure at the pedal not moving any fluid at the wheels, so thinking it just might be the booster. Not what I wanted to get into at this moment but not sure 500 miles with trailer be in order with out it...that is where I sit and stare and try and remember how to even do drum brakes again. still has factory spare underneath yet.

Baby jeep is back home finally. Glad to have it back. Been sitting about 5 years or so now. Quick test and got it to fire right up. Super happy. Just need a decent battery and couple tires and fresh gas and I hope to drive it back to the UP in a couple days. Fingers crossed.

Picking up baby jeep and seen 3 helos fly over.

Looks like a time lapse.

Welcome.

Is it installed yet?

So sexy soaped up.

Still have no blinkers, flasher and resistors installed.