Comanche County

Finally, I'm getting the pics on.... Here's me trying to catch James(speedracer)750: and no, I don't normally take pics or text or talk on the phone while driving. I saw a girl last week driving in the snow storm while texting with both hands....D-U-M-B! And our two MJs..... :cheers: I was experimenting with my 30x9.5s instead of my 33s. I got 21 mpg with the little 30s vs 16-17 with the 33s.

My camera was dying and I only got a couple of pics. Here's one of the Manche poised and ready to pull!

I'm a supervisor in an industrial paint shop. We go through thousands of gallons of two part polyurethane paint a week. It's kinda like rhino liner. I'm still not an expert in coatings, but my advise is to find out whether the product your using bonds physically or chemically. Polyurethanes will bond chemically to themselves, you can recoat prior to full cure. But they bond physically to the substrate. The best way to get most paints to adhere is to prep the surface correctly, usually blasting to create an aggressive profile and good depth. Think micro sized Rocky Mountains, not micro Appalachians. It needs a jagged surface to stick to. There are a lot of good cleaners out there, MEK is about as good as it gets, but has high VOCs. You can clean it perfectly, but if the substrate is smooth as a baby's bottom the paint will eventually come off, or get knocked off. Clean is important, but the blast profile is equally or more important! If they tell you they can paint they truck without blasting, I would be suspicious. If there's no blast, prepare to be ripped off, especially if they are applying over an existing coating. Specific procedures are product dependent. Just follow the manufacturer's recommended prep procedures which are usually found on the product data sheet. Most are available on the manufacturer's website.

My camera battery died, I'll get em up later. Promise. :cheers:

Well, I tried to plow about 2.5' of very heavy wet snow which fell after a couple days of rain, so there was mud underneath slush, underneath heavy snow.....I've got other tires with chains but tried to plow without em,,,dumb and lazy, and I usually plow with the MJ but decided to give the XJ a try instead,,,dumb too. It was white-out conditions and I dropped the front right tire off an embankment. After 4 hours, I finally pulled it out with the MJ. It got worse than the pics, I slid further down the hill and ended up under the tree. Only damage was the tree ripped the passenger mirror off.

yeah, I guess it sold.

Yeah I know what you mean... I called the owner of this truck yesterday to set up an appointment...I think its going to be a J10/J20. 1975 Jeep Comanche: http://denver.craigslist.org/cto/1128006313.html

1. Black and Tan 2. Shiner 3. Z-Bock 4. Negra Modelo 5. Dos Equis

Yep it was a Fat Tire, but promptly consumed. I think I'm going to go back to Texas/Mexican beers though. The New Belgium stuff is great but it does something nasty to me on the inside. Going to switch back to Shiner, Z-bock, Negra Modela, Dos Equis Amber, or good ole Lone Star. :cheers:

I'll swing by in the next couple of days to check,,,,can't right now, we've gotten about 1.5' snow on the ground...PM me to remind me and I'll pick one up for you.

I also poured a little into the intake before I fired it up.....to pay homage to my homies. I fixed the pic,,,

Yeah, I've got dial up at the house and I'm trying to play with my new Treo Pro,,,but it gives me different IPs for the pics...thanks for the assist! :cheers: I'm also interested if anyone else has other good ideas for beer holders. I mean its really frustrating to knock over and waste a good Fat Tire when your having fun under the hood.

I rebuilt my head a few weeks ago and I'm just getting around to posting this....I discovered something very handy. You no longer need to search for a place to put your beer while wrenching, it fits perfectly stable in the intake. :cheers:

Here's some refined recommended places....Try to the "PumpHouse Restaurant and Saloon", see http://www.howlingdogsaloon.com/. There's another cool roadhouse called the Chatanika Lodge in Chatanika of all places....

AK is way cool, it'll take a lifetime to experience all of it.... I was stationed there for 2 years, and lived there as a kid for 4 years. As a kid, I spent plenty of time at Elmendorf and Richardson,,,,was stationed at Wainwright later on. Recommended places: 1. Skinny Dicks Half Way Inn...on the Parks Highway 2. On your way up go to the place in the Yukon Territories that serves "Frozen Toes"....real whiskey shots with human toes,,,,frostbite victims. I don't remember exactly where it was... 3. Go fishin on the Russian River/Kenai River 4. North of Fairbanks there's a cool place called "The Fox" 5. Do a fly in Dall Sheep hunt,,,,best bang for the buck in N. America,,,you can time it with Griz season and do a double whammy,,,several pilots offer packages up to the Brooks Range for this,,,I didn't do it, but some friends of mine did and I wish I did too. 6. The ferry service from BC through the Alexander Archipelago is a great and super cheap cruise...you'll can stop at Skagway, Haines, several isolated towns that are just beautiful. We saw a few killer whales, dolphins, and other cool wildlife..... 7. There's so much cool stuff to do in AK,,,,,I wish I could quit my job and go with you....I could go on and on! :cheers: Good Luck.... Most Importantly ----- Read the Call of the Wild again!!!!

YOU'LL CLEAN THAT GODDANG JEEP AND YOU'LL HAVE FUN DOIN IT!!!!!! :fs1: sorry man couldn't resist....

Um, Yeah, but that doesn't mean you're doing anything wrong. ;)

I had my 89 renix head rebuilt because my head gasket and rear main seal were both leaking oil like crazy. I put in a new rear main, oil pressure returned to something acceptable, but then the head started blowing oil worse than the RMS and oil pressure was low again, below 20 lbs. The head gasket can leak badly on the passenger side where the lifters are without losing compression. This is what mine was doing. It was running great, compression was fine, but it was leaking some'in fierce. The rebuild cost me 300 bucks, maybe I could have gone with an HO head, but I didn't want to mess with swapping any of the fuel stuff. Got it magged, 3 angle valve job, new seals, valves and springs all checked by a high performance engine shop. (Rigde Reamer in Arvada, CO). I'm happy with it, the truck starts great, runs as smooth as a baby's bottom, and it runs even cooler now. I was going to switch to an open cooling system, but not now. It doesn't even think about getting hot, even with a 195 degree t-stat. I'm going to leave it like it is and run it another 50K. Also, when I pulled the head, I could still see the factory cylinder wall honing, EVEN AFTER 196K! These really are great motors. (Working on a stroker in the garage now, for a future install in the far future)

Dead terrorists and 'Skinny' pirates are a beautiful thing!

Just wait one dangblabant minute,,,,I thought the windows were the A/C, :D

Dude, PM me, Come over sometime next week, we'll take the sawzall to that UCA bolt, it'll take 30 min....and I'm getting an extra pair of 33's on Monday, we'll slap em on and try em out at Slaughterhouse.

My T-case is a 231 with JB short shaft SYE and has the 2-Low option....I love the 2-Low, I use it plowing and hauling wood up my 40 degree driveway. I shimmed my vacuum CAD so without manual hubs the 2 low is very handy....

I've heard guys get a 4:1 and then wish they hadn't because it was too low. I guess it depends on your gears...I've got 3.73s and 33s, most of my miles are highway so a 4:1 would work well for me I think or anyone with 4.11s-4.56s....IMHO if your gears are lower than that and you're not running huge tires then the 4:1 would be too low, i.e. (what does I.E. mean anyway) if you've got 5.89s and 35-37" tires, the 4.1 might be too low if you don't do a lot of crawling. Also, you I've heard you can't rev a 4:1 higher than 2500 rpm or the T-case will go, so your better off being correctly geared for it with the right tire size to get the maximum benefit.......I'm sure someone here with the terralow setup can comment better. If I found one cheap I'd slap it in in a heartbeat though.

Its not a Jeep if there's no wind noise!!! :driving:

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