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Maybe there is? Just thought it would be interesting to see the people who run and build these jeeps. This is the best I could come up with trying to take my own picture. Maybe we shouldnt post what we look like :hmm:

 

GO HUSKERS!

 

Nice Rig too... Raised in Lincoln and still fly the Red N flag on football Saturdays (even 1500 miles away).

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I don't have any real buildup on the hood. It was a hey I think this might work project. I just cut it along the body lines and added some sheetmetal (actually recycled from a scrap chevelle hood) and tacked it up. The only complication was seperating the hoods underneth frame support from the upper sheetmetal. The glue they use is defenitly a PITA. :headpop: The back of the hood has two long oval holes cut out to let the engines heat out. I sealed up the gaps underneth the hood with duct tape then filled it with expanding foam to make the hood more rigid, then removed the duct tape again of course. It has minimal body filler to hopefully elimnate future cracking. Thats about the extent of it. Childsplay compared to some of the amazing things I have seen on this site. :yes:

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  • 9 months later...

well i know this post is deader than dead but i tried and failed with my awesome idea (see the first threads). better late than never to follow-up, right?

 

anyway, good forum to post pics of you and your mj still though. so if you haven't already, post some of you and your rig (driving it, etc.)

 

thanks to those that did.

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This is me from this AM. my trail camera took this one!! :yes:

 

CW

:clapping: - Only CW would have a trail cam pic!

 

 

 

Here are some pics for ya:

 

Before:

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After:

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In Progress:

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If you are really going to send these in, here are a few of my thoughts I'd like to have included with them:

 

I'd be severely disappointed if the Comanche namesake was brought back and the 4.0L was not brought back with it. IMHO - either go all out or don't go at all, don't throw us this V6 minivan engine crap! You can't tell me that this 3.8L V6, an engine that looks like its been condensed into a nice and tight little package by a cardboard baler, is gonna make me think it is God's gift to the consumer... I want something that I can take apart, see how it works, diagnose and fix on my own. Just looking at this V6 makes me not want to buy any vehicle with it in it cause I don't want to be the sad sap who has to work on this thing.

 

http://www.jeep.com/en/2010/wrangler/ca ... owertrain/

 

So Jeep, What is up with Electronic Throttle Control in the Wranglers? (Just one more expensive electronic part to replace when it breaks to me - NO THANKS!!!) The whole reason that we love these trucks is because they are one of the closest things to being based highly on basic principles as we can get anymore. Both of my trucks have MANUAL windows, I doubt I could even buy a new vehicle with manual windows anymore. I engage the 4wd system in my '88 pickup by using a linkage, not some push-button electronic junk that I can't feel if its in 4wd or not. I turn my headlights on myself and my brakes are a simple hydraulic system that is not governed by sensors and electronics like ABS is. You see, we love the trucks because they are simple.

 

This brings me to my next point, Keep It Simple Stupid! Give me a vehicle that I can work on (average Joe, Saturday afternoon and a small collection of basic tools - GET RID OF TORX FASTENERS) and I'll gladly buy it. It'll be cheaper for you to produce this way because you skip all of the extra bells and whistles and it will be fully repairable by people who actually still work on their own cars. Think of the savings you can have in a car by skipping out on your super duper automatic electric windows, digital readout climate controls, spiced up cruise control, 5 mega watt automatic volume increasing stereos and self timing interior lights. Replace these items with basic versions like are in our old MJ's that require SWITCHES to either turn on or turn off and a radio that you can listen to and not go deaf by age 25.

 

The sad thing is that I'm not the only one who thinks this way, there are others of us out there that are looking for a very basic domestic-made vehicle. I'm really surprised that our crowd hasn't been discovered yet. All I want is something to get me from point A to B that is well built and will stand the tests of time and abuse that a REAL truck should. Whoever does give us something we will want to buy will pretty much have struck it rich FAST!

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