mini beast Project: Stock To Beast!!!

[MiNi Beast]

Life goes on, new jeeps come and go, and yet you get another one, just for fun. 

[watchamakalit]

V8 or 4.0?

 

I love my V8 wj. Its just fun

[MiNi Beast]

4.0 cause I don't like change and love the reliability of always working on them. 

[89 MJ]

New daily driver or what's the plan for it? Looks fairly solid, from what I can see. The fenders are normally gone on my side of the lake.

[MiNi Beast]

Daily driver duty. Something with a back seat for the mut and cargo room for some tools. Has some things needing attention but overall it decent shape build from. Plan to add some bumpers and tow points and a few fancy items to aide in the whole luxury overland set-up. Then if the kiddo cares to drive it when she's licensed I will give it to her. 

[89 MJ]

Sounds like a good plan

[MiNi Beast]

Another jeep in MaynardHood.  ready for 12" of snow again. 

[MiNi Beast]

My bad, yeah last week I had 12" of the white stuff. 

[MiNi Beast]

We had snow then went away for a couple weeks and now it's back again. 

[Pete M]

winter just can't make up its mind  

[MiNi Beast]

Fires right up. Had a little fun in the snow. About time to get out and about for some snow wheeling me thinks. 

[Pete M]

how well does it fire up in -40 degrees? 

[MiNi Beast]

On 12/24/2022 at 11:50 PM, Pete M said:

how well does it fire up in -40 degrees? 

Same as 30*, she needs a little pump of the gas.. 🤣

[MiNi Beast]

Got home after the "blizzard" and found the neighbor had snowblowed my drive. He loves showing off his tractor setup.  i tell him he dosent have to cause i have 4wd... which after firing the jeep right up, slightly impressed but i built it to do that so it should be expected right?  so wanted to play for a few and so found that I was low on gas apparently as I ran out and was unable to get it to fire back up.  had to yank it back off the hill the next day with the wj just to be able to get gas into it with out it spilling out the same hole i was filling it.  thought I get a pic for the memory books, only to later find i was photo bombed. 

[Pete M]

[MiNi Beast]

Enjoying the winter! 

[Pete M]

perfect big-jeep weather  

[MiNi Beast]

Spring time fun, get er ready for some mud. Change some seals and add a speedy sleeve to give that seal a smooth surface. We shall see how long this holds up. 

[Pete M]

wait, did you just slap on a thing that replaces the surface?  what sort of witchcraft is this! 

 

learn something new every day.  

[MiNi Beast]

Gotta love the Michigan spring weather. Green when I went to bed then wake up to 10"+ then didnt stop till today after about 16" of packed snow fell. Finally made it out. Tore up my winch cover even. Wasnt so bad once I got it to stay in 4lo. Thinking i need to replace my tcase. Sooner then later. And get a new shift linkage setup. Cable fancyness blows. Never again. 

[MiNi Beast]

Spring is here. Time to get out and check for weak links. 

[MiNi Beast]

Enjoying the day in my jeep.

[MiNi Beast]

Laundry days are fun. Just hanging out. 

[MiNi Beast]

Couple more days for the bike, then I reckon its time to get after the jeep and perhaps install the new doors and replace a seal or three.  Thinking get some insurance on it tomorrow then be more gun ho to start driving it around since the dog doesnt much like bike season. 

Get some updates coming before long. 

[MiNi Beast]

Oh man do I need to spend some much needed attention to the ol girl. She had leaks everywhere.  still gets me point a to b however could be smoother.  front tires have quite the wear pattern going on. This has been in the back of my mind for a bit just haven't gotten around to fixing it. Blah blah. Needs the steering box swapped out and I've been holding off to get lines and new pump with ram to move forward with hydro assit. Well just may need to plug the tap holes for the moment and just get the box in as mine has about an inch of slop in it.  amount other things to be address I atleast swapped out the trans fluid for some good ol atf. Run it for a bit then pony up for that red line stuff everyone ravs about I guess. Still messing with linkage and still haven't gotten it right. So over this darn tease. I reckon I'm going to get on with the 231c and add a she to it and get that prepped up to install. Which will make me have new driveshafts made up, yet again which is what I was trying to avoid but less vibes going 62 be cooler. Punch list of items to handle before the white stuff Flys so hurry up already.