Important

[Smash Hole]

Snow wheeling at r&v December 28?

In Harrison now.

Can't do that. I got John Popps Cliffs run a couple days later :/

 

[Fore Wheeler]

80k

 

[kastein]

I like browsing junk yards. If I'm going to make money off parts I would still rather just buy a jeep to part it. For a few reasons...first, its not nickle and dime parts like a junk yard, its the big items that make money fast. Second, I don't have to do the work. I point to the jeep and say "have at it". Third, I usually don't have to ship stuff. People come to me to get parts. I hate shipping parts.

Around here it's the other way. 4.0s sell for $100, can't give AW4s away, NP231s are $50-100, d30s are $50-100, 8.25s are $50, d35s are free.

On the other hand, I can get 2-300 for any AX15 I can get my hands on and rare factory option parts can be worth some decent money.

I get glass shipped here on a weekly basis. car-lite sends it in a stupid skinny box that it pretty much just glass wrapped in cardboard.

it you saw it you would think they came in damaged all the time.

10+years and i have only had one damaged one.

these are sent fed ex ground from all over the land and im sure they get tossed around


some how i can get a perfect condition glass for 10 years but i have to do a claim on damaged sheet metal every single week, and that is only coming from Detroit over 2 days

Auto glass other than windshields is tempered. It is incredibly hard to break, I have literally thrown XJ door window glass face down at the ground and had it bounce off rocks/whatever random stuff was on the ground when I threw it.

If you scratch the edge with a busted sparkplug though... they explode next time you look at em funny.

So wrapped up in cardboard it really, really takes some effort to hit the glass hard enough with a pointed object to actually pop the glass. Tempered is just like that, it's either fine or it's completely ****ed.

oh believe me i asked him...

me - this showed no signs of leaking before i brought it in here and your guys did my brakes, so how and why is it after you finish my brakes now its leaking.

him - oh the rubber seals wear over time. the car does have 80 thousand miles on it.

me - all things wear out over time but what does that have to do w/ what i just said. it wasnt leaking when i brought it in and now it is.

him - blah blah blah breaks heat up when you use them and blah blah blah.

Did you have your brake system flushed every year or two? It's hygroscopic, sucks up water out of the air, if you don't change it often enough it'll grab all the water out of the air and distribute it through your brake system, where it rusts all the 100% bare unprotected surfaces. Cylinder bores in the calipers are probably covered in scaly rust that dug into a piston seal when they compressed the caliper all the way to get the new pads in.

Last time I tried to get away with that on a jeep that I hadn't flushed in 3 years, I wound up with two ruined front calipers, they both seized up but didn't leak. I had to replace em to avoid burning the new pads up.

 

[POLAR_JEEP_04]

So many important things happening in here today!

 

[jjchgo]

JJ, how many miles on your GTI? My GLI (same as GTI just a sedan) has 77k and have not had any major issues besides an cam shaft, cam follower, and HPFP recall that was covered under warranty. Ram-rod had the same recall done on their GLI.

other then that work it has just been general maintance and I have been very happy with it.

I am probably going to upgrade/change out at 100k since it is my main Daily Driver, and I don't want to worry about getting stuck somewhere with it.

i just turned 80k yesterday.

 

[DrMoab]

Ken, that's because in your area the body falls apart before they hit 100k. Out here people regularly drive them 300k or more with little or no rot issues.

 

[jjchgo]

good info ken! thanks!

 

[Smash Hole]

good info ken! thanks!

He's interested. We're going to talk it over tomorrow when I get home. Got snowed in tonight

 

[emptypockets86]

Does anyone live near Wakarusa, IN? There's
a guy parting out an '86 and I want the grille.

 

[Fore Wheeler]

Re: Re: Important

Does anyone live near Wakarusa, IN? There's
a guy parting out an '86 and I want the grille.

K5Matt lives in Wakarusa.

 

[emptypockets86]

K5Matt lives in Wakarusa.

Thanks Dan! I'll shoot him a PM and see if he can help.

 

[Fore Wheeler]

Re: Re: Important

Thanks Dan! I'll shoot him a PM and see if he can help.

:thumbup:

 

[Trixie03]

Re: Re: Important

Does anyone live near Wakarusa, IN? There's
a guy parting out an '86 and I want the grille.

we have a 84-96 grille & header panel if you're interested

 

[Fore Wheeler]

Re: Re: Important

we have a 84-96 grille & header panel if you're interested

2 lights or 4?

If 4, I'm interested.

 

[Jeepguy91]

It is a 2 light header panel. Got it off of Mac over the summer and have yet to do anything with it. Will sell it for what I paid for it.

 

[Fore Wheeler]

K, I need a 4 light for the garage.


How much did you pay?

 

[Jeepguy91]

Sorry Dan, if it was a 4 light I would be keeping if for my future garage

 

[MT Mike]

Has anybody ever bought any parts from ironman4x4fab.com? Have got a gift certificate to them and didn't know how their parts hold up.

I run his adjustable upper and lower short arms. They are damn stout and have held up to some pretty serious abuse.

 

[IllianaXJ]

Sorry Dan, if it was a 4 light I would be keeping if for my future garage

That's where mine is going

 

[RedHeep]

Halfway through welding the fire pit grate together for my SgtMaj, trying to keep it square and pretty and trying not to electrify myself in the thunderstorm, my screw it attitude kicked in.

If the cheap bastard wanted perfection he could have bought one welded together by 13 yr old chinese kids at lowes.