bigalpha
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- Location
- Tucson, AZ
You can send it certified so they have to sign for it.
Weekend is over...what did you get done?
- Thread starter Mr.Shrek
- Start date
- Location
- Camden, SC
- Location
- Middle Tennessee
My little XJ made me proud pulling a pop-up camper, averaging 17 mpg, and wheeling the Badlands in Attica, IN and making it back home.
WinterFest was great!
WinterFest was great!
anthrax323
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- San Antonio, TX
Got the trickier cuts done for the side bins on my needlessly-complicated storage box.
- Location
- Camden, SC
SHIT! 17? Wow that is what I get in the truck without towing anything!
Team Willys
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- Location
- Chattanooga, TN
Awesome mileage Ed! Those 4.10s are worth their weight in gold huh?
- Location
- Harrisburg, NC
I remember when I used to get that....then someone flipped a switch and I barely make it off 14mpg highway
ChuckstrPT
NAXJA Member #791
- Location
- Birmingham, Alabama
I'm thinking the same thing...maybe our miles covered is not accurate?? Seems rather optimistic...unless it was all down hill..:eyes:
bigalpha
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- Location
- Tucson, AZ
If you didn't switch your speedo gear, you'll need to compensate for your mileage after bigger tires.
- Location
- Middle Tennessee
Used a Garmin GPS to use actual traveled mileage. Every fillup yielded the same figures.
- Location
- Middle Tennessee
Speedo gear is stock. It shows 43.9 miles for every 42 traveled, so there is some variance there. We used the Garmin for actual mileage traveled for this trip, so I'd say it is pretty accurate.
Lowrange2
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Abbeville, SC
My Gold one gets around 12mpg on the highway and the Red one gets about 20mpg but it's bone stock with a fresh tuneup.
- Location
- Columbus, In
I got insane mileage too. I averaged 16.5 pulling my pop up on stock gears and 31's. 4.10 8.8 and 4.10's for the turdy are coming soon.
- Location
- Columbus, In
Ed, she wheeled pretty damn good too. She made quick work of a lot of obstacles. My jeep wheeled surprisingly well too. OME is a good suspension system for sure.
shortxjdoug
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Chattanooga tn
picked up an hp30 and 29 spline 8.25 both wearing 4.56's for sam's jeep today... getting closer to having all i need to get started on it
- Location
- Rainy side of Washington
Saturday: boring but important semi-local offroad club association (NEA4WD) meeting, then took the jeep for a bit of a romp... think I got a couple wheels off the ground on a hillclimb and I know I was the only one to make it up at all, open/open on 33" ATs. I'm not afraid of the skinny pedal.
Sunday: got my winch fully working (the controller wasn't working too well before and I had to hotwire it) and recovered
Tonight: probably starting fab on an 8.25 cover and possibly welding some cracks up in a manifold then installing it on the dirty POS while I swap the radiator. We'll see, I might get home, go inside, grab a beer, and not want to go outside again.
EDIT: I'm an idiot and already posted about Saturday. Here's a representative pic watching from a tall tree stump beside the top of the hill climb:
(motion blur is mostly due to me wheeling, not cameraman sucking)
Sunday: got my winch fully working (the controller wasn't working too well before and I had to hotwire it) and recovered
Tonight: probably starting fab on an 8.25 cover and possibly welding some cracks up in a manifold then installing it on the dirty POS while I swap the radiator. We'll see, I might get home, go inside, grab a beer, and not want to go outside again.
EDIT: I'm an idiot and already posted about Saturday. Here's a representative pic watching from a tall tree stump beside the top of the hill climb:
(motion blur is mostly due to me wheeling, not cameraman sucking)
- Location
- Gassaway TN
Learned a good lesson tonight. My daughter came home Thursday afternoon and the motor in the MJ sounded like a diesel pulling in the driveway. She put in the carport and shut it off. Since me and Ed were getting ready to leave for Winterfest I told her to leave it and drive my Jeep while I was gone and I would look at it when I got back. Me and Ed talked about it and both kinda thought it might be the oil pump because it sounded like the upper valve train had no oil. Ed had a similar issue with his and a new filter and oil change fixed his so, that's what I did. It didn't fix it. After work tonight I went to AZ and got a cheap oil pressure gauge because the dash only has an idiot light which hadn't come on. I hooked up the gauge and fired it up. Plenty of pressure. Crap! I actually started looking around and trying to pinpoint the noise. My hearing isn't the best but I determined it was coming from the front of the motor. I started checking everything and that's when I found it. The idler pully was bad. The bearing had worn and was chattering. Oh well. I went back to AZ and got a pully and it's quiet as a mouse now. Lesson: always check the idler pully when it sounds like a diesel!!!!
ChuckstrPT
NAXJA Member #791
- Location
- Birmingham, Alabama
impressive.:wave:
ChuckstrPT
NAXJA Member #791
- Location
- Birmingham, Alabama
not sure about that...or your jeep is so powerful it's making the ground move too....I've been to a NEA4WDC event some years ago...how are they doing up there??
256offroad
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Huntsville Alabama
got the garage cleaned (somewhat) and added some shelves and organized them.
also messed with the rc crawlers.
jarrods old losi comp crawler(yes we added rear steer)
also messed with the rc crawlers.
jarrods old losi comp crawler(yes we added rear steer)
