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ORT – Flat Nasty 10-17-09 In the ’87 XJ
This was my second trip to Flat Nasty. I had aspirations of being able to wheel two days in a row, but breakage late in the day ended that fun thought. The trip started out with a borrowed tow rig in O-Town… …. And ended in Jadwin Mo
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Flat Nasty 11/15/08 With the ’87 XJ
This was one of my first trips out in the ’87 XJ, and it was also my first trip to Flat Nasty Off Road. Sadly, I didn’t get to see much of the park during this trip as I managed to stuff the fan into the radiator early in the day which ended my fun on the trails. Some photos from the day: It has been fun going through these old photos. I get a kick out of seeing how…
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Cookie Cutter Maintenance!
When I purchased the Cookie Cutter TJ, I thought for sure I would be replacing the motor as it was purchased with “oil pressure issues”. Even though the thing lost oil pressure while running down the highway, it seemed to have oil pressure at low rpms. Puttering around the neighborhood showed no signs of distress in the motor department. So before condemning the motor, I went ahead and dug into it to see what was going on. After dropping the…
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Bringing the Cookie Cutter TJ home
I’ve had a bit of a desire to own soft to Jeep at some point in my life even after taking one out west in 2010. But more specifically, I really like the old flat fenders, though I really don’t fit well in one, and packing the wife and kid into one was a definite no go. The closest modern day equivalent to that is the SE TJ, which is a 2.5 4 banger, with zero options. A deal was…
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Welding cart and small Fab table
Not long ago I built a nice, heavy duty, welding/fab table. It was a great idea with one fatal flaw. That flaw being that all horizontal surfaces in my garage tend to get filled up with crap. So my nice fab table often looked like this: