Yearly Archives: 2009
What have a really said about my ZJ? It's been good... I like it. I'm not entirely fond of it though. Ryan bought a YJ shortly after I bought my Jeep... and it's been a total nightmare, breaking every other week, catching on fire, causing serious bodily harm to it's owner. Apparently it's a Jeep thing. I guess... in someways I get it. I think I may have been living in denial. I've been telling myself that Ryan's nightmare YJ was not a nightmare because it was a JEEP engineered and built in America, but rather because it was a modified, well driven trail rig. After all... I've owned my JEEP for the better part of a year now, and the only work I've done on it has been typical maintenance: tires, fluid changes etc. But now... almost a year in, I can see a LOONNG list of items piling up. The transfer case has never been perfect. The shift linkage actually broke shortly after I bought the truck. It has never gone smoothly in and out of High/Low. I've fixed the linkage, adjusted the linkage, changed the TC oil... and still no luck. Apparently it's not uncommon... likely a result of the wrong fluid being used for a very long time. As we all know... your local repair shop is full of hacks and lazy asses. I know how it works... they only stock one kind of transmission oil. [...]
ZJ… Where are you going?
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Won't any of you guys cloning AE86's ever open your eyes to other things out there? Really. Is this anymore work than your 1UZ, IRS swap ins? I don't think so... and it's actually a helluva lot cooler. SCP11 is a fun car in stock and light tune form... I can't imagine this feels anything like that... nevertheless I'm way more excited about it than ANY AE86 or Nissan I've seen in recent times.
This is what Japanese car life is to me: one off and ragged. Stolen from どりふと天国 五月２００９．[...]
Hard Tune Example – SCP11
Hit an easy trail close to the house today. It was fun. Apparently I was slow. Jeep worked ok. Definitely could have done it without the new tires. Nice to get out and experience soft tires and mud.
This is the same road that gave us a 4hr recovery about a month ago. And an hour and a half recovery just last weekend. Warm weather has melted the snow. No recovery needed.