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Looks like fun, all three of our off road rigs would qualify.

I have been fixing up my FIL's Jeep XJ and I knew the family told me it had battery issues. It sat for a few years so the battery was dead. I bought the cheapest one at Autozone and it seemed to work OK but if I let it sit for more than. a couple of days the battery would be dead. This only...

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I put these seats in my friends CJ5 but they were too tall. They came out of a Dodge Van. My wife is tired of them sitting on the front porch.

I am tired of using narrow ramps to load my UTV on my trailer and want to build a hinged ramp gate. It would be 6' wide and 48-51 " long. I tend to way over design these type of things and I don't want the ramp to weigh a ton. The UTV is around 1700 lb and the ramp would only have to hold up...

Grandma did drive it to church :). Since I posted the initial post I have gotten yet another scammer who wanted me to use a vin report service that when you look it up online has scam warnings. Another text wanted me to take half the asking price, like I'm that desperate after less than one day...

So I finally got my father in law's Jeep all fixed up and listed it on KSL cars. It has gotten a good number of views and favorites but the only people who have texted me are scammers. They have a very consistent MO, the initial text is often cryptic and not well formed. Once you reply they get...

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My commando is a 73 so no issue, the CJ is an 84 and the Comanche is an 87. I've been looking into the vintage insurance since we actually do fit the rules. Then I'll have to fill out form TC-745.

I just got the registration renewal for two of our vintage rigs. I noticed that it now says emissions required. My older 73 didn't have that earlier this year. I know they passed the law requiring vintage insurance if you wanted to not have to do emissions but how do you go about getting the...

My son was down at the neighbor's business with his Comanche when he first put it together and the neighbor fired up his monster fork lift and backed in to his back bed and shoved his truck across the yard. It damaged the bed so much that I found another bed. We couldn't get mad at him since he...

Funny thing that new AC compressor is charging the battery just fine.

I learned something new last week when my son's alternator failed. He was getting the charging failure light on and off but couldn't figure out why. Then one morning on the freeway up by Layton the alternator pulley came off. Luckily he made it off the freeway. What I learned is that many of the...

My Commando has been getting some motor upgrades and is now finally ready for a test run. I had a red top optima in it before but swiped it for another rig I was fixing up to sell. My Scrambler and my son's Comanche have Odysseys in them. They have all worked fine but these Jeeps don't see much...

My Commando and my son's Comanche run these late 60s Ford Dana 60 axles and they fit well under the Jeeps. I would like to find a way to put disc brakes on them.

It helped to have multiple controllers and a spare Warn relay box. I was able to trace out the wiring and see how the controllers actually work. I did discover that many of the online wiring diagrams aren't actually correct.

I found that by removing the switch from the controller and moving one wire I got it to work. It does disable the light that used to come on when the switch was toggled. I could probably find a way to get the light back by adding a wire but the controller does what I need now.

I picked up a Warn winch controller hoping they were fairly universal. This was to fix my friends M8000 where he lost the controller. This one I picked up is one of the newer more expensive ones for the Power Plant winches model number 83653. It will let the winch out but won't pull the cable...

Well I think I found the issue. It required having my wife keep the jeep running while i squirted starter fluid around the carb. I found I could speed the engine up by spraying on the back side of the carb near the base of the carb. There is a spacer between the carb and the intake manifold and...

I am working on my friends 72 CJ5 with the 304 V8. He couldn't keep it running near idle. I found that the carb was leaking gas out of several places where it shouldn't. My son found what looks to be a brand new carb at the junk yard so I swapped it on. No gas leaks but it still won't idle. It...