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My Jeep is pretty much where I want it for the foreseeable future so no modifications, just routine maintenance and spending money on fuel for it and the coach. My wife have our annual RV/Jeep gathering and rally reservations made for Ouray, CO, Spearfish, SD and Moab, UT. Plus we want to make...

Thanks guys. That was a fun project. Mike

Lastly, after completing the brake line, bleeding the brakes, installing front tires/wheels and steering stabilizers I was able to set it back down on the ground for the first time in several weeks. Torqued the wheels on and took it for a test drive. New stainless steel hoses installed...

New 3/16" brake line at the ready. Time to duplicate the old line, less the broken fitting. I started by marking the first bend, then the second and so on. Until all of the bends were duplicated and then measuring for length of the last leg so the flare could be made. Tubing cut and...

As you can tell by NYCEGUY01's posts, I finished the old square body Chevy last week. I was hoping to have it completed well before New Year's Eve but I had to spend 3 hours each day last Thursday and Friday clearing the couple of inches of snow each day from my concrete. Thursday night I...

Damn JJ. I didn't realize they had only put water in the cooling system. Sorry you've had to deal with that over the weekend. I was hoping that you would be out driving it rather than working on it. Mike

Thanks guys. I appreciate the confidence in my skillset. Yeah, I know many people that have turned work away work that is outside of their wheelhouse and become more of a "specialized" shop. While I do not condemn that theory and it makes perfect sense from merely a dollar point of view I...

Yeah, there is that too. I prefer to work on the old stuff but it's not as common coming through the shop door.

We need pics to prove it....... :rofl: Yeah, it was probably me. Two weekends ago the wife and I took off on Saturday afternoon and went for a drive and ended up in Logan. Yesterday I was probably on my lunch hour and was on Gentile grabbing some fuel and lunch.

I'm saving up for one of these. Sure would make engine drops much easier with this lift table with fixturing attachments...

Only had about an hour or so last night to work but got all of the front outer axle parts ready for assembly. Drove the old races out of the hubs, cleaned the hubs and reinstalled the new races. New spindles cleaned and ready to accept the inner bearings. New bearings, races and lock nuts...

Similar to Jeremy. As much as I love traveling I don't think I can/could do it full-time. I love my home and love being home and working in the shop so I plan on doing more of that and maybe some personal vehicles that I've wanted to build but in the shop working for the most part when we're...

I agree on vehicles. I've never purchased new for this very reason but I have been known to "over-maintain" my vehicles because I still like driving nice and reliable vehicles, just not new with heavy depreciation. My FIL on the other hand has never bought a set of tires since I've known him...

Will do Russ. That was just a teaser shot. I'll get a few completed pictures posted up when my part is done then it is up to the owner to post the rest after he's done with the next phase of mods.

I'm not trying to wish my life away but I've been thinking a LOT about retirement over the past decade and a half or so now especially. I don't want to be working much past 60. I just turned 53 yesterday so it's getting close and approaching faster with each passing year. We have done a...

Got quite a bit done on the square body between Christmas Eve and yesterday afternoon. Christmas Eve I moved a few shims around in the carrier a couple of times and landed at .0065" back lash and a nice wear pattern so time to finish up the axle assembly by installing the axle shafts and diff...

That looks like a nice trailer JJ.

Thanks JJ, but I think you're selling yourself short. I'm sure it will turn out great and be a fun driver.

Tough crowd. I wasn't going to say anything. :D

After about 4 iterations of carrier shims I finally landed where I felt backlash was close. After torqueing the bearing caps on I set up the test indicator and zeroed it out. Landed at a solid .006" backlash. Just a little tight according to the spec's but I like .006" as an overall target...