Paddletrucker
07-13-2011, 01:30 PM
Got the call this morning that the hauler was within a few hours and we set up a time to meet in town. I finally got to drive 'er home. This is the smallest thing I've driven in over 8 years. It was like driving a go-cart or something. It was a blast. The little 207K mile 4.0 started right up, idled smoothly, and ran like a Taliban Jihadist with a SEAL team on his taill!! I was having a blast running up through the gears and hitting 70 on the ramps!!!
There are a few blemishes and things I found that I'm not real excited about that was not fully disclosed, but nothing I'd not take the Jeep over. Just afew more little projects that will teach me some skills that won't hurt me to learn. There is one dent that wasn't there in the pics that the hauler says was there and the guy I bought her from says it wasn't. It WAS listed on the hauler's condition report that the seller SIGNED, though. We're working that out now and I got a commitment for another refund. Still, though, it's not that bad. With the price I paid, the refund I got after the seller found some things he didn't tell me about, and the commitment of a refund I got on the phone a little while ago from the seller for the dent and a few other minir things he didn't mention, and the transporting, I should be into her for $900 bucks.
I've put 75 miles on her so far, about 15 of those being in town, in traffic, and the rest at 65-70 mph. She never saw 210 degrees, so I'm happy with that. There was a little bit of a gear oil smell when I got her home, but I think it's a seeping gasket on the rear pumpkin.
THe passenger mirror's is broken and not totally secured, and I was mad about that, until I drove it home. I'm a truck driver and I'm used to using my mirrors a LOT. I have a little trailer I'll pull and I'm gonna need my mirrors. It's the only way I can back a trailer up. I'm gonna hafta find a solution to those tiny ass mirrors. I don't know what I'll do yet, but I need a little bigger mirror! Those mirrors, including the broken one, are gonna hafta come off. I kind like some of the Wrangler mirrors. Might have to do a mock up to see what that looks like.
The bumper is bent a little. I don't care. It's coming off. The rear door opens and shuts easily and the gas shocks hold it up strongly. She doesn't rattle going down the road and all the doors shut solidly and seal up good. All the windows and door locks work.
The grill is broken loose on one corner and is faded. No biggie. I can fix that and paint her back up. Maybe take it off and put a coat of Herculiner on the grill. Maybe the only place I use the stuff.
I actually kinda like the stock flares and wheels. The leaf springs are a sagging mess, though, so a lift with new springs is probably happening.
SHe drives GREAT. Turn loose of that wheel and she'll run straight down the road for a mile before she starts to drift to the right a little. A little touchy on the wheel, but I'm not used to driving anything that small and I'm sure she needs new shocks. That'll all come with a lift, most likely.
Can't find a leak at all in the engine. Not even signs of a cleaned up leak. Just the seeping rear pumpkin cover.
I killed it about 5 times on the way home.:mad0029::ashamed0005::fail: That high geared little five speed doesn't at all drive like my 18 speed in my big truck. I'm used to shifting about 6 gears before I get to 20 mph!! Nor does it grab like the 6 speed in our 1 ton 4WD!! I'm gonna have to get used to that high geared first gear. I think I tried taking off in second about half the time. Oooops. It ought to be interesting in the morning when I jump into the XJ directly out of my semi!!:D But she has PLENTY of power and I'm very happy with the thing. It gets up to 5th gear and 70 in a hurry!
Very happy with her so far. CAn't wait to get her just a little more in the air and get some mud on her. OF course, right now, in the state of OK, you'd have to drive through a lake to find a puddle, but a mud hole I WILL find!!
I'm honestly a little torn about the lift now, after driving it home. One part of me likes how small it feels. I'm used to sitting 9 feet in the air and this thing felt like a go-cart on meth!! The smallness of it was fun for me, since I'm used to big. I really had a ball. Hopefully I can get it to stand up a little to make it look a little better and give me some more clearance for some bigger tires, without losing that nimble little ATV feel.
Anyway, I'm too excited and need a nap before I sit here and type a novel about the damned 'ol wore out thing!! Now, I need to name her.
Guess I'm now a member of the GREEN Jeep club. Not one of those sissy lipstick colored ones!:D:smiley-talk024::tongue0013::tongue0013::lolsign::trolls:: lame::allcrap:
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There are a few blemishes and things I found that I'm not real excited about that was not fully disclosed, but nothing I'd not take the Jeep over. Just afew more little projects that will teach me some skills that won't hurt me to learn. There is one dent that wasn't there in the pics that the hauler says was there and the guy I bought her from says it wasn't. It WAS listed on the hauler's condition report that the seller SIGNED, though. We're working that out now and I got a commitment for another refund. Still, though, it's not that bad. With the price I paid, the refund I got after the seller found some things he didn't tell me about, and the commitment of a refund I got on the phone a little while ago from the seller for the dent and a few other minir things he didn't mention, and the transporting, I should be into her for $900 bucks.
I've put 75 miles on her so far, about 15 of those being in town, in traffic, and the rest at 65-70 mph. She never saw 210 degrees, so I'm happy with that. There was a little bit of a gear oil smell when I got her home, but I think it's a seeping gasket on the rear pumpkin.
THe passenger mirror's is broken and not totally secured, and I was mad about that, until I drove it home. I'm a truck driver and I'm used to using my mirrors a LOT. I have a little trailer I'll pull and I'm gonna need my mirrors. It's the only way I can back a trailer up. I'm gonna hafta find a solution to those tiny ass mirrors. I don't know what I'll do yet, but I need a little bigger mirror! Those mirrors, including the broken one, are gonna hafta come off. I kind like some of the Wrangler mirrors. Might have to do a mock up to see what that looks like.
The bumper is bent a little. I don't care. It's coming off. The rear door opens and shuts easily and the gas shocks hold it up strongly. She doesn't rattle going down the road and all the doors shut solidly and seal up good. All the windows and door locks work.
The grill is broken loose on one corner and is faded. No biggie. I can fix that and paint her back up. Maybe take it off and put a coat of Herculiner on the grill. Maybe the only place I use the stuff.
I actually kinda like the stock flares and wheels. The leaf springs are a sagging mess, though, so a lift with new springs is probably happening.
SHe drives GREAT. Turn loose of that wheel and she'll run straight down the road for a mile before she starts to drift to the right a little. A little touchy on the wheel, but I'm not used to driving anything that small and I'm sure she needs new shocks. That'll all come with a lift, most likely.
Can't find a leak at all in the engine. Not even signs of a cleaned up leak. Just the seeping rear pumpkin cover.
I killed it about 5 times on the way home.:mad0029::ashamed0005::fail: That high geared little five speed doesn't at all drive like my 18 speed in my big truck. I'm used to shifting about 6 gears before I get to 20 mph!! Nor does it grab like the 6 speed in our 1 ton 4WD!! I'm gonna have to get used to that high geared first gear. I think I tried taking off in second about half the time. Oooops. It ought to be interesting in the morning when I jump into the XJ directly out of my semi!!:D But she has PLENTY of power and I'm very happy with the thing. It gets up to 5th gear and 70 in a hurry!
Very happy with her so far. CAn't wait to get her just a little more in the air and get some mud on her. OF course, right now, in the state of OK, you'd have to drive through a lake to find a puddle, but a mud hole I WILL find!!
I'm honestly a little torn about the lift now, after driving it home. One part of me likes how small it feels. I'm used to sitting 9 feet in the air and this thing felt like a go-cart on meth!! The smallness of it was fun for me, since I'm used to big. I really had a ball. Hopefully I can get it to stand up a little to make it look a little better and give me some more clearance for some bigger tires, without losing that nimble little ATV feel.
Anyway, I'm too excited and need a nap before I sit here and type a novel about the damned 'ol wore out thing!! Now, I need to name her.
Guess I'm now a member of the GREEN Jeep club. Not one of those sissy lipstick colored ones!:D:smiley-talk024::tongue0013::tongue0013::lolsign::trolls:: lame::allcrap:
http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj298/picsofnate/IMG_0461.jpg