What did you do to your TJ today?

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I guess you got the only pair , oh well I guess I will be paying more for them, you made a good score. They say it's better to be lucky than good ....... I guess I'm good LOL ! I find a lot of bargains so I guess I'm a little lucky ......I found both front and rear Rubicon springs for about 230 shipped new Moog springs so I guess not bad and 1.5 spacers to run 31,s with no rubbing with n3 shocks for 219 , that should give me just the right lift pretty cheap. I'll make a nice trail rider out of it yet.
LOL. The line "it's better to be lucky than good" is one of the things I always tell my kids. Along with "you can do everything right and still lose" and "sucking at something is first step to being really good at something". I take no credit for any of them, but they're all spot on.

I'm sorry this deal got past, but you still sound like you did well for your ride. It'll appreciate it.
 
So this morning I was gathering all my garbage up to take to work and I see the MOOG box that my zJ tie rod came in and for some reason I thought of @TheBoogieman . You’ve all seen MOOG logo .

We’ll this is what came to mind 5:30 this morning when I saw the box. I had to make a sticker for my towel dispenser at work to honor BOOG. 😂

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Climbed into my Jeep to go to the orthopedic surgeon about my screwed up back. I went through the light, merging onto the highway. Some idiot painter ran his red light to make a u-turn and dumped several buckets of paint off his truck. I couldn't miss it and the Jeep slid around the corner. I drove straight to the car wash because I knew what I was going to see. I do mud. New fender flares, sides of the Jeep, tires and frame were covered in white paint. Car wash wouldn't even remove fresh paint. I went home and the wife doesn't use fingernail polish remover (acetone).:mad: I don't think I've been this pissed off since the USPS elected a guy with dementia.
p.s. I would've taken pictures, but I'm too pissed off and injured right now.
 
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Picked up some 4.56 Motive gears on Sunday. Brand new, never installed, and an 8.8 refresh kit with shims and all the fixings. All for $150.

Yesterday I swapped out all 4 shocks. After realizing my Jeep was riding tougher than it should I looked up the part numbers on the Bilstein shocks I bought second hand and they were for a 4 door JK. The guy that sold them to me had his info wrong I guess. I installed these like a year and a half ago when I was setting up my Ford 8.8 while still working on my 5.9 to swap in, I’ve only put about 100 miles on the Jeep since. So I replaced them with a set of Rancho’s someone threw in when I bought some lift kit parts from them. Supposedly only about 500 miles on this set. Night and day difference. I also had been having a small coolant leak and think I found the source, lower rad hose/hose clamp weren’t attached like they should have been. Topped off the coolant, but before I did that I pulled the coolant overflow and rinsed it out because it had caught some sediment. Everything should be buttoned up and good to go. For now at least.
 
They were $44.09. As long as they do their job, I think I'm good to go.

(That's the hope anyway.)

If anyone is curious on how to find a single-page listing of all of Rock Auto's closeouts and sales for a specific vehicle, here's the trick I found:

1. Go to Rock Auto and drill down through the make, year, model options till you find your specific year, make, and model. For the example here, I'm using my 2005 Wrangler Unlimited.

2. Your browser's address bar should now read something like "www.rockauto.com/en/catalog/jeep,2005,wrangler,4.0l+l6,1430906". The italicized numbers at the end are this vehicle's unique car code. (They won't be italicized on the computer. They are here so you can see what/where they are.) Copy these numbers or write them down for reference; you'll need them in a minute.

3. In a new browser tab/page, open this link: http://www.rockauto.com/RSS/vehiclefeeds.php?carcode=xxxxxxx&m=wc&l=en&html=true (You can bookmark it as-is for later use.)

4. Replace the XXXXXXXs (the Xs are placeholders in the address) after "carcode=" with your copied (or written down) vehicle's unique code.

5. Once you paste your vehicle's unique code, click "Enter" and it should open a full list of all the things Rock Auto currently has on sale/closeout for your vehicle.

6. If you click "Paste and Go" you'll most likely just open a generic tab looking for results based on that vehicle ID. Not what you wanted. Go back and try Step 5 again.

7. Enjoy!

EDIT: These coils are gone now, BUT the instructions and link above will still work for any other vehicle or parts if you want to check cost/availability.
That is a score… nice💰
 
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Climbed into my Jeep to go to the orthopedic surgeon about my screwed up back. I went through the light, merging onto the highway. Some idiot painter ran his red light to make a u-turn and dumped several buckets of paint off his truck. I couldn't miss it and the Jeep slid around the corner. I drove straight to the car wash because I knew what I was going to see. I do mud. New fender flares, sides of the Jeep, tires and frame were covered in white paint. Car wash wouldn't even remove fresh paint. I went home and the wife doesn't use fingernail polish remover (acetone).:mad: I don't think I've been this pissed off since the USPS elected a guy with dementia.
p.s. I would've taken pictures, but I'm too pissed off and injured right now.
Soo this is gonna sound weird, but hear me out: try oven cleaner.

When I was a senior in high school we had senior skip day, and my whole class went out and went mini golfing and bowling and had a blast. I didn’t have a car at the time, but I was borrowing my mom’s car while she was away on a trip (with her permission of course). Well, the same sort of thing happened to me: the asshat in front of me dumped multiple packets of what looked like liquid ink or something, and it got all over the front of her car. I used the windshield wipers, and it came off the windshield, and I thought, “oh ok, no harm, no foul!” I didn’t realise how bad the damage was until I got home and saw that the whole front end was covered in the stuff. Tried washing it off with car soap and water. No joy. Drove it to a body shop, they wanted 600-1200 to repaint it. Told them I would let them know. I went home called my sister in a panic. She started laughing at me and told me that mom wasn’t going to be mad. I started flipping out, because we both had VERY different relationships with our mother (honestly, to this day, I’m convinced that my sister called her and told her not to lose it on me). Anyhow, I then call my mom and tell her what happened. She says to wait on paying to have it repainted, and to let her see it with her own eyes. Pretty sure she probably thought my friends and I were messing around with paintballs and her car got caught in the crossfire (honestly, not outside the realm of possibility). My mom gets home 2 days later, sees the damage. I tell her I’ll get a job in the next week to pay to have it repainted. She waves me off, says she’ll take care of it. I come outside the next day… it’s all gone. Car looks pristine!

“Sorcery!!!!” I yell. “I mean, how did you get it all off?” She looks me dead in the eye and says, “oven cleaner.” She told me that she tried car wash and water like I did, and then she was like, maybe this will work, et voila!

So in closing, try oven cleaner, and other weird shit that one would not normally think of, and if I ever needed to hide a body, I’ll go to my mom for advice 🤣😂



PS: just be careful to only remove the unwanted paint, so that the oven cleaner doesn’t damage the Jeep clear coat/paint. It’s doable. Hers came out pristine, no need for a touch-up or anything.
 
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Wired up the halos today to come on when you turn the jeep on…
 
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Amazon came through with my weld on bunghole. Turns out you can weld just about anything with flux core. Curious if the tail pipe will fit with the short cherry bomb muffler or if I’ll need to pick up a length of pipe. At least the “cat” and the muffler will be installed which cuts the noise in half when you’re running a down flow pipe and nothing else lol

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LOL. The line "it's better to be lucky than good" is one of the things I always tell my kids. Along with "you can do everything right and still lose" and "sucking at something is first step to being really good at something". I take no credit for any of them, but they're all spot on.

I'm sorry this deal got past, but you still sound like you did well for your ride. It'll appreciate it.
Well here's my Moto " If at first you don't succeed .....do it like your wife said to in the first place.