What did you do to your TJ today?

macleanflood said:
Left Fall Creek, Oregon for Montana via dirt and OHV roads yesterday...started down the oohva.org route 3 going north from Centerville...

In the last couple of weeks I've had the AX-15 transmission out twice...took it to Bend and swapped it for a rebuilt unit... installed it... wouldn't go into gear... pulled it...drove it to Bend...they slammed the gear shifter around some and said it was fine...said new ones have really stiff synchros for the first 500...drove 2.5 hrs home...stayed up most of the night Wednesday and slammed it back in...took it for a test drive at 11 pm...no 1st gear...no 4th...and I had to hammer the front driveshaft in and out to get installed.

Left anyways. I have faith in mechanical abilities and my F250, 18' dump trailer and father in law were on standby.

Transmission got really really hot driving a short hop up the freeway. Camped out just south of Wickiup Resivour. 2 and 3 worked great...1st would have been nice.

Black Maxx shocks...both blew up last night. Shock oil running all over. Called ahead to Prineville and they had a set of Ranchos on the shelf...that was our goal by 6 pm.

Made Sisters just past noon.

Pulled into Prineville via the Henderson Flat OHV area and 11 miles of freeway.

Rear end...my freshly supered Dana 35...gears set up by a reputable shop...grenaded and locked up pulling into the first gas station.

Not the transmission.

Not the front end or driveshaft.

Bummer.

F250, trailer and the 2012 JK I just bought for my wife's birthday enroute.

Bald as sin 35s on hideous 18s, stock 3.23ish gears. No idea the maintenance history...might have those Mexican heads...146k miles...

Gonna load the TJ, buy my father in law a steak dinner and move our crap into the JK and keep rolling (the proverbial dice.)

-Mac

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This story makes me want to sell my TJ and LJ, and buy a horse and buggy!
 
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Best sunset in town-welcome to an evening with AndyG- my wife had plans and I’m off the chain ....🤣🤣🤣

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03coloradowrangler said:
did a casual checking things out under the jeep inspection and found some slop in the front axle spicer universal joints on each side. referred to my receipts and found I have about exactly 50k on them. great. been a little suspicious what the popping/clicking may be coming from in 4wd lately.



been seeing them more and more and really like them. been considering getting rid of my cheesy "pure michigan" slogan plate more than ever.

Well, Secretary of State only charges $5 for a new plate (y) got one on order.
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I"ve been trying to "read" the new plates, a lot of them seem like random generated passwords, glad I got a "good" one. I had thought about getting a personalized plate but couldn't come up with a good one. There was one plate on a pickup that at first I thought was a really good random number but realized it was personalized: GLCK19 (y)
 
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Irun said:
This story makes me want to sell my TJ and LJ, and buy a horse and buggy!
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Well I'm filming the whole debacle for YouTube. Which is my I'm being so casual about being an idiot. That and I enjoy rolling the dice and pushing my limits. You don't know where broken is until you find it.

And my luck is awesome...few hundred miles of OHV trails and we break down at a gas station. The Jeep gods are smiling (and laughing their ass off) at me.

-Mac

P.S. I've had to shoot a horse...I never want to do that again. I've been in a really bad mule train wreck too...mules tangled up in packs dangling off the side of a steep trail. I'll take a Jeep any day...
 
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Started to quote @AndyG but he had me in so many post I lost count :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:, sure hate we couldn't make it down to eat with him. Dang beautiful pictures except the one selfi he had to take, he always has to be the center of attention :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:, from what I have heard on the news @AndyG is now a major suspect in Huntsville, AL. for running a Jeep ducking ring!!!!!!!

The guy is obsessed with those things!!!! :cool::cool:
 
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