Sorry, one last CJ-related post on the TJ forum.
I had a goal of getting the thing listed, if not sold, by the end of the month. I hate this jeep. My TJ is everything I wanted the CJ to be and more, and with less headache. Anyway, I went to pull it out of the garage for pictures a few weeks ago, but it wouldn't turn over (dead battery?) and no brakes. M/C was dry somehow. Bench bled the m/c, re-bled the brakes, and got a new battery. Still won't so much as budge.
Now I'm pissed. 2 months ago it ran fine (and had brakes). I pulled it out of one garage and drove it under it's own power into the other garage. I would've listed it right then but I was waiting for better Jeep weather. Whoops. I sort to investigate the no-start issue, and I realize that I just don't give an F about this jeep anymore. I've got no voltage at the starter solenoid with the key on, and I have no interest in debugging behind the dash or whatever it would take. So I take 3 terrible pictures and put them on FB marketplace. Like, I didn't even wipe the dust off the hood or take the piles & piles of cardboard off the back.
Now you should remember this jeep is a POS. But it at least had been running and was otherwise mechanically sound. It was rusty as all get out, and the wiring had been bubba'd by the PO. I had planned to list it for $3250 expecting to take less than that. And with it not running I expected to take half of that, and honestly I was more than willing to unload it for half that. So I said hells bells, I'm listing it for $3250 anyway and we'll see what happens.
110 inquiries and 6 hours later I had a deposit in my hand for full asking price. I don't normally misread a market that badly but dang did I leave some money on the table. I don't understand how, I mean, I would *never* pay $3k for a car that didn't run and had rust all over. I don't know if it was the recent inflation, or the CJ market being scarce or what, but if I had known it would sell that quickly I would've listed it a year ago. But whatevs, I hated that jeep for several years now. It's somebody else's problem now and I have the cash to regear the TJ as a result.
TL;DR - What did I do to my TJ today? I funded my next upgrade is what I did.