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I drove Betty over to the Tilted Kilt in Buford, GA to be part of the FJ Cruiser meet. Daniel, my brother, drove my FJ over. Betty was a star. We had a great time checking out all the trucks and meeting everyone. Betty did great on the road. Only two problems developed. My turn signals...

Thanks Clinto. I'm not really concerned about it. 115 degrees is not "hot" but it is the first time that I've noticed that hub feeling noticably warmer than the others. It's also the first time I've done any highway driving with the ambient temperature in the 70's. At this point, its just...

My son, Michael, told me last evening that Betty needed some exercise so, we did our pre-trip inspection and drove her over to Lowes in Cartersville. That's about a 20 mile round trip. We did the whoe ride at about 48 MPH except for the steep hills where we dropped to about 35 MPH. I try to run...

Thanks, Carnac. Donations made.

Steven, I go past Cherokee Pawn at least twice each day and I see those MV's you mentioned. One is a like a small rubber tired tank with a gun turret. The other one is bigger, painted white and has a heavily protected front end. Looks like it could ram through pretty much anything. Maybe a UN...

I intend to stop and talk to that guy in the next few days. I've seen him outside a couple of times and sometimes I go by there and that deuce is gone. I think he pulls an RV trailer with him when he goes, but I've never actually seen him driving it. He's got a camo blazer there also, but I'm...

Carnac, thanks in advance for anything you can tell me about my truck. Sorry about PM'ing you before I read the rules in your thread. I was using my ipad and Tapatalk and I couldn't find the thread. a. VIN: 04B86770032528366 b. Registration Number - Forgive me but I'm not sure what the...

I have both wiper motors changed out with the good, metal ones. The worked very well in this rain we've had. I switched and swapped wiper arms and wiper blades so many times, I'm not even sure which ones I have on there now. I think I have the ANCO arms with the Saturn blades. In any event, I'm...

Just a video my son took with my iPhone this morning while we were driving through town. Drive a Deuce In The Rain - YouTube

I know the truck you're talking about. That's not me. I pass by it almost everyday and sometimes give him a honk, but I've never met him. He has a great looking truck. I'm about halfway between canton and Cartersville, a little west of the hwy 108 junction.

Well, I was too danged worn out to go anywhere this weekend. After sleeping in a bit this morning, I got started working on Betty. My passenger side wiper motor arrived sometime last week, so I figured I would get that swapped out. One thing led to another, and before you know it, I had the...

My cab soft-top has been missing the metal clip that connects the rail above the passenger door to the windshield frame. I decided tonight to fabricate one out of the metal pieces that I cut from the heater blower box. I took the clip off of the driver side and used it as a pattern to fab up a...

Made a bit more progress with the heater. I had already cut about 5.25 inches out of the blower box and this evening I got it mostly reassembled. While the paint was drying, I replaced the hydraulic brake light switch. Clinto, that was definitely the problem. The brake lights now come on with...

The dang photo didn't load and now it won't let me add a photo when editing an existing post. Here it is, I think.

So that cab upgrade that JP-234 did has me feeling completely inadequate, but I made acceptable progress on my heater project tonight. More than I expected as a matter of fact. I put a coat of primer and a coat of paint on most of the parts. I replaced the dry rotted wire on the blower motor...

Thanks, Jeepers. I thought it would be rewarding to keep something of a journal here on our progress, Betty and me. For one, it'll be nice to look back here to the beginning and see how far she has come. For another, it'll be good to look here to see how far I've come. Things that might be...

I worked Sunday on getting the "hot water" heater installed. It's a bit bigger task than I expected. The heater was taken out of a parts truck and it took more to recondition it than I anticipated. I decided to cut the blower box down and try to fit it in the cab instead of mounting it on...

I love those bulkhead through-connectors you used for your coolant lines. Where did you get those?

Awesome, awesome, awesome. I want to do something similar to my deuce so much. I have to win the lottery and retire first though!

Spent pretty much all day working on Betty. I had noticed the gauges sometimes stopped working while driving down the road and the fuel gauge bounced all over the place so I took the gauge panel out to check it out. The wiring was badly dry rotted with exposed conductor and loose connections. I...