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I appreciate that. Let me run this by General Hood, and the other SEE owner.

Glad to hear it's working well! I've been meaning to add a front winch, too, although I'd rather have it in the rear. Just haven't figured out an intelligent way to mount it there. And when not chasing fuel issues (spilling a lot), it's impressive how much these machines can do on a tank. You...

Ah, that makes perfect sense. As much as don't want to spend two days getting that SEE myself, it may come to that. I'd cost me just over $500 in fuel. Meanwhile the brokers are quoting $1,500 and up, and those drivers wouldn't run empty one way - well, it's a fairly safe bet they wouldn't.

I did hear that there were problems with a transporter getting to pick up, but more specifically it seems that you're the only one willing to go there and load something. My SEE is supposed to be out of there by Wednesday, but the other one is already two weeks past deadline. My normal go-to guy...

I know that there's at least two of us having a hard time getting our vehicles transported from Texas, Hooks to be specific. Anybody know what's going on with that...or more correctly, not going on?

Good catch, Speedwoble. I somehow overlooked that simple fact, despite going strictly by engine hours for maintenance. Reading those dang meters can be a real pain, but it's what counts. I have one dysfunctional speedometer, but it took me about a year to notice that the mileage never went up...

Welcome, Chief. I would say that your SEE is definitely on the low side when it comes to miles and hours since the recap. They must've parked it in the back almost instantly. My HMMH had 80 something miles on it, I think, and that's the lowest I've seen in person. As far as being the newest...

Ask General Hood if you can have some of his old ones. I believe he gets new ones every time he takes his SEE in for detailing. They're the temporary kind, but still.

I might take you up on that. I'm still running a couple of the old style pumps, which seem to work just fine. Especially when you don't need to use them.

Yeah, I would've been very happy with getting two years out of those drum brakes. But two weeks was pretty dismal, and when all we 'wheeled in was mud there was no reason to expect any improvement. Adding insult to injury, they were inboard drums, so not easily removed for cleaning, either...

Mud is murder on drum brakes. Learned that the hard way, 2 weeks after finally completing my Jeep. A month later it had 4-wheel discs.

Looks like the Pirate's opinion about those straps hasn't changed much since we used to cuss them over a cold beer (sometimes two) at the Little Sluice, back in the day.

Whatever happened to the perfectly functional, and superior in general, yokes with U-bolts?

So the original yoke didn't have the 1350 measurement? I still don't quite get this.

I can't see the tab for the cup in the second photo, so it's hard to tell what the real widths of those yokes are. And it would take an awful lot of abuse to tweak a yoke, even if banging it against rocks. Having a U-joint let go is the only way I can remember seeing a yoke get damaged. But it...

Huh? If I understand this correctly, you must've had the wrong size U-joint in the OE yoke. The attachments don't work, but when you say that the aftermarket straps "are not exactly formed yet to the new U-joint" it sounds like you still have a mismatch. I've never had an application where the...

Hey, glad to learn that you got it working well again! And it looks like you've taken after General Hood, making things nice and shiny. Time for some floor mats to protect that nice floor.

It's kinda funny how there's been more tire talk than in recent memory on the "regular thread", and yet it took days for this one to get going. Okay, to get a second post. Anyway, after having had the privilege to witness first hand the procedures and equipment used for tire testing at the Yuma...

I had to wait for about three months once before the GP rep was available for a pickup. But as long as it's really GP that's holding things up, they can't charge you storage fees. You have a patient shipper, it sounds like. Napa should be able to get you a drum of AW-32, and if you order online...

Just in case someone happens to be travelling this route, or reasonably close, in the very near future. And also happens to be pulling a trailer with 20 feet of space and 16,000 lbs. of capacity.