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I'm condensing again lol. The MVPA convention is coming up in a couple of weeks and I'm within an hour, so I'm going one way or the other. That being said, I decided maybe now was a good time to finally get some color laid down on the '53. A couple weeks ago I started the process of tearing...

I sure wish I could muster up the motivation to paint my '53. MVPA convention coming up quick, I'm an hour from Des Moines, and plan on attending. Think that should be enough, but nope, just not there lol! Great job on yours!

Looking forward to it!

If the hooks had been taken off before civvy life, not much of a choice there. And the part about undoing someone else's work....no truer words have been spoke! 🤣 This was what I dealt with! I don't recall if I've posted this pic before, but I couldn't believe how thick it was! They'd made an...

First off, thanks! Secondly, my guess is going to lean towards its wrinkled because of being pulled from the center. As you can see by my picture, it's no longer straight, or even close lol! It's not really rough or cut bad, it's wrinkled from the bowing is all. It does have chew marks on the...

Thanks! I'm getting pretty good at making junk look like garbage! 🤣

Pintle cleaned, painted and installed. Next up, exhaust. Ripped off the CJ appearing system, ordered midpipe and muffler and failed to check the downpipe. It was in good shape with the exception of the missing flange which I completely overlooked. Those of you with keen eyes will see what I...

That looks pretty sharp actually, great job!

Not a half bad idea there, other than making it stick out more, there's no reason it shouldn't work.

Bumperettes are on, lift shackles on and the taillights are no longer yellow! Hammered out some wrinkles and filled some of the extra holes. I have a buddy that will be sending me a pintle hitch soon, so that will wrap up work on the tail once that's on. I can tell there's still a bow to...

Thanks, I put in a few years at a weld shop lol. At least I learned something while I was there other than how to hold a broom and look busy!

How about what I've done to my Jeep in the last week? Way too much to write now, so I'll sum up lol. Went to replace a damaged bumperette on the '52C and ended up putting in a whole new crossmember! Somewhere along the way, this old horse backed into something way more stout than it, buckling...

After almost six months, I finally pulled the voltage regulator out last week, popped the top off and found this: Guess I can understand why the charging system wasn't functioning correctly now. Ordered a new one, got it in this evening, and wouldn't ya know it, it finally has more than 23...

So, last week I decided to pull the regulator off. As I stood up with the reg in my hands, I caught a whiff of fried electrical. Took the cover off and found this: It's now all good, got a new one swapped in, even stuck the old government plate on!

I don't get that option unfortunately. One of my A1's is still 24V, the other has been converted to 12V.

So, I've been trying to diagnose what I thought was a generator issue. Turns out it looks like I have a regulator issue. Generator testing determined output is good, climbed over 30V easily. At some point a solid state reg was installed, is there a way to test one of those? I know the old...

I dunno how they do it either. I just got tires (stock size) for my '17 Rubicon and it was free shipping as well.

Finally got around to switching out the cannon plug on the light switch this evening. I'd originally tried to save it as best as possible, but the insulation was just too brittle. So I ordered a takeoff from John up at Midwest Military a few months back. Trimmed the old tape off, marked all the...

Oh aluminum, that does make it much trickier! I like 51's method then, won't hurt the ally but will eat the steel. Alum (the baking additive) will do the same thing, but I can't be sure what it may do to aluminum. I'm a goldsmith and use alum to eat away broken bits that get lodged in gold.

Me, I'd probably do some very fine finessing with a torch and cut the nuts off. And with the amount of heat that would be put through the bolts at that point may have taken some of the hardness away. And use a fresh Cobalt drill bit. Slow and a lot of cutting oil/ lube.