JAMMAN
Owns A Torsen
Joined: Mon Sep 18th, 2017
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Name: Jim ... Occupation: 5 axis cnc programmer ... Interests: RBV's ...
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I used to love taking pictures and videos of progress with projects.
It doesn't hold the thrill it used to.
So here's a run down.
6 weeks have passed.
Looks like I am way too busy to work on it anything but the weekend, all day saturday and sunday late afternoon when church is over.
One weekend we went to a Jeep meet and greet we had planned for 6 months.
One weekend it rained.
So that's 4 weekends it got worked on.
First week we pulled the engine from the green one.
The white one still ran so about the 3rd week I backed it up and put it in the driveway next to the green one to start taking it apart.
A guy stops by from the city shortly after bothering my wife while I was at work, saying a neighbor had complained. Everything was cool because I had already moved it out of my yard, I guess there is some kind of rule that you can't park crappy looking cars on your yard. Of course they didn't say anything they just called the city complaining. I'm not even in a HOA and I made sure of it before I bought the house.
I ate a substantial amount of rust while extracting the engine/trans from the white one, got it in my mouth, ears, eyes and nose.
As it sat in the garage I transferred all the clean brackets from the green engine and trans to the other one.
Planted the engine and trans in the green one. Took hours, the transfer case got trapped on every bracket on the way in.
While I was buttoning it up, my son came out to help me drinking an arnold palmer tea drink I bought 2 of from the bargain bin at kroger for 40C.
A half hour later he said he felt sick, tossed several batches of cookies and was dead for the rest of the day. His loss because I love wrenching.
2 days ago I was putting wires and hoses on, it was hot and there was that second can of arnold palmer tea staring at me in the fridge, I opened it and shotgunned it.
About a half hour later I came in the house, laid down on the floor because my clothes were so dirty and started sweating a river. I didn't blow chunks but the room was spinning every time I stood up.
After a 2 hour nap I got up, went back outside, laid under the truck and literally couldn't move. Son came out to check on me, I had him put the expensive tools away and I made another bed on the floor. About 9pm I felt good enough to change clothes and wash my hands but that's as much energy as I had, slept all night.
Woke up feeling horrible but I was happy and jumping around because I felt way better than saturday. Went to church.
Came home, picked up essentials from the auto parts store, started wrenching.
About 7PM buttoned it up, turned the key, it runs fantastic, took it for a ride. Shifts great, no leaks. Happy ending!
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