Repair of the Week

LOL!

I would be keeping the good MC that you swapped out for a spare....

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

Will Honea wrote:
>
> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:05:47 UTC M. E. Bye > wrote:
>
> > Remember just last week my posting about windshield wiper motors going
> > belly up? Well, yesterday I noticed an antifreeze puddle (of
> > significant size) under the front end. Just a year ago (almost to the
> > day) I had the radiator pulled and repaired.
> > Why do we drive these things?
>
> Oh, do I know that feeling! CLutch master cylinder was leaking,
> finally died (I thought). Got parts, started, waited for the weather
> to warm up a little more, then realized that the new one left me with
> about an inch of travel from the floor. WTF??? Doing my imitation of
> a pretzel, I look up under the dash and the offset arm on the clutch
> pedal (88 MJ) has broken and bent. Hey! That's a quarter inch steel
> arm! Cuss and swear for an hour to get the pedal off the hanger only
> to find my oxygen tank is empty. Off to the welding supply house,
> weld pdeal, fight it back in... A job that should take an hour at the
> outside has consumed the better part of a week now, given company,
> Christmas, etc. etc.
>
> What's the chances of that stupid arm breaking at exactly the same
> time the mc goes titsup???
>
> --
> Will Honea

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 04:24:01 -0600, Old Crow >
wrote:

>On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 10:05:47 -0600, M. E. Bye >
>wrote:
>
>>Remember just last week my posting about windshield wiper motors going
>>belly up? Well, yesterday I noticed an antifreeze puddle (of
>>significant size) under the front end. Just a year ago (almost to the
>>day) I had the radiator pulled and repaired.
>>Why do we drive these things?
>>
>
>Well, if they never broke, I'd be hard pressed to make a living
>working on them.
>As it is, I live good.

While I'm cussing a blue streak about all of this my fiancee says:
"so... are you thinking of getting rid of it?"

Me: "not a chance!"

Mark
'98 TJ
'98 XJ

> While I'm cussing a blue streak about all of this my fiancee says:
> "so... are you thinking of getting rid of it?"

I once had a parts counter guy say "Can't ya just let it die?" I just
laughed as I hung up the phone.

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On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, aGraham wrote:

>> While I'm cussing a blue streak about all of this my fiancee says:
>> "so... are you thinking of getting rid of it?"
>
> I once had a parts counter guy say "Can't ya just let it die?" I just
> laughed as I hung up the phone.

I'm toying with taking an `81 CJ-7 hulk off a coworker's hands. Another
coworker came up to me when he'd heard and said "Why the fark do you want
another Jeep that you can't drive and have to fix all the time?" I just
laughed.


--
Thank ghod it's Them instead of You.

Unfortunately, the "good" mc was on it's way out - it would bleed off
if it sat more than 20 minutes or so and had to be pumped back up
before I could use it. I can't complain about the service - I got the
mc and the slave from the junk yard 4 years back. After pulling it
off and tearing it down I will look for a kit to put in it for a
spare, tho. It was full of black sludge and probably most of the
problem was the valves getting plugged up by dying rubber parts.

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 14:54:47 UTC Mike Romain >
wrote:

> LOL!
>
> I would be keeping the good MC that you swapped out for a spare....
>
> Mike
> 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
> 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
>
> Will Honea wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:05:47 UTC M. E. Bye > wrote:
> >
> > > Remember just last week my posting about windshield wiper motors going
> > > belly up? Well, yesterday I noticed an antifreeze puddle (of
> > > significant size) under the front end. Just a year ago (almost to the
> > > day) I had the radiator pulled and repaired.
> > > Why do we drive these things?
> >
> > Oh, do I know that feeling! CLutch master cylinder was leaking,
> > finally died (I thought). Got parts, started, waited for the weather
> > to warm up a little more, then realized that the new one left me with
> > about an inch of travel from the floor. WTF??? Doing my imitation of
> > a pretzel, I look up under the dash and the offset arm on the clutch
> > pedal (88 MJ) has broken and bent. Hey! That's a quarter inch steel
> > arm! Cuss and swear for an hour to get the pedal off the hanger only
> > to find my oxygen tank is empty. Off to the welding supply house,
> > weld pdeal, fight it back in... A job that should take an hour at the
> > outside has consumed the better part of a week now, given company,
> > Christmas, etc. etc.
> >
> > What's the chances of that stupid arm breaking at exactly the same
> > time the mc goes titsup???
> >
> > --
> > Will Honea


--
Will Honea

I have a bunch of friends that want to shoot mine. They just dont get
it.

Later Mike