I decided that it would be a lot of fun to have the Jeep in Virginia City this summer. Pulling it out of Mom & Dad's place and getting it running was difficult but not beyond my reach. Had to install all new wheel cylinders and replace the steering with something from a Dodge Dump truck (it was all I had handy). Without going into the details it was operational by the time I needed. I documented the journey because I know both family and friends did not think it would arrive as planned.
Note the steering wheel slop in the next video, I think in the future I should check to see if the steering I am swapping in is NOT all worn out first.
Outside Rock Creek I pulled over to take a break and let the Dog wee. By this time I was on the Interstate. This added a new stress to the adventure as I was being overtaken at speeds of 30MPH or more. Each time a truck would pass I would get this surge forward and then it would try and suck the Jeep in. Gas gauge was on its way out by this point.
We made it! By this time I had already unloaded all of the stuff out of the old girl and wandered on up the road a ways. The tires are both far better and far worse than they look. Those tires are older than I am. In fact in the scrap book there is a picture of me as an infant and in the background you can see my uncles old Jeep with those very same tires on it. The fact that they made it all the way back around to me bolted onto a different Jeep long after the original was gone is a story in itself. I decided it was fate and if they had lasted this long then by God they will last this summer. So far so good!
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Nice work. Jeeps are amazing machines, to me, because they seem to be something a knowledgable machinist can fix up and have fun doing it. Ya, I know it probably wasn't all fun, but goodness it's quite something to see all the videos. Thanks for sharing!
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