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While my jeep was parked outside my friend's shop, some low life decided he needed my stereo more than I did. I could care less about the stereo, but now I have to make a whole new dash panel. Frustrating to say the least. They also broke the latch on the side vent window. I will have to fix that as well.

Wow... They showed no restraint in removing it. That's a huge hole. "Lowlife" is being nice. Sorry to hear about that bud.

Wow, after what seems like forever, I finally have my jeep back. The new Cam and intake are in and she is running strong. The 401 has a nice little lope at idle. I am really happy with the new power and torque. We also cleaned up a lot of the engine bay wiring as well as added an MSD 6AL.

I also was able to get a new dash panel built after my stereo was stolen. I decided not to put the AC vents in the new one. I really did not see that they helped that much. I think it looks cleaner now anyways. The paint does not match, but it will work for now. I took the destroyed dash down to my local sheet metal shop and they were able to cut and bend me a new one that was really close to the original.

I got my jeep back on Friday. Then Saturday me and a buddy headed out to Hidden Falls Off Road Park to test everything out and see how she did. I was very impressed. For running 33" tires, open diffs, a 4" lift, and a quick disconnect sway bar, she did really well.

Here is a pic of me flexing her out before we loaded on the trailer. Flexes pretty good in my opinion. The front has a lot more travel than the rear. One of these days I will look at the rear suspension and see how I can get some more travel out of it. I think at this point my shocks where the limiting factor.



Pic while on the trail.

My wife left last week with our boys to go see her parents for Christmas. I am going to drive up there tonight and meet them and have Christmas. It is about a 4 hour drive. So, I am going to drive the Jeep and take my tow bar. Then when we come home I can tow the jeep back with my wife's Excursion. This will be a good test for our trip up to Ouray this year. Anyways, I hate the little mirrors on my jeep. So, I made these mounts and mount bigger mirrors. If I get good feedback on these, I may make a bunch of them and sell them in my Vendor store here on the forum. Needless to say, visibility is much better now. I like the look too.

ross80truck wrote:My wife left last week with our boys to go see her parents for Christmas. I am going to drive up there tonight and meet them and have Christmas. It is about a 4 hour drive. So, I am going to drive the Jeep and take my tow bar. Then when we come home I can tow the jeep back with my wife's Excursion. This will be a good test for our trip up to Ouray this year. Anyways, I hate the little mirrors on my jeep. So, I made these mounts and mount bigger mirrors. If I get good feedback on these, I may make a bunch of them and sell them in my Vendor store here on the forum. Needless to say, visibility is much better now. I like the look too.

I WANT SOME!!! As well as some of the other stuff but I'd like to order all at once. Let me know what it's going to take to get some of those mounts PLEASE!!!

I would also like a pair of the Mirror bases or mounts for my Jtruck.. Here is to hoping you make some more for your fellow FSJ'rs..

ross80truck wrote: If I get good feedback on these, I may make a bunch of them and sell them in my Vendor store here on the forum. Needless to say, visibility is much better now. I like the look too.

Getting some good food back on the mirrors. So, those will be next as soon as I finish the sun visor cups.

Drove the Chief up to Longview to meet up with the wife and see the in-laws this weekend. It is about a 200 mile trip from Temple. I had to fill up about half way there. I got an amazing 9.54 MPG out of the old girl. Filled up again when I got to Longview and the second tank got 8.5 MPG. I was pushing it a little harder on the second tank. Thankfully it did not hurt the wallet as bad with fuel prices being so low right now.

Sold the Cheap Chief last night to a really nice guy down in the Austin are. It was time for me to part ways with it so I can focus on my Cummins powered Wagoneer build. I won't be watching this thread anymore, so if anyone ever has any questions feel free to e-mail me or PM.

I did pull the 401 before I sold it and dropped in a solid 360 I had that came out of a Scrambler I bought. So, I am going to put the 401 in the scrambler. I could not part with that motor.

I'll take over from here. I'm glad you decided to part with this Chief. My son has already claimed it so I guess it will stay in my possession for the remainder of its life.