It made it all the way to the grocery store!

"gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee" (gogmorgo) 01/21/2019 at 00:05 • Filed to: None

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AND BACK AGAIN!!! Without DYING!!!!

That’s a whole 12 blocks without dumping all its coolant. TWELVE BLOCKS!!!

There’s still a couple things left to button up, but for all intensive purposes the Littlest Comanche is back up and running again. Two weeks of evenings (with a few off) in the driveway, in the dark, with temperatures around 0°F (so still warm enough to work, but cold enough for laying on the ground to suck), plus a couple weekend days, to drop in the one YJ engine. It was a little rough at first but after idling until it melted all the snow off the windshield, it’s smoothed out quite a bit.

Now that it runs and drives without puking its guts out and cooking itself, I can finally start to work out all the new-to-me-$700-Jeep bugs. First order of business will be winter tires and then I suppose I should do something about the mediocre brake performance. Although running around on the snowpacked streets wasn’t too bad tonight... tough to say whether no brakes or just no traction, haha. And something’s up with the power steering. Not sure what cause it steers just fine, it's just howling.

Also, moonlit mountains are pretty.

And iPotato SE photos in the dark, not so much.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 01/21/2019 at 06:54

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Needs more Niva :P

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 01/21/2019 at 12:01

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SOON.

Still waiting for an out-of-province inspection. The extra AMC 2.5 I picked up wouldn't be the worst swap candidate for it, not that it needs it. 

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 01/21/2019 at 15:40

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Yay! I love me some old Commie rides! :D

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 01/21/2019 at 22:14

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This one’s a ‘96. Comparatively new.