I wonder if Jalopnik got him enough views on his youtube channel to fund that new car purchase. Wait, is he somehow affiliated with Jalopnik? Silent partner? Secret editor? Did we Jalops somehow get caught in a scam to help buy his new car? Well done, Jalop staff. Well done.

Great writeup! How did you get such a killer deal on the initial purchase though?

I don’t get it when one group of engineers or “technologists” complains about another group not knowing what they’re doing. I run a small company with engineers focusing on Mechanical/Electrical/Manufacturing work as well as various programming activities from front-end to database and embedded systems.

Congratulations and thanks for the excellent writeup! I’ve been following your progress and I was really rooting for you to do well.

Bah! A well-run and managed company culture where employees are given voice and managers accept responsibility will develop better opportunities for the company and the personnel than one where there is a lack of cohesiveness and rampant disregard for others. That’s common sense. Uber hasn’t displayed a helluva lot of…

My current truck is the sketchiest. I use it as a work truck for my business and I bought it with 169,000 on the clock for $1600. It’s a 1997 Ford Ranger XLT 2WD. I was on crutches, so my biz partner test drove it, but I quickly discovered it was bad. Really bad. After replacing basically every sensor under the hood,…

Happy days, I’m no longer grayed out!! I feel like part of the family now. :)

Great writeup! I’m always a fan of helping people learn to be self-sufficient, and this article goes a long ways to that.

I did the 11" swap on my 1962 CJ5 and the difference was dramatic. It’s easy to find info on which vehicles had 11" front drums that you can directly swap in. I saw you swapped in stock units to replace the old brakes, but I highly recommend getting an 11" set at least for the front. Also, from memory, I think you…

Sounds pretty similar to my 1962 CJ5 rebuild, although I ended up with a brand new paint job out of that deal. I got another chance to redo the paint on the hood and replace all burnable things under the hood a little while later, but that little excursion only cost me $100. Trusty machines once they’re running, and…

“Follow the line, just follow the damned line! If you’re not going to follow it, then let everyone around you know and check before you switch to another line.”

This is AWESOME AF! Wool is such an undersung material! Seriously, it’s comfy, it keeps you both cool and warm (as conditions require), it is antimicrobial so it resists bad odors, and damn does it smell good when it’s wet. Which, if you’re using your luxury ride appropriately, will happen from time to time.

Awesome! Now, please replace your leaf spring hanger bolts before you snap them on a trail! I’d be willing to bet there’s only half the shank of the bolt left to keep those springs from snapping loose. It’ll make for a MUCH better ride too!

Yikes! Tough luck there.

Good luck on the trip! I had a 1962 Willys CJ5 and it was a lot of fun and surprisingly reliable after I got the kinks worked out. It only caught on fire once... I think. The rebuild after the fire only cost $93 and that included all burnable items under the hood, as well as a fancy black racing stripe down the middle…

I’m not so sure that guy was pushing it or driving like an idiot. He just looked like he didn’t know what he was doing and lost control. Case in point... both of this feet were off the pegs! I really think the motorcycle licensing exams in the US leave something to be desired.

1997 Ford Ranger 2.2L Lima engine spark plugs on the intake side. They look relatively easy to reach, unless the sadistic PO never changed them and also swapped out the odometer before you bought it so you thought it had 170k miles instead of 350k miles. The plug wires then snap off after 350k miles because they’ve…

My girlfriend got a Mitsu Mirage as a loaner, while her Takata airbag o’ death was replaced in her Honda Fit, and we took it on a road trip. It was a crappy car all in all, but damn did it get good fuel mileage. I was averaging over 55MPG on the highway ranging from 60-75MPH over a few hundred miles. Going 60MPH I…

Not quite. The time from 0-0.999 is the first second. The time from 1-1.9999 is the second second. Carry that on a little ways and the time from 5-5.9999 is the sixth second. A 6-second car is running in the “sixth” second, so it has be running a quarter mile somewhere between 5 and 5.9999 seconds. As soon as it…

When you go for the split, but it’s not empty,