Did you bring a .45 in case, well, you know?

I was taking the Douglas Adams approach…

Nobody is going to say it? I’ll say it.

“Anything is within walking distance if you have the time.”

They will if the Jeep stays on the trailer...

Wants to challenge Moab with his 1948 Jeep. Turns out 1948 Jeep can’t handle Michigan pavement.

OK, wallets out everyone… Who had “10 miles” in the pool?

It made them happy in the shortest-sighted and confusing way possible, that’s my issue. So many people just heap praise on him as living some kind of dream by doing ‘fixes’ and working against the car’s and his own best interests for no logical or smarter reasons I can think of besides laziness, willful incompetence,…

Those are good fun and good stories when you have a ‘it was brutal but we did our best and made it’ aspect to it, but makes a much shittier story when it’s ‘we were willfully underinformed, halfassed many steps, knowing it was not capable of making it at all as is (lol, under 10 miles), and we made it nowhere’.…

Nah. He didn’t really get it done (or done well/properly in confidence that it isn’t going to/thus didn’t break very very shortly), knows he didn’t do a good job at it (10psi oil pressure is a quarter or a third of what it should be, and is due to worn bearings). The VERY FIRST few google results for ‘jeep c2a low…

“Hi I’m David Tracy, and this is Jackass!”

Sorry dude, when you do your intros, that’s what I hear.

Don’t mean to be negative here, but you’ve run a 6V system off a 12V battery, causing further damage. You’ve run a non-ground head that you knew you forced off with a crowbar, causing further damage. It seems to me like you’re going one step forwards two steps back out of nothing more than impatience. I really think…

I would be mildly impressed if he managed to get stuck in Arkansas, considering the route he selected runs through Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, and Utah.

I was half expecting “Okay... just a little more starter fluid” followed by:

Can of Stop Leak after you verify if it is seepage or a real leak. Check your oil for the milkshake look.

So now all it needs is the rusty rigged frame repaired and you’ll be ready to die somewhere on the road........

Old input shaft!!?? Wussess. I used the butt end of a slightly modified J C Penney large flat blade screwdriver. Yes I’m old and J C Penney used to be a full line store like Sears and Monkey Wards - hardware/tool department and everything else.

You guys need to get into animated dramatizations for stories like this.

Ah ... we finally get to the crux of it all. Why? If you need to ask that question, then you don’t get it. We wrench because it is there. For those who get it there is inherent satisfaction in being able to take something that most of the world has written off for dead and bring it back to life. In a sense we are…

David, why don’t you just stand in the middle of your driveway tearing up hundred dollar bills into small pieces instead?