Congratulations on finally getting a winter beater you like! Look into fluid film for rust protection, you’ll have to reapply it every year, and working on the car will get you filthy, but it will stop the rust from getting much worse.

Looking forward to more articles about a car that isn’t a total POS, you’ve earned…

Yeah it’s a real shame he doesn’t have an XJ he could replace the axle on. Or another SJ Cherokee that needs a rebuild because someone left the head off. Or a J10 that needs a transmission rebuild.

If only he had something he could work on though! Then he could write!

I enjoy reading your fixes,

But were you aware that I would also read about you fixing any one of your other “nice” jeeps? If you put even half as much labor into those as you post about these crapcans, you wouldn’t have a J10 without a trans, or an SJ without an engine. And you’d be able to shower in the meantime.

You…

Exactly. I can’t always be bothered to write a thesis though, so sometimes a snarky hot take will have to do.

David isn’t a bad writer. I’d be perfectly happy reading about him fixing any of his other cars that aren’t complete and total piles.

You really paid $500 for this? $700 got me a truly rust free 2wd Cherokee brought up here from North Carolina. Your Favorite. Do you get to write this off as a business expense for tax purposes or what?

You’re going to have to accelerate the pace of work if it took you this long to get your first article on wrenching…

Yes, demand energy for two identically shaped trucks going the same speed will be the same.

You know you can still buy Cherokees that have floorpans right? And they’re not even that expensive in the south. You have a job that lets you travel as part of the work. Ask readers for a couch to sleep on in Florida, buy a one way ticket, and drive the old rust free XJ of your choice back home. For peanuts. My rust…

We have a lot in common. I’m an engineer for Jeep that works on JL, I own two XJs, I have a romantic outlook on project cars that I spend too much money on for not enough reward, and I’m from Virginia.

But I just do NOT get the total and complete refusal to owning a car that is actually functional as reliable…

You don’t have a postal jeep. You have a 3d guide as to how every new part goes back together. Get yourself a needle scaler, an air compressor, and see how long the inside of that frame rail will last before most of the metal thickness comes off in a 1/8th inch thick chunk. Just because it’s “Solid” doesnt mean it’s…

You really think the same people that fawn over 80's and 90's tin cans are terribly concerned by a three star crash rating in 2018?

The C5 had barely entered production by the time these two went off into the sunset in the states. The Z06 you have pictured was even further off. Not really a fair comparison...

I told a friend of mine this, he didn’t believe me that it pissed people off more than any middle finger or yelling ever could.

The route you’re taking literally costs 30x or more times what you paid for the car in tolls.

I’ve owned both - I wrecked a 1990, then about four months later I got a 2001 NB2. To me, the biggest differences were the interior and the chassis stiffness. I much prefer the NA interior, to the point that I’m swapping over the whole interior from my old car, the reverse of what most people do. The NB interior is a…