Sat. Apr 17

[Joe-CJ7]

Any takers for a easy run. Dana you asked for something what do you want to do?

Jk

[Joe-CJ7]

Also I wanted to as for Florence Junction area.

jk

[1BLKJP]

Joe, I am up for runnin something this weekend. Easy is fine with me.

[Joe-CJ7]

Jack you OK with FJ?

JK

[Joe-CJ7]

Just want to go out and Jeep. Almost any trail degree of trail is out there and it depends on who shows up which one or ones we do. I do not know how far or hard it is but maybe getting to the river out by the Coke Ovens might be nice?

I am open to anything.

Email me at jkearney@icisolutions.com or call my cell tomorrow 602-361-8676 if you have any questions or ideas.

jk

[1BLKJP]

Joe,

Sorry about this weekend. I didn't write your number down and I ended up having some lug nut problems stemming from an alignment I had done last week. So I ended up wrenching on my jeep most of the day.

I saw your posts on Yahoo, stating you had some issues. Did you get everything taken care of yesterday?

[Joe-CJ7]

Thanks Jack,

Yes I took care of everything yesterday. I will do a write up yomorrow morning.

Joe

[Joe-CJ7]

While on my run Saturday in Florence Junction I ran into a little trouble. I was going through some rock area in Woodpecker and there was this nasty noise coming from my front end that sounded like the fan hitting something. Well I stopped the Jeep right away and took a look. There was a small leak in the radiator. I had to get out of the area under power and started moving forward and got out of the rock area. I stopped the Jeep as soon as I got to the main trail. I had to take a look at the damage and I found the fan blade stuck under the lip of the radiator. I could not move the fan blade as I did not want the fluid to go all over the place. I could not drive it without a fan so David Adriaanse and Enrique Grisoni helped me out. Enrique went and towed me not only out of Florence Junction via Cottonwood Canyon (the military must of loved that, all during a live fire weekend) but all the way to my house. I so VERY much appreciate his help!

My left motor mount tore in half. I took a look at them (they are fairly new 1 year old) and from the look they were fine. I figured I wanted to see for sure so I took my floor jack and lifted the motor up to see how they were and the left one just came right up with the motor. Case solved now I had to fix it.



So the run down:



2 motor mounts = 35.00

1 new Radiator = 250.00

1 new Fan = 70.00

Various Fluids = 25.00

A picture of a TJ pulling CJ home with a strap = Priceless (oh that is right there was no pictures taken of that part, good thing.



But it is running.

jk

[1BLKJP]

Joe,

Sounds like an interesting day. Were you ever able to determine what caused the mount to break?

I ended up going to Saguaro on Saturday night and broke an upper rear shock mount. Lost part of the bar pin eliminator so I have to pick up a whole new set today. Good reason for me to re-locate rear shocks.

Oh well guess Saturday wasn't what we cracked it up to be.