Welcome to the next installment of the

Topic of the Week

2003 is on it's way out. What do you plan to do next year?


Learn to weld?
Build a cage?
Wear your seatbelts?
Strap your junk down?


And let's try to keep this related to wheeling? mmmmkay?

I'll go first.



I'm going to try to keep the TOTW to weeks and not months.

I'm going to need your help doing so. so feel free to send me a PM (http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/private.php?s=&action=newmessage&userid=47) with your suggestions.

I'm also going to finish my rig and get it on the trail.

A New Year's resolution to buckle up (at least with lap belt) everytime I get in the rig.

Also, snag some more magnets to put into the bottom of my koozies...with the windshield folded down you can just fling the koozie (with beer) up onto the hood when you get into some chit.

Been tooling with my rig for years now, building a frame, motor, tranny/t-case/adapter, axles, harness, cage, fuel cell, saginaw steering, pedals, blah blah blah. I wanna drive it, just once.

I learned alot this year, like welding, bending, fabricating. Now I just want a rig that runs! That's my resolution!

1st - Fix all my Body Damage, make it look clean again.

2nd - Replace rockers

Got a bunch of stuff after that. Skids, axles, possible exo, reworking some of the sheetmetal. Well see how much extra I get done.

To get my engine swap done and finally get my rig all legal:emb3:

To have the Jeep done by summer if not sooner.

become a United States Marine:usa:

Get my Jeepster stripped down to the frame, install new suspension, install front 60/rear 14bolt and have it rolling on 12 bolt hummer's/42s.


Eric

learning to weld / purchasing welding equipment is BIG on my list. it's costing too much to not finish my projects myself...

To 4link my rear with minimal problems.. do my first two sets of gears without fucking up, and hopefully make my yj move before march. :rolleyes:

1) Teach 13 year old daughter to drive on trail.

2) Cover 10 year old daughter in mud, this may take wider tires or recentering of Hummer wheels...

3) Fuel injection.

Get my Jeep nosed truggy thing to the Great American Jeep Rally in fall 2004.

Pretty big acomplisment if I can do it as all I have are a few parts and no $$.:D

Second is run as a spotter in an ERoCC paragon event in one of my club members YJ.

Build my CJ, whatever the hell that means

Get a new motor in my junk before March, so I can go to TDS.. Thats the big one..
Next would be, get my suspension reworked, and build a new full cage to suit me better than the one Ive got.
Scott

well the first is to finish up the house so i can do the second... finish the Jeep

By Feb 1 have the NP435 in.

By March 1 get rid of the wife and sell her car. Use proceds to by axles. (60s or volvos dont know yet)

Finish "the list" befor "the move"~July 1.

Finish OBA
Finish OBW
Install Front hoop on Roll Bar.
Install axles
Install Heater
Procure Hardtop.

Wheel!

Finish (my barely started) 4 link rear

put together sometype of front cage setup (it probably won't be pretty without a bender, but at least it will be better than nothing).

Shread my 33's so I can justify buying something better :rolleyes:

avoid starting winter projects I can't finish until august :D

Chad

To have my junk on the trail more than it's torn down in the garage!!!!

Get a better job to afford more Jeep crap :D

Second is to sell some of the projects, and focus on fewer projects :D ANd get them done all teh way.

Third is to go wheelin more.

Fourth is to recognize that I have a Jeep addiction problem, and get help :D

Gui

1 - Get better at welding

2 - Make rear bumper and front bumper/winch basket (see #1)

3 - Swap rear axles

4 - Get frame up restoration on the "other" project past the frame

5 - Wheel more, and hopefully get a little further west than I did last year!

Thats enough BS till 2004!

JH

1) Sell of the extra axles in my garage to make some extra money. (WT Cherokee front, Wag front, 8-lug corp 10 bolt)

2) Pull apart the rear 60 in my garage. Convert to discs, 35 spline, add spool and regear. Oh, add brackets to convert RE LA to 4-link and throw it in.

3) Shorten front hp d60 by 5" to match the rear, rebuild, regear, setup for hi-steer, add brackets, and rework trackbar to work with hi steer and minimize bump steer.

4) new tires and wheels. don't know size or type. Will depend on what I can fit.

I resolve to have it done by May.

Bust ass and finish my buggy and something to haul it cross country so at the end of the year my wife can drag me kicking and screaming from WA State to ZOO York (yuck - for 4 years!)

OH yeah all that on the two nickles I have to rub together...

Plus work full time and get a machining cert - am I whining yet :flipoff2:

Need to learn how to weld this year, and then practice, practice, practice!! Can't afford the labor rate to have somebody else build stuff for me.

Also have to study for promotion so I can afford more Jeep stuff.

Turn my high school ride (88 XJ) into a trail rig. It won't be "completed" but I do hope to have it operational. That includes, building a cage, frankenstein suspension, umm.. body "work", and some other engine troubleshooting.

Put the ford D60 in front
and the 14 bolt (i already have them)
under my Manche


and some 37's or 38.5

i lived to my resolution fomr last year to learn how to weld...and this year...

-further my ability to weld
-be able to fabricate at a better ability
-ge my rig to where i want it to be at

Casey

1. graduate college
2. get an engineering job
3. use job to pay for jeep to be finished

to get a 5.0/435 to replace the 258/T150 :)

Finish the 60/14 bolt swap.

1. finish my junk so i can drive it. (a lot of little shit to finish)
2. sometime aroung july i need to geet a house so i have a place to work on stuff.
3. take machining class and get better at mig & tig welding
4. re-do my junk.

- get another job
- marry my g/f

- get the "new" axles (D30/35:flipoff2:, 4.56, DL in both) under my rig
- get all the other small stuff I´ve sitting in the garage on my rig
- going to 5" of lift
- getting my roof tent painted
- getting some more lights on the rig (some nice PIAAs are sitting here :D )

Nothing hardcore, but enough to do for a noob like me.

Well, i am ordering up some parts on monday. i even have a garage lined up!

moving foward again.

should be drivable my mid feb.

1) I Promise to Not piss on Mo's rig anymore!

2) I will get a Rig on the trail this year!

3) I , er ah , frig it thats enough for one year anyway !

to get my other truck in the 12's and snap a D35 axle in the YJ therefore forcing me to upgrade.

finish all the projects i started, and learn to weld/fabircate better

Getting the money to improve my jeeps...


- New Lifts

- New Suspensions

- Exo Cages

- V8 setup in one of my jeeps


- get money to do all this


- stop being lazy

60's and 39.5" tires....


Oh, and a frame......and a .....

My res is to take my rig apart and build a new one. Wont be done for the comming season though so it looks as though I'll be driving my dads 79 CJ7:D

To convince the wife I need 1 ton axles by the end of the year.

:cool:

Finished the '82 Bobbed Scrambler Project.

Still needs paint, wiring, and a lot of bolts tighten.

Then start her up and drive her.

Skid plate

Shave my 14 Bolt

Finish the OBA on the tree fitty fi

Make a fan shroud

Fix rusty rockers on the Big Dooley

Mount service body on the Big Dooley

Originally posted by Geesh
Been tooling with my rig for years now, building a frame, motor, tranny/t-case/adapter, axles, harness, cage, fuel cell, saginaw steering, pedals, blah blah blah. I wanna drive it, just once.

This is my resolution as well - to finish and drive it. Must be something about the air in Albuquerque why these projects take so long :D I also want to learn to bend tubing. Ordering up my bender this month.

Tow rig and trailer by the end of the year. Tired of driving the long miles to the Sierra's from the Bay Area in my rig....just not too comfy anymore. :D