Just looking in

Matthew Macchiarolo wrote:

[snip]

I stopped reading a long time ago, checking in every few months to see if
anything had changed.  This is much better, more like it used to be.

--
Dale Beckett

Yeah,
it's been nice not having Bill Hughes and his knobs hanging around.


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My "Bill filter" is still in place though, just in case we get a return.

Matthew Macchiarolo wrote:

Good to see you Matt,

I've been looking in now and then. Been too busy wheelin and working on my
rig to pay much attention to this group.
Most of my online time is spent with the guys in the club... troll free
zone, rowdy at times, but nice folks.

We just got back from a three day trip to Superlift. I am SO proud of my
rig.

There were some long arm rigs up there and some with bigger badder rigs that
had to be winched (experienced drivers too!)
in several places where my rig went right on up... "Hyaaah! Get up big
horse!!"

Since January my rig has undergone a startling transformation. From nearly
bone stock to:
Rough Country 4" X series-lift,
Rough Country Diff Guards
Rough Country Steering skid brace
Rough Country Winch plate
Rough Country Performance 2.2 shocks
Rough Country steering stabilizer
JKS 1.25" BL 1"MML,
JKS Track Bar
5.13 Gears,
Tom Woods CV Driveshaft
SwayLOC,
Selby Rock rails,
DickHard rear bumper & swing away tire carrier
Warn M8000,
Carr Rota Light bar w/a 6 pack,
15 x 10 Cepek DC-1 wheels &  33" Cepek Mud Country Tires
Cobra 75wxst w/ 4' Firestick
Aww Shit handles
HD Rear shackles
Superlift TruSpeed
Iron Rock Tie Rod
Tom Woods CV driveshaft
We still have a ways to go, after this trip, I am putting a TummyTuck, new
DickHard front bumper and Phantom Tube fenders on my short list.

The tummytuck I can justify, my belly pan is about 1/8" away from my
driveshaft right now.

Now, I've just got to figure out how I'm going to pull the money out of my
butt to pay for it all.

K.


It's been a few months and it appears as if things have gotten somewhat back
to normal. I have missed the group, and I am glad those of you who are still
here have been able to stick it out. I just didn't have the time to go
through all the crap.

I have been busy in my absence, however. The TJ has undergone some major
work. In June my rear Dana 35 finally let go, the cross-shaft pinions broke.
It was drivable but it didn't like it when I had to steer :-)

Trying to get the cross-shaft out, however, was another matter. That thing
just didn't want to come out, I think when the gears let go the shaft got
bent or the diff carrier distorted. In my zeal to try to get it out it's now
damaged beyond repair.The only way it's coming out now is with a plasma
cutter.

So when I was looking to upgrade, I was pricing out new 44's and 9" axles,
which were way to pricey. Looking to eBay, I scored a set of axles (front
30, rear 44) from an '04 TJL that the owner had built with 4.88's, ARB
lockers, Currie tierod/draglink, and chromoly axleshafts. It also had
Spidertrax 5.5: lug adapters, which I don't need right now, but I intend to
hold onto them.

So the last few weeks I have been working a little bit at a time on getting
the new axles in. As with most projects, it cost a little more as I had to
replace the Rubicon Express LCA's. Here in the rust belt, the flex joints
were completely seized, I have to put rebuilding those on my list of annual
maintenance procedures. Also needed new E-brake cables and will soon replace
the brake proportioning valve.

A couple weeks ago the new rear driveshaft arrived and I am now able to
drive it. I have yet to hook up the air lockers but I do have most of the
parts ready. I already have onboard air so I had to get two ARB solenoids, a
regulator and associated plumbing & electrical parts.

So now I have a busted 35 (R &P are OK, as are axleshafts, but it will need
a new diff carrier, and the drum brakes are disassembled) and a good
condition front Dana 30, complete with brakes & rotors, 4.56, and a Detroit
True Trac limited slip. If anyone is in need of a front TJ/XJ axle so
equipped, email me at mlmacchiarolo at comcast dot net.

The old axles were ABS equipped, and the new ones are not, so I have removed
the ABS controller & G-switch as well, and will removed the pump when I
replace the proportioning valve. So I have those parts to, along with the
wheel sensors.

At any rate, I am glad things have cooled off here and we can get back to
discussing Jeeps.

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Matt Macchiarolo

Wow!  You have been a busy little girl.  =)
Bet it looks purty!

I've been busy too, but in a different direction.  I bought a house!  Just spent
4
days with the excavating crew who got me a nice big level area to build a shop -
they
took off the trees (my firewood for next year) and took out 40+ loads of dirt.
Now
waiting on the building permit and also for the trusses to get built and
delivered.
Its going to be 32x30.  One man door, one 12x10 rollup door.  And easy to add to
in
the future when I need more ventilation, access, etc.  Concrete floor too (ouch!
that
floor is gonna cost between 3-4 grand).

However, to keep this on topic.... I am leaving tomorrow (after shoveling gravel
and
spreading seed all morning) for a wheeling trip down in Oregon.  One I try to go
on
every year.  I am one of those listed as a "freind of the club", but not a club
member.  Lots of wheeling, story telling, drinking, and sitting around the fire.
 =)
I cant wait!!!!   I took 2 days off in the middle of moving to this house so
that I
could get the Jeep fixed for this trip - its been sitting on the trailer broken
since
I got home from the 'Con in June.  I just have to pack up and load up after I get
stuff done at the house tomorrow, then hit the road.  From the new place its
about a
7 hour drive.  On the way home I am stopping at my folks and dropping off
fencing and
picking up a display case, burn barrell, and a couple of other things I need.

Catch you all when I get back next week.
-jenn

HEY! Congratulations Jenn!

Glad to hear your prioroties are still straight - Jeepin first - Everything
else LATER!

Have a blast!

One of these days, I hope to get out on the west coast with my rig. Maybe
you can show me around :)

K.

Wow!  You have been a busy little girl.  =)
Bet it looks purty!

I've been busy too, but in a different direction.  I bought a house!  Just
spent 4
days with the excavating crew who got me a nice big level area to build a
shop - they
took off the trees (my firewood for next year) and took out 40+ loads of
dirt.  Now
waiting on the building permit and also for the trusses to get built and
delivered.
Its going to be 32x30.  One man door, one 12x10 rollup door.  And easy to
add to in
the future when I need more ventilation, access, etc.  Concrete floor too
(ouch! that
floor is gonna cost between 3-4 grand).

However, to keep this on topic.... I am leaving tomorrow (after shoveling
gravel and
spreading seed all morning) for a wheeling trip down in Oregon.  One I try
to go on
every year.  I am one of those listed as a "freind of the club", but not a
club
member.  Lots of wheeling, story telling, drinking, and sitting around the
fire.  =)
I cant wait!!!!   I took 2 days off in the middle of moving to this house so
that I
could get the Jeep fixed for this trip - its been sitting on the trailer
broken since
I got home from the 'Con in June.  I just have to pack up and load up after
I get
stuff done at the house tomorrow, then hit the road.  From the new place its
about a
7 hour drive.  On the way home I am stopping at my folks and dropping off
fencing and
picking up a display case, burn barrell, and a couple of other things I
need.

Catch you all when I get back next week.
-jenn

Thanks!

Be happy to show you around the PacificNorthWet.  =)

I cant wait for the shop to get started!!  I was scraping ice yesterday morning
before I left for work.
-jenn

no thanks to you maybe if you would of helped fight against the trolls
instaed of bending over and grabbing your ankles it would have been
over a lot sooner and bill wouldnt of had to leave the newsgroup

Before I relegate you to my blocked senders list I will give you the
opportunity to show where I mentioned Bill in my post.
 have a life outside this group and I'm not going to waste my time in an
endless sh#tstorm.

That's to say, "I have a life outside this group..."

you talked about the crap well the crap was due to the trolls who
hated bill hughes because he is a true christin and a true american
unlike a lot of the pansises who post in this newsgroup who wouldnt
even stick up for bill

its clear you were talking about bill

I was talking about all the crap. Yours included. <plonk>

I was talking about all the crap. Yours included. <plonk>

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X2

K.

wrote:

What a tiresome joke you are, you have changed everything except two
things, your spelling still sucks, and your Narcissistic Personality
Disorder still stands tall!
Hows your old fat heart holding out, ready for another round so you
can loose again? LOL

24Bitch

you sad pathetic individual you drove bill hughes out of this
newsgroup he never did anything to hurt anybody but you just couldn't
let it go and let the newsgroup get back to normal

maybe you should be arrested for being a traitor it would serve you
right

and im not bill hughes by the way

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:56:23 -0500, Jeep America #1 wrote:


No, you probably aren't.

But you share many of his traits.

You're a blind, idiotic asshole, with preconceived and incorrect notions
about a whole bunch of things you aren't capable or willing to understand.

But you are mildly more literate, but not by very much.

Unless you actually /are/ The Cooyon and decided a dictionary might help
your faded image. But I don't think you are Billieboi, just a very
strange Hughes-wannabe.

Give up now, while it's still easy and painless.

Dork.

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:13:39 -0700, Pink of Freud

If this isn't the Pork hole, it must have been an indoctrination, or
some more of that drive bye sex his mother had.
This Lard Wagon has the same attitude and demeanor as Cooyon,
and can't spell either!

TD

On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:34:22 +0000, Terry Dactille ©~® wrote:


Or maybe a failed cloning experiment?

We shall see, mon ami!


PF

you sure talk like your hot stuff for someone who was too chicken to
deal straight up with hughes