WTF-J

OK, time to do something about the bare aluminum tub.  The outside is fine like it is, but the interior needs some work.  Plan “A” was to go to Line-X or Rhino Liner and get them to put in a spray-in bed liner.  I had estimated $400-500 to get it done, but a call to [...]

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The WTF-J has a Bestop Bikini and it works great… …except at highway speeds (>50 MPH) at which point the top oscillates at random rates and acts like a spastic sub-woofer.   The guess is that the rise between the top of the windshield and the rollbar and the concave shape of the top act like [...]

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It was time to add a bike rack to the Jeep formerly known as WTF-J.  This part of the State has great bike trails running along the rivers that tie into the Ohio River, unfortunately getting to these trails would consume most of the time and energy available for the ride, the answer, albeit with [...]

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Day #1 on testing the cooling system I learned that the the PCM outputs a "ground trigger" (-12v) for the fan while I had wired the relay to "look" for a positive signal. (+12v)   Oops!  Not a big deal, as the relays and circuit breakers are tucked away behind the headlights in the radiator [...]

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OK, I’ll admit it; I knew about the little "problem" that unlike traditional lamps, LEDs do not have the reflexive/reflector surfaces required by State law. The workaround is separate reflectors or reflector tape, but that didn’t work for me.  One day while surfing the Web, I came across a guy selling flanges that incorporated the [...]

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Going through an Army Surplus store my boss suggested that there would be no more appropriate storage for the WTF-J than ammo cans.  We picked up a couple and looked for a good place to mount them in the Jeep.  At first it looked like they would make a perfect center console, but the space [...]

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WTF-J’s exhaust system gives proof to the notion that the downside to stuffing a V8 into a Jeep that was originally designed using an in-line 4-cyl and later upgrades to an in-line 6-cyl is that you eventually run out of room.   Real estate under the WTF-J’s hood is getting to be more precious than the [...]

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