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Ep. 2 Jeep XJ Dana 60 Swap Plans + Ironman Long Arms | Classic XJ Talk Show with Scott · Jeep Talk Show

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Hig presumably might make
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some work on the console.
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It's it's a one
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Nah nah
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Nah nah
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ette
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acks
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Hey guys, thanks for joining the XJTalk
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Talk Show, brought to you by XJTalk.com.
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It's a site about Jeep Cherokees and
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specifically the XJ model from 1984 to
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2001, I believe was the
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year of manufacturers.
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And getting some reports
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here of a lot of static.
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You guys in the chat room,
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what is it, not sounding right?
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Anyone? Anyone?
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Okay, how is that? Is that any better?
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Alls of distortion.
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Okay, how about that? How does that
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sound? Is that any better?
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Hmm, that's interesting. Let me get rid
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of the music and let's
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see if we can fix this.
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It's funny, it's sounding okay to me.
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Let's see, oh I wonder if that cleaned it
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up any. How's that?
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Does that sound any better?
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Yeah, there was some head compression on
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something I was playing with earlier and
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I forgot to take it off.
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So is the audio loud enough or let me
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bump it up a little bit because it shows
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it being a little low.
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Alright, hello, hello, hello, hello.
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Okay, now that's where I had it before.
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Is the audio distorted or okay?
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Okay, how is that? Is that any better?
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Okay, hello test. This is a test. This
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isn't the actual show.
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Okay, hang on.
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Okay, I'm working with about, gosh, I
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guess a total of about 70 knobs now.
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So it may take me a while to get this
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stuff adjusted right. The
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new mixer came in today.
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And well basically I went from this
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mixer, if that's updated yet or not, but
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I went from using
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that mixer to this mixer.
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So like a fool I went ahead and started
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using the new mixer when I probably
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should have just used the old one.
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Yeah, it came with a book. Not a very
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good one though. It's a lot of buttons.
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But it's a lot of knobs.
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I guess there's about 15 buttons. Like
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this one. This is the mute button. So
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while I'm talking I can press...
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Okay, the sound sounds like the gain is a
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little too high. Okay, I dropped it off.
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How's that? Is that any better?
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Hello test. This is a test. So the audio
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last week sounded better than this week.
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Is that what you're telling me?
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Well, it's a shame. I guess it's the new
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equipment. I just haven't figured out how
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to use it properly yet.
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Let me throw this
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back up here real quick.
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[Music]
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XJTalk.com
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XJTalk.com
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It's where you go
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when you're not off-road.
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Okay, hopefully the audio
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sounded a little better.
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I'll try to get it all straightened out
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before the next show.
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Okay, so it says I'm seeing better.
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I'll load down just a
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little bit more like that.
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Good.
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So, audio sounds better now.
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[Laughter]
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Thanks.
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Let me play that again.
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XJTalk.com
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XJTalk.com
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It's where you go
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when you're not off-road.
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And here's another version of it.
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XJTalk.com
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It's where you go
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when you're not off-road.
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Can you understand that
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last part on that one?
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XJTalk.com
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It's where you go
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when you're not off-road.
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XJTalk.com
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XJTalk.com
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It's where you go
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when you're not off-road.
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Gooder.
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I like Gooder.
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[Laughter]
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Okay, guys.
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Let me, it's Christmas time, so let me
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throw in this
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Christmas song from Tom Rapp.
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It's a song that he wrote and recorded.
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And I really enjoy it,
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and we're going to play it.
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Well, we were going to play it.
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I need to figure out
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what the hell I'm doing.
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Here we go.
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Christmas is my favorite time of year.
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[Christmas music]
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Christmas is my favorite time of year.
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Everybody knows when it's near.
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Children yells and jingle bells.
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Give me something no one sells.
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And fill that cup on
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up with Christmas cheer.
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Christmas is the time to celebrate.
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Throw some more lap-tooking on my plate.
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Don't sit home, don't be alone.
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Call some friends up on the phone and
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fill that cup on up with Christmas cheer.
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I know, but I'm going
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to go ask Santa for.
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I'm going to get a present just for me.
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She's cuddly and she's
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sweet, a girl that I adore.
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Just put a gorgeous doll under my tree.
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Christmas is the time to celebrate.
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Throw some more lap-tooking on my plate.
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Remember that you're not alone.
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Read some letters from back home and fill
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that cup on up with Christmas cheer.
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[Christmas music]
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I know, but I'm going
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to go ask Santa for.
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I'm going to get the only thing I need.
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A quick ride back to my
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hometown on his sleigh.
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So I can have my darling here with me.
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Christmas is my favorite time of year.
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Everybody knows when it's near.
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Children, gales and jingly bells, give me
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something to oneself
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and fill that cup on
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up with Christmas cheer.
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And fill that cup on
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up with Christmas cheer.
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That's a really good song by Tom Rapp.
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Just go over to tomrappshow.com and
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download it for free.
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Let's see if Scott's on the line or if he
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freaked out and hung up.
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Hey Scott, are you there?
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Yeah, I'm here.
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Okay guys, there's Scott.
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Scott, can you hear me okay?
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Yeah, I hear you great.
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Okay.
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Scott, you're on the show right now.
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Guys, can you hear me?
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I can only hear you, Tony.
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Yeah, no, I'm reading the chat room.
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PEI XJ says good.
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Dalton 4x4 says hey Scott.
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Brian XJ says yes.
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Hey Scott.
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Let me log on so I can read what they're
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saying and let's see if I can interact.
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Yeah, remember if you do get logged on,
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don't have the volume up
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because there'll be quite a bit of a
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delay between what you hear from me
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and what you hear on the show.
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Okay, but I won't be able
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to hear anybody else, right?
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No, they're typing in the chat room.
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The only people that are
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actually talking are you and me.
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Okay, and I'll just watch.
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So I was actually going to
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call Wayne today, cantab27,
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and there was a Skype outage this
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morning, and he got up early.
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It was around 5 a.m. his time, and I got
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up early around 10 a.m. my time.
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Wow, that was early, huh?
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Yeah, and no Skype.
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Well, it is when you're off.
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So no Skype, no Wayne. So we're going to
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try to do that later.
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But, well, it's like Brian says, it's
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early when you're off.
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You know, I'm off till January the 4th.
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I've got to go back to
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work January the 4th.
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So it's easy to stay
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in bed. 5 a.m. is early.
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Well, I guess that's actually Wayne's
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regular time to get up, I think.
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So...
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Well, Brian, you're supposed to go on
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vacation around Christmas time.
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Brian says I just came off of vacation.
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I don't know that Wayne
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sleeps, to be honest with you.
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He seems to be on the site all the time.
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Yeah, I kind of gather that as well.
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So anyway, you recently posted up some
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stuff about going to the
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Dana 60 on your XJ experiment.
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How's that going?
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Pretty good. I've got, as you saw in the
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pictures, I've got a set of H2 wheels.
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I went yesterday and rounded up some
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steel to do the reinforcements on my
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trailer to accept the one-ton axles.
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So it's kind of a double project for me,
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beefing up the trailer
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and beefing up the Jeep.
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So when you say, to modify the trailer,
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you're going to make it wider, right?
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Correct.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Is there any kind of legal concerns about
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that, or does it matter?
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No, there's, as long as you stay at our
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eighth front, I mean, you just, I mean,
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basically the only thing you really have
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to consider is that the axles I'm getting
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out of a legal pickup truck anyhow.
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So you just have to stay within a certain
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width of which state laws eight feet to
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the outside of your body and your mirrors
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can stick past that.
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That's why H1s are so
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wide and they're legal.
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Gotcha.
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I'm sorry, Brian XJ was asking, what's
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your username on XJTalk?
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That's my fault, guys.
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This is XJ4IV.
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You don't have a fancy way of saying
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that, do you, Scott?
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Nope.
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IV is my last name.
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And then XJ is, that's what I drive.
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But of course.
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Brian says, "Oh, okay.
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Were you able to get
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logged onto the show?"
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No, but I can read it.
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I just grabbed your link over on chat.
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Right.
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So I can read what everybody's writing.
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Perfect.
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So you got the H2 wheels.
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There was, I saw some sort of comment
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about the wheels would not fit on the
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specific Dana 60 that
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you were looking to get.
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Well, I got to check into that.
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I'm going to make a template.
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I've got a half day at work tomorrow.
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And I'm going to make a template of the
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wheel lug pattern to take with
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me when I go to the junkyard.
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And I've heard a lot of people say when
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I'm a pirate that like 79 model F-250s
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and F-350s, the lug pattern fits.
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I just have to find an older truck.
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So it's the lug pattern and not the size
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of the disc or the drum brake?
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No, I have nothing to do with that.
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As far as somebody saying they had to be
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20 inch wheels, I've never seen that
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because everybody that I've looked at,
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the one tons that they're running, they
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only run 17 inch wheels.
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You can't do a 15 inch wheel
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because of how big the hub is.
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Okay.
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Did you see Flex J, XJ 95 is a question?
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Just curious why H2 wheels?
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I got a great deal on them.
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I paid $240 with the tires
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with rubber on them, legal tread.
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So how quickly do you think you'll be
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going to the Dana 60s?
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I've got pretty much I know where I'm
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getting everything except
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for my drive shaft set up.
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I got to figure out if I'm going to go
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right to a Slippy Ocholiminator.
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If I do that, it's going to be probably
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late March that I'm complete.
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Well, it certainly ought to be
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interesting. I hope you
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take a lot of pictures.
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Oh, I definitely will. You know me.
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My Jeep might actually be over at Matt's
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shop. I'm not sure. I haven't really
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verified with him, but I'm sure he'd be
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like, "Yes, please bring it. It'd be
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interesting to watch."
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Yeah.
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How's the long arm
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system working from Ironman?
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Those are great. I love them. I only draw
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back right now is my
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strings aren't long enough.
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I need limiting straps or something, but
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when I go with my one
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tons, I'm going to do a...
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There's an air bump stop system that cut
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off the factory bump stop, and then you
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mount this thing to it.
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And what it does is it acts like another
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shock internally, but it doesn't actually
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absorb shock from your ride.
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Just when you push up on the axle, it
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just goes up with you.
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Didn't we see something like that on that
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JK at the meeting? I can't remember the
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name of that group that meets.
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Yeah, they're air adjustable bump stops.
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They're kind of expensive, but I think...
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I have a feeling that Andy's doing
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something along those lines.
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Andy is the man behind Ironman.
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Yeah. Sorry, everybody.
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Yeah, I think he's kind of working on
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something like that in stealth mode, not
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really telling anybody, because he's got
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those adjustable regular bump stops.
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And a lot of people have said they want
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to do these bump stops, but they want
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them adjustable lengths.
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And if I can get one that just collapses
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under air pressure and extends while I'm
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flexing, it still maintains a solid piece
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all the way down to my spring perch.
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I got you. So it's kind of like a shock.
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Yeah.
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But it doesn't really slow down the
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bouncing. It just... In your case, it
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would keep the spring on.
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Right. My spring would
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stay lined up. We'll see.
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Well, it sounds pretty interesting. How's
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the wife handling all this?
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She just pretty much says you can sell it
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from your Jeep. Have fun.
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And actually, I've got a bunch of Jeep
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parts that are going to be
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coming up for sale pretty soon.
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I've got five 15-inch wheels, the black
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wheels that I've got, you guys have seen.
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I've got two Super Swamper TSLs, and I
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have a feeling that Reaney might be
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interested in those
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because he just got us set.
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I'll tell you what. Reaney buys tires
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like they're going out of style.
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Yeah, I know. He's all over the tires.
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He's going to start his own
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tire fire in his backyard.
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Oh, good Lord.
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I tried to get him on the phone tonight,
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but he apparently had something else that
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he was going to be
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doing and leaving shortly.
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Actually, he may have already left.
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Yeah, I've not really seen him on the
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line. I'm kind of reading, too, and I'm
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trying to keep up
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with everybody on there.
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Are you reading, Tony?
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Yeah, I do, but I don't do it as well as
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one of the Ustream shows that I'll watch.
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There's a young lady that does a lot of
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interaction, and I'm really surprised.
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She carries on interviews and reads the
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chat room, and she sees
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something that she doesn't like.
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She's on it like a duck on a June bug.
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Wow.
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Yeah, it's amazing.
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Multitaskers, I hate them.
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That'd be nuts.
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So what else you got going on?
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Right now, it's just I'm focusing on the
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steering, the Dana 60 upgrade.
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Keep my mind open as far as gearing. I'd
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like to go with at least 488.
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Not really going to be a daily driver
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after I do the axle swap.
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What size tires are those?
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The ones that are on there right now are
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just equivalent to 33s.
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I just wanted tires to get me down the
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road for a little bit.
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Yeah, no, I mean the
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ones you just bought.
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Oh, I haven't bought them yet.
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Once I get the axles going, I'm going to
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go ahead and put the ore in.
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I'm going to get 37 or 38
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inch Maxxis creepy crawlers.
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I haven't really decided what size yet,
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but I want to get them in a 1350 wide.
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You get something that tall.
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You need it wide so it
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doesn't look so skinny.
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Right.
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Well, it probably won't
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hurt you on the rocks either.
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Nope.
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More traction.
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35s on the stock drive train kind of
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sucks. Yes, it does.
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Yeah, I've got my picture in the picture
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on the video stream.
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That's what he's referring to.
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Oh, how cute.
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You're just reading up.
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Oh, actually Dalton. Hey, Dalton.
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I haven't met Flex J.
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How are you doing?
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He's on the XJ talk. He's a member there.
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I was talking to him both on here and...
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And he's been on there for a while. I
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just haven't really seen him.
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Right.
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Well, hopefully this XJ talk show will
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generate a little more interest in the
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site, get people on there and be more
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active, which was the whole intent.
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Have a little fun in the process.
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So what's up for Christmas? Are you doing
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anything GP or even non-GP but is fun?
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Let's see here. Getting a new tow rig.
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The engine blew on my Durango and I'm
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like really tired of it.
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I just put transmission in about eight
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months ago, six months ago.
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And about two months after that happened,
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the engine blew and I'm like, forget it.
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I'm not wasting any more money on this.
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I'm just getting out from under it.
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If somebody wants it,
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they can have $2,800.
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I'm buying an expedition from my dad,
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which I got to go out to
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California and pick it up, though.
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And that's pretty much it as far as
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automotive and Christmas goes.
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I asked for a few things for that. I want
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to get some HID lights
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for it, projector system.
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So are you going to be trying to pick up
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the expedition during Christmas or?
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What I'm trying to do, if my parents will
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let me, is I'm going to fly down there on
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New Year's by the 3rd and
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then drive back the weekend.
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Yeah, that ought to be a
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pretty drive, although very long.
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You need to get you a CB or something so
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you'll have something to do.
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Yeah, I think I'm going to try to bring
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my dog with me. She's my companion.
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You know, Southwest Airlines deals with
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that. They may not let her go. She's kind
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of big. She's a black lab.
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She should make you stop
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quite often for bathroom breaks.
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Oh, no, she's great. She is fantastic. We
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went to Waco last weekend for about 10
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hours, actually, and she did just fine.
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Took her out and she didn't go pee right
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away. She went and played around for a
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minute, and I was like, "Okay."
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Yeah, that's interesting.
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Yeah.
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Seems like a dog is
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always ready to go pee.
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Yeah.
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PEIXJ says, "I got a question for yous.
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I'm thinking of making my own crossmember
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for the transfer case that is not as low
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than the stock ones.
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What would be good to use?"
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If you've got the fabrication skills,
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Iron Man Andy might have a template. I'm
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not sure. I know he'd
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sell the crossmember.
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I know the crossmember I got for him,
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from him, for my long arms. It's a lower
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profile than the factory one. It sits a
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little higher up in there, and it's a lot
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stronger than the factory one.
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But if not, I would just use 2x4 square
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tube and just drill out
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holes for your TK's mouth.
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Now, I think Andy was telling me, again,
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IronMan4x4fab.com, Andy was telling me
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that the crossmember that he was making
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to go along with his long arms, which is
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what you have, I guess what you have is
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technically the prototype, it was, it
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has, it incorporates a transfer case drop
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in it. Is that correct?
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I did notice it did drop down a little
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bit. The, where the transfer case
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actually mounts to the crossmember is
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flush with the bottom of the frame. So it
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did lower about maybe half an inch, three
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quarters of an inch, but not a whole lot.
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Well, the transfer case drop that I got
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with my, my lift kit was one inch. I
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mean, all it is is, you know, one inch
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rubber spacers. So it drops the
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crossmember down an inch.
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So if, if that transfer case, I mean, if
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the transfer case is dropped three
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quarters of an inch, then it's almost
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identical to what I've got, but it has a,
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affords a little more protection than
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what, what mine did.
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I don't, I don't care for that drop
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because, you know, it's, it's a
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crossmember dropped down in the inch so
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it can catch on more things.
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Yeah, to me, it's sad to say, but to me,
23:33
lowering a transfer case, it puts a
23:35
little bit stronger bind on your motor
23:37
mounts and it also kind of defeats
23:40
purpose for having a lift.
23:41
Yeah. Well, that's one of the reasons why
23:43
I need to get a, a slip yoke, slip yoke
23:46
eliminator kit so I
23:48
can do a wave without.
23:49
That's actually what I'm focusing on when
23:51
I do the one ton upgrades. Guys, if you,
23:54
if you guys are worried about driveline
23:57
vibrations, cheapest way to get around it
24:00
without having to drop your transfer
24:02
case, go to four wheel parts.
24:04
If you actually, if you really wheel your
24:06
Jeep like rocks and such, get steel four
24:10
degree shims. You can basically, the rule
24:14
of sound is on shims,
24:16
anything over four inches.
24:18
What you want to get is the degree of
24:20
shim for however many inches of lift you
24:22
have. I got a four degree shim for my
24:26
four and a half inch lift. Now I'm a
24:28
little higher now, but since I'm doing
24:30
this one ton upgrade, I can actually
24:31
alter everything to make the
24:33
driveline angles pretty good.
24:35
But you can go to four wheel parts or
24:36
pretty much any four wheel drive supplier
24:40
and by probably over the counter, you can
24:42
get shims and they're
24:46
pretty easy to install.
24:47
But that's the best thing to do. I've
24:49
done it. I drive my Jeep every day to
24:51
work and I drive all
24:52
over the Houston area.
24:55
Today, my Jeep hit 87 miles an hour and
24:58
that's when it started vibrating and 87
25:01
is not a normal speed
25:02
for six and a half inch XJ.
25:06
You must have been on the beltway.
25:07
Yes I was.
25:09
Because I think 87 is the unofficial
25:12
speed limit and people start throwing
25:14
things at you or firing warning shots if
25:16
you go slower than that.
25:17
Yeah. I was just trying to keep up with
25:20
everybody on the beltway.
25:22
I recently went to General Sam's and I
25:28
went up there with XJ Rat and we went in
25:32
his 98 Jeep Cherokee, which I have a
25:34
picture of it on the show right now.
25:38
I went up there with him and I was
25:42
constantly looking over. He's driving
25:44
down the road 60, 65 miles an hour and
25:47
he's on a three and a half inch lift and
25:50
he had 32 inch tires.
25:51
I keep looking over at his temperature
25:55
indicator and the dang thing would never
25:59
get above 210. I just really envied that.
26:02
I would like to be able to go places on
26:04
the highway with mine but it runs hot and
26:07
I've got to figure that out.
26:09
Well I'll tell you this much. The other
26:11
day when I picked up the H2 tires, I
26:13
didn't really think it through very well.
26:15
I had to reinforce my rear bumper and
26:17
receiver because it's only
26:18
tied into the factory mounts.
26:20
I have a receiver on the front and I put
26:23
my hitch basket on the front and I put
26:25
two of the tires up there.
26:26
I was down near Hobby Airport, which is
26:28
about 40 miles from where I live, and I
26:31
started heading back.
26:33
I didn't really think about it. I hit the
26:34
freeway and boom, it started overheating.
26:36
I was like, "Oh, duh."
26:38
I've got two 33 inch tires sitting right
26:40
in front of my
26:40
radiator and took them off.
26:43
I put one more in the back seat and put
26:45
one more on top and strapped it down,
26:47
headed back home and stayed on my highway
26:50
for another 27, almost 30
26:53
miles and I never hit 210.
26:57
I wish my answer was that simple. I don't
26:59
have any tires on the
26:59
front of my radiator.
27:01
I know, but you've got those lights. I'm
27:03
telling you, I did notice a huge
27:05
difference when I took
27:06
out that mechanical fan.
27:08
Literally all I did from when I had your
27:10
problem to when it was resolved, I took
27:12
out that mechanical fan and I popped in
27:15
another electric fan
27:16
that I got out of a Taurus.
27:17
Now I screwed up and got the wrong one. I
27:19
got a later model Taurus.
27:22
It doesn't have near the CFM that
27:24
everybody talks about with, "Oh, get the
27:26
Taurus one from this year."
27:28
The part numbers, the middle part number
27:31
is the same. It's the prefix and the
27:34
suffix of the part
27:37
number that are different.
27:39
I'm not sure what they are for that
27:40
specific Taurus that we're so thought
27:43
after, but mine, like all day mine back
27:47
and forth on the beltway, friction 75, 80
27:49
miles an hour, it would stay just above
27:53
the first line between 0 and 210.
27:55
Well, keep in mind, I know that logically
28:00
in XJ Rat and I, Glenn and I had the same
28:04
conversation going up to
28:06
Huntsville, the General Sam's.
28:08
The lights, the bumper, the winch, all
28:12
that stuff wasn't there when this problem
28:14
first started happening.
28:15
The problem first started happening after
28:17
I lifted the lift kit on and the larger
28:21
tires. That's when it
28:22
would run hot on the freeway.
28:24
Well, I can think this might be the
28:26
factor when your Jeep was sitting lower
28:29
to the ground. It created more of a
28:31
vacuum because you had
28:32
lower ground clearance.
28:34
So it would be sucking air through the
28:36
radiator, through the fan, and then back
28:38
underneath your car.
28:40
Now that you're up higher, there's not
28:42
quite as much of a vacuum. It's kind of
28:44
like sucking through a straw, like a
28:45
little stir straw, and then going to
28:48
sucking through a McDonald's straw.
28:52
How big the difference is?
28:54
That was one of the thoughts as far as
28:56
when Matt and I were talking on the chat
28:59
on XJ Talk about, I was talking to him
29:02
about putting an air dam or a baffle or
29:06
something underneath there so that it
29:07
would make it more, it would force the
29:10
air to go through the
29:12
radiator instead of around.
29:14
That bumper has such a great approach
29:16
angle on it. It made the whole Jeep very
29:18
narrow on the front. So, I don't know.
29:22
I've tried everything that I can think of
29:24
on the cooling system. My sore is
29:26
changing out the radiator, the water
29:28
pump, the half-low thermostat, etc., etc.
29:31
And, you know, it does exceedingly well
29:34
at low speed, you know, crawling around,
29:37
climbing stuff off-road. It
29:39
does great on the highway.
29:41
It doesn't overheat, but it does run hot.
29:44
And I just don't want to have that heat
29:46
build up because I know it's going to get
29:48
to me after a while.
29:49
It's going to mess up the engine. It's
29:52
going to mess up more than likely the
29:53
transmission. So, I just
29:55
don't want to run the risk.
29:57
I see Big Jim 350 is in there now.
30:00
Where is he at? Where
30:01
is he? What's up, Jim?
30:02
Big Jim.
30:03
The I?
30:05
Trap Dog has joined us. Trap Dog, you
30:08
probably don't know, he's a friend of
30:09
mine that wrote a great Christmas song.
30:13
And we played that earlier.
30:15
Oh.
30:15
He wrote and played it, recorded it.
30:20
Oh.
30:23
Oh, there's Rugged One.
30:24
Let's see. Hey, Jim. Dalton says, "Hey,
30:26
Jim. Y'all still heading up this way."
30:29
You know, Jim, I was talking to Wayne the
30:31
other night on Skype when it was working.
30:33
And Wayne said, Wayne told me that Big
30:38
Jim and Reani are
30:38
planning a trip to New Zealand.
30:40
Really?
30:41
Yeah, that's what I said. I mean, I heard
30:43
them thinking they were joking about it,
30:46
but apparently Wayne's getting a room
30:48
ready or something for him.
30:50
Sweet. Yeah, Wayne told me, "Hey, anytime
30:53
you're in town?" I was like, "Yeah, I'll
30:54
just shoot on over in New Zealand."
30:56
That's whenever you need some teleport
31:00
capabilities. That
31:01
would be a long, long drive.
31:03
I couldn't wheel my Jeep in New Zealand
31:06
because the price of
31:06
parts out there is ridiculous.
31:08
Oh, boy, you're not kidding.
31:09
Yeah. If I break a wheel bearing, it's
31:12
$130 here at the most. It's probably $285
31:15
out there. They don't have anything
31:17
there. Everything's got to be imported.
31:19
Man, I just, you know, we don't realize
31:21
what we got. Big Jim says, "Yep, going to
31:24
head over to New Zealand next November."
31:27
Is Reani going with you?
31:28
Waiting for Jim to type.
31:30
They get a rental there. Rent the
31:33
Rubicon. Tell them you want a Rubicon
31:36
mail truck, so it'll
31:36
be a left-hand drive.
31:38
Yeah, it might be kind of hard to get a
31:39
rental. What are you hoping to rent over
31:41
there, Jim? I know it
31:42
won't be a Jeep Cherokee.
31:45
Yeah, not unless he rents it from Wayne.
31:50
Land Cruiser. That makes sense.
31:52
I'd cruise that. I like Land Cruisers,
31:54
too. But I just, I don't know, I've seen
31:56
videos of what they're capable of.
31:58
It's like, "But who drops 100 grand on a
32:01
nice-looking vehicle and will take it
32:04
through mud, you know, four foot, five
32:06
foot, six foot deep when
32:08
there's no lift on it?"
32:09
It's understandable on H1, because H1s
32:12
look rugged. They look like they belong
32:14
there. But a Land Cruiser, not so much.
32:16
Right. Yeah, Land Cruisers, they all look
32:18
like they're, I mean, here in the States,
32:20
they cost more because they're imported.
32:22
And you see a Land Cruiser or a Range
32:25
Rover, it's like, "Ooh, money, you know,
32:29
that somebody's just cruising around.
32:30
That's something that would never be
32:31
taken off-road." That's
32:32
like, you know, a double Hummer.
32:34
Yeah. Now, I have a video on VHS. I'll
32:40
let you borrow it and see if you can find
32:42
a way to get that transferred over to
32:45
digital or whatever that we can put it up
32:47
on, actually, Talker YouTube or whatever.
32:50
But it shows, it shows a 25-minute clip
32:53
on how Land Rovers work off-road. They've
32:57
got, like, a hill assist, ascension
33:00
assist and all this stuff.
33:02
And basically, it's like ABS for going
33:03
down a muddy hill. And they said, "If you
33:06
lock up the wheels going down a hill in
33:10
the mud, it'll automatically start
33:12
rolling the tires for you. You don't even
33:14
have to do anything but steer."
33:15
And I was pretty shocked by that. I
33:17
actually watched them do it.
33:18
Yeah. I think that's, is it the Toyota?
33:22
Is the current Toyota, what is that
33:26
thing? FJ? What's it called?
33:28
You know, like that $40,000 one that the
33:30
guy put the big scrape on?
33:32
Oh, an FJ40 or FJ Cruiser?
33:34
FJ Cruiser. I think, I don't know if that
33:36
one had, but I think they have something
33:39
similar to that, a locking system so when
33:42
the tire starts to spin,
33:44
the brake actually applies.
33:45
I don't know if anybody's ever actually
33:47
looked at those FJs at the Toyota dealer
33:49
like brand new. They got about six
33:54
different major add-on
33:56
components for those FJs.
33:58
We're talking like front and rear
34:00
lockers, like good lockers. They also
34:03
have the computerized
34:04
stability control for off-road.
34:08
They have air ride suspension just like
34:12
the Range Rovers have where it's totally
34:15
adjustable, you can go high and low.
34:17
And then they have one kit that's
34:20
already, the FJ has already lifted, I
34:22
think three inches with 35
34:24
or 36 inch tires under it.
34:26
And I didn't realize there was so much on
34:28
there. I thought it was like you get a
34:29
four by four or you don't.
34:30
Sounds like you can
34:31
spend a bunch of money.
34:32
Oh yeah. There was one
34:34
out there for $52,000.
34:36
That's not as much as
34:36
what I thought it would cost.
34:38
Yeah, I was pretty shocked. But I mean,
34:40
it's kind of like Toyota. Toyota's been
34:43
in the four-wheel
34:43
drive industry for so long.
34:45
They're kind of like, yeah, we dominate,
34:47
we can do this. And nobody really
34:48
questions it. It's kind of
34:49
like a Honda and dependability.
34:52
Right.
34:52
People are like, oh, I know I can put
34:54
200, 300 grand on a Honda
34:56
before it needs major, major work.
34:58
It's true. And although I don't like
35:01
seeing the US auto market suffer, I'm
35:05
kind of glad that somebody came along and
35:07
said, look, this is how you can make
35:09
vehicles and make them last.
35:11
And I'm really, really tickled with my
35:13
Jeep. And I understand that the Cherokee,
35:16
even though it's an American made
35:17
product, it does have several pieces in
35:21
it that are not American made,
35:23
specifically the transmission.
35:24
I did not know that.
35:26
Yeah.
35:26
Is it made in Mexico?
35:28
Well, I thought it was a, maybe I'm
35:30
mistaken on this. I thought the
35:32
transmission, the
35:33
AW4, is a Toyota design.
35:37
I did not know that. I'm sure somebody on
35:39
here will chime in and let us know.
35:41
Guys, where's the AW4 from? I don't think
35:43
it's a Jeep Chrysler product. I think
35:46
they buy it from somebody.
35:47
Yeah.
35:48
Well, Brian at XJ had to go because he
35:50
has to go work third shift. But I talked
35:53
to him the other day on
35:54
Skype. He says he loves it.
35:55
Third shift?
35:56
No, thanks.
35:58
Brave yards.
35:59
Oh, big Jim. It's ASIN Warner.
36:02
Yes.
36:02
That's American.
36:03
Is it?
36:03
Yeah.
36:04
Maybe I was
36:06
mispronouncing the ASIN being Asian.
36:10
Yeah, there's no N. It's just A-I-S-I.
36:14
No, sorry. A-S-I-N, Warner.
36:18
Yeah, really. I thought that was a
36:21
Toyota, a Toyota designed transmission.
36:27
My first 4x4 was a Samurai. It was a male
36:31
truck lookalike. It was a hardtop,
36:32
non-removable hardtop.
36:35
Anything's removable.
36:35
A little white.
36:38
Yeah, there it is, Dalton. A-I-S-I-N.
36:40
There you go.
36:41
That's what it is. It had lockout hubs on
36:43
it that were made by ASIN. And I talked
36:46
to a buddy of mine. I said, "Are these
36:47
any good or should I get one?"
36:48
And like I said, this was my first 4x4.
36:51
And he even said, "Those are just as good
36:53
as worn." So he said,
36:54
"Don't get rid of those."
36:55
Well, I've been very impressed with the
36:58
Jeep. I think I may have mentioned it on
37:00
a previous show that at 100K, I was--
37:02
100K miles, I was thinking about putting
37:05
all these modifications on my Jeep, and I
37:07
was a little concerned that
37:08
it was near its end of life.
37:10
And a guy at my whole job actually told
37:12
me that, "I don't know. Those things
37:14
routinely do 200 and 300,000 miles."
37:16
Yep. I'll put it to you this way. I've
37:19
had 3x chase. My first one was an 88, and
37:23
when I got rear-ended by a Tahoe with a
37:26
ranch hand bumper, it had 338,000 miles
37:29
on the original engine,
37:30
the original transmission.
37:32
And my Jeep was the only car--there were
37:36
three cars involved in the wreck. My Jeep
37:38
was the only one that
37:38
was able to drive away.
37:42
My second one was another 88. It had
37:44
290,000 miles on it, and I ended up
37:48
tearing down the engine. They had a
37:49
little rod knock because the guy before
37:51
me didn't take care of it.
37:53
I actually bought it for $600, knowing
37:55
that it was--seemed some work. I ended up
37:58
not finishing it and selling it for the
38:00
same $600 I bought it for,
38:01
so I was like, "Whatever."
38:02
And then this one I've got the
38:05
speedometer--I think the speedometer
38:07
cable got caught up on the exhaust, and
38:09
it hasn't worked in about four months.
38:11
Right now it's showing 235,000 miles on
38:15
it, so I should probably be around 200
38:16
and maybe almost 250.
38:19
That's a lot of miles.
38:20
They last a long time, and I know this.
38:22
Ever since I've caught it,
38:23
they've been rough, hard miles.
38:25
Okay, I looked up
38:26
something here on the Asin Warner--
38:30
What did you call me?
38:31
Yeah, exactly.
38:32
Actually, it was a question.
38:33
The AW4 transmission--how do you
38:37
pronounce that? A-I-S-N, ASIN?
38:41
ASIN, yeah.
38:42
The Asin Warner AW4 transmission is an
38:44
automatic shift four-speed overdrive
38:46
transmission used in the 1987 to 2001
38:50
Jeep XJ Cherokee and MJ Cherokee models.
38:55
Skipping down a bit, the AW4 is
38:57
predominantly found behind the AMC
39:00
4.0-liter 242 CI I6 engine.
39:04
The AW4 was also used
39:06
behind the AMC 2.54-cylinder.
39:10
A similar transmission is used in some
39:12
Toyota rear-wheel drive
39:14
applications known as the A340.
39:17
So I don't know what similar means.
39:19
I don't know if it means it looks alike
39:22
or if Toyota bought the transmission and
39:26
was using--bought a similar model from
39:30
Asin Warner, A-S-N Warner.
39:32
But anyway, I think that's probably where
39:33
I got my feel that it
39:35
was a Toyota transmission.
39:39
Maybe not.
39:42
I don't know. I know my Suzuki had those
39:46
hugs, and I never really crawled under it
39:48
to see what the transmission looked like.
39:52
But I bet you I could fit it in my
39:53
pocket. I know that much.
39:56
And now I wouldn't mind getting another
39:58
one of those soft-top and just hacking it
40:00
to pieces and enjoying a topless that I
40:03
could roll it down the road
40:05
and then roll it down the rock.
40:07
Well, I surely do like what Dan did.
40:11
I don't think you were there at the Sonic
40:13
that time. We had a Jeep
40:14
meet and greet here in Houston.
40:16
And Rene works with a gentleman by the
40:18
name of Dan. And Dan had a 2001--
40:19
Oh, yeah. I've been
40:21
out there a couple times.
40:22
Okay. Dan had a 2001 XJ
40:25
that he cut the top off of.
40:27
And he showed up there one day.
40:30
And that was almost enough--not for me to
40:33
cut up my Jeep that I have now, but
40:36
almost enough to make me want to get
40:37
another one to do the same thing.
40:38
Yeah. It looks beautiful. And he did it
40:40
all with a little Harbor Freight bender
40:43
and a little 140-amp welder.
40:46
And it looks great. It looks great. It
40:48
just--he took the time
40:49
that it needed to do it right.
40:51
And I said, "Hey, how much
40:53
would it cost to do another one?"
40:54
I said, "I got deep pockets."
40:56
He said, "Not deep enough."
40:57
I was like, "Okay."
41:00
Yeah. I imagine there was quite a bit of
41:01
a little frustration doing all that.
41:03
I mean, I would think that it would be a
41:04
lot easier the
41:05
second, third, fourth time.
41:06
But, yeah, I understand. Putting things
41:10
together and getting them working is a
41:13
frustrating--very frustrating thing.
41:15
It's rewarding, but I understand not
41:17
wanting to go down that path again.
41:19
Yeah. I've got some
41:21
pipe bent for my XO cage.
41:23
But I ran into a stopping point when I
41:25
realized I don't have a pipe notcher.
41:28
So I need to get me a drill
41:29
press and pipe notching kit.
41:33
I've got the pipe bender,
41:34
and Big Jim gave me a welder.
41:36
Speaking of which, Big Jim, I think
41:37
there's another wire
41:38
missing inside of that thing.
41:40
I put a new liner in it the other day,
41:42
and that part's working
41:43
good. Got the trigger fixed.
41:45
But I hooked it all up, and I realized
41:47
there's a ground wire inside missing.
41:49
So I've got to take a look at another
41:51
weld pack and see
41:52
exactly where it goes to.
41:54
But I'm ready to get some
41:56
stuff going on this Jeep.
41:57
Well, guys, do you have any comments or
42:00
questions to make on this, or have we
42:02
about exhausted this
42:04
line of conversation?
42:06
We need--
42:07
But do you have any questions?
42:08
We need little icons so we can tell when
42:10
people are sleeping or not.
42:12
Correct. A bunch of these.
42:14
Well, Big Jim says a welder supply store
42:23
should give you a schematic.
42:27
Hey, Scott, how long do
42:28
you think the swap will take?
42:30
I'm reading these questions for the
42:33
podcast that people can just listen to.
42:35
They won't have the ability to read the
42:37
chat, so that's why I'm here.
42:39
They were hard parts gathering the
42:41
material, but once I have everything in a
42:44
garage, if I'm not interrupted by a
42:47
spouse or anything else,
42:51
I think start to finish just by myself. I
42:54
could probably do the
42:55
whole swap in a day.
42:57
I work pretty diligent on these things,
43:00
provided I don't run
43:01
into any major mishaps.
43:02
Now, I do know this. When I get my axles,
43:05
I'm going to shave them down all the way
43:08
there, then take my measurements,
43:10
and I'm going to tack weld all my
43:12
brackets in place and take them down to a
43:15
local place called Javier's Off-Road,
43:18
and I'm going to have Dave out there weld
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everything up to the axle perfectly.
43:23
But I'm going to--like I said, I'm going
43:24
to tack everything because I want the
43:26
degrees set up on my
43:27
angles for my drivelines.
43:28
Once that's done and all I have to do is
43:31
unbolt the old axles and bolt in the new
43:33
ones and everything, I could
43:35
definitely do it in one day.
43:37
Hey, Wayne's here.
43:38
Well, I need to update my list because I
43:40
didn't see him. I was just getting ready
43:42
to say, I don't
43:43
think--yeah, yes, hey, Wayne.
43:44
You know, Skype is--I'm sorry, Wayne is
43:49
cantab27 from XJTalk, and that's what
43:52
he's logged on here as
43:54
under cantab27 on Ustream.
43:57
And Wayne, the Skype is still down. I
44:00
found out that they had an outage today,
44:03
and apparently it's
44:04
been an all-day thing.
44:06
I get the feeling that a lot of people
44:08
are off, and they're using Skype to call
44:10
people, relatives across the country and
44:14
perhaps in other countries.
44:16
Anyway, we'll get that interview down. I
44:20
was kind of hoping we would be able to
44:22
get that and play it for
44:23
this show, but pay the bills.
44:27
Skype is free, Wayne.
44:32
Dalton asked, it said, "Not so bad. So
44:35
for a regular non-Ooper human, say about
44:37
two days, the only issues I ever run
44:40
into, which I pretty much every single
44:42
time, so I never put a time frame.
44:44
I never promise a time frame on doing
44:47
major work. You're going to have a bolt
44:49
that doesn't come out. You're going to
44:50
have something that doesn't fit.
44:53
I try to take those things into
44:54
consideration. When I did my leaf springs
44:58
with the new adjustable shackles,
44:59
everything went
45:00
perfect except for one thing.
45:02
I broke a weld inside my rear leaf spring
45:06
shackles, and that's a pain in the butt.
45:08
Other than that, everything went in and
45:10
out perfectly fine, and that one weld
45:13
added another hour and a half to the job.
45:16
So I provided everything goes good.
45:20
Pulling an axle out and popping in the
45:22
new one, it's just a matter
45:23
of unbolting and re-bolting.
45:25
Once you get all the dimensions set up,
45:27
it should be just like taking that axle
45:29
out and putting it back in.
45:30
How did you get to that weld broke? Was
45:34
that something you had to cut a hole in
45:36
the floorboard of the cargo area?
45:39
No, no, no. It's inside of the box frame
45:42
thing. Everybody puts
45:45
in quotations the frame.
45:48
My bumper, I took my bumper off and I
45:52
knocked it out behind it where you can
45:54
see inside the frame rail, and you can
45:56
actually see to the nut.
45:59
Basically, all I did was just booger weld
46:02
the heck out of it until it held. Then I
46:05
took an impact on it and removed it.
46:07
I threaded it back on there just a hair,
46:09
and then I hammered it through so I could
46:12
break that old one out
46:13
and put a new one in.
46:14
What about the opening to the unibody?
46:18
Did you close that back up?
46:19
No, no. The access hole was just for
46:24
cosmetics from Jeep.
46:26
A lot of times, places open it up anyhow
46:29
so they can reinforce their bumper.
46:31
Actually, that's what's on the chopping
46:32
block for tomorrow.
46:33
I've got some angle iron.
46:34
I'm going to go pack up and bend and weld
46:37
up to reinforce my rear bumper and get my
46:40
receiver hitch going again.
46:42
When I put on the bumper from
46:47
detours.com, that rear bumper, they
46:50
marked this in a couple of small pieces
46:53
of, gosh, I guess that
46:56
was 1.25-inch thick metal.
46:59
It was basically a little L bracket. The
47:01
bumper bolted to that small portion of
47:06
the L bend and the longer portion of the
47:08
L bolted to the unibody.
47:10
I'm not trying to say the
47:15
trailer hitch, but the receiver.
47:17
I sold my receiver hitch a year and a
47:20
half ago when my friend
47:22
made this bumper for me.
47:25
I asked him, "Is this bumper going to
47:27
hold up pretty good?"
47:28
I got a trailer I'm going to tow around
47:30
with Jeep, but all I ever put on it was
47:33
amping gears and tires.
47:35
He said, "Yeah, that'll hold." Well, it
47:37
held for a while and I'm starting to
47:39
notice some stress cracks from the mouth.
47:42
That's not good.
47:44
I don't want to hurt it too much. I want
47:47
to be able to at least pull my car hauler
47:49
trailer with it empty
47:51
just to move it around.
47:54
I just want to get it rocking.
47:55
I can't remember. I can't remember if
47:56
it's JCR, but somebody actually sells nut
47:59
strips that you could
48:02
actually probably attach to.
48:04
I mean, you could make your
48:04
own. It's not that big a deal.
48:06
That's what I'm doing with the angle
48:07
iron. I'm just going to run the channel
48:09
all the way down on the inside and then
48:11
another one on the outside
48:13
and just bolt through it.
48:14
I'm going to tack weld the bolts on the
48:17
inside part and that portion of it will
48:21
be bolted to my bumper,
48:22
so it's still removable.
48:24
Well, anything that you can get parallel
48:26
to the unibody is going
48:28
to make it a lot stronger.
48:30
If nothing else, your unibody will fail
48:32
before the bumper comes off.
48:36
Well, Scott, we're getting towards the
48:38
end of the show and I've got a couple of
48:41
things I'm going to cover before the four
48:43
minutes is up and the show ends.
48:46
I really want to thank you for being here
48:49
tonight. You've been on the phone for 45
48:51
minutes and gave us a
48:54
lot of great information.
48:55
It was good not to have a lot of dead air
49:00
because I didn't know what I was going to
49:01
talk about. I was hoping to have that
49:04
interview with Wayne.
49:05
So hopefully you'll be available again. I
49:08
think, like I said, I found it very
49:11
interesting and hopefully everybody else
49:13
did and found it had some useful
49:16
information distributed to them.
49:19
Cool.
49:19
So thanks a lot, Scott.
49:20
I've known you this much. Anytime you say
49:22
"jeep," I've got enough to say.
49:25
Well, we all do. I'm still learning, but
49:27
I've read quite a bit and
49:30
seem to retain some of it.
49:32
Scott, you guys, you and your family have
49:34
a very Merry Christmas and I'll be
49:36
chatting with you on XJTalk.com.
49:39
All right. Take it easy, Tony. You guys
49:41
have fun out there
49:42
wherever you are. Merry Christmas.
49:43
Merry Christmas.
49:44
Okay, guys. I want to throw in...we may
49:48
run a little over here, but we played Tom
49:52
Rapp's song earlier, Trap
49:53
Dog here in the chat room.
49:54
We played his song earlier, but it's
49:56
Christmas. So I think we ought to have at
49:59
least one more playing of that.
50:02
So let's try the sound levels. Check
50:06
again for this music. You
50:08
guys, let me know how it sounds.
50:09
Christmas is my favorite time of year.
50:18
Christmas is my favorite time of year.
50:24
Everybody knows when it's near.
50:29
Children yells and jingle bells. Give me
50:32
something no one sells and fill back upon
50:35
a quick Christmas cheer.
50:39
Christmas is the time to celebrate.
50:44
Throw some more at
50:45
our turkey on my plate.
50:49
Don't sit home, don't be alone. Call some
50:53
friends up on the phone and fill that cup
50:55
on up with Christmas cheer.
51:00
I know but I'm gonna
51:01
go and ask Santa for.
51:05
I'm gonna get a present just for me.
51:10
She's cuddly and she's
51:11
sweet, a girl that I adore.
51:15
Just put a gorgeous doll under my tree.
51:20
Christmas is the time to celebrate.
51:25
Throw some more at
51:26
our turkey on my plate.
51:29
Remember that you're not alone.
51:33
Read some letters from back home and fill
51:36
that cup on up with Christmas cheer.
51:39
[music]
52:01
I know but I'm gonna
52:03
go and ask Santa for.
52:06
I'm gonna get the only thing I need.
52:11
A quick ride back to my
52:13
hometown upon his sleigh.
52:16
So I can have my darling here with me.
52:22
Christmas is my favorite time of year.
52:27
Everybody knows when it's near.
52:32
Children yells and jingle bells.
52:35
Give me something to oneself and fill
52:38
that cup on up with Christmas cheer.
52:41
Dottie!
52:42
And fill that cup on
52:44
up with Christmas cheer.
52:45
[music]
53:01
XJTalk.com
53:03
It's where you go
53:04
when you're not off-road.
53:06
And before I forget, Dalton, 4x4 Dalton
53:10
called the voicemail and
53:12
left us all a nice message.
53:14
Hey, it's 4x4 Dalton. I'm just calling to
53:16
tell everybody to help
53:17
y'all have a merry Christmas.
53:18
Thank you Dalton and thank you for
53:20
calling into the voicemail.
53:23
We're a little over and I just want to
53:26
tell everybody, you know, of course
53:27
Christmas is the next big thing that's
53:30
going to be happening.
53:31
And I want to wish
53:33
everybody a very merry Christmas.
53:34
I'm very happy that you
53:36
guys could make it to the show.
53:38
And sorry about the sound levels.
53:40
As I said earlier in the show, I probably
53:43
should have waited on
53:45
using the new equipment.
53:48
Seeing as how the show was tonight.
53:52
I mean, the equipment was literally
53:54
delivered about 2
53:54
o'clock in the afternoon.
53:58
The dog was barking. I didn't expect it
54:00
to be here until tomorrow.
54:02
And being the big kid that I am, I had to
54:04
go and take it out of the box and start
54:07
installing all of it.
54:08
And of course, it's completely different.
54:12
And I mean, as I showed earlier, here's
54:16
the one I was using before.
54:19
Not as many knobs, not
54:20
as many things to mess up.
54:23
And this is the one that I installed
54:25
today and the one I'm using right now.
54:28
So, it sounds good to me when I was
54:32
recording it locally.
54:34
But I really had no way
54:36
of testing it on Ustream.
54:39
You have choice. It's a lot of fun.
54:44
I've got a bunch of cables coming in
54:46
because I got the
54:48
telephone hooked up today.
54:50
So we could talk to Scott on the phone.
54:53
I've got some more cables coming in so
54:55
that I can have Skype hooked up.
54:56
And I should be able to have
54:58
calls from people from Skype.
55:00
I should be able to have calls from
55:01
people on the landline.
55:02
And also too be able to call
55:03
people on their cell phones.
55:07
So we might actually be
55:08
able to get some conversations,
55:11
or at least some interviews of people on
55:13
site, maybe at events,
55:15
similar to what I was
55:16
at at General Sam's.
55:18
Anyway, we're about three minutes over.
55:20
Thank you very much. If you're not a
55:21
member of XJTalk.com,
55:24
please think about joining.
55:25
We have conversations
55:27
like what we had today.
55:29
And it's a variety of subjects.
55:32
Not just about Jeeps.
55:33
That's just our primary focus.
55:36
It's XJTalk.com. And membership is free.
55:42
We've got about 1,500 people that have
55:44
joined the site so far.
55:46
And I have a lot of fun on the site.
55:54
Everybody have a very Merry Christmas.
55:57
And I look forward to seeing all of you
56:00
next week, next
56:01
Wednesday, 8 p.m. Central.
56:03
Thanks again, guys.
56:34
Thanks, everyone.
57:04
[BEEP]
57:05
Dishwipes. If you are a
57:07
[BEEP]
57:08
whore, a member of the PTL Club, please
57:10
turn off your radio.
57:11
Because we don't need any more
57:13
[BEEP]
57:14
narrow-minded pencil neck geeks who
57:16
wouldn't know the First Amendment if it
57:18
came up and bit them on the butt.
57:20
Thank you.
57:22
July is National Baked Bean Month.
57:25
Excuse me. Yes, a month in which we pay
57:27
tribute to one of America's favorite,
57:29
most helpful and nutritious foods.
57:32
[BEEP]
57:32
I'm terribly sorry, as I was saying.
57:35
[BEEP]
57:35
Good lord. This is
57:36
terribly embarrassing. I'm so--
57:39
[BEEP]
57:40
No doggy! I guess I'd better
57:42
wrap this up quick. Basically--
57:44
[BEEP] Jesus! Woo! Oh! God! Oh my God!
57:48
Baked Beans. Their nature's way of
57:50
saying, "For God's sake, open a window."
57:52
[BEEP]
57:53
Sorry.