I tried to go to class yesterday, my first day of class for the semester, and I noticed my clutch was feeling a little funny. About 100 feet after I noticed the strange feeling, POP! and the clutch pedal sunk in and had no feedback on it. My clutch was completely engaged, and I couldn’t disengage it.
My 3rd gear was also stripped at the time, so I had it towed into a mechanic and told him to fix the issues. After he looked into it, he gave me a call back and told me,
“Normally with this kind of damage, I would junk the vehicle, but because you have so much money in after-market parts, your best option is to repair it.”
UGH! That’s almost the most frustrating thing you can hear from a mechanic. I guess I have to look forward to spending maybe $3,000 to get it fixed, I’m not looking forward to this…
And now for your viewing pleasure (someone might recognize it from ILL):
I would do it myself but I hardly have the time to do it. I would also have to remove the transmission, which is not necessarily the easiest thing to do with my resources. Looks like I’ve found a cheaper person to bring it to as well, so I might end up doing that.
Not trying to rain on your parade or anything… but on the show Top Gear, Jeep Wranglers were noted as being the “gayest” vehicle on some website they found to make fun of Jeremy’s Mercedes.
Haha, that’s really funny. You do however have to separate stock jeeps from modified jeeps, though, because stock jeeps have almost no style. Also, I’ve lost count to how many girls thought I was hot because I was driving my jeep, and I’ve recieved a few phone numbers from girls who I was driving next to. I usually get comments that I’m gay because I ride a unicycle, compared the the countless compliments I get because I drive a jeep.
It has a 4-inch suspension lift and the tires are 35x12.50, so the body is roughly 6.5" higher than stock.
My mechanic said that the cost to fix it would be $3,200, so I’m looking into other options. To put that in unicycling perspective, that’s 6.9 2007 KH 20" unis. And I thought that my first unicycle getting stolen was a major set back.
Very nice lookin’ Jeep. Quite a bit newer than ours and more modified as well. Love the rock-climbing photos!
As for the fixing, you might want to throw your symptoms and problems out on jeepforum.com. Lot’s of good folks there. I also use our local club, jeepalliance.org to seek answers. Jeep Wranglers are perpetual machines. If something breaks, it can be replaced far more simply than other vehicles…that is, if one has the proper resources.
OutUK is not the only site that agrees that the Jeep Wranger is a boy magnet. Car Talk does too. The lesbians also like the Wranger, ranking #3 on the gay chick car list.
But what’s really gay is that I can’t view OutUK from the US. It looks like I’d have to use a UK proxy to be able to view the site. What’s up with that?
I’m off to clear my browser history, cache, and cookies. Too much LGBT googling.
I will try to save the environment by fixing my 18 mpg jeep, so I don’t have to drive my dad’s 8 mpg excursion. Untill they come out with a good off-roading hybrid, then there’s no reason for me to switch to one.
I finally found the page from OutUK with the Top 10 Gayest Cars. I’d link to it but that would be useless because it’s an OutUK.com domain and you can’t get there from here.
Looks as if I’m going to take it to another place that specializes in transmissions. I would love to upgrade it to an NV4500, but the total conversion is about $3,300 plus anoth 250 for the clutch. So either I’ll spend $1500 for mine to get rebuilt or $3,570 for an indestructable upgrade.
And I thought that my first unicycle getting stolen was a major set back.
