Your work is simply extraordinary! The way you bring old items back to life is nothing short of magical. Your videos are a source of inspiration and joy. Thank you for sharing your gift with us!
Thank you for your nice words. Please feel free to comment again, you made my day. I’m taking a screen shot of this comment to look back on when some viewer gets mean. lol Thanks again.
It’s kind of spooky at 55 mph with the doors slid back. I’ve putted around on the gravel roads at 30 or so and it’s a relaxing ride. It’s too short for a road trip. Has a little play in the steering also. Thanks for watching.
Just came across your channel. I'm always critical of videos from folks like VGG and JYD as they think youtube is life. You have Derek from VGG spending all his time making videos. Folks talk about what a wonderful father and husband he is. Ticks me off because he is an absentee father and husband. Being a father and husband means more then bringing in money. Bragging that you are away 26 eays out of the month makes me wonder how his kids and wife truly feel about him never being there. He is still what I consider young though. You guy s have almost the same amount of experience spinning wrenches as I've been alive. I've questioned in my mind things you have done, then stopped myself saying, these guys have experience. My Dad had a friend from Oklahoma that had his own way of doing things. At times we thought Joe was crazy, but he always got things fixed. I've got an 89 Wrangler that I'm having a shop do the slave cylinder in now. To much going on in life for me to do it myself now, and I have to sell the Jeep. Clutch went out the day I was going to put it up for sale. Was my Girlfriend's first Jeep. She passed 14 years ago. I don't drive, so it just isn't worth my keeping it anymore. Dad passed 6 months ago and I have his 96 S-10 which unfortunately is to far gone and will be scrapped. Dad and I restored my 65 Mustang and Dad had an 05 Mustang. Need to find the title for Dad's 05 with 33K on the clock showroom condition and the selll that off. My eye sight is going so I can't do what I used to, but I really enjoy these videos. Wish I were closer, it'd be fun to spin some wrenches with you guys. Did you ever figure out what wrench you lost while driving the LTD?
That thing you pulled out of the radiator is whats called a anode thats supposed to keep the calcium deposits & sediments from building up in water so the radiator doesn't clog up . They use anodes on ships to keep them from rusting and they have to be changed periodically. Being this engine uses a cast iron block you can also get rust deposits that can plug the radiator and cooling system up . A good coolant flush then fresh coolant with some distilled water helps prevent the calcium deposits from building up that comes ftom using tap water . Hope this helps you!
I just got back home after driving the gravel roads by myself. Went into town and got a lot of waves and looks. It’s just so basic it’s more like a tractor it’s so basic. But hey I like that. Thanks for watching my channel. Tune in again and subscribe, comment and like too.
Left hand drive Postal Jeeps were usually used by USPS supervisors to go out “in the Field” to check or time the carriers. They were generally not used to carry mail. I suppose the Postal Service could buy them cheaper than fleet cars, plus they could easily be converted to RHD if needed or broken up for part to keep RHD models in service longer. AM General was able to win their contract with the Postal Service by stamping the Postal Jeep body panels using thinner gauge steel than used on standard retail or military grade models. Sometimes, LHD models were bought by delivery and utility companies but that one appears to have been former USPS. I alway thought it would be cool to have one of these, chop the roof behind the seats, wall it off, and install a bed with fold down sides, like the little Japanese import trucks. I believe the radiator gizmo might have been a “J.C. Whitney” type item that was supposed to help keep rust and corrosion from building up in the cooling system. How and if they actually worked, I can’t say but I would assume it was a sort of a electrolysis idea and I have to think there was more parts to it to attach it to 12 volts. It also looks like it might have a electrical plug on the driver’s side front, so I would think it once had a engine block heater, so it might have had something to do with that?
It’s cool. I’ve been driving it all day. It runs like a top. Who needs a side by side when this old jeep will still be going years after a side by side is worn out.
Haha I might eat one slice of watermelon a year and I can get all I want. If there weren’t any around I would be wanting them all the time. We also have sweet corn fields that farmers share with locals, peanuts, potatoes, cantaloupes, cucumbers, zucchini and yellow squash. We have a lot of generous farmer friends. And thank you for watching, tell some of your friends about my channel too.
@@DEADCARRESCUE I will tell my friends, I live in a rural area, the only thing they grow here that is the same as you is potatoes, they are not generous to the locals here though, they used to be years ago but the good old boys are gone now sadly!
I’ve been watching the YT videos on these things too. I might keep it I don’t know yet. The tires are all studded snow tres, it sounds weird as it rolls down the highway.
Your work is simply extraordinary! The way you bring old items back to life is nothing short of magical. Your videos are a source of inspiration and joy. Thank you for sharing your gift with us!
Thank you for your nice words. Please feel free to comment again, you made my day. I’m taking a screen shot of this comment to look back on when some viewer gets mean. lol Thanks again.
I have a 98 Jeep Wrangler TJ. Had for 8 years now with only 110.000 miles and only had 96000 when I bought it. love it.
It’s kind of spooky at 55 mph with the doors slid back. I’ve putted around on the gravel roads at 30 or so and it’s a relaxing ride. It’s too short for a road trip. Has a little play in the steering also. Thanks for watching.
That is a cool find. I am always surprised at the unique finds. Can't wait to see what you do with it.
Thank you. STAY TUNED :)
Cool looking Jeep!!! I can't wait to see what you do with it.
Just stay tuned. I’ve got ideas. Lol
Just came across your channel. I'm always critical of videos from folks like VGG and JYD as they think youtube is life. You have Derek from VGG spending all his time making videos. Folks talk about what a wonderful father and husband he is. Ticks me off because he is an absentee father and husband. Being a father and husband means more then bringing in money. Bragging that you are away 26 eays out of the month makes me wonder how his kids and wife truly feel about him never being there. He is still what I consider young though. You guy s have almost the same amount of experience spinning wrenches as I've been alive. I've questioned in my mind things you have done, then stopped myself saying, these guys have experience. My Dad had a friend from Oklahoma that had his own way of doing things. At times we thought Joe was crazy, but he always got things fixed. I've got an 89 Wrangler that I'm having a shop do the slave cylinder in now. To much going on in life for me to do it myself now, and I have to sell the Jeep. Clutch went out the day I was going to put it up for sale. Was my Girlfriend's first Jeep. She passed 14 years ago. I don't drive, so it just isn't worth my keeping it anymore. Dad passed 6 months ago and I have his 96 S-10 which unfortunately is to far gone and will be scrapped. Dad and I restored my 65 Mustang and Dad had an 05 Mustang. Need to find the title for Dad's 05 with 33K on the clock showroom condition and the selll that off. My eye sight is going so I can't do what I used to, but I really enjoy these videos. Wish I were closer, it'd be fun to spin some wrenches with you guys. Did you ever figure out what wrench you lost while driving the LTD?
I never found the wrench. Thank you for watching my videos. Like and subscribe please.
That thing you pulled out of the radiator is whats called a anode thats supposed to keep the calcium deposits & sediments from building up in water so the radiator doesn't clog up . They use anodes on ships to keep them from rusting and they have to be changed periodically. Being this engine uses a cast iron block you can also get rust deposits that can plug the radiator and cooling system up . A good coolant flush then fresh coolant with some distilled water helps prevent the calcium deposits from building up that comes ftom using tap water . Hope this helps you!
It does help me. Thank you for that information sir.
Looks like a good time !
Yes sir it was.
Nice! I always wanted one cant find them anymore.
I just got back home after driving the gravel roads by myself. Went into town and got a lot of waves and looks. It’s just so basic it’s more like a tractor it’s so basic. But hey I like that. Thanks for watching my channel. Tune in again and subscribe, comment and like too.
Left hand drive Postal Jeeps were usually used by USPS supervisors to go out “in the Field” to check or time the carriers. They were generally not used to carry mail. I suppose the Postal Service could buy them cheaper than fleet cars, plus they could easily be converted to RHD if needed or broken up for part to keep RHD models in service longer. AM General was able to win their contract with the Postal Service by stamping the Postal Jeep body panels using thinner gauge steel than used on standard retail or military grade models. Sometimes, LHD models were bought by delivery and utility companies but that one appears to have been former USPS. I alway thought it would be cool to have one of these, chop the roof behind the seats, wall it off, and install a bed with fold down sides, like the little Japanese import trucks.
I believe the radiator gizmo might have been a “J.C. Whitney” type item that was supposed to help keep rust and corrosion from building up in the cooling system. How and if they actually worked, I can’t say but I would assume it was a sort of a electrolysis idea and I have to think there was more parts to it to attach it to 12 volts. It also looks like it might have a electrical plug on the driver’s side front, so I would think it once had a engine block heater, so it might have had something to do with that?
That’s lots of info I didn’t know about them. It’s a dependable little thing. Thank you for watching.
Like it. Cool
Me too Kenny.
Love that Jeep
It’s cool. I’ve been driving it all day. It runs like a top. Who needs a side by side when this old jeep will still be going years after a side by side is worn out.
My brother flash has it now, he loves it.
Opens the rad cap when it gets hot to prevent overflow.
Humm.
I replaced dimmer switch on my 78 CJ5 and that got my lights working.
This one had a loose wire. I found it after I bought a new dimmer switch.
Great fun, watching from the UK, wish we could grow watermelons like that here, mind you if we could there wouldn't be many left!
Haha I might eat one slice of watermelon a year and I can get all I want. If there weren’t any around I would be wanting them all the time. We also have sweet corn fields that farmers share with locals, peanuts, potatoes, cantaloupes, cucumbers, zucchini and yellow squash. We have a lot of generous farmer friends. And thank you for watching, tell some of your friends about my channel too.
@@DEADCARRESCUE I will tell my friends, I live in a rural area, the only thing they grow here that is the same as you is potatoes, they are not generous to the locals here though, they used to be years ago but the good old boys are gone now sadly!
Hey, that’s my neck of the woods
Pangburn Arkansas?or here in North east Arkansas?
Radiator it is a filter to filter sediment out of the engine or coolant
Ok. I’m 68 and never seen one.
Yea I seen one on No-nonsense know how on you tube he actually made one😀
I’ve been watching the YT videos on these things too. I might keep it I don’t know yet. The tires are all studded snow tres, it sounds weird as it rolls down the highway.