Mid-Illini Jeepers

Thanks for everyone who worked the show and more thanks to Larry and Duke for cleaning their Jeeps up for the show. We were next to Uftring's who had a Rubicon lifted with a RE long arm and 36 inch irocs. It was pretty cool to see alot of folks pass right by the Rubicon and the Duke's TJ only to sto...

Hey Tom did you ever get a chance to watch the video that I gave you? Yes I pirated it Dave!

I also can remember picking up a CJ 7 mirror up off the trail!

Just a reminder. With all the excitement about the auto show I almost forgot that we do have a monthly meeting at 12:00 at Goodfellows in Pekin on Sat. Hope to see you there!

I will be there. Sally will be gone all week so, well I have to eat!

Oh you were talking about the wheel studs! By the way you forgot to mention about a mirror that was taking out on the trail!

Yes we all got home OK. At least we did! Thanks again for showing us around. I am still amazed of how I can still not find myself around there. Course I still get lost in Peoria!

Yes we did have a good time wish more of you came! The weather was great even though they called for rain both days but we did not get it till Sat. night. As usual Kentucky Tom did a great job of showing us around.

I think the red one is bigger!

Yes I forgot to tell you that I am can help set up too!

Oh I forgot to post. Jon came over and put air to the cylinder and changed the valve spring retainer. Thanks Jon!

That turned out great! Who painted it?

So Jill whos Jeeps will be in the Auto Show?

We had a great time too! It was nice to be able to put so many Jeeps in the shop to inspect them rather than a few at a time. Thanks again Todd and German-Bliss.

Yes but seeing how everything else on my Jeep has been replaced or rebuilt I thought I should keep one stock part.

My brother Jim says that he is planning on going too. We need at least one mullet on the trip!

Thanks anyway I had to order the part from the stealership. I will not get it till Friday morning $6.40. What a rip off! Heck Northern has Chrom-Moly ones for a small block chevy for $2.99 each.

Thanks Jon but I do not have a compresser and the valve cover is off and all the push rods and rocker arms are off of it. Yes it does sound like it is coming from the top end. It did not have any ticking noises until I drove it to Bloomington so I do not think there are any other problems.

OK now I feel really stupid! My engine was ticking again. Last time it was a bent pushrod so I figured that was it again. Well I said to heck with it and ordered all new pushrods and rocker arms. Well I took it apart and of coarse all the pushrods were straight. It looks like one of the valve spring...

ooh look at that we have 100% I will be there. Two of us! As far as I know Sally and I will be there, that is as long as we are able. In other words I have not checked with her yet!

Do you have the drop transfer case on it?

I would go with Bridgestone Duellers. 31s should fit your Jeep well!

I will be there at 10:28. I will run the back up vehicle. My Jeep is starting to tick again. Darn it why did I not change the push rods!