Your FSJ EMBARRASSING MOMENTS

[seriouswood]

Reading a thread here about snow and got to thinking of the time I got my 1st GW STUCK.
It had snowed a ton and was getting wife and was playing with the GW in her works parking lot. Well I had the 4WD enganged and was doing this and that and saw the plowed snow on the side of the lot so I thought I would get into it a little with the pass side wheels. Welllllll I did not realize that the snow mound was OVER a water gully, so it was like REAL deep and YEAP I got the GW stuck, ha ha ha. I had to call my brother and he came up and got me out with his Wrangler. Not all was lost I guess since it was another Jeep to the rescue.

[j20brett]

Most embarassing momnet...

Vapor locking in the middle of a very busy 4 lane street in the middle of town. Ahd to push the jeep to the side of the road through oncoming traffic...that wasnt slowing down!

[azwagoneer80]

I was towing my Chevelle from north Phoenix, my fuel gauge had just stopped working the week before. Guess what; I ran out of gas on I-17 in fairly heavy Saturday traffic. Luckily I was in the right lane, and had enough momentum to get to the shoulder. I had to take some race gas out of the Chevelle and made it to the station. Not so bad but I still felt stupid.

[FSJ-Earl]

One time I was messing around in the school parking lot and I tried to go over a BIG snow pile and and I got high centered. I had to be pulled off by a Subaru.

[AMX factor]

Most embarrassing... I was near Laramie, WY wheelin' with the guys. Wewere trying to climb over a large downed tree. 1 bronco and 2 blazers failed. My GW popped over the top easily but in doing so the the tree slid forward and down an embankment, the GW dropped and got promtly high centered on the tree. In efforts to go over it....almost made it, I broke a rear u-jont and of course....wait for it.. wait for it....the front wheels were off the ground. Talk about high and dry. We ended up having to take a chainsaw to the tree and towed off by said 2 blazers. I should have made a table outta that tree.

[fulsizjeep]

I discovered just last night that you CAN dig a Wagoneer out of a snow filled ditch with an ice scraper. It was not an embarrassing moment. It was a moment of disgust. Took about 30 minutes to dig the front axle out enough to get back on the road. Then, once I was back on the road, I hit the brakes and slide down the banked turn and hung the front bumper on the guard rail. Yeah, more disgust. :banghead: Snow is one thing, ice just plain sucks.

[jepj2000]

I was in the J2000 and just as I was about to enter one of the really busy intersections in town I pushed in the clutch and POP, the linkage disintegrated and the pedal was stuck to the floor. I had to coast the truck into the turn lane, as I was in the left lane, and wait for the protected green arrow to push it by myself through the intersection into a parking lot. It was so fun.:banghead:

Rankin

[Mikel]

I ran out of gas at a red light in front of a gas station, driving my '78 Chief. Knowing I could never push the truck out of the way myself, I put it in first gear (T18) and using the starter, I climbed the sidewalk to let traffic get by :rolleyes:

[etjeep]

Every time I fill up with gas.....granted I have'nt done that in a while. Rotating the nozzle helps a little but does not work for me to my satisfaction. Takes half an hour to fill 30 gal.

[CustomWag]

I ran out of gas at a red light in front of a gas station, driving my '78 Chief. Knowing I could never push the truck out of the way myself, I put it in first gear (T18) and using the starter, I climbed the sidewalk to let traffic get by :rolleyes:
Quick thinking!
:thumbsup:

I bought my wag on a Sunday and drove it to my new job (been there about 2 weeks) the next day. Ran out of gas about 2 blocks from work (it was then I found out that 1/8 tank = EMPTY:rolleyes: ). Waved to my boss going by as I was walking back to the wag with a gas can.

That's the only time I've lost a gas cap too. Took off after I put the gas in and I heard it slide off the roof onto the road, directly in front of a big rig that smashed it to smithereens.

[Tad]

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s80/tadsal/Trails/SaddleBlackOct2007/10TadParking.jpg

That's it, I'm not admitting to anything more.

[armyfsj]

First time out with the 84 GW didn't know much about it at the time or its vacuum engaged transfer case, long story short thought it was in 4x4 but it wasnt luckily i was close to home and could get the 07 dodge out there to pull it out of the mud I put it in. My wife was impressed with my new toy to say the least. :rolleyes:

[Jeepstress]

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s80/tadsal/Trails/SaddleBlackOct2007/10TadParking.jpg

That's it, I'm not admitting to anything more.

But Tad...... that wasn't even the embarassing part!

[Heavy_Metal_Thunder_81]

Got the Wag running again after being broken down ALL winter and threw the rear wheels back on real quick (finger tight) and pulled it out onto the driveway because dad needed the garage back. It sat for a week or so...then got the itch to drive it. Got around the block a few times then...clunk.....BAM!....BAM!!!...grind grind grind....:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: ...forgot about the lug nuts :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: Had to Have MattMopar440 come save the day with a jack and a tire iron. (THANKS MATT! :thumbsup: lol)

Screwed up my quarter panel REAL good but most of all my pride and the fact that MattMopar440 and my buddy Chris wont let me live it down becasue I used to work at Sears Auto (NEVER HAD A TIRE FALL OFF THERE OR ANYTIME ELSE THO!!!)

[AlsChopShop]

a bunch of friends and i were hanging out one night, my cousin had a real bad day. i told her she could drive my jeep through one of the other buddies fields, he has a nice mud bog at the bottom. i've made it through a dozen times before, but i figured i'd run it through once just to clear the path so she wouldn't get stuck. well needless to say, i got stuck halfway through the first pass. turns out my buddy had been doing 2wd roosts in his blazer on 38's, so the ruts were a whole lot bigger and my 33's just couldn't keep the diffs from digging in. he neglected to mention that until after i was stuck. we couldn't get it out with his scout, so i left it overnight and came back the next evening. it took some serious yanking from my cousins 07 chevy crewcab, and 3 broken straps later we finally got that sucker out.

Al

[tinnmann31]

I went wheelin' after a good rain one evening and when I got through I went to get going down the road. About a mile down, doing 50 and heard a slight chirping under the floor, than louder, than louder than screaming before I realized...... I left my t-case engaged! I'm fortunate that I haven't had any problems since then.

[Gambler68]

ummm...first time involved the VERY first time I tried getting the QT out of 4LO..I was alone, far away from humankind, but my cellphone let me make a few embarrassing calls for help.

Krista was sort of confused calling me back 4 days later after hearing the message :D :rolleyes:

(yes, my rig apparently likes to be shut down when engaging or disengaging the QT).

Only public embarassment involved getting hung up on my dang ubolts on a tiny piece of rock in Moab after doing fine all day with no mishaps. E-drive took care of that in about 2 seconds.

[motox-010]

I would probally have to say running outta gas on a one way road right after school. Of course said road has to be heavily traveled. After about 10 minutes a girl come along in here TJ (of all things) and pulls me off the road.

Nother thing. Sitting at the bank with my muffler hacked off, common courtesy would tell you to turn it off when you are trying to talk to the teller. So I did. When I go to crank it up, all I hear is grinddddd. So I grab a crow bar and jump underneath to beat on the starter. Poke my head up and tell my friend to hit it to see if it engages. It did, and that is when I learned that the bottom of the door is unforgiving.

[Gambler68]

Oops that reminds me of the time also at the bank when I shut down mine, went to start it and the key lock was jammed. I pushed it back (no one was waiting) so the tellers couldn't hear me swearing like the Irishman I am ;)

[AlsChopShop]

I would probally have to say running outta gas on a one way road right after school. Of course said road has to be heavily traveled. After about 10 minutes a girl come along in here TJ (of all things) and pulls me off the road.hey, was she hot? :thumbsup:

Al

[FSJ Guy]

Last winter I pulled over to talk to a police officer (he had shut down a road and I wanted to see where exactly it was shut down) and forgot there was a drop-off. The snow had been plowed to look like it was flat, but IT WASN'T.

Got pulled out by a Ford. Now if that ain't embarrassing, I don't know what is! :p

[Heavy_Metal_Thunder_81]

I have to shut my Jeep off through any drive through, fast food, bank, ect...havent not started back up tho (knock on fake foor paneling)

(yes, my rig apparently likes to be shut down when engaging or disengaging the QT).

MINE TOO!!! and I thought mine was the only one. Its very annoying! Wonder why it does that?

[janie]

One of many...........


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[grand_wag_85]

Have way too many but here's a good one.

Was on my way to Grand Junction and forgot to stop in Glenwood Springs for gas. The next exit was New Castle so I decided stop there. I made it off the ramp and to the stop line at the traffic light and it died. Sat there with my 4 ways on and hood up but people didn't seem to get the fact that it was BROKEN DOWN. Ended up walking thru a field thing to a gas station and when I rounded the corner of the building on my way back I saw a cop car behind the Cherokee and an officer looking in the window. Turned out to be a really cool guy and pushed the Jeep, with the Crown Vic, up the street to another gas station.

Would have made for a neat picture:rolleyes:

[BarryL]

Lucky me, so far never an embarrasement in a Jeep. On the other hand, in college (long time ago) we had one of those "lifetime" snowstorms. I had an MG. I had a date with a girl at home and was determined to get there. So, I left school, discovering I could plow through the snow. Did I mention the snow drifts were above my headlights? A couple miles down the road was all I could do. So, I left her by the side of the road and hiked back to school (3 hour hike). Two days later I went to find the car. Not to be seen. I knew about where I left it. It dawns on me that the snowplows have completely burried her from sight, so I find a nice stick and start poking in the snow. I found her. Stuck the stick right through my convertible top, my almost new convertible top.

[FSJ Guy]

Lucky me, so far never an embarrasement in a Jeep. On the other hand, in college (long time ago) we had one of those "lifetime" snowstorms. I had an MG. I had a date with a girl at home and was determined to get there. So, I left school, discovering I could plow through the snow. Did I mention the snow drifts were above my headlights? A couple miles down the road was all I could do. So, I left her by the side of the road and hiked back to school (3 hour hike). Two days later I went to find the car. Not to be seen. I knew about where I left it. It dawns on me that the snowplows have completely burried her from sight, so I find a nice stick and start poking in the snow. I found her. Stuck the stick right through my convertible top, my almost new convertible top.

Wow. For a minute I thought you left your DATE by the side of the road! Now THAT would have been embarrassing!!

[mattmopar440]

then...clunk.....BAM!....BAM!!!...grind grind grind....:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: ...forgot about the lug nuts :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: Had to Have MattMopar440 come save the day with a jack and a tire iron. (THANKS MATT! :thumbsup: lol)

MattMopar440 and my buddy Chris wont let me live it down becasue I used to work at Sears Auto (NEVER HAD A TIRE FALL OFF THERE OR ANYTIME ELSE THO!!!)

some one missed lug nut day JK :D
Hay that one thing I got on you and chris a tire never fell off my wag yet

[BarryL]

Wow. For a minute I thought you left your DATE by the side of the road! Now THAT would have been embarrassing!!

Ha, there were a few I probably would have liked to have left...





No Honey, not you.

[stumpjumper3]

This last snow trip, we finally get to the top of the hill, and i find a nice level place to park. No big deal, then when i am getting ready to leave and go to pull out. i realize i am not going anywhere. Luckily i didnt have to have anybody pull me out (way too many fords up there, wasnt going to let that happen), so i spent 15 minutes with the shovel and backed right out. Guess i choose a better parking spots next time.:thumbsup:

[1977cherokeechief]

One of many...........


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thats how you got ur nickname... :lol: ive always wondered how and whyeveryone was giving you a hard time about tranny fluid...

[fulsizjeep]

thats how you got ur nickname... :lol: ive always wondered how and whyeveryone was giving you a hard time about tranny fluid...Yup. Janie is the ATF Skate Queen. :D
Be careful, she is also usually armed. ;)

Wonder why it does that?Why ask Why? :D

[Tad]

Yup. Janie is the ATF Skate Queen. :D
Be careful, she is also usually armed. ;)

Why ask Why? :D
Usually not armed?
I'm not even going to ask.

[slangone]

I just reinstalled the tires after doing a brake job and was atempting to adjusting the emerency parking brakes. I was getting very fustrated because I could not get the emerency brakes to grab the drum! Looked behind me, DAMM the drum is on the gararge floor!

This is a result of partying and working on Jeeps don't mix.:drivin:

[tndonor]

I was moving furniture to my office. I was being stored at a firework stand (yes I am in TN). I have a full desk, 2 metal filing cabinets, and some misc. Someone commented about what power my truck had, or lack thereof.

I said its only a four cyl, but its Diesel. So I proceded to leave and do a burnout (mind I have 35 in tires). The look was priceless. Went to pull out on the highway, I had no brakes. The hydroboost built up enough pressure from the roasting it shot my plunger rod out and the pedal fell to the floor.......

If you are going to do stupid watch this stuff...... it helps to be able to drive out of sight of the onlookers!

[Battle_Wagon_NJ]

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q17/BattleWagonNJ/stuck1.jpg


need I say more?

[azwagoneer80]

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q17/BattleWagonNJ/stuck1.jpg


need I say more?

Wow....

[Tad]

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q17/BattleWagonNJ/stuck1.jpg


need I say more?
No, I'd blame the dog also (that mistake must have really sucked).

[mattmopar440]

I have lost my fuel cap so many times I've stopped counting drove all the way to Jon's house in 4 low wondering why its reeving a 4 grand and Iam only doing 30 getting stuck on trails that always going to happen :D

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd140/mattmopar440/jeep8.jpg

JON get the chains it happened again

[Wart Hawg]

Lemme see.... I'd just put the 1405 carb on the 4v intake, had the new exhaust put on about 3 months earlier with the flowmaster so the Hawg sounded mean. Get to the last stoplight in Mt Home before the 10 mile stretch of hiway to the base and some girls pull up in the lane next to me in a Mustang and start revving and staging on the line. I look over and think "what the heck" I'll give it a shot. As soon as the light turned I nailed the throttle, heard a loud "BLAM" saw a bright flash in the right rear view mirror, watched painfully as the Mustang took off out of sight. When I finally caught up to them at the base gate there was a huge black spot on thier rear quarter panel.

[SVO42]

Have way too many but here's a good one.

Was on my way to Grand Junction and forgot to stop in Glenwood Springs for gas. The next exit was New Castle so I decided stop there. I made it off the ramp and to the stop line at the traffic light and it died. Sat there with my 4 ways on and hood up but people didn't seem to get the fact that it was BROKEN DOWN. Ended up walking thru a field thing to a gas station and when I rounded the corner of the building on my way back I saw a cop car behind the Cherokee and an officer looking in the window. Turned out to be a really cool guy and pushed the Jeep, with the Crown Vic, up the street to another gas station.

Would have made for a neat picture:rolleyes:

Dude, your journey to Ouray would top the list, IMO. :p

Most embarassing FSJ moment: letting my (now) wife (RiverRat here) drive offroad the first time. She's a good driver, but we were already on the spare and were just going to head back to camp when we saw this mudhole. "Can I drive through the mud?" she asks. Not thinking too much, or checking depth, or not seeing the warning sign (faint arrow pointing down at the mudhole surrounded by a circle with a slash through it), I said, "Sure."

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v490/SVO42/whatmud.jpg

We got pulled out by a M37. That mud reeked.

[funhog]

I ran out of gas at as I was pulling up to a stoplight. I was right beside the cop. I jumped out of the car and grabbed the auxiliary fuel tank out of the back as he was asking if I needed any help. I yell back "No it happens all the time". I had it started again before the light turned green. As I waved bye I noticed that he was laughing his head off.

My sons likes to give directions based on where the heap has broken down.

[hampton123]

my first time going out in the mud with my jeep i had no idea how the 229 worked so i flipped the switch heard the hiss and thouht i was good. then proceeded to drive like an idiot... turns out i ran into a swamp in 2wd and burried my back end to the frame.... had to get a tow truck with a 10 ton hydraulic winch to pull me out, of course that was after we tried pulling with 4 different vehicles!!!

[tyrodtom]

I drove by KFC and got some Buffalo wings, it was really raining hard, as I was coming down the major mountain in my area, the bearing retainer on my right rear axle failed (Ford 9in.) and my axle parted company with the rear end. I managed to not wreck. It's raining cats and dogs, so I just sit in the truck and finish my wings, with shaking hands. Just as I finish and begin to wonder what i'm gonna do, a state cop comes by and gives me a ride home, after first checking that my axle wasn't in the middle of the road. It was his last day of work before retiring.
When I installed the new axle I spot welded the bearing retainer on the axle.

[Jeepsmith]

I almost had this memory repressed, until now. Well, I found out just how lousy of a boat a Jeep is. Yes, I said boat. :o Back in high school days, fishing trip with my cousin, pulling boat out of lake at a very steep ramp with his Cherokee (which I now own), dysfunctional E-brake, = 1 Jeep slowly sinking next to the dock and 1 boat floating away. When the Jeep settled, all we could see was headlights, hood, windshield, and some of the roof. :eek: Had to be pulled out with a winch, and of course the tailgate window was down, so as the Jeep left the water all of our stuff floated out the back. As we were swimming around in our clothes, trying to retrieve everything (most of which we borrowed from our boss!) we noticed all the other campers(about 20) had gathered to observe this circus. After changing all the oils twice, adding some fresh gas and 10 bottles of HEET, and new fuel filter, we were able to drive it home( four hours, stopping every 10 miles to blow out the fuel filter). Amazingly, considering the dash was submerged, no elect. problems developed :huh: I've been restoring this Cherokee over the last 2 years, maybe I should add a snorkel just in case.

[CustomWag]

Dude, your journey to Ouray would top the list, IMO. :p

Most embarassing FSJ moment: letting my (now) wife (RiverRat here) drive offroad the first time. She's a good driver, but we were already on the spare and were just going to head back to camp when we saw this mudhole. "Can I drive through the mud?" she asks. Not thinking too much, or checking depth, or not seeing the warning sign (faint arrow pointing down at the mudhole surrounded by a circle with a slash through it), I said, "Sure."


We got pulled out by a M37. That mud reeked.

Dang buddy, THAT is a stuck!

[grand_wag_85]

Dude, your journey to Ouray would top the list, IMO. :p

That really wasn't a single moment, more like a week of FSJ'n hell.:o

[malodin]

Im sure i have at least one more embarrassing moment, but this is the one i remember the most because it happens way more than it should.

pull up to a gas station get out and proceed filling up the tank, not only do you have to hold the gas nozzle at every angle but normal, you get the glug glug glug and before you know it it pukes fuel back out at you and everyone is wondering why youre jumping out of the way. then you have to go back to filling because by now youve only gotten 2 gallons in it:) and this time you have to go incredibly slow while still holding that thing in a wiered angle. then you have to get back inside the rig with a soaked pants leg.

[DanHS]

Most embarrasing would be running out of gas, at a stop light, and having to push the Jeep into a parking lot, buy a gas can cause the one I had was in another car, and then walk back and forth over the highway overpass to get gas, in the rain. That and the time the time the GW wouldn't start at a gas station cause the neutral safety switch wasn't lined up just right. I didn't figure that out until it started right up in neutral, after pushing it out of the way of the gas pumps and having several people help. It was on the way to summer camp work with my then GF, nobody beleived that the reason we were late was because the Jeep wouldn't start. :rolleyes: Also once I was stuck in a snowdrift next to a farm field, and had to dig myself out. At least I didn't need a tow.

[-Bluegill-]

I'm very glad my buddy edited the video - because I had just completed this ledge on Fish Fossil at Harlan.....

http://s130.photobucket.com/albums/p259/want2wheel/Videos/?action=view&current=bluegillonfishfossel.flv

Then I shut the Cherk off to check out the ledge & spot my bud up it. Jump back in, turn the key...click. hhhhmmmm, try the key again - click. The alternator and battery had gave up the ghost. :o

[Bombadier]

These weren't embarrasing so much 'cept they counted more as a loss of man-points. :banghead:

Incident #1:
We were heading up some logging trails towards a castle ruin in Germany. I had Gilgamesh in 4HI, as the trail was quite steep and a bit slick. Once we got close-ish to the ruins I backed into a little spot that kept the Jeep clear of the trail; and so that once we left, I wouldn't have to try an uphill 10-point turn to get back down the trail.
We saw the ruins, and got back into the Jeep. Once we started back down, I decided to take it out of 4HI. Still moving at about 5mph, I shifted into neutral, and tried going back to 2HI. I got a really nasty grinding noise. Since I could now see the hardball, I kept it in 4HI, left it in neutral, and coasted towards the road. As we got close to the bottom, the incline levelled out, and the Jeep stalled very suddenly and stopped as if I had hit the brakes.
To my mortification, I realized that when I shifted to "neutral", I had actually gone too far.... So I had coasted downhill in Reverse for about 200 yards!

Situation #2:
After we moved to Colorado, Gilgamesh got shipped from Germany to Dallas.... which was the closest place the Army would send our Jeep for pickup. I flew down, did an inspection, signed the papers, filled the fuel tank, and started off. I topped off again halfway between Amarillo & Dallas, then once more at Clayton, NM (just over the state-line).
I almost made it.
Ten miles south of Gate-20 of Ft. Carson on I-25, I had a fuel-guage needle right on the beginning of the red mark. Figuring that I could make about another 15-20 miles, I passed up a gas station. I hoped that gas prices were cheaper at the Post gas station just inside Gate-20.
Within about 300-meters of the exit ramp to Gate-20, I ran out of gas.....
.....Five minutes afterwards as I was emptying my 5-gal. fuel can into Gilgamesh, a car heading south sputtered to a stop almost opposite of my Jeep.
The car's owner got out and popped his trunk. He grabbed a little red fuel can and dumped it into his tank. As he was doing this, he looked over and saw me doing the same thing. He finished, gave me a big thumbs-up & $#!t-eatin' grin, and drove off. :rolleyes:
I've completely ran out of gas on a long trip before, but I have hit bone-dry just as I was pulling up to a pump.

[jeepdad56]

Well here it is Friday and I have the day off. Drove my son to school in the J10 and had a problem on the way home about a mile from home. The passenger door was not shut all the way and it opened in traffic. Needless to say I could reach it and my foot slipped off the clutch and stalled it . No start in the middle of the road. Berkeley Twp police (2) tried jumping it no start. These 2 great officers pushed the Heep off to the side of the road. I also forgot my registration/Ins card. No prob they never asked for it. One officer gave me a ride in the back of his cruiser to my house. Gee it;s been a while since I've ridden in back http://www.njjeep.org/forum/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif http://www.njjeep.org/forum/images/smiles/icon_cry.gif !!
Went to A-Zone got a battery-no start. Time to get serious. I went home got a spare starter-no idea if it worked. Pulled the old slow/no cranking starter, put the extra in and she fired right up http://www.njjeep.org/forum/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif http://www.njjeep.org/forum/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif Drove the Heep home. Now how to get the Dodge home. Nobody around. Ahhh I'll just ride my daughter's bicycle there. What a sight that must have been. Some gray beard huffing and puffing riding a girls bike. Made it there (somehow). Loaded the bike up and drove home. Had to wire tie the starter wiring away from the headers..melty melt. Starts easier .. yes another day off... http://www.njjeep.org/forum/images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif http://www.njjeep.org/forum/images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif Another blatant atempt from unseen forces to sabotage a trail/club ride by yours truly http://www.njjeep.org/forum/images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif http://www.njjeep.org/forum/images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif
If you like changing starters , buy a J10, they're easy. Parts Swapper Mike

[JeepsAndGuns]

I stalled the cherokee while trying to show off to a friend and do a burn out. But it was because of a carb problem I have yet to fix, or even figure out why its doing it.

Blew up the spider gears on the rear axle while trying to show off and do another burn out.

I have also gotten stuck going UP hill, twice, in pretty much the same spot on the same hill. And had friends with me both times. But they were rideing with me. The first time we had to walk about 5 miles to one of their houses to hitch a ride back to my house to get my YJ and a tow rope. We get back right after it was getting dark, and there my cherokee was parked at the trail head, and I was like Great Googley MoogleyGreat Googley MoogleyGreat Googley Moogley? Someone wrote on the hood in the dirt "friend to friend, we pulled you out" I was VERY lucky that day, because I had forgot and left the keys in it. They could have stolen it! So there we are, two jeeps, one driver with a license (me) The ones brother had to drive his truck. So the oldest one (my neighbor) was 15 and had his learners permit. We figured we didnt want to leave it, and it was all back roads, so he would drive one, not tell anyone and hope we dont see any cops. I wasnt gonna let him drive my YJ, so I let him drive the cherokee. I had the dana 20 in low range up the hill. When they are in low range, it can be mistaken for 2wd (positions are real close) So I looked at the shifter and figured who ever pulled it out had put it back in 2wd. I un lock the hubs and he starts following me. I kept wondering why he was going so slow. I thought it was just because he was scared, and because he didnt really know how to drive a manual. We finally get back home, and I get in it to park it, and it was still in low range!! And was starting to overheat!....lol

2nd time, same hill, almost same spot. But this time we had his brother come with us and leave his truck at the start of the trail, just in case. So we hike back down the trail (you can figure out what happened), get in his truck (low to the ground 2wd chebby) His truck couldnt make it up the trail. So we go get my YJ, witch at the time didnt have working 4wd. But it made it up the trail fine. I turn around and hook up, after a few yanks I get it loose. But there we were agan with two jeeps, and one licenced driver...lol Made sure it was out of low range this time.

Hvent been back to that hill since.

[82Laredo]

Everytime I press the accelarator hard it backfires and even dies at time.

[motox-010]

I dont see how y'all have such bad luck with filling up. I used to not be able to pump it in faster than halfway between off and the first click. Now I can angle it just right to keep it going on the first little tab, and I can get it to stay by hooking one of those coils on the inside of the gas hole.

[JeepsAndGuns]

I have to hold the nozzle up side down to fuel up. Otherwise it will click off as soon as I squeeze the trigger.

[Mikel]

I dont see how y'all have such bad luck with filling up. I used to not be able to pump it in faster than halfway between off and the first click. Now I can angle it just right to keep it going on the first little tab, and I can get it to stay by hooking one of those coils on the inside of the gas hole.

My 78 Cherokee was a bit tricky sometimes, but nowhere as difficult as some people's FSJ's :confused:

[interceptor]

lol, forget about running out of gas. The wag was my first vehicle and in highschool my friends and I had to push it on several occasions.

- Worst one was the same as TYRODTOM;

Driving to a New years eve party and doing about 30 mph and the axle retainer clip breaks (pass. rear side). Out goes the axle and down goes the Jeep. In that split second I look in the rearview to see sparks flying out from under the back of the truck. As we are skidding down the road, the axle rolls next to us and flips in the air denting the passenger door. then continues on its way down the street about 30 yards. Freakin ridiculous! I was so pissed.

- Then two years later, it happened to my father on the drivers side rear and in winter no less.

- Makes me laugh now.

[1977cherokeechief]

with my truck, i discovered that i have to go a gas station that is about 3-25 cents more a gallon just so i wont take a shower of gas...


what i have to do is go to a station that does not have the "splash" guards on the nozzles, then shove it in as far as i can... try that.

[Louiseven]

Hmmm,seems we all have similar embarassing moments.

One of the many times 'Ol Big Mary ran out of gas. Once I was on the outskirts of downtown LA. near Alvarado Street ran out of gas on the corner across the street from a park on a busy intersection. No gas station in sight and know one I encountered could speak any english. That's until a Metro bus driver pulled up beside to allow passengers to board and said "Hey is that a 88?" I replied no it is an 87. He smiled and said, "yea mine is an 88 it's always running out of gas too". As he drove away I did not feel so bad.

[fulsizjeep]

This probably covers it. Circa 2000 in the Everglades. Took a YJ w/8500 Warn anchored by a FS Bronco to pull the front end up and out. :o Same solution for the red one behind me. Those are suck holes. ;)
http://frontier.net/%7Emystkblu/leadsled.jpg

[COLOFIREMAN]

Both the inner and the outer sindle nuts backed out of the rear D60 on my 73'....while I was driving down the road. The truck started to shake, then lean, and them I looked out the driver window and could see the tire 2-feet outisde the truck as I was driving. I was able to slow it down before it came out completly.:thumbsup:

[chr1s]

I drove by KFC and got some Buffalo wings, it was really raining hard, as I was coming down the major mountain in my area, the bearing retainer on my right rear axle failed (Ford 9in.) and my axle parted company with the rear end. I managed to not wreck. It's raining cats and hands.dogs, so I just sit in the truck and finish my wings, with shaking hands

that sounds like what I would have done :thumbsup:

[dngrs1]

Most embarrassing moment??? Listing my J-10 for sale on this website and not getting any 'serious' buyers.

[1977cherokeechief]

ok, here it is,

i went out to a friends house after work to see if he was home from colorado. i shut my truck off, went to his door, no one was home so i left.

he has a cirlce drive and i went around the cirle and back out to his road. i start down the road, and in about 200ft at the top of the hill, the truck juststalls out. no missing, just dies. i figured no big deal, it has done it to me before. i followed the procedure form when it did it to me before. wait about 30 seconds, crank it up. well it fired up, so i slap it in "D" and it instantly dies. so i hop out, unhook my heater (i have it hot wired to the battery), go turn the key, both feet on the ground, fires right up, ON THE FIRST CRANK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i shut the hood and it died, so i pop the hood, grab a flatblade screwdriver, pull the fuel filter, dump it out, spray a little carbcleaner through it, put it back on. tunr the key, fires up on the first crank, i shut the hood again, this time it stayed running. i hop in, gently hit the gas in park, and it stayed running, i let off, nail it in park, and it still stayed running. put it into drove, go 3 feet and it dies. this time when i get out, i look at one of his neghbors house and at this point he is standing on his porch laughing his @SS OFF!!!!!!!!!!! now i cant blame him, it would have been a great sight.

so im gettin fed up with my truck by now. i just sit in it for about 2-3 minutes with the key off. an the whole time the guy is laughin on his porch.:mad: i can hear him and he is about 100 feet off of the road!!!!!!

after about 2-3 minutes, i fird it up, slap it in "D" and floor it, i think the truck knew i was a little ticked at it so it did me pround and spun 3 of the tires...:D the guys went from :lol: to a :eek: ....


some times, you just have to hate your jeep enough to make it run right...

[back2spool]

A stranger walking his dog stopped to help me push my Waggy up my inclined driveway which was covered in ice. I let him "drive" while I pushed from the rear. About 3 seconds in, I slipped and fell face-first on to the bumper. The guy was still driving and almost let the thing back over me. Then he saw me rolling around in pain and parks it and gets out. "You OK?" "Yeah," I said. He said, "You should be careful, you could fall and hurt yourself." "No sh--" I thought. He then caught a glimpse of my red, swollen cheek and eye, and said, "Did you hit your face?" Thanks Captain Obvious!

This was BEFORE I hooked up my vacuum lines and got my 4X4 goin'. But try going to work and explaining that one to your buddies.

[Clay75J20]

"Spewing" exhaust gases onto unsuspecting teenagers while they slept... it's a long story.

My wife and I were invited to attend a camp-out party at my daughters house. At the time, my wife was not long out of a hospital, but she wanted to attend the party real bad. I didn't think she would be comfortable in a tent with sleeping bags, so I did a temporary fix up on a small 6' x 10' box trailer. I put in a queen sized mattress with sheets, pillows, and blankets. I added some interior lights, a portable TV and an FM radio/CD player, as well as the usual stuff for the outside (chairs, grill, cooler, etc.).

Man, we were the talk of the party. We had the coolest digs of anybody there. Everything went well, and we slept like babies... but... as soon as the sun came up, my wife wanted to pull up stakes and head home. I crawled out of the trailer, and to my shock, saw a sea of pup tents all around us not four or five feet from us. There was one not an arms length from the tailpipe of my truck. To make matters worse, there was not a breath of wind blowing.

Oh... what to do what to do? I tried to explain the situation to my wife, but she was feeling bad and needed to go. She could have gone into the house, of course, but it was 5:30 AM and we didn't want to wake everyone up. Now, the one thing in my favor was that I had a clear shot straight out so I figured that if I put it in gear and started moving as soon as I got it started, I wouldn't be have to be there very long.

So that's what I did. VAROOOOM! VAROOOM!

The engine was running pretty good at the time. There was no black smoke or anything like that. But to this day, I think about those kids sleeping quietly and peacefully on a wonderful summer morning, when all of a sudden everything became noise and gas.

Well, I guess that teaches them a lesson too. Never place your pup tent four feet from the tailpipe of a 1975 360 CU V8 engine. lol

[bull4377]

I would say any one of the dozens of times my 91 has vaper locked on me-always in the busiest intersection! Usually would wait until heavy, heavy traffic then when I get an arrow it would die blocking the lane! :banghead:

[FSJ Guy]

I didn't know you had traffic lights in Missoula! :lol:

[superal30]

I bought my wagoneer two weeks before I got married. Ended up blowing the radiator the night before the wedding, tryin to have a little fun. I got it home and everything was fine.

The 401 runs a bit rich at idle, I had it sold so I didn't mess with anything. I wanted to take for one last ride down an old road and through the field behind my parents house, so me and my wife of about 8 months took off down the road with all the windows down. It then started pouring down rain so stopped, put it in park, and rolled all the manual windows up. I got back in the drivers seat and put in drive and as soon as I touched the gas pedal it died!!! I didn't know the problem at the time, because I was also having ignition problems. I tried and tried to get it to start, but it just wouldn't. So my wife and I had to walk about 1.5 miles home in the rain to get a back up vehicle. We came back got it started and I drove it home. I left it running for about 15 minutes just to see that everything was okay. I ask my wife if she wanted to ride with me back a 1/4 mile in the field and come back and park the jeep for the day, she agreed. We then drove back in the field turned around to come back. I stopped in a small rut to throw a little mud. Once again it died as soon as I touched the pedal. I cranked it and once again nothing. So now we had to walk across a field back home, she had shorts and sandals on and we rarely mow the field. Now she doesn't really want to ride in the jeep, I think she would like to drive it in a lake. I've since then sold the worn out 401 and will be building a new engine with fuel injection. And I plan to check the wiring also. Hopefully next time this comes around I'll have it all back together and have some more interesting stories to tell.

[FSK1460]

One day while driving down the road in our GW, heard a loud bang and then saw black smoke in my rearview mirror. The smoke was so thick, the cars behind me all started pulling off the road. One guy even passed my on the shoulder to get around...giving me the bird the whole time! :eek:

I had just recently changed the oil, but when I put the new filter on, the gasket from the old filter stayed on the housing along with the new one. When it finally gave way, all that oil come gushing out right onto the exhaust causing one hell of smoke screen.

The poor old man behind me made the mistake of turning on his windshield wipers, not realizing it was oil that was spraying over his car. :(

He wasn't too happy for some reason. We pulled off the road and waited for the smoke to die down and called for help. Got some more oil, a new filter, and changed it right there on the road.

Being the center of attention isn't always welcomed. I always double check for the gasket every time I replace the filter now.

[kip]

Reading all these makes me wonder why we do this. I haven't stuck the cherokee yet. Did however bury the old cj5 past the frame a few times. Reading all the horrors of pumping gas makes me very thankful for New Jersey being a no self service state (granted there isn't much else to be thankful for).

[seriouswood]

Oh I forgot this MOMENT I had with a 87 GW I had when I lived outside of Nashville.
I just sold a 1981 Lancia Zagato to a dude in KY and I agreed to pull the car to him. Well Here I am tooling down the HWY in downtown Nash with the Zag in tow. Well then all of the sudden my eye catches a lady behind me swerving for what ever reason. She goes on to pass me but does not say much to me in any form or fashion but in the back of my mind I keep thinking 'that was odd" then I notice a odd noise coming from the Zag I am pulling. So I pull off to the side of the road and look over my GW, NOTHING, so I look at the Zag on the tow dolly and notice it is missing a tire/rim. OH **** I go. Where is the tire???????? So I start walking back along the HWY and finally see it up under a overpass. The **** thing came off, bounced over 2 lanes on my side, then a wall between the HWY directions then over 3 more lanes of traffic and came to a rest up under the overpass.
Be4 I left I had swapped out the rims from another car that I had jsut like it and forgot to tighten down the lug nuts. So I had to take one off each remaining rim still on the car to mount the tire/rim back on the car and went on my happy way.
As for damage it drug on the rear control arm for about a half miles, rubbed off about half of it and messed up some of the bondo work I had done on that lower back side panel.
They dude that bought it surprisingly was not mad at me and he went on to drive the car for many years.

[aerocorey]

This isn't strictly FSJ related, but it's a WJ which is pretty close and I felt pretty stupid...so here ya go. We were pulling the Bayliner back from Flaming Gorge, running on fumes. The "distance to empty" on the overhead console said "0" for at least 10 miles before we came upon an oasis. There was 1 gas station on each side of the road. The one on the opposite side of the road was PACKED, and the one on my side of the road was empty. For whatever reason at the time I decided that all the people at the packed gas station must be suckers and that I was going to get my choice of pumps at the empty station. I cruised on in to that station, slid the debit card into the card reader, and got a big fat error message. Turns out the store's point of sale system was being upgraded and they wouldn't be able to pump ANY gas for 3 hours. The road I would have had to cross to get to the other gas station was so busy and I was so low on gas I didn't dare try to cross the road with the kids and the boat so we sat there for 3 hours waiting for gas. 3 hours worth of customers at the busy station across the street were clearly looking at us, wondering what that idiot with the boat was doing at the closed gas station across the street. The cashier was cool about it though, she fed us hot dogs and let us each take a snack and a drink.

Worst FSJ moment was when I ran Herc out of gas on base right in front of the all of the Viper West F-16 demo team crew chiefs at a crosswalk. They helped me push Herc into a parking lot, then went into work and told EVERYONE about me and my stupid heavy Wagoneer. After that the worst FS experience would have to be the entire 9 month period that Herc sat dead at the house after I bought her and the way all of my wife's hot friends looked at me like I was a sad little Jeep fanatic.

[MrBrightside]

So once, (last week) the carburetor on my Cherokee decided to start dumping fuel straight down my intake manifold at about the same time that my Coil went out. Normally, not such a big deal, but it happened when I was about 100 feet onto the coronado bridge here in San Diego. For those of you who haven't seen it, you should google it to understand that it's not a normal flat bridge, it's shaped kind of like a calm version of the saint louis arch. Not a good place to break down. In any case, i'm taking up one of the TWO lanes, and people are flying by me, honking, yelling things, flipping me the bird, etc. (America's finest city, indeed!). More embarrassment to come, however. Two police cruisers stopped to help me (bless their hearts), which involved one of them pushing me over the bridge (close to a mile) bumper to bumper while the second unit ran interference behind him and stopped traffic just for me, lights blaring. It was funny almost as soon as I got parked, but up until that point... not so much.

[orangecherokee]

Most embarrassing moment??? Listing my J-10 for sale on this website and not getting any 'serious' buyers.

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:thumbsdown:

[willam]

My most embarrasing moment occured in the driveway. shortly after the J200 arrived from the west coast I was tinkering on the engine, playing with timing etc... I had been a long day of chores, wrenching and what not. i was bone tired and hurtin.

There were four cars parked in the drive about with about two feet of clearance between them. I opened the drivers door to crank the engine over one last time before I called it a night. I had the engine purring like a kitten and it was still warm. Just reached in and touched the key...not even half a crank and she roared to life....with the truck in reverse:eek:

The truck took off like it was posessed. I was knocked down by the door, which caught on my buddies Explorer and bend over backward, raking down the side of his truck. Truck then proceeded to hope the curb, run across the lawn and collide with the stairs to the deck. The stairs were ripped off the deck but caught under the truck which merecifully stalled before it could run into the nieghbors house....

I'm layin in the drive with a bump on my head, cursing a blue streak and wondering why I'm not run over by unstoppable force.

Total damage for the day:

Passenger mirror '98 Explorer 22$ of Ebay
Passenger Door from Junkyard '98 Explorer (With correct pain code) 150$
Lumber for stairs 100$ +/-

hinges for Jeep door 40$ (thanks Trellis8)
Still have not fixed the door or fender, cost?
Wounded pride. 0$
The only good thing that came out of all this....my truck now has a name.

I christen thee..........THE JUGGERNAUT:thumbsup:

[malodin]

My most embarrasing moment occured in the driveway. shortly after the J200 arrived from the west coast I was tinkering on the engine, playing with timing etc... I had been a long day of chores, wrenching and what not. i was bone tired and hurtin.

There were four cars parked in the drive about with about two feet of clearance between them. I opened the drivers door to crank the engine over one last time before I called it a night. I had the engine purring like a kitten and it was still warm. Just reached in and touched the key...not even half a crank and she roared to life....with the truck in reverse:eek:

The truck took off like it was posessed. I was knocked down by the door, which caught on my buddies Explorer and bend over backward, raking down the side of his truck. Truck then proceeded to hope the curb, run across the lawn and collide with the stairs to the deck. The stairs were ripped off the deck but caught under the truck which merecifully stalled before it could run into the nieghbors house....

I'm layin in the drive with a bump on my head, cursing a blue streak and wondering why I'm not run over by unstoppable force.

Total damage for the day:

Passenger mirror '98 Explorer 22$ of Ebay
Passenger Door from Junkyard '98 Explorer (With correct pain code) 150$
Lumber for stairs 100$ +/-

hinges for Jeep door 40$ (thanks Trellis8)
Still have not fixed the door or fender, cost?
Wounded pride. 0$
The only good thing that came out of all this....my truck now has a name.

I christen thee..........THE JUGGERNAUT:thumbsup:

thank your stars it was your buddy's explorer and not some perfect stranger or a bad neighbor:)

[scotty1998]

Hmmm. I don't know if I can compete with the last one but I was driving my woody home on its maiden voyage from Florida to NY with a buddy of mine. We knew it had starting problems out of the gate but one of us could usually wiggle the ignition wires and starter cable and get it to turnover.

Well, we stopped successfully about 5 times heading up Int 95 and got up to Quantico, Va and started smelling strong gasoline odors. Couldn't locate a thing. On the last fill up before my friend's place in Harrisburg, PA, we stopped in Gettysburg. This guy comes up to me and starts telling me how great the Jeep looks and isn't it cool and on and on. As he asks how reliable it is, the thing makes this rumble (like dieseling when you shut it off) and fuel starts pissing out from under the hood onto the pavement and dies. I open up and notice that the fuel pump had developed a crack in it. Well, we make a quick red neck repair with some duct tape (all the while in front of this guy) go to turn it over and it wouldn't start. We had to ask him for a jump, of which, he gave, laughing at us at the same time. The last thing he told us was, "good luck, hope you make it.":rolleyes:

[toyjeep]

I borrowed a truck to tow my rig up to River Rock GA for Fri - Sat ride to return on Sunday. The Thursday night we got there we were playing a little in the pits right near the camp ground and "cruthunk!!!" there goes my output gear frotm the T-18 to the D20, within my first 15 minutes of getting there. Could not find a replacement locally, so I had to pull it back up on the trailer with my winch. Here is the best part, apparantly my ingnition decided at that time it would not turn the vehicle off, I had no engagement between my transmission and t-case, so I pulled the input wire to my distributor off to a fine show of sparks. :(

I used to have a CJ-7 on 36's with Wagoneer axles under it as well. Once I was leaving one of the beaches you can drive on here and I decide to do a couple donughts in the exit ramp, and the thing konks out on me with about 20-30 beach patrons staring. Well, the starter was in REAL bad shape so I got lucky when it actually stared back up hot. So I stomp on it and get out of there before the cops show. About 10 minutes down the road smoke starts billowing out from under the hood, so I jutmp out, pop the hood and find my ghetto bungy cord battery tie-down gave way and the battery is UPSIDEDOWN on the headers. My freinds in the Jeep are rolling on the ground by then in their eagerness to tell me how great my ride was. :D

[Gil]

Picked up my Jeep from the Mechanic's shop. Got on the highway and within 1 mile, Jeep died. Luckily I was in the right lane. Called the mechanic and barked at him that I JUST picked it up from him and now it dies????? ... apparently, my gas guage isn't exactly accurate!!

My mechanic came to me with a gas can...when I went to fill the Jeep, the funnel of the can broke. So, my mechanic made a funnel out of a water bottle. Got me on my way.

The next day, I went to the store and bought a new gas can and brought it to my mechanic (with tail between my legs). He was really cool about it and wrote "Gil's Can" on it :)

[AlsChopShop]

just remembered another one....

i was on my way to my cousins house when i got stuck behind some old guy in a ford going 25 in a 35. i thought i'd be quick and dive into a neighborhood street and pop out in front of him. i dive down into the neighborhood, make a few turns and i'm on the final strech as i pull back up to the main road. just as i come to a stop, i can see the front of the ford slowly coming down the road. perfect! i thought. just then the cherk stalls. without skipping a beat i pop it into neutral and fire it up, giving it gas to keep it alive. i was so eager to jump out infront of the ford i slapped it into drive before i let my foot off the gas. BAM!! as it shifts into drive, and just as it starts to lurch forward an awful CLANK CLANK CLANK from under my seat. the more gas i give it the slower i go and the faster the clanking gets. i ease on the throttle still not willing to give up to the ford and darn near cut him off. finally got it to move down the street ok, but every green light was more CLANK CLANK CLANK. that was the demise of my first QUADRATRAC!!! :o

Al

[Headhoncho]

I was unloading furniture out of the back of my truck as I was in the middle of moving to a new house. I was standing in the bed pulling a dresser towards the back of the truck when I suddenly ran out of floor (which is 46" from the ground). Off I go doing the Nestea plunge onto my driveway which is the type that has two strips of cement and small stones in the middle. I landed flat on my back and was a knocked little sensless for about a half hour. After I got up I was told by my girlfriend, who was walking towards the truck to help me as I fell, to go into the house to the bathroom but it was like I've never been there before. Once through the front door I was totally lost. About an hour later at the hospital everything went back to normal. Having had lower back surgery, I was thanking God nothing was damaged again. I can laugh about it now but the very next day as we got home from the hospital was 9/11. Not a good memory.

JR

[AdamG]

Getting pulled over for no plates, or exhaust while doing a post wrenching test drive and being let go because the cop decided no one would try to drive my rig without tags unless they were working on it.

Driving into the following hole, only up on that was it took a CJ-7 with a SBC and a YJ to pull ne out, bending the bumper in the process.
http://www.kcjeepclub.org/gallery/displayimage.php?album=225&pos=12

Mud stopped the fan, engine stalled, later on in the day she overheated something fierce and back on the trailer we went...
Was hoping to get a new moment this weekend but the fates have other ideas. So now my most embrassing moment is that it has been over a year since I have wheeled, and the Jeep is a trail only rig... ARGH!
Adam G

[FSJeeper]

OK, its been ten years now, I can laugh at myself.

I had just spent $12,000 restoring a J-20. This truck was perfect. The old timers here will remember it. The engine was a blueprinted 360 with CC 260 cam, offy dual port, Barry Grant Qjet, HEI, Log manifold swap, etc., etc. Interior redone to perfection and for comfort. Body perfect with a $4000 paint job (never do that again on a FSJ), 3" 4 spring superlift with 33" Goodyear AT's. Built 727. This truck was better than factory new.

I did this before I got married the last time. We were moving into a new house in a very nice neighborhood. I moved the M3 and M5 beemers out of the driveway and was going to pull the J-20 in to load. It was idling on the street. It jumped inot gear and was headed toward a new convertible 5.0. I ran down the street and stuck my hand in the window to turn it off, it knocked me flat and ran over me. It accelerated across 3 yards and hit a tree right before a $500,000 home. The big tree had a branch coming out about 4' above the ground which hit the bed. It crumpled the bed, shoved it into the cab ruining every square inch with ripples and then shoved the front clip off its mounts and ruined it. I only had liability coverage so the J-20 damage was not covered.

I ended up in the hospital with new tread marks tatooing my right side of my body including the right side of my face.

When I got home that night, that is when the welcome wagon came and I got to meet our new neighbors.

Total humiliation.

[willam]

Your experience with the runaway j truck sounds about 10 orders of magnitude worse than mine ever could be. That was really bad....I feel your pain.

[chemijeeper]

This was with my first GW, a 86...I was 16 and barely knew my @ss from my elbow and had bought a $200 GW thinking it was the best thing since pie. Little did I know there was a bad ground on the negative terminal, making hot starts 'interesting' to say the least. So on a busy sunday at the local diner I hopped in the woody and tried to start it. What followed has been described as the black cloud of death. The ground wasn't letting enough juice get to the coil and using the great logic of 'give it more gas and it will work' I made one hell of a rich mixture and properly fumagated the parking lot with nice black octane-y smoke. Boy did the blue hairs not appreciate that one.

To say I didn't show up there for a few weeks would be putting it lightly

[uncre8tv]

No FSJ yet (lurking the classifieds, and the KJ goes back to Chrysler soon), and nothing to report in the XJ/KJ/WK's I've had. But I've known a few fun times:

'67 MGB popped a hole in the bottom of the gas tank on my way to my first "real" job during the first few weeks. My boss had to come find me and ask me to do something about it. All I could do at the time was put a oil-catch under it. I had parked next to the "smokers" door and they had to move them elsewhere so they didn't ignite it. So everyone got to know it was my POS causing all the trouble. Ended up JB Welding it to get home... come to think of it I never did fix it beyond that. That MG left me on the side of the highway with the carbs (twin single pot SUs) leaking fuel onto the exhaust manifold. It's a wonder it didn't ignite (lots of MGB's died that way.)

Had a '79 RamCharger that could only be started by shorting wires under the hood, I loved taking that one on dates. The hood pins came in handy. I will always remember getting to thrid base while sitting on the tailgate outside a girls parents house... oh to be young again... Embarassed myself by splashing passing cars during a flood a little too enthusiastically until I got so much water in my own engine bay it died on a main street. Luckily sputtered into a parking lot but had to sit there for an hour reflecting on my idiocy and the growing cold until it dried out. It ended up blowing a head gasket on a major highway (~3/4mi 20% grade uphill on a 100degree day). I rebuilt it but it never ran right after that.

Oh so many other creative and public deaths (or temporary deaths) my cars have had... the one I left in flames on a downtown city street, the one that got me banned from a dragstrip for racing in a batting helmet... so many more.

But the best one has to be the time I took my MX6 through a 2' deep, 20 yard long mudpit in the middle of the workday. Nearly made it across too, but in the end I had to get my bosses boss (the VP of the company) to drag me out with his 2500 diesel ram. He nearly didn't make it out either. After he pulled me out he gave me grief about going home to change clothes even though I was covered head to toe with mud from hooking up to my rear suspension (dragging it out sideways probably wasn't good for it) He didn't even let me back in the truck, I lost a sock in the mud if I remember correctly.

The KJ's nearly got me in trouble a few times, but the fact that it's a lease has kept me from being too stupid. XJ was my dad's baby so I never did anything worse that drive fast on rough gravel (wonder it didn't break the suspension on some of those roads really). The WK is the wife's so I know better. Will probably end up in trouble with the GW I hope to find on here.

:thumbsup:

[Ristow]

for the first 3 weeks i had my cherokee i thought it was an international Scout.