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So recently I won a scholarship through my school from the Olde Tyme Auto Club by writing an essay, and I was one person of three that were selected out of the automotive students at Ivy Tech.  The scholarship was for $500 of Snap-On tools.  And in my essay I wrote about my Jeep and my Dad's Nova.  This is the night I received the award.
The guy in the background is Papa Smurf.


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Congratulations!
You deserve to feel proud about your academic success.
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Does anybody know the measurements for the cross-member tube and the shock mounts to the front of the frame?  I lost my notebook that had them in it.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote WeeWilly Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 16 May 2015 at 6:48pm
   Measurements from inside of bumper -

   Center of shock stud 16 1/2"
   front of cross tube  12"

 Keep up the good work

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote DrPop Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 May 2015 at 11:10pm
That is just awesome!  Congratulations. Big smile  I'm going to have to show this thread to my daughter, she's 11, turns 12 this summer, and thinks she wants to build up a TJ for her first rig before she's 16.  I told her it's a bit of work, so she better be in the garage helping me now on the CJ2A so she can learn something first! haha Embarrassed

Keep up the great work, Becca!
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My Dad ran across a forum that you might like to share with your daughter.  It's on a fiero forum website or you can look up 'The Girl Who Played With Fieros'.  Her story is really good.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote cpt logger Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 May 2015 at 7:56am
Way Cool! Congratulations.

I am sure that you already have bought the Snappy tools. I will bet that you had a big wish list going already.

I am also sure that Papa Smurf is proud of you!

Keep up the good work! Cpt Logger.
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I am slowly collecting parts, my front bumper the gussets and license plate holder came in yesterday.  I have a few mods to do to them to get them to fit right after I do I will post pics.  Papa Smurf is pretty pleased I think Cpt Logger and I have already bought the tools.  Got a hub puller for the Jeep a welding helmet and an air filter mask.  They all work really well.
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Okay for I finally got the front crossmember tube in and tacked it in.  Had problems getting it to fit in because of the rivets in the way on the inside so i cut two notches out an it fit right in.  Also had a problem with the frame beggining to twist because of lack of support.  So In the end putting in the transmission bracket holder thing back on and used some winches to press the pipe in place using the measurments ya'll gave me and I worked out just fine and took the twist right out of the frame.  Oh, and with some research I did while labteching I got to find out that there is a frame tag that goes on the front frame rail on the driver's side.  That went with the wind whenver I got rid of the old frame rails that one of the owners before me had beefed up and welded a bumper onto. so back to the internet I go.


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Well, it's been a whill since I've been on here.  It got really buisy at work with a bunch of changes going on, so less time for my money hole and the funds were eaten by school so no money for parts.  But for the last three weeks or so it has died down enough to get something done finally.  To help prevent "crushing" of the frame at the cross member pipe I decided to go and make up some plates to weld inside of the frame to strengthen it and make it more rigid.  Made four of those and used up two cutting disks and hand grinder disks shaping them just right because using a plasma torch would be just too easy to do.  After getting those complete I decided that going and making up some plates to weld inside of the frame with holes drilled in and nuts welded on would be a good idea seaing as it would be next to imposible to get to them after the framing plates were welded in.

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Keep plugging away at it and perhaps one day you’ll join your fellow Hoosiers on one of our excursions.
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Anybody going to Frog Follies this weekend?  Would love to hear a Jeep run in person.
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Where & What is it?
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Really fun car show / swap meet in Evansville.


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Thanks, sounds good.
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You are awesome!  Keep up the good work...there is nothing I have found that compares to driving an old Willys Jeep...especially one that you fixed yourself.
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Well, sometime down the line, maybe a few years, I hope to get him on the road and to figure out how to drive him.  As for the Frog Follies, it is a really cool car show in where vehicles from around WW2 and below are in abundance.  There is also a swap meet and temporary tool shops and nick nack shops in the different buildings and under tents.  It is this weekend from Friday to Sunday at the 4H Fairgrounds in Evansville along highway 41, Darmstaught RD, just follow the cars.

Today I talked the old man into stick welding the front frame to box it in. He wasn't too amused with me.  He had this grand hope to work on his air box for his prodject, a 89 ford ranger that he is putting a chevy 350 in it.  But here is what I got him to do today...

I also got my boss on the welding side of Ivy Tech to weld my bumper with towing D-rings.
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Wow.
I see greatness.

It's good and admirable to have skills and to do work to move a project forward by one's self, but the ability to manage people toward accomplishing a goal has a compounding effect.

That's how pyramids, and fortunes are built.

Keep up the good work!

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