What did you do today for your bug out vehicle?

[eugenenine]

What if you rotated it so the studs are facing upward instead of out to the side

[NT2C]

What if you rotated it so the studs are facing upward instead of out to the side

The mount is two pieces that sandwich onto the roof rack slats.  No way to do that.  I already contacted Dan at 6 Monkeys, and he's going to get started on them Monday.  He's usually pretty quick, so they should ship by Friday.

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[eugenenine]

Cut the corner of the L, drill a third hole then put the bolt in it.

[NT2C]

Cut the corner of the L, drill a third hole then put the bolt in it.

It's welded

[eugenenine]

weld a new on in. What i'm meaning is there is no need to make new brackets and lift it higher, you could just change the existing a little. If you look at the jack its a rectangle and your putting it in portrait, just turn it landscape. That way it won't be sticking up to high.

[NT2C]

weld a new on in. What i'm meaning is there is no need to make new brackets and lift it higher, you could just change the existing a little. If you look at the jack its a rectangle and your putting it in portrait, just turn it landscape. That way it won't be sticking up to high.

I don't have a welder, nor any way to bend that. These are made of 1/4" rolled plate.

[MacWa77ace]

longer bolt with a spacer? Or longer bolts but put a nut at the height you need it at and then the bracket then the hold on nut.


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You'd probably want to put a sleeve around the bolt too, metal of course.

[NT2C]

The shop already made me a new set. I'll have them Friday

Edit: They're out for delivery via UPS

[NT2C]

Bought an iCar Pro OBDII scanner for the Jeep, and a subscription to the JScan app.

[Habu]

My "bug out vehicle" is also my "DD", and "hunting truck", etc.  Checked fluids today (usual Saturday thing, but the last couple weeks were. . . chaotic), as usual nothing needed.  

Three weeks ago, the master cylinder was dry: turned out the only remaining 35 year-old brake line had rusted through).  I got to pull the line, learn to bend the new brake line, and replace it.  Then bleeding the brakes took longer than everything else.  

Went to pick up dinner tonight and realized my left turn signal was out, while checking that out I discovered the brake lights were out.  Argh.  On an old truck, replacing those little bulbs can sometimes take as long as a serious repair.  Will be adding a weekly check of the lights to my usual Saturday checks.

[EBuff75]

Went to pick up dinner tonight and realized my left turn signal was out, while checking that out I discovered the brake lights were out.  Argh.  On an old truck, replacing those little bulbs can sometimes take as long as a serious repair.  Will be adding a weekly check of the lights to my usual Saturday checks.

Not just old trucks.  My 2006 Mazda is still on the original headlight bulbs (they're HID) which are getting dimmer over time.  I'd like to replace them with newer ones, but replacing the bulbs requires removing the entire bumper cover to get the headlight housings out.  The issue: this car has been in Michigan for it's entire 20 year life, and every one of the 15-20 bolts and screws that hold the bumper cover on are completely bonded to their (formerly captive) nuts so that everything just spins and doesn't loosen.  

My mechanic quoted me $500+ just to install the bulbs that I provided him, as every single one of those bolts and screws are going to have to be drilled out and then replaced (he's not screwing me over either - he's very good and has the best rates in my area, plus he routinely gives me breaks on stuff because I'm a good customer).  It's not hard, but it's really tedious and on a low-slung car like that, it's a lot easier to do on a lift than it is in my driveway.  Needless to say, I'm holding off on doing it until one of the bulbs actually fails, or I end up getting a new car (which is more and more likely as the rust on mine is getting pretty bad).  

[Habu]

Not just old trucks.  My 2006 Mazda is still on the original headlight bulbs (they're HID) which are getting dimmer over time.  I'd like to replace them with newer ones, but replacing the bulbs requires removing the entire bumper cover to get the headlight housings out.  The issue: this car has been in Michigan for it's entire 20 year life, and every one of the 15-20 bolts and screws that hold the bumper cover on are completely bonded to their (formerly captive) nuts so that everything just spins and doesn't loosen. 

I had to do something similar on a car I drove some years back.  Couldn't afford to pay someone else so it became a "Saturday driveway" project, done in the summer time--I would have hated to do it in January.  

Got the lights replaced on my truck.  This is an old farm truck, PO was an old farmer: the screws holding the housings for the lights are held on by screws, in this case with 4 different heads (when you lose a screw, find something that fits and get back to work).