What did you do to your Jeep today? - July 2022

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Added a tailgate table and dead pedal with help from @Nacho Libre…

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Found a door cart on the marketplace…. Hopefully the wife will be happy now that I can remove them from the living room with ease…
 

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Relocated my vacuum pump/canister thingy from stock location to left inner side engine compartment fender. It had to go. New winch ready to drop into new bumper, and the vacuum unit was in the way.

Should’ve planned ahead and ordered the relocation bracket, but didn’t. Ended up making my own with a cardboard template and then fab’ing one from a piece of aluminum road sign I had laying around, being slowly consumed for such projects.

added about 3 feet of wiring to the harness and moved everything up into the engine compartment. Now ready to drop the winch in tomorrow.
 
Riddle me this... Gas in California is more expensive than gas in Hawaii.

Hawaii Gas tax $0.16 per gallon (Second Lowest, Alaska is Lower)
California Gas Tax $0.533 per gallon (Second Highest, Pennsylvania is Higher)

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Many other things can lead to a difference too, Like how much it costs to maintain a gas station in California vs Hawaii (Rent/Lease costs, employee wages, etc.)....
 
Hawaii Gas tax $0.16 per gallon (Second Lowest, Alaska is Lower)
California Gas Tax $0.533 per gallon (Second Highest, Pennsylvania is Higher)

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Many other things can lead to a difference too, Like how much it costs to maintain a gas station in California vs Hawaii (Rent/Lease costs, employee wages, etc.)....
I'm well versed, was a rhetorical question rather than literal. Sometimes things, or dependencies, aren't as clear cut as they appear.


It's just against intuition that a part of the country where gas needs to be specifically shipped is more expensive than where it is drilled. Additionally, overhead costs are definitely a contribution, but it's ridiculous that operating costs are higher in CA than HI.

Will be interesting to see how the EV highway use tax goes. Did you know the battery in a new Hummer weighs as much as a 2022 Civic?

I'm all for alternative fuels, and it's an exceedingly interesting time to live. At some point it was easier to find water for your horse than gas for your ICE and I think we're at a similar time of transformation. I just can't help but think people are extrapolating the fact THEY aren't burning fossil fuels to mean no fossil fuels are being burned. Even the most energy efficient conversions are about 76% for BEVs, much more than ICE, but the coal and gas power plants providing that charge are operating at 56% efficiency on their end. 56% of 76% is not that much better than ICE when impact of lithium mining and long term caustic aspects of batteries are considered.
 
Had 6 new coils installed on my 2012 JKU 3.6. Error codes P0301, 0303 and 0305 have gone away. Still getting a P0300 code popping up. Ugh!
 
Finally replaced my valve cover gasket. After 23 years it was in pretty poor shape. Now I don't look like a steam locomotive crawling through the woods.

On the WJs V8 the driver's side bank was maybe an hour. Passenger side was more like 5 to get all the ancillary systems out of the way and back again.
 

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"Tried" to install the glass in the windshield frame. I put the glue outside for a couple hours to try and soften it up, but it still was too hard for my caulk gun. By the time I got a bead all the way around the frame and laid the windshield in, the glass was too solid to try and get the outside trim piece in. Let's just say it turn into a giant mess. Luckily, when I went down this morning, the glue pealed up really easily. I need to clean up the frame some more, clean up the glass, then I'm going to find a windshield shop to glue it in for me. My pinky and palm of my had are still numb this morning from trying to squeeze that stuff out. lol
 
Swapping axles tomorrow. Non Rubi for Rubi axles ... yippee....oh wait didn't I just do this?
 
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