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    Posted: 25 Jan. 2018 at 4:18pm
hey guys. It’s been a while since I posted. I’m still beating the day lights out of my jeep but I just don’t make it on any forums much anymore. I wanted to share something that Merlin Hanson and I have been working on. Please take a few minutes to check out the first episode of Throwing Wrenches. We are currently filming a second episode and planning many more on Willys Wagons, 2A’s, MB’s, M38’s etc.. I’d love your honest feedback so let us know what you think. Thanks! 


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Thanks Mike...

I have watched it already twice...love it...you guys did and awesome job on it...

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Great video! Hope to follow y'all videos very soon on the living room TV

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote smfulle Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 Jan. 2018 at 4:41pm
Mike,
I watched your first episode and loved it. 
Got a little confused at first about what you were doing. You said head gasket then pulled the whole engine out and had a 2nd engine being worked on while you were doing it. Finally made the connection, swapping them out.
I would love to hear a little  more tech talk about what you're working on at any given moment. What you're doing, why and how you're doing  it.
The historic tidbits in the subtitles are cool.
I always like watching your vids. This is taking to the next level. 
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I worked with a guy at a Union 76 service station many years ago who threw wrenches. He was a really good mechanic but a bit of an odd duck. He drove a 46 Plymouth 2 dr sedan that was a survivor 218 flat head. He had been in Vietnam and I am sure now had some form of PTSD. He would be working away on something cussing up a stream and all of a sudden a wrench or ball pen or something would come flying out from under the car or hood and go clanging across the lube bay. He once rapped a knuckle on something while under a customers car with about a 12" adjustable end wrench. That thing came out from under that car (it was up on the lift) about the speed of a major league pitch and first bounced off another customers car I was doing an oil change to hit it right dead center in the windshield! then bounced into the sheet metal wall of the lube bay leaving a nice dent in the wall. He paid for the windshield and nobody ever said anything about it. But let me tell you when I was working in that lube bay with him I was all heads up.

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Clap That was great.  I'd love to see a weekly show.  What I really liked is the every guy feel.  It looks like me and my buddies, not a million dollar showroom shop (No offense) building $100K crawlers.   I also liked the on screen tidbits.  I found it pretty funny when you guys mocked the drama.  One thing I hate about so many "reality shows" is the forced, created drama.  Great job, please keep them coming..

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Originally posted by Mike Gardner Mike Gardner wrote:

hey guys. It’s been a while since I posted. I’m still beating the day lights out of my jeep but I just don’t make it on any forums much anymore. .....
Don't hear much from you these days. Where all have you been wheeling at?

Cool video. Thx 4 posting. How's the new motor doing? I assume the motor is running strong now?

What is the jeep event going on at the end of the video? Is that Mason Dixon?

Edit: Oh, and thanks for the 16 minute break from work!

Edited by jpet - 25 Jan. 2018 at 5:05pm
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I enjoyed it. Keep up the good work! 
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Great video!  Keeps me motivated on wrenching on my own!  Keep them coming!
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Nice video, fun and down to earth. I recognize the Mason-Dixon location. I was there a few months ago for the first time and talked with Merlin.
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Hey Jeff, I’ve been super busy with work and our new house. I’m still daily driving the Jeep but no crazy off road in some time. Were planning a rausch creek trip soon in flattys but not till it’s a little warmer. 

I’m hoping to get it to ejs this year but as we close in on Moab it look less and less likely. 

The new motor is doing great. I need to tweak it a bit but I am very happy with how it turned out. A 300 dollar swap turned into a total rebuild, and tv show. I guess it worked out. Lol. 

That was the Mason Dixon Gathering. 
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Originally posted by Mike Gardner Mike Gardner wrote:

...I’m hoping to get it to ejs this year but as we close in on Moab it look less and less likely....
I don’t know if you have been following the thread, but a group of us a going to EJS:

Easter Jeep Safari 2018

If you are there, look us up. We are in Canyonlands Campground. Back row.
Just throwing this out there but I’ll be out east next month. I could pick your Jeep up and take it out to Moab for you. Then you could pick it up in Illinois at your convenience or I can bring it back to you sometime this summer. .... Think about it.
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Nice, I have owned Jeeps since I was 13 and worked in Jeep shops for a while. I am down to 2 Jeeps at this time and I don't throw tools. (You have to go find them) I just drop them so you have to crawl under to retrieve them and whatever else I drop.
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At first I thought you were referring to special wrenches made just for throwing.  Wacko
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Nice job Mike, that was a great first episode.
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Hey Mike, it was a great show.  I thoroughly enjoyed it and can't wait to see more.  

Also, I'm going to have the Truck-Lite headlights on mine as well, and you're partly to blame for the inspiration.  I like the look. Thumbs Up
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I can really relate to the feeling you get when you drive one for for a daily vehicle the people you get to meet are really great. Lots of the folks I meet learned how to drive in an old jeep that was on the family farm or was granpa's. A friend of mine and myself went to a local event it was my first time showing my 47 it was amazing how much the little ones  were drawn to our two old flat fenders ( the oldest at the show) As far as the wrenching goes wow been their done that wrecked a few T-shirts. I have a 48 that was used to plow snow for many years. I rebuilt 80% of the body. I had such a good time rebuilding it that It was almost  anti-climatic to finish it. The nights me and my buds spent making body parts,taking Fred Flinstone's car and a pile of 18 gauge tin into a jeep was priceless.       
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