Well we now have to frame on the Heep pulled back into shape. and we are going to get him registered today. all the electrical gremlins are dead. now theres one living in the fuel system... but its an easy fix and i think i can live with it for now, besides we OWN it, like not a drop of debt with that car.
so now were planning on lifting it and locking the rear end, then the only other thing it "needs" is the rear shocks relocated to in front of the broken part of the frame. all in all were looking at around 6 or 7 hundred dollars. then its only 350 for a set of 31's and were set to take that Jeep... i mean Heep anywhere we would ever want to take it.
Now to the good stuff. Cael is now 16 and a half pounds HE IS A BIG BABY, still on top of the growth chart. and he is starting to support himself. the WIC people are saying that we can start trying him on "foods" (I use that term very loosely) but were very happy with him. Tina likes taking him on walks or out to play in the grass. but the funnest thing is watching him scoot around the room on his back... i thought for sure he would start crawling as his first form of movement. OH HAPPY DAYS!!
With love, The Christensen
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
fixing the HEEP
So we bought a 94 Jeep Grand Cherokee last weekend and are now looking at what it needs to be a good car for us. first of all i would like to say that it is no longer being refereed to as a jeep. it is the Heep. at least till it is in a satisfactory condition that i feel safe enough to have Cael and my wife ride in it.
So i had the chance to work on Heep this morning and the entire carpeting is going to be torn out, its all nasty. and my lovely wife says "lets just rhino liner it!!!" goodness i love her, the other thing she says about it is that the front and rear plastic bumpers are not allowed back on the Heep EVER. instead ti will have a full plate metal bumper front and back
it also needs is the back end rebuilt, it looks like some Honda civic rear ended it or something but the rear frame is ruined. so were going to completely rebuild the whole thing. unistrut in the trunk area holding the rear end back in alignment. and then angle iron under it welded to the frame. then the whole frame is going to be plated in sheet metal. over kill? maybe but it will never cave in again.
after that i have to find and kill all the little electrical gremlins. like the security system needs replaced. and the door lights wont turn off. there are so many that its going to take a full day just to find them. but it should be a fun project.
So i had the chance to work on Heep this morning and the entire carpeting is going to be torn out, its all nasty. and my lovely wife says "lets just rhino liner it!!!" goodness i love her, the other thing she says about it is that the front and rear plastic bumpers are not allowed back on the Heep EVER. instead ti will have a full plate metal bumper front and back
it also needs is the back end rebuilt, it looks like some Honda civic rear ended it or something but the rear frame is ruined. so were going to completely rebuild the whole thing. unistrut in the trunk area holding the rear end back in alignment. and then angle iron under it welded to the frame. then the whole frame is going to be plated in sheet metal. over kill? maybe but it will never cave in again.
after that i have to find and kill all the little electrical gremlins. like the security system needs replaced. and the door lights wont turn off. there are so many that its going to take a full day just to find them. but it should be a fun project.
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