Here is the News .................
My old Ute lasted for 6 days on the lot and was snapped up, dealer only got $5K more than he gave me for it, I wonder did I get ripped off on the jeep, too late now...............Must say I do like this engine, very nice ........... I certainly miss my walk under ramps as I may not be able to do my own tranny service as I need the vehicle level and front ramps don't cut it and I dont fit without them, bummer, today I ran out some cable to run 12v power for Big Mal runs fridge and Camera, the WK2 has handy terminals under the bonnet and 7 mts of cable later, numerous zip ties we have crawled
to the rear and mounted an Anderson next to the 7 pin, up front its set up to have a Anderson jumper cable in case I want to plug in a compressor or something....... Did I mention I miss my walk unders, I'm too old for this rolling around on the floor....
..... While I was testing it all I located and checked the connection from the tow harness that I discovered that I will connect the P3 to, it works all I have to do is run a 12v to P3 and then run 2 wires under the carpet to the socket in the wheel well, nothing under the vehicle, just my thing.......................
The observant and dedicated would have noticed I mentioned my Colorado fuel filters will fit, WRONG, they don't (swearing deleted) while under the Jeeperific I though since its only done 40K km and I doubt they have been serviced, so thought I would swap them, bugga me the things hadn't been changed (so much for service book stamps) they are black and the bluddy filters I had are too long, proper check and the numbers are similar but one is longer than the other, bum, Repco have a 30% off this weekend so a big filter buy up which will save me $50 from my usual online suppliers..............
Overall its a great vehicle, just a few more additions to get it up to speed on towing and hopefully I wont need to get air bags, a big re organise of gear to carry as a lot of my stuff will have to stay behind so wandering from desert to beach may be problematic as I can't carry the gear for such meanderings.....add a water bladder, toss out the Weber and Genny and add heaps of cunning............................eventually the Rig will be as versatile as the old set up, think outside the box.......................
" It's a Jeep Thing" people, embrace it................................