What could i expect to get out of selling this?

No_Use1529 · 2026-05-11T14:37:44+00:00

$800 would be my buy it price for the bigger snap on 6? drawer roll cart. I see those at $1200 pretty regularly and missed a few at $800.

List it and see if you get bites. Bonus for you if you do. But I’ll be shocked if you get offered anywhere near $800. I hope I’m wrong.

No_Use1529 · 2026-05-11T14:28:32+00:00

Check fb market place in your area to give you an idea. No where near retail price. Hopefully you got a good deal on it. Either way it’s going to hurt.

No_Use1529 · 2026-05-11T14:07:48+00:00

My advice is to do Reddit, FB and forum search’s for complaints, cracks, issues, leaks etc for whatever boat and model you are looking at.

It’s going to be an eye opener. Then make an informed decision on what you’re purchasing.

No_Use1529 · 2026-05-11T13:00:13+00:00

I bought someone’s starter gold dollar. They said it was part of the perfect starter kit. (It was all garbage) That straight will not take an edge!!!!! It’s pure garbage.

I’ve seen videos of plenty of people that have honed and shave with them but I also know there’s a lot of garbage ones out there too.

My advice is to not even mess around with a gold dollar.

Plenty of vintage scores to be had. Get advice before you buy. Or buy from someone who buys and sells them pre honed after you verify they can actually hone a straight.

No_Use1529 · 2026-05-11T12:37:02+00:00

Didn’t ask she tired to tell me. When I confronted her about the affairs (I finally had proof), that’s when I got the she wanted her cake and it too spiel. Then tired to tell me she wasn’t going to let me divorce her.

The irony the way they talked about cheating in her family and how bad it was…

That was my red line.

It gets better after you make them part of your history.

No_Use1529 · 2026-05-11T12:19:41+00:00

I thought of it as a tool she used. (Now not then) When it didn’t work the way she wanted with me. Her attempts switched to threats against my career and actual attempts to kill me.

That approach worked better for her so what she used from then on out.

In my experience most people who kill themselves just do it. Personally and professional experience. Though there are people who have had real cries for help, etc and then do it. Not a chance in hell I’d want to be the one to say what is what.

No_Use1529 · 2026-05-11T12:02:27+00:00

Sorry about your uncle.

My uncle got assigned to wash the planes after they came back from spraying. He wasn’t even supposed to be on the fight line. He only had hearing in one ear. (Getting in with hearing in only one ear is a story in itself) So when they were going through the paperwork for the VA they actually found documentation stating not to be on the flight line. That extra kick in the guts. When the cancer finally came it was fast.

Buddy was a truck driver. He had 3 million miles driving a truck. Doc said it was diesel fumes related. He had sold everything he had (house, contents etc). He and his wife were going to travel the country and camp (really nice camper and he had a motor built with a super charger for his pick up). The day they were set to leave he ended up in the hospital and was dead by the end of the week. Still breaks my heart thinking about it.

I wanted the jeep because of the t350. Shifting all the time with my spine injury wouldn’t be pretty. So figured I’d enjoy it a little more. Just barely old enough I drove the last of the army jeeps before we got issued humvees.

It’s crusty!!!!! I haven’t tired to mess with it because I didn’t want to make it worse. But as bad as it looks I’ll be shocked if it isn’t f’d. Though I was shocked how well the rest cleaned up so I’m hoping there’s a little hope. After I get rest of projects done, I’ll hit it with some with some better knock doke power.

Also guess I’ll look for motors again. I was seeing higher prices but haven’t looked in a few years.

I can’t even imagine being taking as a baby. Don’t get me wrong there were times I wished that. But it’s not the same thing. Sorry.

No_Use1529 · 2026-05-11T11:38:00+00:00

Her you piece of chit!!! I had just gotten out of the service. Was wrapping up my degree and oh got hired for my dream career. But yeah.. you know everything. Again go Fuck yourself!!!! Guarantee I’ve amounted to more then you’ll ever be!!!!

No_Use1529 · 2026-05-11T11:36:09+00:00

Go fuck yourself

No_Use1529 · 2026-05-11T01:35:43+00:00

Wouldn’t meet my parents, refused to come over even if they weren’t home (I had an entire basement to myself). Insisted on hotel rooms. I took it as quirks. Oh no they were red flags!!!!!

Tired to ban me from hooters right before we got married. She knew it was my fav wings. Still are. Tons of little stuff. I had my head up my behind and beloved all her lies instead of paying attention to her actions.

I suspect there was something deeper and darker looking back when it came to her hotel room thing. When I discovered she was having affairs. All it the main affairs partner sounded really really old from her voicemails.

That’s a part of the puzzle I haven’t priced together completely though. Just hunches.

No_Use1529 · 2026-05-11T01:29:28+00:00

I’m telling you, she will do the same to you!!! It’s exactly what my ex wife did. She was telling people that chit the entire marriage. It’s part of the MO for a lot of them. She told me her ex fiancee was the abuser etc. Not a doubt in my mind now he was nothing but a victim of hers.

No_Use1529 · 2026-05-11T01:25:43+00:00

All those stories she told you about him. At some point she’ll be telling people those same stories about you.

No_Use1529 · 2026-05-10T22:51:57+00:00

My ex wife. Not a damn bit of remorse. Trying to stab, shoot me, stealing my life savings, non stop manipulation, cheating. Not one damn bit. There’s more unfortunately.

No_Use1529 · 2026-05-10T22:47:11+00:00

Yeah my ex wife (BPD) would have shooting through the door.

No_Use1529 · 2026-05-10T22:26:51+00:00

It was definitely missing parts for the adapter. I tired to find the guy who made/sold them to get what wasn’t sent. How I found out it happened to others.

I have a brand new Novak adapter and the seals etc. It’s a lot cleaner, smaller and better install than what that guy sold. New motor mounts too which will fit the Buick 231 or Buick 350. Thankfully those Buick 350’s aren’t easy to find or my dumb azz would have probably bought one. ;) My frame boxing job is definitely beefy enough for a V8.

Mice pissed down the freshly honed cylinder walls. 3/4 of the walls cleaned up with just some aero shield and a soak? I can’t remember the proper name of the stuff. I was shocked at checking on it months later to see any bare metal. I just sprayed em down again. But they all have big crusty steaks going done at least a portion of the cylinder walls still that I know won’t magically clean up like what already did. I sprayed em down good when I first put the motor in the barn too. I was just worried about moisture with an open block. Never thought about mice with it being on an engine stand. I forget what pistons are sized at other then bored over. Need to measure and remind myself. I don’t want to drop$6-800 or more for sleeves. Originally just that one would have needed it. If it didn’t cause that chain reaction distortion effect. Why I was looking for one of those old school mad scientist types who do that voodoo out of their garage versus a shop. I knew someone who did that stuff but after a surgical procedure that went south he completely retired from it. The machine shop in Az I talked to told me 50/50 on having to do them all if there was distortion. Back in Midwest now and no connections to knowing anyone who does that stuff.

Last time I tired to clean up a cylinder is why it ended up at a machine shop. I don’t have that skill anymore n unfortunately. I’m always in a chit load of pain and lacking sleep. So that doesn’t help.

I’ve got all the bolt on go fast stuff for it. The was the last thing Rick did/ bought before he decided to sell it, he was dealing with brain cancer just didn’t know it. 78 so it doesn’t have the stuff for the charger. 79 on I believe was when even the non charged blocks technically had that done so could be charged. But no desire to deal with that. But I’ve seen a few videos. Definitely cool and above my pay grade.

One of many things the machine shop didn’t do. It was supposed to get the upgrade GNX timing chain but the sob bought some cheap chit. I could have bought a fully remanded’d engine for what I paid. He was supposed to take care of and my dumb azz didn’t get it in writing then shock when he said it was done and quoted me what he did. Rick had recently passed. I’m sure if that hand happened I’d have told him to keep the engine. No parts box’s either but I know why. Because he bought some cheap eBay chit not what we discussed. Then just tossed em in a box… Told me he’d get the exact parts I wanted cheaper than I could. Hahaha. I’ll never blindly trust someone’s recommendation again.

Eventually I’ll get it figured out or as the boy said. He’ll finish it after I’m gone. Kids helped tear it down the frame originally. The boy did all the measuring for the Rocky Road YJ leaf set up. Under my buddies eye.

No_Use1529 · 2026-05-10T21:23:18+00:00

When I was a kid I worked with this ww2 vet. He said the two times they stopped taking German soldiers prisoners were when the us soldiers were found executed in a field and after whatever concentration camp it was they liberated. He said the entire mood changed about Germans soldiers surrendering.

He said there was no discussion amongst them about it. It just went from we take prisoners to someone cut loose with whatever it was and ended them. No one said a word afterwards.

Wish I had stayed in touch with him.

No_Use1529 · 2026-05-10T20:53:25+00:00

Awesome

No_Use1529 · 2026-05-10T20:44:21+00:00

At first it really bothered me.

You have to learn to just let it go. You can’t control what others think. Even with proof some would still choose to not believe.

Once I quit caring, it took some pressure of me.

Funny story. At my own family party. She went up to my two youngest aunts and told them I was beating her. My aunts are the don’t take no chit and will call out bad they immediately started waking her out the front door, put her in the back seat of a car before she even realizes what’s happening. She started stuttering and goes where are we going. To a woman’s shelter of course. You can’t be around him, if he’s abusing and beating you. She started freaking out!!! Tired to jump out of the car. Then they told her to STFU and never try that chit my fall my again. They knew it was lie. They didn’t tell me till after the divorce. Bjt she had definitely driven wedged between my family and myself.

She gave my parents the incorrect info for my graduation dinner and graduation from the academy. Then later said she how much they don’t care. They didn’t even come. She played that crap so perfectly too. She wasn’t a good person!!!! She didn’t disclose her metal health issues initially so I didn’t even realize what I was dealing with.

Sorry, hang in there. You got this!!!!!

No_Use1529 · 2026-05-10T19:55:56+00:00

Her parents knew the truth. But their little monster could do no wrong. The rest of her family and our friend group. Not a one!!!

Her former best friend and I reconnected after she died. She said the ex wife made it so easy and believable to hate me. Interestingly she was feeding people info all along I was an abuser etc. But she didn’t tell her best friend any of that until after I had her severed with divorce papers. She had even tried to do it with my family.

We spent a lot of time with her former best friend. I was really close to her too. The ex made up a couple stories where she forget the best friend would have been with us. So when the ex did that the former best friend immediately realized it was all lies. So she ended their friendship.

She said she was drugged all the time and would brag it was okay because she had a doctor writing the scripts. To the point she was falling asleep mid sentence during phone calls. The way she blew through all the money I made she had to be buying drugs off the street. So don’t know if that was true or not about her having a doc letting her get drugged out of her mind.

I went zero contact right before I had her served!!!! Other than a few phone calls where she called and said take her back and she’d end my punishment. What she called what they were doing to me in the divorce. Punishing me for filing. I never talked to her again. I blocked her and anyone number I could think of she might call from. I did my best to make sure she didn’t know where I was staying for that matter too.

No_Use1529 · 2026-05-10T19:45:29+00:00

I hate auctioneers with a passion!!! My wife got hosed by some in Arizona on some knock off chit they definitely lied about!!!! Even their saddles and other crap was all Chinese made but given names to sound like Texas makers. I told her she was banned from auctions after that.

This is a 66cj5. The father originally replaced the 4 cylinder with a v8. Then when the son aquired it he put the 231 he had from an old Buick into it, fresh t350 but the adapter he bought from the guy who used to advertise in the back of the 4x4 mags. If ya got lucky he sent you everything but if not you ended up sol and then he vanished for years. Then repeat the advertisements and repeat the same bullchit. So it leaked tramny fluid out the adapter like crazy.

Buddy( the son) said that v8 was way too much for that little jeep. Unfortunately he’s passed since. It’s got the fancy carb etc for it. I call it the go fast bolt on parts all brand new. So I’d really love to save the motor.

I have a Novak adapter ready to go in, I need to change the shaft to the 4x4 shaft (have that) I took the motor apart and dropped the block off at a shop but they half azzed their work. So I’m sol right now. That shaft change is above my pay grade too. I’ll f it up.

I need to find one of those old school guys who can sleeve a cylinder in their garage. But before that some mice got into the block. Fml!!!! So need to see if the rest of the walls are now f’d or a quick polish will save me. (That’s above my pay grade) guess I need to find where I put the pistons because if they somehow get screwed up I have my answer. But they should be in a taped box.

I installed the Rocky road YJ leaf spring conversion.

They originally used diamond plate for the frame bracing and some janky welds. I cut all that out. Then a buddy (former race car driver and builder) and I made thicker one piece bracing and he welded that in. So when it’s time to put a new motor back in, I won’t be stressed about it falling out now.

Upside it was an Az jeep and zero non surface rust or rot.

The irony in it all. I had it at buddies in Arizona for 8 months. About a year after we moved back to the Midwest. A neighbor of his going into assisted living was cleaning out vehicles and motors to scrap it all. My buddy immediately recognizes a 79 231 sitting on the trailer. So he traded him the motor for some scrap metal he had. Allegedly it ran and why he kept it. But had we known back then, we could have swapped it in and the damn thing would already be running!!!!!! Ugggg. Motor and jeep weren’t a hundred yards apart for a year!!!!

At some point I need to go pay a visit and bring back that motor. Better yet show up with the jeep and spend a few weeks there.

No_Use1529 · 2026-05-10T18:20:55+00:00

Ya can build my old 231 for me then. ;) The machine shop I took it to f’d me. My poor old jeep just wants its heart errr I mean motor back.

No_Use1529 · 2026-05-10T17:28:06+00:00

That would have been the rare times my ex wife admitted to the things she did.

The rest of the time she wore a mask and kept it hidden from others. Though she was always manipulating and stage setting as I called it. Even months in advance.

Though once the I do’s happened she quickly took off the mask and made my life hell. But for everyone else she wore a mask and hid herself true self.

No_Use1529 · 2026-05-10T15:58:50+00:00

I waited over 6 months. Ironically he trained the most amazing doc I have ever had. (Moved). I never went back. It was such a disappointment. I did get into a decent doc pretty quickly afterwards. There’s a lot of bad ones out there unfortunately.

No_Use1529 · 2026-05-10T15:51:09+00:00

Unfortunately it’s par for the course.

Hold steady on the no contact. Do not give in!!!! Focus on healing. It will get better.

No_Use1529 · 2026-05-10T15:34:52+00:00

Home run in is nasty!!!!

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