The Pre-Build Mugshot Collection
The Pre-Build Mugshot Collection After spending the last post reading the Jeep manual, scanning receipts, building timelines, and generally behaving like a man one corkboard away from a true crime podcast, I decided to do something even more responsible. I hired someone to professionally judge the Jeep. Not emotionally. I can do that myself. Mechanically. Because while I am very comfortable documenting things, researching things, fabricating things, wiring things, printing things, laser-cutting things, and turning a simple question into a six-tab spreadsheet, I am still very new to the ancient art of looking under a Jeep and knowing whether what I am seeing is “fine,” “old,” “normal Jeep,” or “sir, please stop driving this.” I know what an engine is. I can usually identify the engine-adjacent region. Beyond that, we are entering “please use small words” territory. So, before I start touching things, removing things, ordering things, breaking thin...