Alexia

$10,000 is the estimate to get it there and make it legal which is around a third of the potential auction price. Instead I can auction it and put that money towards purchasing a house outright in the future.

I finished installing the gauge cluster earlier and I need to finish running the wires back to the fuel level sensor. I also pulled the wires out for the AC high/low switches to have them ready for the shop to hook up. There is still the stupid P2138 issue though.

Also not hiding rust under the carpet. Those floors rust so easily even on well maintained ones.

Someone on Facebook found me and sent me a message about buying it. I casually dropped a high number and they basically agreed.(Pending me wrapping things up.) I really think I need to use a Bring-A-Trailer auction for this.

Okay, if this has valid inspection in Japan there just might be hope. https://www.quadruped.jp/customs/index.html?id=1103 Also, BUGGY CAMARO. https://www.quadruped.jp/customs/index.html?id=1117

It definitely will not pass a shaken inspection in Japan and if it went with me I would keep it.

This is going to suck, but I am going to have to sell my LJ before I move. :e I do not even know how much to sell something like this for.

I decided back around 2003-ish and probably thirty years or so. Depends how long I live.

It is gone. The short version of this is that I am moving to Japan in a few months and I am getting rid tons of vehicle related stuff. Nope. Just a relative of a friend that lives in my neighborhood.

goodbye.mp4

The MySQL8 upgrade disabled pruning binlogs which meant it was repeatedly filling up the disk. -_- We are back down to 22G used in total.

Maybe related to the upgrade, but it was going to happen eventually: The server ran out of disk space. Linode recently bumped all 30GB plans to 50GB for free though so after some maintenance we are back online. User uploads are about 15GB, database is 10GB, operating system is 5GB.

I am further along with the firmware for the hardware. The interior is reinstalled and it is looking cleaner with some other touch up bits. I am reducing the amount of hobbies that I have my hands in and vehicles is the big one that is getting cut. I am only doing what I need to make the LJ back to complete.

Upgrades completed: IP.Board 4.5.4, Ubuntu 20, PHP 7.4, MySQL 8

Part of it is that underneath there is a piece of metal that is welded to the body that sandwiches it to provided bracing for the seat bolts. The rolled edge allows water and debris to get up between the pieces of metal. The left side right rear seat bolt is a spot I attempt to prevent it from rusting anymore previously. I already have this all put back together and covered in excess seam sealer.

This is fixed. The global wrapper template for the CC theme was edited at some point and that caused it to not get updated during the upgrade. I reset it to stock and all the features show up on mobile now.

Sorry about the surprise change. I thought the 4.4 to 4.5 upgrade was a routine upgrade that it was asking to have done. BBCode and Emoticon stuff: Invision Power is working to deprecate them in favor of newer technologies.(Rich Text and Emoji) This release begins the migration portion of that.

I need this truck in my life!

I am working on fixing the colors that got a little wonky after the IPS 4.5 forum upgrade. It burns! (Ten minutes later.) The colors should be pretty much be taken care of.

This is in the LJ. The big old rusty portion is a sandwiched piece of metal above the heat shield for the muffler.(You can see the heat shield through the small opening.) Water collects between them and it rusts through from the bottom. How would you fix it? My process that I am thinking of: Cutting out the bad inside metal and clean loose chunks.(Done) Rusty metal treatment. POR-15 cover the outer metal from above. Adhesive body sealant the new piece and slowly weld in keeping heat low. POR-15 inside. POR-15 outside above the muffler. Top coat as appropriate.

Personally, I have not see one when going on the tear down and rebuild of my MJ.

That lock is really easy to pick. It is made of a die cast zinc body which means a blow torch can melt through it fairly quickly. https://masterlocks.com/products/6271

I got the for maximum annoyance level. Hitch ball lock, lock through the ball release level safety pin hole, and a chain wrapped through a wheel. If connected to the Jeep the chains get locked on to the receiver(not load bearing, just additional) and there is a locking receiver pin. The wheel chain has to be dealt with if they do not wish to drag the wheel. The hook up requires them getting through the weakest link.

I have also broken two of those!(In their defense both were very high mileage.) If you wanted to do that kind of swap you would have to fit parts from earlier model years, wiring harness hacks, and more.

My regeared LJ with 32" tires and auxiliary transmission cooler would like to have a word with the two broken 42RLE transmissions laying on my shop floor. I went above and beyond to protect them, but they still died. The programming on the transmission controller is crap since it is always trying to get into and stay in fourth gear as low as 32 MPH for fuel economy. The O/D OFF lettering on my LJ's button is worn off because of how much I had to use it just driving around casually. The 42RLE is ultimately what led me to give up on the stock Jeep drive train and do a V8 swap.