Eagle

That's understood. I'm not so naive that I don't understand why companies need to have a presence on channels like Instagram and Fecesbook. I'm not sold on Tiktok, though. People with a 15-second attention span are just going to jump to the next time waster, not buy expensive products. My point is simply that for vehicles such as the Comanche, if those are your only ways of promoting your company and your product -- you're going to miss a lot of prospective customers. Speaking only for myself, although I know I'm not alone in this, it's not just that I don't like those sites. I don't have an Instagram account. I don't have a Fecesbook account. I don't have a Tiktok account. I never will have accounts on any of them, and I never look at them. Yes, I'm a Luddite -- but I'm also the demographic that cares about old Comanches.

A quart a week is a lot. How did this dealership diagnose crankshaft walking? If that's really happening, how long ago was the rebuilt engine installed? A new or newly-rebuilt engine should not have that -- so I'd look into whether it's covered by whatever warranty you got with the engine. If it's a scored crank -- one of the "name" gasket and seal companies (FelPro, maybe) makes a rear main seal for the Jeep 4.0L engine with a double wiper lip -- precisely to address this issue. I would try that first. Looking at alternatives, I think that almost has to be the cheapest thing to try first.

Tiktok?!?!?! Real men don't do Tiktok. Seriously -- if you want to reach olde phartes like me, you need something other than Tiktok, Instagram and Fecesbook.

You guys do spectacular videos. Well done. And it's wonderful to see such a well set-up Comanche out doing what Comanches should be out doing.

No, they are not. The reason the newer owners' manual says they aren't is because Jeep lost a huge lawsuit when some kids were killed when an older Jeep rolled over and the "roll bar" didn't protect them. Jeep argued that it was a "show bar," not a "roll bar," and that they never promised that it had any protective capability. The jury didn't buy that. So Jeep, instead of beefing up the bars to make them effective, just starting printing literature saying the roll bars are not intended to provide roll-over protection.

Better in some ways, worse in others. No difference in strength. The short tailshaft housing has a seal that rides directly on the tailshaft, so when you pull the driveshaft the fluid doesn't run out. Not a big deal when working under the vehicle at home, but if you experience a rear drive problem on a trail and need to drive using just the front (with no rear driveshaft), there's no worry about losing all the tranny fluid before you get off the trail. The newer ones also supposedly have a true neutral position, for flat towing. I haven't tested it, but what I've read is that on the older ones the neutral position disconnects the engine from the driveshafts, but leaves the front and rear locked together -- which is not good for towing any distance. BUT ... that long, unsupported length of tailshaft hanging out there is extremely prone to driveline vibrations.

That's really unfair. Amazon's shipping has been getting worse and worse. I have had two recent instances where the tracking information says the package was handed to a resident. But I'm the only resident, and nobody handed anything to me. In fact, one time last summer I was in the driveway tinkering with one of the XJs when an Amazon truck rolled in. I wanted to save the guy some steps so I put down my tools, walked over, and offered to take it from him right at the truck. He said no, the rules required that he put it on the doorstep and take a photo -- which he proceeded to do. Neither of the "handed to a resident" deliveries had a photo, of course. I spotted the first one about a week later -- in the weeds behind the mailbox at the side of the road, between the stone wall and the mailbox post. The second was just a few days ago. It was dropped on the grass beside the driveway about 30 or 40 feet from the house. There were tire marks on the grass, so my guess is that he drove the nose of the truck onto the grass and just dropped it out of the window.

I have one of these, which by digital standards is pretty ancient: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minolta_Dimage_A1 It takes CF cards, of which I have a couple because my Canon EOS Rebel also uses CF cards. But this Minolta (which I got used) came with a MicroDrive card. MicroDrive was an IBM achievement back in the day. It's the same length and width as a CF card, but a little bit thicker. And inside is a very tiny, physical hard drive. The MicroDrive worked for a while after I got the camera, but it eventually died and I now have a CF card in it.

Pull the flares and save them. The backing plates, too. The studs on the backing plates can be drilled out and replaced. Regardless of what anyone tries to tell you, the MJ rear flares are NOT the same as XJ 2-door rear flares (which are the same as XJ 4-door rear flares). As far as I know, nobody makes replacements for the MJ rear flares. The one that's damaged can be rebuilt by plastic welding.

A friend of mine and his brother inherited a near perfect building with their father died. It used to be a gas station and independent garage. The pumps and tanks are gone, lifts have been removed, but it's a 3-bay garage with a small office area and a rest room. They're asking $4,800 per month -- which is the going rate. The kind of buildings you can rent for cheap are out in the boonies, and basically abandoned. Some may not even be safe.

You call that "ancient"? Ancient is cameras that use -- you know -- FILM. I have 3-1/2" floppies if you want a couple. [Edit to add] It says "Dual Media." What are the dual media. Does it also take CF cards, or does that just means standard and high-density 3-1/2" floppies?

One of the guys in the North Atlantic chapter of NAXJA did this in Pennsylvania. He's a member of this site, too, but I won't mention his name without his permission. My fuzzy recollection is that it was an old service station that had been out of active use for quite some time. I don't remember the details. I had my eye on two such places not too far from me. They had been empty for a good number of years. And then one day they were gone -- POOF! Demolished. There is now a self-storage warehouse on one of the sites, and the other site is still vacant and up for sale.

The brace install video led me to this one. I really like the way you have your truck set up for overlanding. Very well thought out.

The Park interlock shouldn't affect turning the engine off. You can do that with the transmission in gear. The interlock only affects turn the key far enough to lock the steering column and remove the key. You may need to adjust the ignition switch push rod in the steering column, or you may need a new key cylinder.

I've been wrenching for 65 years and I've never seen a spark plug that looked like that.

Guys, once again I'd like to thank each of you who bought a copy from the bottom of my heart. I wish you could all have seen her face when she opened the copy I gave her and she realized that it was HER book. I had wanted to catch it on my cell phone, but her parents are very concerned about privacy, especially when it involves their children, so I gave up on that idea.

Update: I can't thank you guys who bought the book enough. To say that Grace was blown away would be an understatement. To borrow a phrase from MY favorite author, she was gobsmacked. She opened the book and looked at it and was sort of, "Okay, it's a little book" -- and then the light bulb went on and she looked around the room at everybody and said, "Hey! It's MY book! Thank you, thank, you, thank you!" Then her father fired up his computer and showed her that HER book is for sale on Amazon, and that twenty people have bought copies of HER book, and she couldn't wait to tell her friends. I lost count of how many times she said it was her best Christmas present ever. So, again -- thank you all.

What do you mean by "running lights"? The parking lights, or the side marker lights?

All the MJs from 1986 through 1989 had 10-inch Bendix rear brakes. The Metric Ton option with the Dana 44 rear axle got wider drums, but they were still 10-inch Bendix brakes, and I'm pretty sure that strut is the same for both. I'd go with the part from Quadratec.

How about doing a tech side write up with more specifics on the valve and how you set up the tank. Where do you get it filled, and to what pressure? I'm sure other people will be interested.

Some time ago I would see one at least every week or so. Recently, it's been months since I saw one anywhere. Then yesterday afternoon I happened to look out the kitchen window just as an MJ drove by.

Thank you, folks. I can hardly wait to see Grace's face on Christmas.

Yeah, Amazon somehow connected this book to a different author, even though they correctly listed the author of this book as Grace Acampora. Both her father, through whose e-mail the author account was set up, and I have contacted them and they claim it has been fixed. Obviously, it hasn't been fixed. But it has been partially revised -- it originally included several reviews of Lauren Acampora's books. It now only shows one review, which appears to be for Grace's book. I guess the Amazon minions in Mumbai don't understand that more than one person in the United States might have the last name "Acampora."

I think we have a winner! Nicely done.

Do you still have the rear height-sensing proportioning valve in your truck? If so, you need two lines to the rear. Even pre-ABS, the MJ front distribution block was different from the XJ proportioning valve.