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  1. ES File Explorer is one of six file manager apps that I tried. As far as I'm concerned, they're all brain dead. None lasted more than ten minutes on my device. I don't think I'm destined to coexist with the Android operating system.
  2. (1) They didn't stop building Jeeps in 1993. (2) I thought you said you couldn't find replacements.
  3. Update: I got it done, more by accident than by design. I stumbled onto getting my desktop PC to see the tablet via USB cable, and I was able to copy the font files over from there. But I'm still terribly disappointed at just how useless the Android "file manager" apps have all been. Can anyone recommend one that actually allows to, you know, like ... manage your files?
  4. You can use the 1157 socket for an 1156 bulb, you just have to figure out which lead doesn't get connected.
  5. I installed a nice word processing app on a Samsung Galaxy Tab2 tablet. The big problem is that the fonts I'm most likely to encounter (including the ubiquitous Times New Roman) don't exist on the tablet. The word processor allows for importing fonts, and I have them on a USB stick with a microUSB connector ... but I can't figure out how to copy the font files off the stick to the tablet. I've tried four different file manager apps, and none of them seem to offer any way to copy files. (One of them doesn't even recognize the memory stick.) Are there any Android gurus around who can help me figure this out?
  6. a.k.a. "HELP!" parts. The socket you want isn't listed for Jeeps -- it's a Ford socket.
  7. Some years of the XJ/MJ used the same hub/bearing units and rotors for the 2WD as they did for the 4WD. The old-style 2WD spindles and rotors that are integral with the hub are rare. Do your rotors have enough thickness to turn them?
  8. The CPS is the first thing you should have checked, as several people suggested. Don't replace it unless you have tested it and found that it's bad. If you do the A/C voltage test and you're getting a good reading, then the CPS isn't the problem and you need to look elsewhere.
  9. That usually indicates that there is air in the system, or a leak. Low fluid means the peddle doesn't release the clutch all the way, so it engages closer to the floor when you let up on the peddle.
  10. The design of the MJ clutch hasn't changed. No, it's still not adjustable. The newest DOT 5.1 brake fluid is less hygroscopic than DOT 3 and DOT 4, but it still attracts and holds moisture. I've been using DOT 5 silicone for more than twenty years, in brakes and clutches. Silicone is non-hygroscopic -- it won't attract or hold moisture vapor from the atmosphere.
  11. Not bad for a guy named "Knucklehead." Congratulations on the engagement. That's awesome. We need a better photo of the future Mrs. Knucklehead ...
  12. The problem with testing the resistance of the CPS is that the test is supposed to be condicted with the engine (and CPS) at operating temperature. It's impossible to do that if the engine won't start. The AC voltage test is a more reliable test of output.
  13. After it has sat for some time ... when you first turn on the key, do you hear the fuel pump running for a few seconds, then stop?
  14. The temperature switch for the aux fan in the Renix 4.0L models is located about halfway down in the driver's side radiator tank.
  15. They may be separate problems. Are you aware that the cluster lights are on a dimmer? The dimmer operates by rotating the knob of the headlight switch. It's an old-fashioned rheostat -- a contact that slides along a coil of resistance wire so that the resistance varies depending on where the contact rests on the length of the coil. It develops dead spots. In my '88 XJ, I can't run the cluster lights at full bright. If I back off from full bright just s small amount, they work fine. Try rotating the knob and see if you get lights. Even if they just flicker and blink, that would suggest the dimmer is the problem. If so, the solution is a new switch. If everything else works in the back, it's not a ground problem, so it has to be a power problem. Have you disconnected the main plug to the rear lights and checked for 12-volt power at that plug?
  16. No, the computer over the driver's foot in an XJ or MJ (Renix era) is the ECU. The TCU is over on the passenger side, tucked up behind the glove box.
  17. Interesting. Apparently different companies have different rules. I'm insured with Amica, and they consider hitting a deer to be a collision. However, they did fix the roof of my XJ when a rotten branch fell off a huge tree just as I was driving under it. They decided the tree hit me rather than me hitting the tree, so it wasn't a "collision." The other nice aspect of Amica's comprehensive is that it includes glass, so if I get a stone chip in a windshield, comprehensive will pay to have it epoxy injected (if it's small enough, and not directly in the driver's line of sight) or replaced.
  18. He's in San Diego. The truck (or all its parts) are in Mexico by now.
  19. I don't have an agent -- I deal directly with the insurance company. If you think what I posted is incorrect, how about telling us what you think is incorrect?
  20. When did you last replace the oxygen sensor?
  21. Eagle

    Half-track ATV

    Either VERY cool, or perhaps some people just have too much time on their hands: https://www.alloutdoor.com/2018/09/19/diy-atv-half-track-made-old-snow-tires/
  22. But comprehensive won't cover you for hitting a deer. That's a "collision." Comprehensive is for non-moving type stuff -- fire, flood, theft, tree falls on the roof -- that sort of thing.
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