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That's the one I was thinking of. Couldn't think of the model name. Still not as ugly as the Cybertruck.

What I love is that he's NOT using the new-style, lightweight crank. Yes, it's aftermarket, but the original Jeep engines in this series (the 199, 232 and 258 c.i.d.) all had seven counterweights on the crank -- one between each connecting rod journal. Jeep reduced that the four counterweights in the interest of reducing reciprocating mass. I've always felt that was a mistake -- especially when at the same time they wanted less noise and vibration. The seven counterweight crank runs much smoother.

Not nearly as fugly as the Tesla cybertruck.

You are obviously not old enough to have been around when Jeep first introduced rectangular headlights. The outcry from the Jeep community was deafening. Why do you suppose the Wrangler went from rectangular headlights on the YJ back to round headlights on the TJ?

Name just one ... I used to think that Pontiac box on wheels was the ugliest vehicle on the road, but the Tesla cybertruck makes the Pontiac look absolutely gorgeous in comparison.

Not dumb at all. I imagine you never get fog in Arizona. Even low beam headlights can reflect back enough in heavy fog to be more effective at obscuring the road than illuminating it. That's why fog lights are ideally placed as low as possible and have a very flat cut-off. What's dumb is having fog lights that DON'T work with only the parking lights.

It will continue to run but, without the O2 sensor, it will never switch into closed loop mode for fuel trim. As Pizzaman09 already commented, it will run better with an O2 sensor. If you only use it to plow your driveway you'll be okay, but if you actually use the truck to drive anywhere you'll get better performance and better fuel economy if you replace it.

Late model XJs with factory fogs operate with only the parking lights on. Which is the way it should be. The way the Jeep factory did it in the 80s and early 90s, with the fogs only operable when the low beams are on, was stupid.

Correct. Also correct. I know many European cars have a "city light" that considerably less bright than regular headlights, but I have never heard that the city lights only function with fog lights.

Thanks.

Or, as my late wife would have said, Feliz Año Nuevo

To all members of the Comanche Club who celebrate the day, Merry Christmas.

It's a miracle you survived that. I'll keep you in my prayers. It's wonderful to know that you are keeping a positive attitude. My grandmother always taught us that what's important is not what happens to us, it's how we respond to it that matters.

It just took two of us over an hour to change the serpentine belt on my 2000 XJ. It should be simple -- loosen the bolt in the idler pulley, loosen the adjuster next to the power steering pump, remove old belt, install new belt, re-tighten two bolts. But NOOOOOOO ... Both bolts are 15mm. There isn't enough room to get a socket on the idler pulley bolt with the aux fan in the way, and the bolt was too tight to break loose with a box/open end wrench. So I called my friend, who has some specialized tools. Sure enough, he has a Matco wrench set specifically for doing serpentine belts. He only lives 10 minutes away, so he dropped what he was doing and came over with the special tool set. Which didn't fit. In the end, we had to remove the aux fan to get access -- and there's not quite enough room to get the aux fan out without risking breakage. After that, it was easy. I'll say again: NOBODY should be allowed to design anything about an automobile unless they have worked as a mechanic for at least two years.

Not silver. The pebble-finished recesses were painted a light/medium gray. Not "charcoal" -- more of a "battleship" gray, or just a touch darker than that.

Good luck!

My late wife's 2000 XJ Classic had a digital compass in the overhead console. The overhead console was an option in the Sport for some years but not for 2000, so my 2000 XJ sport doesn't have an overhead console. It's not like I need a compass, but sometimes I just like to see what direction I'm driving -- as well as possibly the altitude. There are many, many GPS compass, speedometer, and location apps for Android, and I've played with some of them. I'd like to find a secure way to mount a tablet where I can see it from the driver's seat, but I don't want to make any holes in or other alterations to the dashboard. Does anyone have any suggestions? This would be for something in the range of a 7-inch to a 10-inch tablet.

Everything has a back story. Before there was NAXJA, there was an XJ forum that I belonged to for several years. Then one day, just after having conducted a fund raiser to help defray the cost of hosting the forum, the guy who owned the site ghosted us. I don't remember the sordid details, but the bottom line was that he took the money and disappeared. The rest of us couldn't keep it going because the guy owned the domain name (which I don't remember now) and the hosting company would deal with us because he was their client. So several people did another fund raiser, we collected enough money to buy a domain name, buy some forum software, and put up a new forum. NAXJA was born -- I'm a charter (lifetime) member as part of the group that provided the seed money and started NAXJA. And that's why I was (and am) so glad that Pete had what it takes to get this forum up and running.

We do, indeed, owe this place to Pete Montie. Doesn't seem like that long ago, but almost 20 years ago I had it in my head that the world needed a forum dedicated to Comanches. I was going to create one, except that I had no idea whatsoever how to set up or operate an Internet forum. And then I woke up one day to find that some dude had gone ahead and done what I didn't know how to do ... so I joined up. Seriously, that WAS almost 20 years ago. My join date was October of 2005, so it has been 18 years. And I believe I was one of the first members (other than Pete). Even though it's called the Comanche Club, Pete has never charged any dues or subscription fees, so if anyone can afford to chip in a few ducats to help Pete keep this place alive, you'll be helping the entire Comanche community.

A friend in town is parting out what's left of his stepson's 2000 TJ. He asked me what I thought he might be able to get for the tires and wheels. There are five, on factory 15x8 rims. Tires are Coopers, and he says they don't have much tread left but they hold air. My feeling is that any value is in the wheels. The tires just make shipping a problem, but he's looking for a local sale through Facebook Marketplace. What do y'all think I should tell him?

He and I are about the same age. I'll be 80 in February. Please give him my regards.

"Back in the day," I had an opposite experience -- involving a 1968 AMX 390 4-speed. Driving around one day, I saw a rather ratty-looking AMX and stopped to leave a note on it to call me if the owner ever wanted to sell it. To my surprise, a few days later I got a call from the owner. He was interested in selling. So we made an appointment for me to go look at it. It needed a lot of work, but it ran and drove, so I declared that I was interested. While we were talking about the car and life in general, it had come out that I was a Vietnam veteran and the owner was a Marine Corps Reserve instructor, so we had that bond in common. He asked me what I thought a fair price might be. I juggled some numbers in my head and finally asked if he'd take $1,000 for it. He said "No," and my heart sank. "Oh, [bleep]", I thought. "He knows what it's worth." Imagine my shock when he then said, "I can't take that much for it, because I know how much work it needs. How about $800?" Done!

1968 or 1969 AMX. The engine badges were on the rear quarter panels and they're gone, so no way of knowing if it was a 290, 343, or 390. What a shame. I owned a few of them -- I loved 'em. Basically unbeatable in autocross. We loved going up against Corvettes. The Corvettes back then were all nose heavy and didn't handle worth [bleep]. Drove 'em nuts to be beaten by a Rambler.

You should definitely get the bedliner, the taillights, and the rear window. If nobody wants them today, somebody will be looking for them in the future.

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