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^^^ Quoted for truth. And that's why most Jeep guys don't want to pay for mods -- because the mods are rarely done to any semblance of acceptable standards. Some years ago I looked at a lifted Cherokee. The rear lift was an add-a-leaf. The doofus put the AAL under the entire spring pack And then he had the chutzpah to claim the lift was "professionally installed." (The XJ was at a small, rural garage -- he might have actually paid them to install it. Frightening thought!)

We're not "car guys." We're "Jeep guys."

Halle Berry drove an MJ in Monster's Ball.

Too long of a story to go into, Amigo. It was a long time ago, in another lifetime. The only thing left from that part of my life is the handle.

The typical crack is hard to see even if you know to look for it. It's usually around the outer diameter of the bolt reinforcing ring.

Student council? What do they know about laws and legal stuff.

WHOA! Slow down, Mate. Gimme time to process all that.

I never owned an AMC Eagle. My sister-in-law did. There was a time when I lusted after an SX/4, but I never bought one.

Yes, it seems like there's a small variation when turning, but probably no more than 1/16 inch. Should be zero. Cracked flexplate?

A mod that one prospective buyer thinks is worth money is a mod that some other buyer will view as a deal breaker. My position is that almost any mod that isn't easily reversible reduces value, and mods such as lifts and/or cutting sheet metal are absolute deal breakers. Things that I would not reject outright include replacing the "station wagon" steering wheel in the base models with a 3-spoke wheel; replacing the idiot light gauge cluster with an all-gauges cluster or the "3/4" type (no tach, although I prefer the tach); Jeep alloy rims in place of factory steel wheels. My red '88 Comanche had a 4" Trailmaster lift on it when I bought it. The front and rear sheet metal had been cut. Almost immediately after putting it on the road I got a ticket because the tires extended beyond the sheet metal, so I had to buy new front fenders. I still haven't figured out a way to install the factory flares on the rear, since the previous owner crudely chopped off the mounting flanges. I paid $500 for the truck, I've spent two or three times that much UNdoing much of what the idiot previous owner did, and the only difference you can see on the outside is that the lift is gone (and the front fenders now have mounting flanges for the flares). As Minuit posted (above), too many mods are done poorly, and I'm at a point in life that I no longer get any enjoyment out of undoing other people's butchery. I have high standards of engineering and workmanship, and I don't trust anyone to perform or install mods to my standards (even if the mod is something I might want to do -- which is unlikely).

I did a Native American spirit quest many years ago. The eagle is my power animal, and I used White Eagle as my CB handle.

Now park it with a sheet of plywood or Lexan protecting the glass.

For a perfect fit, you need a header from an '84 thru '89 Cherokee or an '86 thru '89 Comanche. You can also use the header from a '90 thru '96, but in 1990 Chrysler changed the trim around the grille and headlight bezels. Using the '90 thru '96 parts won't require any cutting, but it will mean that you'll need the corresponding '90 thru '96 grille and headlight bezels.

The salt faeries eat aluminum alloy wheels a lot faster than they eat painted steel wheels, Grasshopper.

How the heck did an apprentice get his grubby paws on one of those?

Testing how to nest quotations: And now I hope I'm back at Level 1 And this should be back at Level zero

1) Not stock. The build sheet for that vehicle will say it was built with steel wheels. 2) Stock. Control arms are "consumables." They are expected to be replaced. If they are replaced with factory parts, the vehicle is still stock. To view it any other way you would have to say that when you do the first tune-up, changing the spark plugs means the vehicle isn't stock. Or the first oil change, if you replace the oil filter. Steel wheels aren't "consumables."

Why do you want to lift it?

What's wrong with "universal" background checks is that they aren't universal. They only affect honest, law-abiding people who purchase firearms through legal channels. I don't know where you live. I live 75 miles from New York City. I'm between New Haven and Bridgeport, Connecticut. Both cities have serious ghetto areas where decent people shouldn't go during daylight hours, and can't go after dark. I know for a fact that guns are dealt on street corners in New Haven and Bridgeport, so it stands to reason they're being dealt on street corners in big cities like New York, Chicago, and [___]. It's illogical to impose more and more restrictions on honest people when the people you need to affect are immune from everything you do because, by definition, criminals don't abide by the laws.

Common Core -- it's the new math ...

There are four possibilities: Radiator Thermostat Fan clutch Pressure cap on coolant bottle First test: Thermostat. Do you know if the thermostat is working? Have you tested it? Next: If you know the thermostat is working, you know it overheats when sitting and idling. What happens when you start driving again? If the temperature comes down again when you're moving, that means the radiator is doing it's job but the fan isn't pulling enough air through the radiator. The primary fan is mounted on a viscous coupling that's intended to improve gas mileage. They go bad over time and lose the ability to drive the fan with enough power to be effective.

Your point is well taken, Pete. But the people behind so-called "grass roots" anti-gun groups like Moms Demand action or Everytown for Gun Safety (both front organizations for Bloomberg's millions of anti-gun dollars) are not "just moms and dads trying to make what they feel is a safer world." Most of the people who get sucked into those (and similar) organizations are "just moms and dads trying to make what they feel is a safer world," but the organizations themselves are anything BUT grass roots organizations. And they have been proven to use wildly inflated (or just made up) statistics, time and time again. So, I'm sorry to say, all those "just moms and dads trying to make what they feel is a safer word" are dupes. They are useful idiots who have been suckered by the anti-gun snake oil hucksters. The issue here is that, if you look at actual causes of death in the United States, gun deaths don't even make the top ten. (Suicide is number 10, and that must include some suicides by firearms, but it also includes asphyxiation, hanging, and all other methods of suicide.) https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm Look at automobile deaths in the United States. 2015 - 35,485. 2016 - 37,806. 2017 - 37,133. 2018 - 36,560. Compare that to the TOTAL number of gun-related deaths in 2017: 39,773 . Automobile deaths were higher (but not significantly higher) than firearms deaths, BUT ... the gun deaths statistic is all-inclusive. That includes accidental shootings, suicides, domestic shootings, armed robberies, gang shoot-outs, and police officer-involved shootings as well as "mass shootings." According to this site the United States sees 30 deaths every day due to drunk driving. That's 10,950 deaths ... and there's no constitutionally guaranteed right to drive drunk. The NHTSA puts the number at 10, 511 for 2018. Why aren't people who profess to be so keen on saving lives going after the low-hanging fruit of drunk drivers?

THIRD click is START, IIRC. First click is from locked to OFF, second click is RUN, third click is START. You should be testing in the RUN position.

I used to like Löwenbräu back when it was brewed in Germany, before it was Americanized. Since then it has passed through a succession of owners and is now apparently being imported from Germany again, but it's too late for me. I'm not supposed to drink alcohol due to my cardiac condition so, on the rare occasions when I feel the urge for a beer, I drink O'Doul's dark.

If you want some slightly less biased statistics, how about the FBI? https://www.fbi.gov/about/partnerships/office-of-partner-engagement/active-shooter-incidents-graphics According to official FBI statistics, there were 277 active shooter incidents in the United States from 2000 through 2018. Your Gun Violence Archive source claims 2,089 "mass shootings" from 2014 through 2019, and the 417 they claim for 2019 alone is 50 percent more than the FBI shows for the entire period of 2000 through 2018. That should tell you that the Gun Violence Archive is cooking the books. The FBI numbers are still larger than my numbers, and I acknowledge that. The FBI statistics include types of "active shooter" shootings that I don't include. My numbers track the types of incidents that we typically think of when we hear "mass shooting": mall shootings, school shootings, and church shootings. I don't track incidents such as gang shootouts or officer-involved shootings. By tracking "active shooter" incidents, the FBI statistics cover the types of incidents we worry about, but their numbers aren't limited to those incidents in which four or more people were killed or injured. Mark Twain once said (or wrote), "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." Another look at the issue of statistics and their misuse: https://gunsources.com/mass-shooting-statistics-list/ Then there's this: https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/essays/mass-shootings.html