CWLONGSHOT

That's why I posted the way I did in my first post. :dunno: Then like a flash, as soon as I read Pats post. :idea: I remembered a couple pics someone posted from another board, also from a mid western JY, with all the axles diff covers punched similarly. I wish I could remember where I saw the pic. I looked around last night for the post but cannot find it. Anyhow, someone else commented on the holes and the explanation mirrored Pats last comment. the oil pans and tranny pans where similarly perforated for same reasons. They do not do this kind of stuff here in the new England area JY's. CW

OK I see now... :oops: :oops: :oops: Of coarse its a rubber plug... :doh: :doh: But you knew that. like the others said, either some real hack is too lazy to pull the pan to drain OR the pan was punctured and this was the easiest fix.... I would clean it and weld the cover up and re-paint. Then, just in-case the cover was perferated on the trail, get some diff protection and forget it. http://www.universityofjeep.ca/Products ... ards2.HTML CW EDIT: Good call Pat. now that you mention it, I have herd of and seen pics of this too...

Looks like it could be, but your pics only ever show piece/parts. there is no size reference. The D60 is close in appearance. Here is my recently painted D44 cover... Image Not Found CW

NICE STUFF!!!

CW

Just thinkin' out loud... I seem to remember a post some time back with everyone posted up personals... location age etc... CRS could be hitting me again.. CW

The Dam Image Not FoundImage Not Found This is an actual letter sent to a man named Ryan DeVries regarding a pond on his property. It was sent by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Quality, State of Pennsylvania ... This guy's response is hilarious, but read The State's letter before you get to the response letter. State of Pennsylvania 's letter to Mr. DeVries: SUBJECT: DEQ File No.97-59-0023; T11N; R10W, Sec 20; Lycoming County Dear Mr. DeVries: It has come to the attention of the Department of Environmental Quality that there has been recent unauthorized activity on the above referenced parcel of property.. You have been certified as the legal landowner and/or contractor who did the following unauthorized activity: Construction and maintenance of two wood debris dams across the outlet stream of Spring Pond. A permit must be issued prior to the start of this type of activity. A review of the Department's files shows that no permits have been issued Therefore, the Department has determined that this activity is in violation of Part 301, Inland Lakes and Streams, of the Natural Resource and Environmental Protection Act, Act 451 of the Public Acts of 1994, being sections 324.30101 to 324.30113 of the Pennsylvania Compiled Laws, annotated. The Department has been informed that one or both of the dams partially failed during a recent rain event, causing debris and flooding at downstream locations. We find that dams of this nature are inherently hazardous and cannot be permitted. The Department therefore orders you to cease and desist all activities at this location, and to restore the stream to a free-flow condition by removing all wood and brush forming the dams from the stream channel. All restoration work shall be completed no later than January 31, 2007. Please notify this office when the restoration has been completed so that a follow-up site inspection may be scheduled by our staff. Failure to comply with this request or any further unauthorized activity on the site may result in this case being referred for elevated enforcement action. We anticipate and would appreciate your full cooperation in this matter. Please feel free to contact me at this office if you have any questions. Sincerely, David L. Price District Representative and Water Management Division. Here is the actual response sent back by Mr. DeVries: Re: DEQ File No. 97-59-0023; T11N; R10W, Sec. 20; Lycoming County Dear Mr.Price, Your certified letter dated 12/17/06 has been handed to me to respond to. I am the legal landowner but not the Contractor at 2088 Dagget Lane , Trout Run, Pennsylvania .... A couple of beavers are in the (State unauthorized) process of constructing and maintaining two wood 'debris' dams across the outlet stream of my Spring Pond. While I did not pay for, authorize, nor supervise their dam project, I think they would be highly offended that you call their skillful use of natures building materials 'debris.' I would like to challenge your department to attempt to emulate their dam project any time and/or any place you choose. I believe I can safely state there is no way you could ever match their dam skills, their dam resourcefulness, their dam ingenuity, their dam persistence, their dam determination and/or their dam work ethic. Image Not FoundImage Not Found These are the beavers/contractors you are seeking. As to your request, I do not think the beavers are aware that they must first fill out a dam permit prior to the start of this type of dam activity. My first dam question to you is: (1) Are you trying to discriminate against my Spring Pond Beavers, or (2) do you require all beavers throughout this State to conform to said dam request? If you are not discriminating against these particular beavers, through the Freedom of Information Act, I request completed copies of all those other applicable beaver dam permits that have been issued. (Perhaps we will see if there really is a dam violation of Part 301, Inland Lakes and Streams, of the Natural Resource and Environmental Protection Act, Act 451 of the Public Acts of 1994, being sections 324.30101 to 324.30113 of the Pennsylvania Compiled Laws, annotated.) I have several dam concerns. My first dam concern is, aren't the beavers entitled to legal representation? The Spring Pond Beavers are financially destitute and are unable to pay for said representation -- so the State will have to provide them with a dam lawyer. The Department's dam concern that either one or both of the dams failed during a recent rain event, causing flooding, is proof that this is a natural occurrence, which the Department is required to protect. In other words, we should leave the Spring Pond Beavers alone rather than harassing them and calling them dam names. If you want the damned stream 'restored' to a dam free-flow condition please contact the beavers -- but if you are going to arrest them, they obviously did not pay any attention to your dam letter, they being unable to read English. In my humble opinion, the Spring Pond Beavers have a right to build their unauthorized dams as long as the sky is blue, the grass is green and water flows downstream.. They have more dam rights than I do to live and enjoy Spring Pond. If the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection lives up to its name, it should protect the natural resources (Beavers) and the environment (Beavers' Dams). So, as far as the beavers and I are concerned, this dam case can be referred for more elevated enforcement action right now. Why wait until 1/31/2007? The Spring Pond Beavers may be under the dam ice by then and there will be no way for you or your dam staff to contact/harass them. In conclusion, I would like to bring to your attention to a real environmental quality, health, problem in the area It is the bears! Bears are actually defecating in our woods. I definitely believe you should be persecuting the defecating bears and leave the beavers alone. If you are going to investigate the beaver dam, watch your dam step! The bears are not careful where they dump! Being unable to comply with your dam request, and being unable to contact you on your dam answering machine, I am sending this response to your dam office. THANK YOU, RYAN DEVRIES & THE DAM BEAVERS

I've gone full circle... Pop lives with us (Wife and I) since mom passed a couple three years back... Its been trying at times, but we have always been closer then most, so overall, its a good thing.... CW

THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER This one is a little different... . Two Different Versions.... ......... .... Two Different Morals OLD VERSION The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold. MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself! MODERN VERSION The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving. CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.' ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, We shall overcome. Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake. President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight. Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share. Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper. The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ants food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighbor hood. The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it. MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010. I’ve sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant not a grasshopper! Make sure that you pass this on to other ants. Don’t bother sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn't understand it, anyway.

There is a laundry list of possibilities!! Please try a search using EAGLE as an author. There is so many posts from different people posted here on DW, its mind numbing... CW

:USAflag: :USAflag: THANK YOU FOR YOU SERVICE AND YOUR SACRIFICE!!! :USAflag: :USAflag: You have a positive attitude that comes thru loud and strong, good job soldier!! CW

Nice buck!! I have a good friend in Crawsfordsville!!! LOTS of good deer in that area!!! CW

LOL, its all good my young friend, its all good!! ;) :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :D :fool: CW

I'd say you are leaping unerringly to a couple of illogical conclusions. As CWLONGSHOT noted, 20 psi at idle is withing spec. However, the pressure should be around 40 or better (warm) at 2000 RPM. The factory spec is 13 psi (minimum) at idle, and 37-to 75 psi above 1600 RPM. So your pump is producing pressure, as evidenced by the idle pressure, but it can't boost the pressure above 20 psi. That doesn't sound like a clogged screen to me. Even if it did -- you could just drop the pan and clean the screen, it doesn't mean you need a new pump, and it CERTAINLY doesn't mean you need a new high volume pump. Your problem is pressure, not volume. Then you ask about the rear main seal. The RMS has nothing to do with oil pressure. It just prevents the oil from leaking out of the engine. By all means, if you have the oil pan off that's the time to replace the RMS. But that's not going to cure your oil pressure problem. IMHO, you need to replace the bearings, not the oil pump. It can be done with the engine in the truck. Amen.... :D

Correction, a "POSI" is short for positraction, a Chevy term referring to a limited slip differential. Track-loc is a ford/jeep name for the same kind of LS differential. But open is open, nothing for additional traction. 99% of the "lunchbox" lockers out there need this open carrier to fit into. They will not fit a LS carrier. Here is some reading.. http://www.nagca.com/grandtech/carriers ... ndmore.htm CW

If you page thru my build you will find a option using tailgate protectors... The link is in my signature... CW

Changing the rear main seal is a doable job, but CAN be a PIA. Your oil pressure is just fine for a vehicle with some miles on it. Having approx 20# @ idle when warmed up is FINE!!! Once it drops down to 10 less then start looking at a rebuild. the bearings in the bottom end are wearing and now have more clearance. this extra clearance prohibits the pressure from building in the oiling system. A clogged oil pickup causing this issue is unlikely. Pull the valve cover and see how it looks inside. Is it all sludged up? If so MAYBE you have a partially clogged pick-up. As for the valve cover, yours, (Like 99% of them) is likely leaking anyhow. At least a portion of so called rear main seal leaks are simply valve cover leaks running down the back of the block. CW

Silly man.... :shake: EVERY 4WD out there with open diffs is really only a 2WD!!!! The ONLY way to have BOTH tires on a given axle get power 100% of the time is to LOCK them. IE spool or Lincoln locker. Like I tried to explain to you back on pg4. :doh: The factory LS diffs (trac-loc) are not so great and should never make a difference in price or buying a used axle. For the most part, by the time any of us buys one (used) they are just that... used up!! :roll: Yea they can be rebuilt but WHY??? For the time, effort and expense its time to just up grade!! Open diffs with spin EITHER tire, not just right rear. Its simply a matter of weight distribution. Which ever tire has LESS weight, or is EASIER to spin will get the traction. That's just the way it is for a "one leg" or "open" rear axle. Even a LS no matter who makes it will be defeated if you lift one time off the ground. All power will go to wheel that is easiest to spin. Lockers, apply power to each side equally, regardless if there is any traction or not. Many lockers, like detroit's or loc0rites will allow "biasing" between the sides as long as minimal power is applied to them. That's the "clicking" that is herd in corners. The "dog teeth" over ride each other. In a turn the inside wheel is making a smaller radius than the out side. So it must spin at a different rate of speed than the other one. As far having you having 3WD, :huh???: unless your running a locked axle up front, that axle will only have power to one tire at any one time. The thing is, there is allot more weight over the front axle, so, combined with a open rear axle, its usually enough to get things moving. Its considered 4WD as the engine, combined with the T-case, can put power to any of the vehicles four tires, just not at the same time.... :D (Unless you lock them) CW

HUH??? Whats this mean? CW it means I'm a complete idiot Thats not true.. your smart enough to have found us!! Just look at everthing you have learned here from all your brothers on CC!!! :yes: :clapping: :waving: :brows: :D

Sorry for the hijack... CW

This simple, quick math test can guess your all time favorite movie. Mine was 'Gone With The Wind'. Try it. Don't look ahead at the answers. It really works! Pick a number between 1 - 9. Multiply by 3. Add 3. Then, multiply by 3 again. Now... add the two digits together to find your all time favorite movie. Good Luck > > > > > > > > > > The answers are: 1. Gone with the Wind 2. Aliens 3. Oliver 4. Star Wars 5. Forrest Gump 6. Saving Private Ryan 7. Jaws 8. Grease 9. The Joy of relationships with Sheep & Leather Clad individuals 10. Mary Poppins LOL

YUP!! Then I added a "HELP" shelf shock mount!! I have done this on a number of axles. I have even made a few for guys here on the board!! I neede d just a bit more legnth on my MJ so a coupel short pieces of "C" channel added to the existing mounts worked very nicely!! CW

Yup, I'm a hunter, our firearm deer season starts Nov 18Th. Archery started back in September. Small game started Middle of October. Shot my first deer in 1982. It was a 4PT I shot with a bow. I shot @ them for a couple years before that. :shake: Started hunting in 1979. Bow is tough for me since breaking my back. Firearms is always looked forward to. Bird hunting holds a special place as well. Here is some pics and a video from seasons past. Last year: 2000 Bear 2004 Spike 2002 Three Coyotes with the bow 2001 Image Not Found 2005 2007 Summer goat 1998 with the wife Head shot pig 2005 Image Not Found Enjoy.. CW

I got tired of ripping off tail lights and then trying to find some to replace the broken ones... it still looks like a mj... Nice work!! Keep the pics coming!! CW

I have a set from JKS on mine. IMHO WAY better then stock or many others out there.. If I did it all over I would do a UBolt flip.... CW