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Most street signs are aluminum, in my experience. Sure you could rivet them down but it wouldn't be the same as properly welded in panels.

Does it start if you shift into neutral, or back and forth from park to neutral a bunch? Check your battery cables and then do this before you replace anything else: http://bc4x4.com/tech/2010/jeep-neutral-safety-switch-nss/ I ran a bead of silicon around the edge before I screwed it back together, just to keep it cleaner inside.

But WTF were they thinking when they put those wheels on it?

Well, bit of an update. Picking up from my last post, the Niva did not make it to California. Didn't even make it out of the driveway. After pointlessly attempting to weld up the hole, and it still not sealing (think the oil sludge melting out of the pan was making the welds too porous) I tossed the new ball joints into the MJ and took that instead. At least I had A/C in Death Valley... So when I got back I ordered a new oil pan. It took forever to get here. Then I sat on it forever because putting it in is a big job... That's currently where I'm at with that. But while the engine's out, I decided it would be a good time to test fit a 4.0, just to see if it'll go in. The answer to that one is laughter at the though of it ever happening. Doesn't stop me from wanting it done though.

You're definitely better off with a full-size rig. By my best estimate (scale weight minus a guess at what I had on board) my MJ is around 3700 lbs or so, just about completely stock. Even a small car trailer is going to weigh around 2000lbs (as a reference, U-Haul quotes theirs at 2210 empty). That puts you at approaching 6000lbs just for the combination. Pretty well every mod you do (bigger wheels/tires, heavier axles, increased body armour, bumpers, sliders, cages) will increase the trail rig's weight by quite a bit. Wouldn't surprise me at all if some of the bigger builds on here were breaching that 6000lb mark by themselves, and then you'll need a bigger trailer to move them, and before you know it you're hauling 10,000lbs to the trail with you. I know a guy who hauls around a skid steer with a year-old Dodge half-ton... The back wheels of the truck come off the ground every time it goes on or off the trailer, looks like the front tires are about to come off the ground when he's going down the road. He says it pulls fine but I don't believe him. Yeah, a skid steer is a bit more than an MJ, but that's a lot more truck too.

My supervisor this summer was doing that with his 2014 Silverado. He bought the absolute basest WT and has been slowly adding trim and stuff from LT's and Denali's. Claims his $30,000(CAD) truck now looks like he paid $50,000 for it, even though he's only into it for $35,000.

The max towing capacity per the factory for a metric-tonne equipped MJ with Aw4 , a receiver hitch, and heavy duty cooling package is 5000 lbs. You'll also need trailer brakes if you ever want to stop. Considering that's more than the truck weighs, I'm not sure you'd want more than that on a receiver hitch. Might be able to do more with a gooseneck or fifth-wheel, but frankly it's a unibody truck that wasn't designed to be a freight train.

I still consider myself young and dumb. Haha.

It feels pretty bitter getting a ticket, but the cop's just out there doing his job. The lifted 4x4 community is looked upon as offensive to a lot of the people making the rules, so in order to stay in the game, you have to play by their rules, as anything you do will impact the reputation of everyone else in the community. Mud flaps prevent mud and stones from getting flung at people, or other people's cars that they care about just as much as you care about your MJ. I remember as a kid sitting in my parents van and watching a rock come flying and shattering the window right beside me. I can't guarantee it was flung by someone without mud flaps, but I definitely wouldn't have enjoyed taking it to the face if the window had been open. My mj's still mostly stock, but once it goes up with bigger tires, there will definitely be flaps on it.

I think you could toss a relay into the fused line for the TCU, which would turn the TCU on or off, allowing you to shift with the gear lever. Assuming pulling the trans fuse has the same effect as unplugging the TCU. I'm actually tempted to try this out now. Got no use for the "comfort" setting, just makes me think there's something wrong with the truck whenever I bump it.

If you just want the battery cable ends, the best ones at the parts store will be the marine grade. Of course, if the battery terminals are bad, you might want to look into replacing the entire cable. A leaky valve cover gasket won't lead to oil inside the cylinders unless it's leaking onto the intake and getting sucked in somehow through a leak in the gasket or otherwise. A leaky intake would definitely cause running issues and possibly overheating if it's making it run lean, but the oil on the plugs is more likely coming from bad rings or valve stem seals, and if you can't see/smell the burning oil it's probably not bad enough to be causing a running issue.

You may be able to get a key cut locally by a locksmith. Blanks are definitely still available, just maybe not from ChryCo. Working without the key once unlocked is normal, although I'm not positive it should just slide out once it's turned. I have two keys (neither original) that came with my '91, and one pulls out but the other doesn't.

Don't replace it till you've split it open. It probably just needs cleaned. http://bc4x4.com/tech/2010/jeep-neutral-safety-switch-nss/

2500 is probably pretty close to what an original MJ in reasonable shape would go for. Pretty well all '91-'92's were special order, could be want they're talking about. Otherwise all the various names are really just trim packages, but if it's a special order they'd let you tick pretty well whatever boxes you wanted, so it mostly just comes down to the name. Got any pics?

The AW4 currently in my MJ came out of a 140,000-mile plow truck with no more than the radiator cooler, and it still works a treat. The only reason I replaced the 300,000 mile AW4 (despite having cooked it pretty good a couple times because of a problematic quick-disconnect in the line) was because the plow truck's aw4 was already bolted up between the 4.0 and np242 I wanted to put in. The trans tunnel in my AX-15 XJ gets a hell of a lot warmer than the mj's, too.

Post up a pic of the setup. The MJ shocks mount to the spring plate, but the XJ shocks mount to the axle. I'm also not 100% sure someone who would leave shocks off would have bothered relocating the XJ's spring perches either...

A lot of older crew cabs were built by simply adding an extra set of front doors. It keeps costs down. I thought this build was pretty cool myself. Using XJ rear doors results in some crazy angles between doors, windows, cab trim, etc, that would make anyone with an appreciation for aesthetics flinch. Efforts to combine the two usually result in a horribly misshapen rear window. I'm too lazy to drag up old posts but the topic gets covered just about any time a "crew cab" MJ shows up... Usually an abandoned project appearing on Craigslist.

So one of my coworkers just told me he found me a friend. Sent me this: Small world, haha.

They spent 55K and couldn't figure out a proper tailgate for it? Why would you care enough about the truck to spend that much but not care about the Jeep stamping being one of the few instantly recognizable things setting it apart from every other truck out there?

Didn't realize the Flames were from Atlanta as well. Too young to remember. Everyone is just so angry about loosing teams the other direction, even though it hasn't happened for quite some time.

The best thing you can do is get it out of the path of the hurricane. Canada's nice this time of year. As someone with also absolutely no experience with hurricanes, from very indirect observation the worst damage to vehicles is due to flooding, so I would suggest seeking high ground. As far as getting hit by debris, parking near trees is probably a bad idea, or by any loose or otherwise weak structures (buildings, power poles, billboards etc). I'm thinking damage would be more likely from something falling on it than being hurled at it. But again I have no actual experience with hurricanes.

No, the Jets. Literally the franchise was moved up here from Atlanta. I used to consider myself a Canucks fan but tbh I've lost interest in following most sports. Hoping to fix that this winter. I guess it's a good thing the jays are doing well, but my experience of a year at school in Ontario brings a bad taste to my mouth at mention of the team. Every game day the cafeteria served a $#!&ty version of stadium food. Boiled hotdogs as a main course is never a good thing.

A very large bird with a very sturdy neck?

Meh. It's hard to like the local team when they're from Atlanta.

My parents have an older Koolatron that plugged into the cigarette lighter. I imagine this works about the same way. I could just leave it going in the back of the van all day and overnight without a problem, a 20-mile commute in the morning and evening was enough to keep the battery charged. Cold beverages everywhere I went and no dead batteries. It was pretty awesome.