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This gremlin sounds incredibly familiar... any chance you'd share what the issue was?

The gas station here in Wasagaming, MB is selling 87 octane for CAD$1.389, which google tells me is US$5.10/gal. Guess that's what I get for living in a tourist town...

I came across this a while back, maybe even from a member on here. It looks good, but it didn't look like it would take much to scrape the coating off, and it's pretty freaking expensive, too.

22 gal is a six-pack/week. Not all that much... Amen to the rye!

Saw something about that on Top Gear's news feed. Looked pretty awesome. Kinda wished I could go, but with all the pub the auction's getting, everything is likely to be astronomically out of my price range. :(

So ever since I bought my MJ ('91 4.0 HO) my horn hasn't worked. I picked up a couple working horns at the wrecker the other day, and was going to replace it. Then I thought to check, and realized the relay wasn't clicking. I couldn't find the relay itself, so I popped the button off just to make sure it was working and it didn't seem to have any wires going to it. Is this normal and I just need a new relay (where is it?), or is there something missing? I pulled the wheel off and couldn't find any retracted wires in the column, but I didn't dig very far. The horn will sound with a jumper direct from the battery, so I know that's not the issue...

From what I've read about the Olds diesels, most of the issues with them were down to people treating them as if they were gassers that ran diesel fuel. I've only ever seen one of them on the road, but it was in a rez bomber so it could be complete coincidence that it wasn't running so great. My guess is that as you suspect, it would it would be pretty heavy for an unreinforced MJ.

Sitting at Wesman Salvage in Brandon, MB (~260 miles north of Bismark, ND) LWB, 4x4, auto. Build date 12/91 318,000 km (200k miles) Maroon interior & exterior, with matching bed canopy. Slight front end damage (twisted bumper and smashed grill) almost entirely complete except for rear axle, driver's seat and the canopy's rear window. Rear bumper and bed were slightly damaged by the idiot who picked it up with a forklift. No pictures because my camera took a $#!&, but I may be back for the rear bumper in a few days to see if it's salvageable. Also maybe the canopy but I'm unsure if I want it. I'm almost tempted to see what they'd want for the whole truck because it's in better shape than my dd.

I second putting it on a trailer. Not absolutely necessary, but it saves a whole lot of vehicle wear, takes less effort to hook up, runs less risk of dragging it around in gear without noticing and is honestly much safer. Uhaul's rates are something like $60/day to rent a trailer, and the price to buy a new car hauler is a drop in the ocean compared to an RV.

Just mowed my parents' lawn. First time this year... filled my entire long bed with clippings.

Two fingered salute off the wheel at any jeep I see. Full on waving like a maniac at the very few other MJ's I've seen.

^I'd say this is pretty normal for some people... Half the bolts are missing from under the hood of my dad's van (bought off a chevy dealer who must have got it as a trade-in from the world's worst diy mechanic) and my MJ's missing a bunch of nuts/bolts in the front clip. The MJ also has an old ratcheting wrench rusted onto one of the bolts behind the driver's headlight. I'd have to dissassemble to take it out, and I have no desire to do so without a good reason since it seems to be hanging together pretty well.

When I replaced my dizzy a couple months back, a buddy stopped by to check on what I was doing, reached up and pulled a screwdriver out of the lip along the front edge of my hood. I'd been looking for that screwdriver and trying to figure out why my hood wasn't shutting quite right for several months... :doh:

My stock radio didn't work when I got my truck. PO said he was about to get an aftermarket system because he couldn't figure out why it didn't work. I replaced a couple fuses and suddenly it started working...

Yeah, there's definitely another frame under there. No way they separated the cab from the mj's chassis. The front end of it looks wrong, anyway.

The uncle of one of the guys on my FSAE team has offered to do custom vinyl wrap graphics for our cars, which are pretty well unique shapes. He does it digitally, so any digital picture you've got can be worked into it, although vector drawings are a must if you're blowing something up and don't want it to look terrible. There's probably a place a little closer to where you live than Regina SK, though. Most sign printers would be able to do a vinyl (or similar) sticker graphic for a flatish surface (like every body panel on an MJ) pretty easily, too. Some of them may even also do wraps.

I've had issues with my lwb's turning radius, but only due to the fact that we're not allowed to reverse into parking spots in my lot at school, and, because most students are dumbasses and don't drive all the way into their spots, the aisle between the stalls is less than a car length wide. In winter at times it's barely wide enough to drive through, let alone park in one of the spots. This is the only place I've found turning radius to be an issue, and I'm not the only one who's complained about that lot.

Spotted a couple MJ's in western Manitoba, on my 60 mile commute to work. I've driven more than once past a pretty sick looking camo'd MJ, looks like possibly a vinyl wrap or a lot of patience, with a white cap, lifted by a fair amount, on the west side of Elphinstone, just off highway 45. Today sometime around 5-5:30 pm. I also turned off the gravel onto 21 just south of Oakburn right after a light blue, short bed 4.0 pioneer went past. Looked like a rez bomber at first glance, possibly a 2wd from how low it was in the front, but it had a pretty serious rake. Followed it for a while then went by it just north of Shoal Lake. I waved, but the girl driving it didn't give me a second glance. :( Then when I turned west onto 16 she just kept going into Shoal lake. No pics cause my camera took a tumble down the stairs and the lens is fubar.

In the yellow box in the bottom corner, каталог запчастей. Phonetically, that's "katalog zapchastey" I figure katalog will be pretty obvious, but "запчастей" is "of parts". Or so Google tells me. It's not in my dictionary.

From the second page of BAW pics:

Factory service manual, maintenance shedule, diagnostics and a parts catalogue, all rolled into one? Cool. I may be wrong on some of that... my dictionary (circa 1952) doesn't have some of those words...

Good to hear you got the oil leak fixed. For future reference, though, the dizzy gasket is usually a flat ring (like a washer) that goes around the shaft, between the mating surfaces of the engine block and the distributor housing. And unless the housing is cracked, I don't imagine you'd ever see oil coming out of the dizzy anywhere else than past the gasket.

I've seen a build or two on here with that clip. That's the Jeep 2500 front clip, the 2500 being a later Chinese-market XJ. I don't think they look too bad, but don't know that they match the rest of the truck so well.

Partly why I was asking about the distributor gasket being there before was because, as I discovered again today, it's very easy to lose them... they can get knocked off if you set them on the engine block's surface, and they can simply fall off if you slide them over the dizzy shaft. I was messing around with my timing today because I'm an idiot sometimes, and I've got the later style distributor so you have to pull it out every time you want to move it. Must have dropped that gasket ten times. Then I had everything all buttoned up at the end and went for a drive, and found it sitting on the ground again when I got back. Fortunately it's bright red...

Rock auto carries new fuel tanks if you don't want to try fixing it. I'll be going that route later this summer. I looked into fixing the leak in mine, but discovered that the whole side is rusting badly from wheel spray. I've definitely heard of people repairing them, though. JB weld should be fuel safe. Edit:: JB weld is gasoline safe but not ethanol proof... so that's a no-go.