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Bad regulator? Something in your charging system is cooking things... Could be a short or bad connection somewhere else,

4x4 swap. Get 4x4 XJ and swap over all the 4x4 stuff. It'll bolt right on, except you need to shorten your rear driveshaft.

Heh, I agree with you. Especially when doing things that require multiple pages/pdfs. It's nice to be able to have them all open in front of you and visible, and not have to sort through a stack of windows. Also, for car things, and such, it's less hassle to bring the books or papers over to the car than a computer (even a laptop or tablet) and there's less concern about getting them dirty.

So that means when your truck breaks you cry Uncle? :yes:

mm... missed that. Read 2.5... :doh:

This begs the question, why do you want to go to a carb?

Factory could also be XJ for this piece, no? Or even aftermarket XJ.

^Я не думаю что многие члены живут в Москве, lol But yeah, there's not much you can do to waterproof an alternator except get it out of the water. They need ventilation to keep from burning out. There are some off highway alternators that might be better, but still not perfect. You might also try putting on some kind of splash shield or something similar.

I bought my truck with what looks to be a factory drop-in liner. Pros: completely water-tight? says Jeep on it. Cons: No tie-downs unless I want to cut holes in it, in which case I expose the bed to water which will then just sit there under the liner... My $0.02 us that you're better off with the paint-it-on liquid kind (either spray or roll-on) unless you never plan on using your tie-downs.

I know that one! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGr7lXlyK3Y

My best guess is that fugly thing is intended for asian markets as a loosely off-roadish luxury suv. That sort of thing is pretty big right now, as per my chinese roommate.

Yeah, always sad when a vehicle gets scrapped with life still in it. Seems like a waste. At least it's going to live on in other vehicles.

$1000 sounds pretty good for a chop shop, though.

Who'd pave a road with potash? It'd be gone after the first rain! :yes:

I'm learning that lesson too... did the same thing in snow that deep (above my bumper but I'm still at stock ride height). Not once but twice. She don't do so well with the underpan sitting on top of the snow and the wheels paddling though powder. Or mud in your case. A winch is probably in my future. As for lockers, well, we'll see how my budget looks this summer...

I might try to figure out why the radio comes on with the headlights. It might fix the problem. A bunch of years ago, my dad was trying to figure out why the brake lights on our camper weren't working, and then I noticed a plume of smoking coming out of the aftermarket tape deck. Turned out a trailer brake wire was shorting against one of the speaker wires. A couple pieces of electrical tape later, and the brake lights started working again. Tape deck never was the same again, though. I'm assuming you've checked all your fuses. I'd look for what's going into the ignition switch. If there's no power there, you'll get nothing out of it. Starting there, trace "upstream" until you find where the problem is.

So after spending 10 minutes in cuffs and a few minutes in the back of a cruiser until the cop dug the registration out of the glove box and my license out of my wallet before he believed that I wasn't stealing my own truck, I've decided it's time to really figure out what's wrong with it. '91 4L auto. For the last couple months, I've been having an intermittent no-crank issue. I was thinking neutral safety switch, because the first few times it wouldn't crank when I turned the key, I could "solve" the issue by shifting into neutral, but no luck with that in the last few weeks. I've also intermittently had no reverse lights. But now I'm also beginning to suspect the ignition switch, because this morning everything died when I turned to "start", but came on again when I went back to "on". Don't remember that happening before. In the past, it was usually as if the key was still at "on" when I tried to start it. So far, crawling underneath with a fat screwdriver across the solenoid has worked to start it (with the key on, it fires right up) but I'm getting the impression that it's not always a good idea to let other people see me doing this, and lately it seems to do it when I've parked in the dirtiest or wettest spot possible, and with break-up approaching, I'm expecting a lot more of that... Today's, er, incident may be the motivation I needed to clean up the nss as per http://jeepin.com/features/nss but is there something else I should be looking at? What should I do to find the root issue(s). It'll be a while before I can get my truck into a warm and dry shop to look into it (the tractor lab I usually "borrow" after the janitors have left is currently full of tractor) but the last time I went looking for the nss I wasn't sure I'd found it.

Yeah, state to province differences ;) Last summer, a co-worker's boyfriend was sitting in a parking lot at a mall waiting to pick her up, parked perfectly legally within a properly marked spot. She walks out the door, and sees someone come roaring into the lot and plows right into him hard enough to total both cars and push her boyfriend's car into the car in the next stall and do significant damage to it. Apparently that's equal fault because he was in the driver's seat. :dunno:

Source? I occasionally don't find foreign languages that big an obstacle...

MPI only covers you for things that happen on public roads. If it's in a parking lot, both parties are equally at fault, no matter what happened, unless one of the vehicles was properly parked and unoccupied. And if the road's been closed for weather or anything like that, you're not covered.

Still haven't had an offer to buy mine (only had it for seven months) but I pulled into a 10-min oil change the other day because I was in a hurry and it needed done... and the guys in there were all over it. Really good feeling.

Annual insurance premium is $439. That's "basic all-purpose" because I had to for driving to school, with a $300 deductible (because I get completely free glass repair and wildlife with it) and an extended $2,000,000 third-party liability. Not sure the $17 deductible extension really matters since they'd likely just write it off, but the liability went up from 250k for only an extra $23/year, so I figured why not. I'm not really sure I have an option to not get full coverage... but I wouldn't bother making claims for small things because I'm near positive they'd cut me a check for $200 and write her off. If you had it insured as a classic, or vintage, or whatever you call it, it might be a different story.

:yeah that: :laughin:

I just noticed today that mine comes on whether or not I'm actually in 4x4, so long as the lever is pushed back, even if it's not quite far enough back to engage.

Probably obvious, did you try putting the socket onto the plug then the ratchet onto the socket?