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What is that, like, two inches?

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mm... guess they musta changed them going to '91... mine: Or else a different speedometer was used in the gauge set with the tach... I suppose you could always draw yourself an overlay that converts them, and carefully cut and paste?

:rotf: That's why we train monkeys :thumbsup: :cheers:

Unless the cord's shorting, you're unlikely to start a fire with the block heater, as it will only ever increase coolant temperature by about 25°C (45°F), and it typically takes a good eight hours to do that much. Assuming the thing works, you'll likely hear a low hiss after you plug it in, like a really quiet electric kettle. That's about it. Unless your speedo's very different from mine, it likely also reads in mph, no? Also, mine's marked up to 115mph, unlike the good ol' 85 you got down south. As for the rest of the dash, 100°C is boiling. But I've got no clue what the oil pressure gauge means, either... I just watch where it normally sits and hope "normal" really is normal... :dunno: As for everything else wrong with it, I'm going to blame the idiotic defector who likely brought it down there for that. Didn't he know you're supposed to bring the rust-free Texas trucks this direction, and not take the incredibly rare rust-free Canadian trucks down there? :nuts:

Weekend before last, I went out to the lake, drove around a bit, built a bonfire on the beach, had a blast. There's footage somewhere that I'll post if/when I get a hold of it. Awesome day, got out there before the sun was up, and watched it set before we left.

Unless it's a pic I took myself, I use the source url for pics I post in anywhere. I'm not copying it and reposting it as my own, just posting a peephole for others to look through to see the original (or at least where I got it). Still technically not legal, but anyone looking into the pic can see where I got it, and if the owner didn't want others to see it, it's not all that hard to put their own curtains around it.

Ah, yeah. I used notepad and/or textedit for the small amount of programming stuff I did in highschool, and it could definitely have used some improvement for that function, but it's what we were told to use. Sounds good, thanks!

A buddy of mine has a Ranger that he used as a tow vehicle for his motorcross stuff. This summer, he picked up a POS Neon, and let the insurance lapse on his truck. He's saving $50/month, in gas and insurance. If he had both of them registered, but was only driving the Neon around, he wouldn't be saving money, because the fuel savings wouldn't add up to the cost of registering the Ranger. When he needs to register the Ranger, he just transfers the insurance over to it. Since the summer, he's saved himself $200, including the initial price of the Neon and the work/parts he put into it to get it on the road. I'd imagine the savings would be a bit more if his tow vehicle were bigger than a Ranger. Another thing to bear in mind is that most older half-tons don't do all that much better MPG wise than 3/4 tons do, which would make it roughly equal whichever one you chose as a single vehicle, and depending on how built your MJ is, it might be a bit much for a 1/2 ton... I would be tempted between either A and C. If you daily driver breaks, then you still can get around in the other vehicle (MJ or Tow vehicle). I'm in the boat where my only car is buggered, so I can't drive it to get the parts to fix it (and don't really have the time). Fortunately I'm not dependent upon it, but it's a major inconvenience. Not to mention I'm OCD enough that it really bothers me that something I have is broken so I can't use it. The only concern is space for the third vehicle (and the trailer!). I don't have space for two, but I'd guess if you've got room for two, then you'd have room for three or four...

:yeah that: Publishing something anywhere is equivalent to claiming the copyright, whether or not it's actually specifically mentioned. In fact, you have to specifically mention for it to be otherwise. In the past, it was common practice for people to copyright things by mailing them to themselves, thereby doing an incredibly brief publication. Also, if they carefully arranged it so the work itself was also the envelope, then it got stamped by the post office, and had an official "date of publication". Nothing on the internet is public property, or in the public domain (no copyright holder). If that was so, you couldn't be penalized for pirating movies and such. True, unless copyright has been officially registered, it's incredibly unlikely a court will uphold the copyright unless there's a decent chunk of change involved (mostly because it's very difficult to prove ownership of an unregistered copyright), but just because a crime is likely to go unpunished doesn't mean it isn't a crime.

The Chevy engine was done under AMC (who pulled quite a few parts out of GM's bin) but then it got axed when Chrysler bought out AMC. Dodge has been under Chrysler since 1928, so putting a Dodge engine into a Jeep is a bit like an adopted younger brother getting hand me downs to, instead of getting them from a family friend, like putting in a Chevy engine engine would be. Chrysler also started putting Magnum V8's into Jeep's, so there's argument for that not being cross-contamination there, too. Either way, it's a bit of a stretch to say it's not cross-contamination in either case. I can see being purist and wanting to only go with what's original, but once you're swapping in something that didn't come with it originally, well, how pure can you make it be after that?

A compliment it may be, but unless it was uploaded to a site that specifically mentions otherwise, it's still against copyright laws for him to use it without your permission. Unfortunately, to make an official copyright violation claim through the courts, it has to have been officially registered with the copyright office, or whatever it's called. Which does cost money. So while he is doing something which is more than likely illegal (it's also considered bad sport to use something belonging to someone else without their permission) there's hot much that can be done beyond making a stink with him and any website he's used it on.

They've got an '89 MJ in row 74... Unless I'm doing it wrong, you've got to search for specifics, and they don't list anything more than year make model and location... Makes it a little hard to look through for suggestions. There's bunches of Dodge trucks and ZJ's, mostly from the 90's.

As has been already said, a 350 is likely the easiest to come by cheap, and the existing aftermarket is huge, but because of that, it's not very unique... I'm a bit of a fan of the more modern GM v8's, very compact, and like the sbc, they go into everything, and there's a pretty decent aftermarket. With the advent of computers, they're not so easy to just bolt in and go, but they are pretty compact for the amount of power you can get out of them so it's not hard to make them fit, and they're pretty darned reliable too. I personally think the 4.0 HO in my MJ is enough power-wise, but to each his own. You'd likely get a bit of an MPG bump, too, but not by much. I dream sometimes about swapping an LS7 from the C6 Z06 into just about anything... it would be completely overkill, and I'm 99% positive there's no way to get them cheap, ever. GM sells them new in crate for the price of a brand new reasonably equipped small car...

Don't like OSX's built-in text editor? Just curious.

You don't have a healthy quilt of snow back there? :rotfl2: Keeps ya from sticking, and adds to the excitement!

Guess I can see that. Still, my experience is that until there's heat in the engine, there won't be any heat coming out of the vents, and it does take a while to warm up when idling. But whatever buoys your float.

I took a course in C++ my first year at UOIT, got a B in the class. I'll have to retake the course now that I've transferred here because they teach a different language, not sure which. I took a Russian course last year as a bucket list thing. Not too bad, once you wrap your head around the cases and the wonky alphabet. Did reasonably well. Mind you, it's structurally pretty similar to other Indo-European languages, and I'm fluent in two (english and french) and moderately able in Spanish. Urdu is also IE. Chinese (or well, Mandarin... no such language as "Chinese") uses intonation and a retarded pictographic alphabet, but it's a pretty simple structure, and therefore I imagine it not being all that difficult. For a real challenge, try the Native American languages, or one in the Uralic family (like Finnish or Hungarian).

What's the likelihood of another run coming up this summer? And/or what would shipping be up to west/central Canada? (I don't know where I'll be) I know most people do their building in winter when they aren't out enjoying the summer, but as a student, that's when I've got money, and I know I need new springs.

The toilet in the basement at the place my dad lives when he's working gets a ring around it too, when it doesn't get used for a while... looks like the mold we know is behind the shower that the property owners won't do anything about... Don't know what's in Jim's water, but our hard water sounds about the same (a slow leak at a bad pipe joint in the basement grew a stalactite once) and I doubt it would settle the stomach much. If anything, the taste unsettled mine. Not to mention, it has a pH of about 6.

My home town's water is a bit like that... comes out of the tap almost cloudy. One winter my dad tried to get some humidity into the air by continuously boiling a pot on the stove. After a few days of boiling and adding more tap water, the water in the pot was a milky brownish yellow. I can't stand to drink the stuff because of the way it tastes (really chalky and metallic) and for the most part they don't use tap water for making coffee or anything else. They buy reverse osmosis water for about $0.25/gallon at the grocery store. That being said, my parents have no filtration whatsoever, and it was ten years after they moved in before they had to replace the hot water tank. They replaced a faucet and taps in a bathroom, and the washing machine (20 year old Kenmore) has started dribbling into itself a bit, despite replaced valves. My dad doesn't want to pay for his own distiller or reverse osmosifier(?) although he's thought about it. His thoughts on a water softener is that there's no point trying to dissolve more stuff into the water... But if your water isn't gnawing away at your plumping like a hyena behind the slaughterhouse, then I wouldn't worry too much. As for stains, yeah, the water leaves them, and it seems like there's nothing you can do about it. Until you hit them with CLR, and then it's like the stain was never there.

I concur. Long story short, I dropped and drained my tank into a bunch of gallon pails (all I had). The tank got knocked around a lot on the way down, and then it sat a few hours while I was trying to figure out why Napa sent me an XJ tank. I jumped the relay to pump the gas out. The only pail with $#!& in it was the first one out of the tank, and I had the pump going until nothing came out.

Well, that's what they're intended for, but back in September when it was still warm out I saw a volt plugged into one in a faculty lot, so I guess they also double as electric vehicle infrastructure?? The ones on campus are supposedly "smart" which I think means they cycle on and off to save power, and there's something about surge protection and shutting off if the connection isn't right, but I'd have to reread the bumpf they gave me when I paid for my spot... At any rate, just about everywhere you pay for parking have them, as do most hotels. This is also the reason you see extension cords sticking out of the snow, or strung through trees along the sidewalks in residential areas...

I also remember reading a study that suggested that drivers who installed one also tended to change their driving habits with it on. Personal experience is that people claim slight advantage just to make it seem worth it. The above mentioned friend did it as part of a highschool science project because his teacher was a huge fan of HHO. He ran some reasonably well controlled tests, and got no improvement, so he fudged his results to say that the HHO improved his mileage by 2-3 mpg. danbyrambler's experience (with someone not knowing it's there, eliminating the (sub)concious oh, I should drive properly), as well as the Mythbusters' controlled testing, and my friend's tests and real results are what to go off, not someone who doesn't want to admit getting duped. No one who bought one of the magic systems online or wherever doesn't really want to admit they wasted money on snake oil...

Saw one last year on the street here in Stoon, turned to my buddy and asked what it was, cause it was (and I quote) "@#$%in' awesome." I was kinda looking around for one this summer, but then I found my MJ. It's on the list of "cars I will one day own". But then so is the Koenigsegg Agera, so... yeah.