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5-to-8 I sat there staring at it for while too. Canadian section of the XL pipeline is 529km long.

It looks so sad and lonely, like it wants someone to come out and play with it... :(

Yeah, I've got the same problem with my deck. Still the stocker, but the tape deck doesn't work. I can't get it to keep the cassette in. Radio's great when the speakers are working, which isn't quite always.

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Thought they looked pretty shiny for plastic. Awesome.

:yeah that: Great looking truck.

How swappable would a metric speedometer be? My '91 goes to 200km/h (~120mph), and the few of the Renix ones I've seen online go to 180km/h (~110mph).

A belt's not that hard to figure out. http://www.justanswer.com/ford/2o7km-replace-serpentine-belt-ford-five-hundred.html Further down on the page, the guy refuses to pay for the answer because when he went to Autozone for the belt, they gave him instructions. She'll find it empowering to change it herself. As long as she gets the right belt, but the automaton behind the counter should be able to figure that out. Have your uncle help out. A belt's a belt, whether it's on a vacuum cleaner, washing machine, or car.

You've got to upload to another host site, and then link them into a post. I use imgur, but facebook, flickr, photobucket &c work just as well.

Well, I don't know that the crack was from a rock. The light was burnt out, and I didn't notice it until after I swapped it out. Judging by how much dust was in the light itself, it could have been years since it happened.

Yeah, I was pretty sure they looked aftermarket. Not sure how well they work for rocks because I just replaced a cracked light.

Did those grills over the headlights come with? My '91's got them, and I've always wondered about them. It's the first time I've noticed them on another MJ.

ninja'd , lol

Still picking fights at 475k km. And Winnebago means "filthy water people". :thumbsup:

There's an invite form on Facebook. You plug in a name and email address, and it fires off an email. Annoyingly enough, my experience is that the first person to invite you is the only person ever mentioned, and then subsequent invites only give the name of the first person who invites you. That means that the first person to invite me, a lab partner from my first year at UOIT who happens to be a relatively hardcore muslim and who hates me because I accidentally said something he understood to be anti-muslim to his face, is the only name I ever see. So either he's trying to contact me, or facebook is trying to make me curious enough to sign up.

Sad fact of the matter is, women don't want protecting. It's the times we're in. As bad as an idea it is, there's not much that can be done. The best we can do is hope that since these women have made it as far as they have, they can hold their own.

That may well be, and if it happens, I'll let you say "I told you so" all you want. But considering I haven't increased watts over stock, I'll risk it. If it makes you feel any better, it's on my list for next summer. It's not that I don't respect your opinion, I just don't have it within my current means to do anything about it.

Ah. So not quite as big a task as starting from scratch, but still a fair amount of work. I'd never really though about modifying one for another specific application. But I'm not going to be able to afford anything for quite some time...

See, $50 after shipping isn't exactly what I'd call "cheap". If something happens, I'll have to spend the money, but until then, $50 is still a couple weeks worth of food.

Do you have pics? What all did it take to modify it?

Yeah, that's what I was wondering about. I was planning on doing new springs next summer, but I just don't want to have to do it before then. Maybe I'll dump some of the snow, since it's likely it'll still be there in March.

Yeah, I just tried it again myself, and Quadratec's website has a bunch of sylvania lights listed, the only one not called an "aftermarket upgrade" is the regular H6054, and it's listed as 35/65W. Unless the low beam circuit is different than the highbeam circuit (didn't look that way to me, but I was only at the socket end... all wires were the same size) I'm guessing the XV's now confirmed 55/65W won't hurt anything. Also, Sylvania claims you can just swap the H6054XV's in with no issue, so since I'd rather not spend more money than I have to right now (the starving student thing is beginning to look less like a joke) I'm just going to leave it as it is. If it cooks something, then whatever got cooked needed replacing anyway. The lighting in it when I bought it wasn't wonderful, but it was adequate. The only reason I replaced them was because one burnt out and the other had a hole in the lens. Another added bonus is that the Sylvania lights are made in the good ol' US of A.

What's considered a "light" load? I know my leafs aren't in the best shape, but the 200lbs of salt and the bed full of snow that I've got for traction enhancement has mine sitting on the overloads. I haven't lost traction unless I, er hem, intended to for quite some time, but I'm starting to wonder if I'm risking breaking something with the weight in there. I'm guessing I'm hauling somewhere between 500-700lbs total in there, which is only about half of the max payload? Just to be clear, I haven't added snow, it's just what fell/blew into the bed, and I didn't bother taking it out. But my bed's completely full.

I've got an ancient 2-ton hydraulic bottle jack I "inherited" from my still-living grandfather. Straps into the spot where the screw jack goes. I've never used it to lift my truck, so I don't know where I'd put it, but the screw jack that the PO had in it was pretty mangled so I didn't trust it. I've been thinking of finding someone with better fabrication skills than mine to put the head of the screw jack onto the bottle, but that's not gone past thinking. BTW, I'm really not a fan of screw jacks... takes ten minutes to accomplish what a hydraulic jack can do in thirty seconds with a hell of a lot less effort on your part. As for the lug nuts, the tire iron was stripped, so I ditched it, but the bottle jack's handle works well as a breaker bar on a ratchet.

I think the box said they were 55/65W low/high. Anyone know what stock is?