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Marriage involves give and take for both people. It is the two becoming one. The most important thing about marriage is to know living together before marriage never helps. What helps is even before becoming engaged, each person takes a look at themselves in relationship to a bunch of different things and how you view them and, if rightly necessary, change my attitude toward them: finances, family, sexuality, etc, etc, etc. If either person is unwilling to change their ways if that way is wrong and it is going to hurt the marriage, then it needs to be dealt with. This includes insisting that you watch movies with me instead of enjoying your hobby, or insisting that it is more important to be in my shop rather than wanting to do things the other person enjoys, including watching a movie. When you find out you are unwilling to make necessary changes, get help in dealing with why. It is possible to be having an "affair" with my stuff, or with my movies. Marriage is really the hardest "job" anyone will ever have, but it is also the most wonderful, and requires a lot of constant work. Been at it for 40 years now, and there have been LOTS of bumps and roadblocks, but together we have faced them. BTW, IF necessary, my MJ will go. But because it is not consuming me, my wife understands my desire to keep it.

Wellllll!!! So far I am the only pastor on here! Hey! Maybe I'm the only pastor in the United States that owns an MJ! Kewl!!!

Plain. Give me plain. No body side moldings! Single color except for black bumpers, flares, etc. Oh, maybe a thin barely noticeable pin stripe, but nothing more. I even removed the black on the "Jeep" on the tailgate.

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Wow! Great find, but look for mouse chewed wiring!

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Back about 2002 needed a pickup. Owned a 94 XJ. While looking for the PU spotted an MJ in the back of a lot and remembered, "they did make a pu! I forgot!" Had 240,000 on it already, but mechanically seemed good, except for a lot of wander in the manual steering and it was covered with "green stuff" from not being truly washed for a long time, but underneath was a straight body with good paint and no rust. Have added another 100,000 miles to it. Manual steering gear replaced, and 2.5 overhauled, and she keeps on ticking!

Ford Parts Counterman being groomed to become Manager until in 1979 went to the Seminary in Fort Wayne Indiana and am now a pastor in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. Thunk about getting a license plate for my MJ that says THE REV :brows:

Probably right. Didn't notice the retractable ones at seatbeltsplus. Sounds like Hoffmann is the best way to go price wise given the "special offer" for us "poor" MJ types!

Ahh. I see. When doing the choosing of year, make, etc, they let you choose the style. For the three point their picture shows a pair of them, but when you actually select it and the color, they show only one. So, the price is per side and not for both like the initial picture showed. SeatBeltsPlus wins on expense but no retractor (have to use the old one) but Hoffman wins having the retractor.

These appear to come with the retractor, but seatbeltplus doesn't seem to and charge more. Hoffmangroup wins!

I've been mulling over the same idea. Want to even out the look of front and rear. Aftermarket wheels with enough less backspace to make my rear wheels even in the fender well with the front would mean the fronts would stick out farther, unless I used maybe 7 inch on front and 8 or 8.5 inch on the back to compensate, but there goes being able to rotate all 4. So, for me, rear spacers with backspacing about the same as stock would be needed with aftermarkets, but those are hard to find in what I want. Being a 4 x 2 street jeep, I would like to get American Racing Torque Thrust D's, but they don't have back spacing of at least 5 inches in a 7 or 8 inch wheel :dunno: So, Spacers on the back and keep the stock wheels, I guess.

Know what I like about the website of this link? Mine is under "classic vehicles"! Yea! :banana:

Oh! How could that be attached to a refrigerator about the size of a keg and have a tap coming out with speakers behind the grill and the lights hooked up to a synthesizer so they would .... Oh, forget it! Make it a wall hanging for the garage!

So, suppose all of us otta pull our pedal and weld the metal for mental sake! ;)

This is good to know. I heard others say they noticed a loss of power. But, makes sense since its not pumping unless turning. Did you have to change any of the steering linkage beyond the pitman?

Got a 2.5 or 2.8 in your 86? If a 2.5, PS will rob lotsa power from the older 2.5's. My 87 manual steering 2.5 (we called it in the "old" days ArmStrong steering) is just fine. If you are a 2.5 or even a 2.8, I would stick with manual steering.

Betcha didn't drive it in the 1960's when all today's tourist towns were not tourist towns but places where people worked out a living in the fishing industry. But, alas, that got hammered by government regulations and brought about the need for tourism to take the place of all the lost revenue from fishing so people could make a living. :grrrr: Sport fishing took the place of commercial fishing, and still you would get smacked with huge fines if you caught and kept the wrong salmon (kinda tough to tell them apart at times) at the wrong time. Oh, for the good old days when it was so much fun to stop in at any small restaurant or a bar along the way in almost any town along 101 and join in with the locals and have a good time. But now, all of them, unless you get off the beaten path, have become tourist attractions. :(

In 2004 I had my manual box replaced while in Oregon at my inlaws. Les Schwab ordered it and installed it. Honestly don't remember if it was new or rebuilt, but I think new.

Grew up in Coos Bay, Oregon, next door to North Bend, Oregon. Left there in 1979, but prior to that drove both directions on 101 quite often. Back then traveling south from Coos Bay was a lot easier than north. I drove 101 about 10 years ago in the northern half of Oregon during the summer and it was a bumper to bumper mess because of tourists! If you drive it, be ready for a LOT of slow going especially this time of year. But, as said, well worth it. Take in the Sand Dunes. Stop and do some fishing. Enjoy the beaches. Stop at agate beach. Enjoy the curvy road! Be ready for a LOT of fog on the coast (at least it used to be foggy a lot)!

Ya mean what us old timers called "granny gear"? :clapping:

I wondered about XJ belts in my MJ also. But again, they are used, especially the driver side. My retractors still work fine, but the drivers side belts are really fraying, and the female end of the buckle has been taped together too many times. In the case of a bad retractor, anyone know if they can be swapped from passenger to driver side? I will have to take a peek. Concerning these belts at seatbeltsplus, note they strongly say they are not vehicle specific and may not work in your particular application, but my measurements suggest what they offer should work in an MJ.

Dave Just posted about needing bench belts also. I found this. Check it out. http://www.seatbeltsplus.com/product/CH256P.html

I have had an Atra (or Atra plus) razor that uses the dual blades that clip on the the head. I have had this for about 40 years, and I buy the Walmart version of the blade that is about 3 bucks for 10 blades. Never had a problem with them. I have bought the name brand blades at times, but they actually pulled more than the Walmart. I tried electric one time, and went back to my old Atra. I don't have a heavy beard, but I do have very thick hair shafts, so thick that when my wife cuts my hair and uses scissors my hair flies off like when you cut small wire with cutters.

I do, and looky what I found! http://www.seatbeltsplus.com/product/CH256P.html