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Yea! (cough cough wheeze wheeze!) The hard part? Holding on the the walker and wrenches at the same time! That is, if I can remember where the wrenches are!

Knew a guy who lived in Wyoming. He was a LARGE man. His son's car sat closed up for a couple of months. He needed to go somewhere and only car available was closed up sons car. Got in, fired it up and headed down the road. Kept feeling like something was in his hair. Started getting sick that night. Went to hospital. Diagnosis: a nest of brown recluse in the head liner and he had quite a few bites on his head. Two weeks later his wife was a widow. Nothing they could do as the poison killed off every organ in his body. Moral of the Story: KILL THEM BUGS!!!!!!

R U moving there? Can't tow it? If you are, and want to do so, rent a uhaul to take some of your stuff and pull it on a car trailer behind the uhaul. My daughter had her grandpas 72 c-10 shipped from Redmond OR to Kansas City. I will check the name of the carrier. Did a good job. Open carrier, in the winter though. Was a DIRTY mess when she got it! And, why Madras? I have been through Madras every time we travel to Redmond (fly to portland, drive to redmond). That town is really getting with it! Clean. Nice. IF I was to move back to Oregon, IF not to Redmond, it would be Madras! But, my wife would not like it. I would, though!

Good Grief!!!!! I had you pegged for about 40-50 like me, but your WAY older almost like Eagle and Jim. Boy, was I wrong!!!! :D :D Scott Ehhhh! What say, young whippersnapper! Durn, can't you speak a little louder! My ears just ain't what they used to be! Yea, I be 62 this summer. But, hey, old is a condition not of age, but of thinking - that is, until I try to play football or baseball with people 20 our more years younger than me! OUCH!!!!!

HATE Roaches! Hope they are all belly up! But, no, never had that problem.

Great slide show! Lots of memories because I grew up in Coos Bay, and do miss all the good fishing, digging clams, catching crab, being the beaches, the beauty of the sand dunes, picking a slew of salmon, huckle, black, thimble, and other berries, and being able to go out in the forest and not worry about ticks, etc! Oregon is a state where you can be in the rain forest in the morning, on snow covered mountains by noon, and in the desert by evening. My mother was a native, born and raised in Bunker Hill, just out of Coos Bay heading south on 101. I was born while parents lived in Pennsylvania, but they moved back to Oregon in 1949 when I was about 18 months old. Lived there until 1979 when wife, two daughters and I went to Fort Wayne IN for me to attend the Seminary. Wives mother and two sisters live in Redmond, Oregon. My girls grew up in Nebraska and Missouri, and now live in Papillion (Omaha) and Indianapolis, and grandkids are in Papillion, so wife and I are planning retiring in the Kansas City area to be near them. Guess I will just have to keep on missing what I miss! Oh, yea, because of the great amount of rain and fog on the coast of Oregon, I had a t-shirt one time that said "Oregonians don't tan. They rust"!

Yea, really! Above and beyond. BTW, your MB might be an MJ! :smart:

Not the best quality, but this is the sound my 2.5 with a single in dual out Flowmaster (6 years old) with Clifford header. Two inch tail pipes, 2.25 head pipe, I think.

Ford resurrected the Mustang, Chevy the Camaro, Chrysler the Challenger, etc., but made it leaner and meaner. COMANCHE'S TIME! It needs to cause those who know the Comanche to say "looks like a comanche". Personally, this one doesn't. My version would closely resemble the Comanche with some rounded body lines with 4x2 or 4x4, I-6 or V8 (maybe a couple of versions), 5 speed or auto, two or three exterior options, and some interior options. I would go plain exterior with a V8 5speed 4x2. Yea, I know, a street jeep, but I can't afford 4 wheeling!

Ohhhhh! Do "we all live in a yellow mj" inside a "glass onion" on "strawberry fields forever"? :chillin: Taxes hit me really hard this year. :headpop: Had to close out a small IRA to pay. First of May should be able to send some site support bucks. Won't be much, but some.

then it's possible the info on the website is incorrect. fraud?

Kewl! Thanks for the clarification!

First car for my eldest back in 88-89: Ford Fairmont faded silver 4 door 6 cyl auto. Gutless wonder! When she was a bit more experienced and headed to college, we got something better, we thought: early years 4 door Olds Omega with a 4 speed.

Why did I not know you would say that about Fram!!! :yes: No, goes not about 75, so that's good news. Thanks, Eagle! BTW, IF it is a filter problem, this is the FIRST one in at least 30 years of using only Frams on ALL my cars! :nanner: But, to get everyone to be nice to me :brows: I will switch filters!!!! :thumbsup:

Same oil Same filter getting close to needing a change. I need to do a manual read on it to make sure I don't have a relief valve issue or something like that. I think I will do an oil change also and see what happens. I suppose I should take everyone's advice :smart: and switch from fram also. :brows:

Wife and I were driving on the interstate. Pulled into left lane to pass a van that had a bumper sticker on it saying "get off your cell phone and drive!" When we saw the driver she was.... scroll down ...... just a bit more ...... this should about do it ...... talking on a cell phone? Nope! Reading something opened up on her steering wheel!!!! :nuts:

:huh???: Ok. My 87 2.5 MJ that I bought with over 200,000 about 7 yrs ago had a plastic valve cover on it with the big hole on the front and it goes to the air box, and the little hole in the back that goes to the vacuum. It never had a PCV in it. :???: Sooooo.... the guy before me put a later cover on it, but still a plastic cover?????? Or, maybe I have a later long block??? :banana:

Start it and op jumps to 60 psi at idle. Drive and goes to about 70. When warm drops to about 40 at idle and shows 60-65 at hwy speed. Used to show when cold about 40 at idle and 60 when going, then 20 or so at idle when warm and about 50 with rpms up. When I shut it off, needle has always stayed showing the op it had when shut off but when I turn ign switch on again needle goes to zero before starting. It's always done that (normal, I understand), and still does that. Anyway, it's as though the whole scale shifted up about 20 psi.

History they supply in a link shows no wreck. First owner appeared to be govmt. Second the seller.

Thanks! I have a mechanic close at hand and can borrow a gauge if I need to. Anyway, I bought an "American Auto" off brand one about a year ago so I probably should get a "good" one!

don't have extra gauge, so I will replace sender and see what happens. I'm thinking not gauge since it acts normal when shutting off and turning back on.

... moves between a little below middle line to 3/4 line while running, but when turn off and turn on again, does go to 0 like normal. Just started doing this. Sending unit?

And up until about 6 months ago my daughter used to live at 79th and Dearborn in one of the Drummond homes built there, so very familiar with that area! Been in your store, shopped at the Price Chopper, used the QT, and had beers and food at the bar and grille on the West side of Metcalf on 79th. Couple of times had my white swb MJ over there.

Something else, maybe. Was it outside in the elements (sun and cold) this whole time with windows always rolled up? If so, interior will have been affected, (vinyl dash, vinyl/leather on seats, etc) window stripping, etc. also. Washed and waxed properly? Or, just rinsed now and then? Vinyl/leather interior protected or left to bake in the heat, freeze in the cold? Gas, oil, fluids left to sit turn caustic and bad, and affects the engine and transmission. Were fluids changed as per schedule for low mileage cars? All of this adds up to a car with maybe a few miles on it but all the problems of a 10 year old car left outside in the elements and barely driven. In all honesty, it should have been sold as a low mileage used car not well maintained, if this is the case. Didn't notice, but would they give you the full new car warranty?

I have read those sites before, and agree others are better, but how can 260,000 miles and none of the problems mentioned here (bad lifers, cams, etc) showing up mean all the Frams I used were terrible for my engine? :dunno: