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So many questions so few answers and things that make you go hmmm. Are mechanics being focused for these special services? Based on some market study? Or is it a male directed campaign? Do other 'groups' get similar offers? Since the only reports I see are through this topic specific forum. Perhaps these individuals really do need whatever is listed and are short on cash and cutting out this avenue for them may create a hardship.

A couple of us tried to get some concern for this bill before it passed, but nobody here was interested. Now you cry. It speaks loudly of the poor caliber of the individuals in Congress. If they had at least prorated on mileage instead all or nothing at 18mpg, it would have been a more useful bill for their cause. It's just the wrong solution to the wrong problem and is just going to cost us. It would have been simpler all the way around to have a raffle and give out money to some people so that they could spend on whatever and then create more jobs. But that would be consider 'Trickle down' economics and that's bad. Is that the official way to destroy an engine? We've all heard of cars that haven't had any oil in them for years and keep running. I wonder how many tanks of gas they will use to destroy an engine. Sure the lack of coolant has a significant influence, but what if it was aircooled? It's great that parts might remain in the pipeline.

The more maintenance and repairs that you do yourself, the less sense economically it makes to buy a new(er) vehicle. You also have the known entity advantage (especially applies when buying a used vehicle) and the emotional advantage. Once you get over the appearance issue (you know, being seen in an old clunker), you have a home run because you don't have to worry about every dent and scratch. Also the longer you own it the more knowledge you gain on maintaining it, thus increasing it's reliabiltiy and decreasing repair costs. Despite what everyone thinks, vehicles have greatly improved for reliability, durabilty and even rust. The down side for the manufactureres is then inadvertently created another competitor - their own older vehicles. I don't think anybody has seriously considered the impact of this facit.

The safety chain hook ups are the holes next to you hitch. It looks like you have wires going thru one of them.

I can tell you that is not a Ford axle up through the mid thirties. They all had a I beam type section. Yours looks tubular. Henry also insisted on the transverse spring until 49 (after he died), so is there any evidence of spring perches on the axle?

Is there an interesting reason why you want to know?

Do they still make the boxes that mount to the sides with a cutout for the fender well? I have one in my Cherokee. I have an over the rail bed liner in my MJ and it's retained with drawer locks. They give me access to the cavities behind the bed liner. The rear ones are an easiy unlock and flex, but the front ones mean undoing the rear one and reaching in against the bed liner. Limited weather protection, so plastic bags help. I keep tiedowns, jumper cables, towrope, and trailer hitch in the four cavities.

Like Ren says, squeeze. Try one spot, if no go, rotate 90°. Better than prying. I think the plastic parts has internal flats which allow deformation and it elongates allowing it to fall off. The side without the ribs would be my quess for the best place to squeeze.

I stand corrected. Two options. Yours where you get a $100 windshield and a cracked dash. Or have someone estimate his suggestion of labor and cost of a JY one out and in yours and reduce the bill by that amount. That would definitely reduce the dollar amount between your two positions. You don't have to tell anybody here what an individual's value is of their truck, but there is also value in getting it overwith and not dealing with the person again. Keep the emotion out of it and decide how you can get as close to what you want from the situation. There is no question you are right in wanting an uncracked dash, but as you said how much time are you willing to commit to the cause. I'm sure the installer wants to make it right but what options does he have. He can't turn the clock back. He proposed a solution. That stake needs to be establish with a dollar value. You have your solution. You need to meet somewhere inbetween. The only question is closer to whose solution? The difference is something less than $135. The lawyers will cost alot more. Your handle is his word of mouth advertising. And that would be the Free Market at work if it was allowed these days.

This is going to be argue for ever, so let's sum up the facts. The dash is cracked. I recall 64 Cheyenne was planning to replace it. Installer offered to install one from the JY. I see a reasonable solution is to have the installer buy a dash of Cheyenne's choice and Cheyenne gets what he wants. The dash may cost more than a JY one but the installer's labor is saved from both pulling two dashes and reinstalling one. Cheyenne gets a better dash and does what he was going to do anyway. If Cheyenne chooses a JY one, the installer can still pull it.

Have you seen the latest press on this one? Not everyone can take advantage of it, limited in scope, and won't do what they want except increase spending. 1. Must get worst than 18 mpg - according to who? Not a whole lot of cars get less than EPA 18 mpg except big trucks, SUV 2. 4 mpg increase gets you $3500, $10 mpg gets you $4500. - brings this part of the fleet up to 28mpg, which is not much of an improvement. If the goal is to sell more trucks to help the Big Three, how many new trucks qualify? Maybe if you had a 12-16 mpg truck. 3. The latest version expires in Sept or so - very limited window. Haven't they heard consumers are timid these days(job market). Still a big expenditure even with the incentive. Thank goodness we still have some wealthy people here. 4. This one realy gets me - 25 years or older do not qualify??????????? Was this to appease the collector car owners? Because otherwise they will trade their 'Baby'. Or is it to jab the the guy who makes his car last but has some cash to finally buy new, but he gets left out? I really can't figure the rational for this condition. A sale is a sale. I hope they didn't break something with all this thinking/dealing they were doing.

Occassionally. That's my experience with a 2.5L, 5 speed and towing with the standard ratio, not the trailer package with the lower numerical ratio. Towing 2000 lbs± is okay until you hit a hill, any hill, then you will be dropping gears. Not just fifth but often down to 2nd don't remember any use of first. Long highway grades will probably need third. Lots of clutch slipping yet I'm at 187000 with the same clutch. Like I said occasional towing. 1000 lb max might not be too bad but be prepared for a parade of people behind you.

Darn those neighbors that have thing yu can borrow. Otherwise a good alternative is a towbar. Still some around to rent for $20 and don't have to pull it around while empty. Easy enough to build one if planning on other acquisitions.

Gee, what's your point? It would be interesting to know how many people catch the irony versus 'isn't that nice'. Was it posted in the general media or only with that caption?

Wow, now I'm really concerned about the caliber of the members of Congress. The bill doesn't support their goal. Maybe they are a lot more coy they I give them credit. Perhaps they purposely wrote a flawed bill to be ineffective yet satisfy the people who want one. However, it looks like typical management mentality, now that they own a company or two, that is looking for a quick fix regardless of the facts. Do they all go double or nothing when they are losing? Gee, you only need one good deal to - break even, but many chances to fall deeper. Why don't they turn the factories to make all the same vehicle to save cost? It's a shame the American dream now is to win the lottery or sue someone if that fails. What happen to work hard and get ahead? You know provide a product or service that is desired.

It will be stratified as soon as you start pulling in air, assuming it is cooler than the air you are pushing out. Without vacuum the vent goes full defrost but might be still wherever you had it. This fresh air will immediately go to the floor and work its way to the radio speaker grills.

A point to consider is the where the air will be pulled from. When inserted in the window, the fan is pulling the hottest air from the top of the cabin. Whereas the MJ vents start down low where the radio speakers are. You might need to cut into the B post trim so that the fan could be mounted higher and then blow out the vent.

I heard rumblings about this awhile ago. It will come about in one form or another if they can figure out how to make it effective and yet still be PC. This one with mileage threshold is useless to their goals, but they tried to make it look like an energy bill in which case why not apply it to used cars too. Yet someone who wants to take advantage of it but was smart enough to have a decent mileage car gets screwed. (but that would be in keeping with some of the mortgage recue plans) They will try and try but there is no way some grouup won't get left out with this mentality. The safest is not to have a trade-in incentive and just give a tax break for an new car made in the US (that would be protectionism). Sure it could put a glut on the used car market lowering the value but then the really low valued ones would get scrapped by free market pressure. They are afraid every nonwrencher will buy these very cheap used cars all of a sudden instead of buying a new one. But wouldn't that create jobs in other areas? Free market pressures would come back into play again. I don't understand this human reguirement for all or nothing. The economy works when there is a little bit of everything but they want a huge amount of people to buy a new car now. Still haven't learned that moderation is the key. It is for health. It's also for economic matters.

Wouldn't want one of those cars. It's always out of control, can't keep it in a straight line. There must be something wrong with the brakes. Must be locked up with all the wheel spinning. Maybe if he slowed down he would have so much trouble. He also needs to make some decisions on where he wants to go. Perhaps pulling over and thinking instead of just driving around in circles.

As I recall when I put them in my 86 Cherokee, I only had the bit from the bulkhead connector (C101?) to the left front corner. I 'borrowed' an unsed contact from the bulkhead connector to run the wire up to the switch. Between years and models the 'basic' harness might have changed. You may be lucky and find it all the way to the front. First check to see if you have power at the plug you found and then trace it back to each connector in the main harness and check it there is a corresponding wire on the other side. You are going to need the wiring diagram for your year or early AMC, late AMC, or whatever Chrysler changed. I forget where the relay was and how it was tied into the headlight switch. The point is you wil need to verify your harness since the assembly line variations are endless, unless later production only used one harness for all models, but being modular you could find a dead section or two.

I find it interesting that this topic contains both grief with the customer and the designer. From my observations it's all part of a downward spiral. When one makes what one uses, the design/process improves with each iteration. As more and more become paying customers for service, the feedback loop is broken. Since some of these customers are designers, there is a lack of real ife input in the designs. The result is inferior product design. It's getting worse because experience and knowledge is not as important of a job reguirement as project management and developing in a vacuum is preferred because there are less destractions from facts or real life. It was happening before design was outsourced to countries that had no idea what the product is used for, but that situation is a lot easier to understand.

The falling headliner was a brilliant move by the manufacturers. When they realized that market pressures and technology advances pushed the typical life of a vehicle way past the old mystical 10 year/100,000 mile point, they needed something to sell new cars and push the devaluation of used cars. They chose the headliner. Use a material that degrades in about ten years, the foam. It was brilliant. The vehicle still runs just fine. Is just as reliable. There just is this huge annoying item that can't be missed. 'Dear we need a new car.' And this logic works on either spouse. Anybody who would fix it or rip it out wouldn't a perspective buyer anyway. Everyone needs to have a conspiracy theory - that's mine. Actually, I don't give any management any credit to be smart enough to figure out a conspiracy plan. They just get lucky.

The worst thing about shady people (not necessarily any individuals invovled here) is they are not too smart. Well at least the ones you know about. Nobody hears about the smart ones because the best scam is when the mark doesn't know he has been taken. Anyway, I feel if you stay with less popular items, the chances of getting ripped off is low. Can't make much of a career selling but not deliverying a low volume, low price item. You only get a couple of chances before the word gets out. But then some people aren't too smart. I quess it's possible to sell 1 million laptops on ebay in one day for $5.00 with free shipping. (no intention of shipping) However, how many Comanche interior courtesy lights can you sell that you don't have? Make it a Honda Civic part and now you're talking. Hey, anybody want to buy some suplus Jeeps for a $1.00? Are they still trying this one? Has anybody noticed that my replies are often out of nowhere? You think that's bad? You only have to deal with it once in a while. I have to live with it all of the time.

Shoot, I've been at 6 plus 4 antiques and they never said anything. Of course now there are two young drivers. Being an auto enhanced person as I am, I think the driver should be the one insured not the car. Only can drive one at a time and you might be driving someone elses car like a rental. As for rates, drivers are the hazard not the car. (like guns don't kill people do) Of course if you drive a Corvette you have a higher potential to speed than if you have a Yugo. However, the chance for an accident may be the same, but the amount of damage might be more. Just like SUV's cause more damage that non SUV, so the insurance companies say. Oh but insuring the driver rather than the car would be profiling people which isn't PC. Doesn't matter that the driver is the cause. It's simple everyone starts at the same low age based rate rate. First accident, rate goes up based on the amount of damage. Once you pay off a reasonable portion of the claim, your rate goes back down. If you have more claims before you paid it off, the rate goes higher. Either you surrender yor priviledges because you can't pay the bill or at some point they just take it. Get caught driving at this point and your in jail.

At about 60,000 I added some J C Whitney helper coil springs to my XJ because I got tried of bottoming out on most bumps even unloaded. A trailer was just brought it down too much. Hearing that XJ srings are known to sag, I'm really glad I added them.