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Beware of this truck. With all that salt dust, first time it gets wet, poof rust to dust.

Let's step back here. When did this take place? It has a 1986 Bonneville sticker with a 4.0 and a shortbed. Okay, it was a pre-production truck. So it was an AMC project. Now you know why it's kept under wraps, it's not a MOPAR. Here's some food for thought. It had been written that when Chrysler bought AMC, the AMC engineers 'straightened' out engineering. Now we flash forward twenty years. Are Chrysler's troubles a result of the old AMC people retiring or because the AMC people 'straighened' out Chrysler? Maybe that's why Renault sold out. Jeep may actually be a curse.

It looks like he mounted the original pump higher. It's the brackets that are odd. Otherwise it's a 86 set up with a separate belt. Normally the pump is a lot lower with a shorter belt but my belt is farther forward. Perhaps it's the wrong water pump which made him change the alternator belt resulting in the steering belt farther back. Those are definitely home made brackets.

O boy, we hyjacked this one. I thought it was a GM thing to hold the clutch in to start. Now you tell me it depends on the state. My 86 XJ and 88 MJ do not have a NSS. The only advantage of the key on the steering column is so you can start by just reaching in the window. When they were on the dash, it was a bit of a reach. I quess I'm too dumb to turn the key back if the car starts moving.

One point about the double filament bulbs. They have different polarity. If you use the wrong one the turn signal/ brake will be dull and the parking/tail light will be bright. Tell me why it couldn't be standardized.

There are four switch position, enough for everybody. To fill them on the XJ, it was fog, rear wiper, rear defroster, and power switch for automatic. On the MJ it would be fog, cargo, roll bar, and power switch. If you need more you have to lose the automatic.

There are four switch position, enough for everybody. To fill them on the XJ, it was fog, rear wiper, rear defroster, and power switch for automatic. On the MJ it would be fog, cargo, roll bar, and power switch. If you need more you have to lose the automatic.

What's with the last picture. The flood waters are up to the edge of the house gutter but hasn't flowed in? That would mean leak proof gutters draining into a non flooded sewer system that is about to be flooded from this house as the waters drain down it's gutters.

Perhaps this was mentioned but why is the clock still on standard time, which will be fixed next week and why after I reply it's three hours behind? Some people get all excited and wrapped up into all these extra features but after years and years of upgrades it just turns into more procedures to clutter one's mind. There are so many and all of them are a little different and not quite compatible. The problem is the enhancements are developed more to keep the product fresh and marketable rather than there is a need to do it better.

I was going to say here's another fool who had an idea/desire to build his rig, which is fine, if he was keeping it, but for some reason there are a half a dozen people bidding on it. I hope he is prepared not to get his investment out. The non-working apparatus on back takes the cake. How much more effort would be needed to have built a working one. At least there be some function there. Looks like great workmanship now he should work on ideamanship if he wants to do another one.

Absolutely a bad connection, with no response from jump, you have to trace the battery cables. Most likely the ground. Run the jumper from positive to starter. If it spins, you have bad ositive cable. If no spin then bad ground cable.

The problem using the single port is there won't be a check valve, so at open throttle the vacuum in the canister will just go out the exhaust, so what would be the point. Doesn't anyone have a single port canister so they can report how it is plumbed?

I'm interested in this too since I bought a new ball with a single port. Are the olders one's inline and later ones simply hooked to a T. When was this change made? Of course the real question is can a 1 port cannister be used on a 2 port car by joing the current lines with a T and running a single line to the cannister?

Got any Renault Alliances in Texas? Probably rarer than 2 door Cherokees, just another alternative. I've confirmed they have the same seat mounted to the curve tracks as in Cherokees. If your Comanche brackets are complete, the seat would bolt right in.

There's a difference between dirt roads and unpaved roads. The art of an unpaved road is to take it fast, fly over the bumps, and see how big a dust trial you can make. The side ways travel even when going straight is fun too and the subtle drifts on curves. Dirt roads are just too full of wash outs and sink holes. Probably the last unpaved road in my county was paved last year. The other end of my road.

That's what the old vacuum wipers were good for, a heads up vacuum gage. You even kinda instinctively back off the throttle to make the wipers move.

If the trend is toward a water leak, then I'd say it would be advisable to add to the process of repairing a rusting floor. A leak test should be done using the baby powder trick since the floor covering is already out. I quess this was the point of the post to find the cause of the rust so it doesn't come back.

Pete, I agree with all that. The observation I made is it seems to affect the left side the most and the only difference is the driver is always in the vehicle while the frequency of the passenger is more variable. I'm sure the repair to the right side is coming but the driver's side was done a couple of years ago.

I've seen my share of rusty cars. For the most part the cause is salt water and double metal. You got to admit the manufacturers have come a long way. In my XJ and MJ and the many pictures on this site, the drivers floor usually takes the hit first. It also appears that it starts from the inside. All that leads me to believe the cause of this rust is the driver tracking in water and eventually it get under the rubberize insulation and stews. Of course the sheet metal seam under you heel is a nice warm cozy place to for the bacteria to grow. Do you agree that the drivers side is typically the worst? Could it be that the driver could have prevented much of this rust had he/she left their shoes outside?

If the cluster is coming from a 4.0 and going into a 4.0, then there isnt any adjustments needed. how about a 4.0 going into a 2.5? A tach from a 4.0L going into a 2.5L will have to be adjusted. It will read wrong by a considerable margin. All a tach does is count ignition pulses. On a 6-cylinder engine, one revolution is 3 pulses. On a 4-cylinder engine, one revolution is only 2 pulses. It takes the 4-cylinder 1-1/2 revolutions to generate 3 pulses, but the tach will only show 1, so if the tach says the engine is turning 1,000 RPM, it will actually be turning 1,500. If the tach says 3,000, the actual RPMs will be 4,500. Lived that way for 18 years until I got a good deal on a 4cyl tach. No big deal just multiply the reading by 1.5. Selection in the junkyard wasn't so good in 1986-1987. I put a 1985 cluster in a 86 and to think the factory told the sales manager that adding gauges probably couldn't be done. Havn't bought a new car since.

I had a tank made for another car back in the early 80's. Galvanized steel bent up, edges folded over and ends inserted into the folds. Then the edges were sweated with solder.

Who said it was for exhaust? Obviously this guy likes to build questionable things. Perhaps he wants to turn his V8 into a water pump. One bank would be the engine and the other the pump. Let's see the split intake manifold. He probably needs that much water to put out his house that's on fire. Don't jump to conclusions. Maybe the dryer vent is the clue. Perhaps he likes his clothes to have that burnt gasoline smell with a cat of course. Or on the Darwin line he may be thinking about assisting a group CO thing.

You know progress. There once was a time when people communicated by writing letters with a simple pen using their hands. It didn't take much thinking to work a pen so most of the thought process went into the message. Since the medium was mail you had to make the message clear and complete. Then phones came along and we could just talk to people we knew. Then texting came along, so much better. Because of the steps to type individual letters on a number pad, short hand was developed. Now instead of having a free mind to write, read, and understand, you have to remember the shorthand and how to make a 'c' versus an 'A'. Doesn't matter if the message doesn't get understood the first ime, it's instant, you can take as long as required to talk in fragmented phrases. Isn't it easier to just call them? But then you might be interupting the recepient doing something important like learning something, but you do expect a quick reply. Now with Chat rooms you can do it instantly even with people you don't know and you may even have a real keyboard to to it. If you want to you can say anything you want since you can do it without an identy.

Drift racing is like those car ads where they show there model out of control. 'Oooh don't want to buy that one it skids out alot, can't keep it in a straight line.' Why do you film yourself showing people you can't keep the car under control, he really needs to learn not use full steering lock.

258's are rare? Now you tell me. My 74 Hornet had a 258 that I traded in on my 86 Cherokee. Probably why they gave me $1850 (on paper) for it.