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Si. Hilarious! :rotfl2:

Forgot this one :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :

Sorry Jim, sad to hear this. That's way too young. Any idea of the cause? Had she been sick?

My lawnmower sounds better than that. But it has more HP. :rotfl2:

Also, the 93-98 ZJ steering gear box itself is a bolt-in with a quicker ratio than the stock MJ box. :thumbsup:

I agree that it would be useless weight with a properly geared MJ w. a 5-speed. However back in the day I had several Volvo 544s and 122s. They all had 2.0L Volvo tractor-like engines, low revving with tons of torque, 4.56 diffs, and 4-speeds. There was a factory overdrive option, but it was very rare. The solenoid activated overdrive units were mounted to the output shaft of manual transmissions. Volvos used the British Laycock de Normanville box, also used on some Triumphs and MGs. A version of this box is still being built and supported by Gear Vendors (http://www.gearvendors.com) in the US today. I installed a few of these units on my Volvos and loved them. It allowed a comfortable cruising speed of 75MPH at around 3300 RPM. W/o the overdrive unit you were straining at 65 on the freeway.

Sometimes it's not necessarily what you wear to the yard, it's how you act. Before I retired, I used to run over to a close-by yard during my lunch hour or grab a couple of hours off from work because it saved my a good sixty miles than if I drove from the house. The problem was when I came over from work I was wearing a suit and tie (no choice, I hated it). The first couple of times I came in the yard monkeys all looked at me funny and snickered. I'd check in, throw on a set of coveralls, grab my tools, and go get what I needed. The boss man noticed my MJ one day, came out and we started yakking. Turned out he was an MJ guy and drove one as his D/D. After that nobody snickered anymore. He also had a private MJ stash in one of his buildings where I got my MJ buckets and brackets, console, several sets of tails, a lot of the chrome hardware, a chrome and tube bumper, couple of leather steering wheels, cargo lamps and bezels, and a whole lot of other stuff all at good prices. On a Friday night here and there I slide over with a couple of cases for the boys and got to know everyone well. After time they were nearly giving me stuff. Never found an MJ D44 there though.

Read my original post.

You're not the fool at all, although some of the responses you received were from fools. Congrats on what I consider a very sensible purchase. It's a very tastefully done super clean rust free MJ created from an ordinary Renix to a fully modernized OBDII 97+ custom. The builder did a fine job and though it's impossible to know the quality of the electrical and mechanicals (time will tell), judging by the appearance it was well thought out and executed by someone who was a perfectionist and really cared about the final product, and I think had no original intention of selling it during the build. That's all you can ask for, and to build this rig would have cost a lot more and tons of hours. You did good mate. :cheers:

I love drama popcorn. :popcorn:

I got one Pete, really. It was a get rich quick scheme and it detailed a woman in my town (fictitious of course) who made $6K/mo in a check forwarding scam. I didn't open it only because you didn't offer me enough money. :yes:

Bell 533

AS-532

Chinese BMW 530

As used in the tail lamps?

BMW 520