mjeff87

Had all four of mine yanked back in my 30's....IV sedation I came out of anesthesia when the doc was pulling (actually crushing and yanking out the bits) the last one. He saw my eyes open looking at him and asked, "can you feel this?" and I shook my head affirmative. I could feel it but didn't give a crap, but he gave me a quick local shot and finished up. Sat me up, cleaned me up and put me in a chair while my wife signed me out of the office. She drove me there, and it was in a part of town she wasn't familiar with but I was. She loaded me into the car and said I had to tell her how to get back home, and I nodded "no problem". We exited the parking lot and I remember telling her to take a right at the stop sign and then the next left at the stop light. Next thing I remember was waking up on my couch a few hours later. She told me I was fully coherent the entire trip home, and told her exactly where to turn and what roads to take, about a half hour trip back to the house. And I got out of the car on my own, walked into the house and sat down on the couch. I remember exactly ZERO of any of that happening. LOL.

I passed a DRW pulling a very loooong trailer on the interstate coming in to work today. Driver had about 10 pickup beds indvidually strapped (standing on end) on it, looked like a row of very large dominoes. Thought of you for some reason, Pete.

There's a little ramshackle place up the road from my house that a nice older lady started a cat rescue operation out of (Smitty's Cat Rescue). It would anonymously become the most premier cat shelter operation on the planet courtesy of a random donation. Other than that, Mjeff87 and his wife and four cats would cease to exist anywhere. Anywhere. I'll leave the garage door unlocked....you all can have all the tools in it, and the beer left in the fridge.

axle vent.

Wild watercress can have quite a bite to it...I used to work at a country club as a line cook years ago. There was a crazy old guy who lived up in the hills that grew it. Every once in awhile he'd show up at the back door with a paper grocery bag full of it. Chef would give him $10-$20 for it so he could go buy some wine and we'd use the 'cress for soups and plate garnishes. And it was HOT.

Yeah, that would work. However, I was successful with the needle nose vise grips last night....got them all off. Mangled a couple of them but that doesn't matter because they're getting replaced with regular nylock nuts.

Pete....doubtful. I should have put a coin in the pic to show a size reference....those nuts are only about 10mm (if they were regular nuts). Gogmorgo, 2 of the 4 nuts I could probably get a punch on. The other two are recessed. I couldn't even get the tips of a pair of needle nose pliers on them. edit: found this on walmart.com.....last time I bought something off that site it was junk and my CC got hacked. But this is exactly what I need (assuming the nuts are M8, they could be M10 though) https://www.walmart.com/ip/Wiha-34478-M8-SoftFinish-Triangle-Nut-Driver/174012214

Huh...never thought of those, and I do have them. I'll give them a shot tonight. Neither the e-torx nor the needle nose v-grips worked.

OK guys....need tool help here. I'm trying to remove an airbag from the cover assembly on the steering wheel on the Focus. It's held in by four "triangle" nuts. I found a set of specialty sockets on Amazon for VW/Audi's that will work, but they're $78 (hah!) and several days away. Can I pick up something like these somewhere locally? I do have a set of e-torx sockets I'm going to try to see if one of them bites enough, and also a pair of needle nose vice grips. Problem is that they are a bit recessed in a molded plastic bracket and a bit difficult to get onto. https://www.amazon.ca/CTA-Tools-1088-Triangle-Socket/dp/B06XTZDWX1 Here's a shot of one of them. A gator grip socket would do it, but won't fit into the recess:

I put a new clutch in my Focus awhile back. The kit came with a new internal slave/throwout that was an incredible piece of Chicom pot metal crap. I though briefly about complaining to Advance Auto but realized they probably weren't going to do anything about it, so I just sucked it up and bought a different one from a competitor that was an exact copy of the OEM one (stamped made in Germany). No way was I about it do all that work and have it crap out on me.

I ran one of those braided AA lines in my MJ. Make sure you get the correct size.....they make a 48" and a 60". While the 48 might "work" I was more comfortable with the extra length. I just made a small loop (to act as a relief) in it right where it connected to the slave.

Mmmmm....lumpia. One of my wife's friends is Filipino, makes the best lumpia. Serves them with a sweet plum sauce. I could eat my body weight of them. LOL.

Try (carefully) holding the clutch hard lines on either side of the BH while it's making the noise at idle and see if the noise goes away (assuming an internal slave/throwout). It almost sounds like your TO is loose and rattling around inside the bell.

What is your location OP? I've got a 2WD beam axle out of my old MJ sitting in a barn in southwest PA. You can have it, you just have to go pick it up.

I'm giving it a few days to see if someone comes along and pulls it and leaves it lying underneath. Save myself some work, lol. And I pulled my KJ out of the garage this morning to drive to work (my left foot is killing me from yardwork over the weekend and I need to give it a clutch vacation for a day or so.....) and saw my passenger side front bumpstop lying on the garage floor. I might need to go grab the pair from that KJ.

I didn't grab anything from any of them........yet.

Took a mental health day yesterday, headed down to the U-pull to grab an ignition coil for the Focus (unsuccessful, but did manage to snag a fuel pressure/pump module). Over in the Chrysler section, there were a couple older XJ's and a few neat things. A 69 Wagoneer with the 230 Hurricane engine (not a spec of rust on it other than surface). I was going to snag the grill for some garage art, still might, but it's a bit dinged up. Then a 79 Cherokee (360) in fairly decent shape....no idea why it ended up in a junkyard intact like it is. Then, the quirkiest thing I ever saw was an 07 KJ, with the 3.7 and.......a 5 speed. I saw the shifter first and thought it was either a 4 banger or a diesel, but was shocked when I popped the hood and saw the (miserable) 3.7. I never knew they came with sticks behind a 3.7. Pretty neat. Anyways, all of this stuff was just set out recently, so if anyone needs anything off of any of them just shoot me a PM.

If those tires have air in them, please remove the guts from the valve stem if you're working with heat on the wheels. Can't be too safe.

Some will say, probably correctly, that AX15 flywheels (OEM) have a slight concavity to them, and that they should never be refinished more than a light hand sanding else you'll ruin it. The concavity part might be true, but I've had flywheels cut and reused them with no issues. I'd blast that wheel with a can of brake clean, let it dry and then bolt the clutch together.

That is a definate homebrew mount using the wrong crossmember (AX15 uses a model-specific one). The trans body should be resting directly on top of the crossmember, not hanging off the back of it like that. Clever idea there, but I think that's where your problem lies.

Welp, thanks for all the weigh-in guys (no pun intended...), but this project ain't gonna happen any time soon. I just had a new roof put on the house Monday, and on top of that my house AC outside unit just crapped the bed yesterday. All of the fun money I did have, I now don't. (that Jeep will probably still be sitting there next year, when we go back up for next Easter........maybe by then I'll grab it. If anyone else is interested in it, shoot me a PM and I can give you details and contact names/numbers on it. It's in Phoenixville, PA, about a stone's throw away from Valley Forge national park).

Right? Black Elephant is some awesome stuff. 70's stuff (my displaced generation), mixed with i just don't know. Giggity. And the HU covering Metallica. Holy (we don't swear here on this forum) CRAP.

Don't ask how, but I stumbled across this band, called the HU. Mongolian heavy metal rock. Skip to 1:02....... I just found some new coolness that has been missing in my life

Roll pin, like Pete says No inner axle seals on D44's, the diff oil lubes the outer axle bearings.

Thats what I'm kinda thinking.