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I cross posted this over on garage journal last night too. Couple guys over there were able to shed some light on just exactly what that beautiful machine was. A Mack Superliner, aka "Superdog", apparently a pretty rare bird atomic is right.It's a Mack Superliner, model RW (the W inpleyed west coast model), built off same cab as a R model, the Superliner, with it's large under hood area, could be built with large V8 Mack, Cummins or CAT engines. Aluminum frames, non-mack driveline, air ride and longer wheelbase were the normHard to say year, as Mack built the R series from 1972 to 1998 without changing a lot....but Superliner was about late 70's to late 80'sThe entire grill is also the A/C condenser, very easy damaged, bet I've replaced a thousand, lol....That's a rare in the wild specimen! Looks great. I'm digging the day cab

^^^I spy an OA pin there....awesome. And a really fun-loving looking sidekick too. My wife had quite a different facial expression when riding with me in the MJ. Especially the time I flopped it onto the passenger side (wheeling), with her in that side. Lol.

From the thread title, I thought you meant CB handles....mine was Crumbs back in the day. I have one older brother whose handle was Crackers, and me being the little brother ended up with that, lol. Screen name, mjeff87. My name is Jeff, and I (used to) own an MJ, of 1987 vintage.

I got a real treat driving home from work today on the interstate. Was tooling along and noticed a tractor trailer up ahead in the slow lane, belching out some good looking exhaust from twin chrome cab stacks. I caught up with him and saw he was pulling an Amazon trailer, and then I saw the tractor. An old vintage (but not antique) Mack day cab set up for heavy haul. Dude was just cruising it around 65 mph, window down and elbow on the sill. As I passed him, I hit my horn and gave him a big thumbs up and he blipped his air horns back at me. I knew the exit he was getting off by the Amazon van he was pulling, the same one I take, so I sort of got into the KJ a bit to get there (about 8 miles down road) in time to pull off on the shoulder to get set up to grab a couple quick pics as he motored on by on the exit road. I only had my crappy cell phone camera, but to see him rounding that curve in that awesome old iron was incredible. Driver was an O/O, and he took a lot of pride in that old Mack you could tell right away. That thing was IMMACULATE. He saw me hanging out the driver side window with my cell camera, recognized me, double-clutch down shifted and absolutely lit up the chrome air horns on the cab roof as he went by me. Totally awesome. I gave him another big thumbs up as he passed and got another pic as he got stopped at the intersection light (he was going left to the big Amazon distribution center we have here). If any of you guys here are more familiar with old tractors and can give any details on this one, feel free. I'm not an expert, all I know is that it was semi-vintage (maybe 80's, early 90's?), and was absolutely gorgeous. Driver was proud of it, and for good reason. I'm guessing he was semi-local too....I can't imagine him driving it for a long haul. It might even be a localish shop truck that pulled the van the rest of the way in after whatever Volvo POS hauling it broke down en route and got hauled in for a repair. Either way, one beautiful rig. Crappy cell phone pics.....

I'm sitting here now, after a particularly crappy day at work, in a dark living room with my cat (one of them anyway). Wife has long since gone upstairs to do whatever and go to bed. I've got Pandora on the TV playing a shuffle of Zeppelin, Skynard, Ted Nugent, Pink Floyd and some early Beatles going on, sipping slowly on a Chimay red. These are the few moments where my life is truly good.

Pliny...great stuff. I'm maybe 2 and done on that though. Not a yuge IPA guy, but I can absolutely bury myself in a six pack of Troeg's (out of Hershey PA) Perpetual IPA.

Nice man. Are you FF? I saw a KJ in the grocery store parking lot yesterday that didn't have the factory side/rear window tint. First one I've ever seen like that.....and it looked horrible.

I did drive it to work today....I feel bad for just letting it sit in the garage and gather dust (while I rip around in my little hot rod Focus, that gets easily 2X the gas mileage). Here she is in all of her pavement-pounding glory....

Oh, I forgot....I did put new UCA's on it too. That was a real treat of a job, like Pete mentioned. Lol.

Mines still an infant compared to you guys, lol. It's an 02, but it's only got 140K on it. I bought it for a steal off a dealership used lot (trade in) about 5(?) years ago with 58K on it. It's really not been that bad to me....I put new pads/rotors on the front and rear shoes (drums) once, a couple coil packs, an oil pressure sensor, IAC, muffler an alternator, and 3 radiators in it to date. I had a shop replace the original radiator and they put in an el cheapo replacement that leaked within a month, so they put a new one in again for free. That one started leaking about a year later, so I took it back again. I agreed to pay the labor for replacement and they ate the cost of yet another new radiator (which was not another el cheapo one, lol). The whole broken spark plug in the head debacle I just got through I'm not really blaming on it so much. I pretty much caused that to happen, but it was because of the craptastick cooling system/heater core that keeps getting an air pocket every year and I lose my heat just in time for the cold weather. My core flushing procedure, I think, was the ultimate cause of the plug getting stuck and then breaking off. But, in the process of fixing that, I put all new everything in while I had it all torn down. I don't expect any problems out of the engine now for as long as I keep owning it. I'll probably drive it to 200k (another 3-4 years), then look for something else....most likely a gently used Trailhawk.

No hammer, just a pair of channel locks. Kinda hard to describe without a visual, but you use the offset of the jaws to work like a press. Slide the bottom jaw under the bottom of the pin, then rotate the tool so the shorter upper jaw contacts the tip of the bracket that the end of the door check and pin fit in. Squeeze the channel locks and the pin will be pressed upward until it pops mostly out, then pull it the rest of the way from the top. Installation is just the opposite of removal, just flip the 'locks over and use the bottom jaw to press the pin down and in. Easy peasy

Yeah, they strip easily if one isn't careful with them. There's honestly no good reason for them, in my opinion, when all the other bolts are regular hex head, and it's one more tool not otherwise needed that you have to keep on hand.

All of the 2.5 covers were plastic, except a few later model years on TJ's (IIRC), they were metal.

I think OEM shock travel spec is 0-1", so I'd say you're good to go, bro.

My MJ had them, and I was the second owner of it and can say everything on it was officially OEM stuff. It was a renix era (87), so I'm not shocked that there was a conglomeration of different stuff on it, lol. I promptly replaced them with hex head bolts when I did the 4wd conversion, like every good Jeeper should do.

^^^yep, all that X1000 Id only add that the 96+ covers have individual grommets (that come in the kit with the new gasket) for the cover bolts. great post there Minuit

AMC.....All Makes Combined.

OMNA was one of the earliest entries into the NA market. It was cool before it was cool to drink them, and then came the others. Gotta give it up to the Europeans though, they know how to brew up a tasty beer. Buckler, Perlinger, Heinekin and some others make some good stuff. If anyone has a good beer/wine place nearby (we have Total Beer and Wines stores around here) or a well stocked supermarket, I'd suggest to try experimenting with some craft NA's. You might be able to buy single bottles to try for a couple bucks to see if you like them or not.

I think the break was around 94-95 when the covers changed. Either style will work but the steel cover needs some additional parts to fit up properly.

At the risk of being labeled a social outcast.....anyone here into N/A beers? I don't drink beer so much for the ABV (I only drink rums in mojitos and tequeilas in margaritas if I drink any hard liquor at all). I drink beer because I like the taste of BEER. Over the years I've tried several N/A beers, including all of the main stream favorites (O'douls, regular and dark), OMNA, Busch (yuk) and all the rest. One that I really like is Bucklers, a Belgium brew. If/when I can find it I always grab a 6-pack or two. Recently Heinekin came out with a true N/A beer....literally 0.0% alcohol, and I'll admit it's pretty tasty. It's been my go-to beer when the wife and I are out and she wants to drink, so I become the DD. It's not cheap though by any means, like $10/6 pack in either cans or bottles. And both of them are 11.2 oz.....they know what they are doing, lol.

Little bit late, but good job Rich I can show you a quick trick to popping those hinge pins (and reinstalling them) with a pair of channel-locks in about 3 seconds, should you ever need to pull yours out again. I used to pop out spares while walking through the junkyard looking for other stuff (back when junkyards actually had XJ's and a few MJ's in them......

Just saw this. Yeah, those UCA bolts are a real treat, especially the rear ones, and especially especially the driver side rear one. I had to replace my UCA's due to a bad upper balljoint on the driverside, and I just did both so both sides were new. I can confirm that job was one of the worst ever repairs I've done on any vehicle I've ever worked on, probably only second to the timing belt/water pump on my buddy's VW Golf. Of course, if say......the ENTIRE engine wouldn't be in the way, the job would probably be alot easier

The 3.7 (and 4.7 big brother) does have a counterbalance shaft, of sorts....that's why the timing chain system is such a nightmare to work on. Trust me, I know this well....lol. It's not that the engine is shaking around in mine, although I will check the motor mounts as they most likely are original, it just feels/sounds like it "skips" firing a cylinder every couple seconds at idle. Kinda hard to explain unless you are actually driving it. It sounds completely normal from outside the cab, and does run fine, but just feels choppy when sitting inside in the driver seat. My little 2.0 in the Focus is much smoother, and the 4-banger boxer engine in the wife's Subaru is damn near silent. So much so that I have to look at the tach to make sure it's still running at idle. No complaints from me on the KJ though, it's an almost 20 year old vehicle (only 140K miles on it though), running 20 year old Chrysler technology For what it is, I'm quite happy with it.

Starter bolts on the 2.5 are both the same, and are external torx headed just like the top bellhousing bolts. The 4.0 is the one with 2 different sizes, one standard and one metric. I don't recall the thread pitch/size but the metric one is a 14 or 15mm bolt head and the standard is 9/16" head. Because, as you mentioned.....AMC.

Just for grins and giggles, the next time the problem happens try unplugging the O2 sensor too and see if the problem goes away. My old MJ originally had a 2.5 that developed random, intermittent engine stumbles similar to yours that I spent weeks trying to figure out but never could. One day driving to work it acted up so I pulled over, popped the hood and started pulling sensor connectors. As soon as I disconnected the O2 sensor everything went straight back to normal. Replaced the sensor and never had another issue with it again. Its a no-cost test, worth a shot at least. Good luck