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It's the South.....get used to it One of the main drags around me here changes names 4 times in the span of 10 miles. The worst part is, at some arbitrary point that someone long, long ago decided on, it changes from East Hundred Road to West Hundred Road. Listening to the morning/afternoon traffic reports (so I can get home), you hear accidents on "westbound East Hundred Road" and/or "eastbound West Hundred Road" and the like every day. It's a mental nightmare to work out in your head while driving to avoid whatever it is, wherever it is. Especially if they don't give a landmark or the nearest cross street. A couple miles down the road going westbound on West Hundred Road, it turns into Ironbridge Road. Going the other way (eastbound on East Hundred) it is simply called "Route 10". The whole damn road is State Route 10 for crying out loud......why don't we just use one name for it all??????

Yup, Don goes way back......like Cadillac seats. LOL.

About a month too late, but there was a 2.4/4WD/5 speed down here in the junkyard that I saw recently. What caught my eye was the shifter in the console, then I popped the hood LOL. I'm sure it's long gone by now.....

Damn....Don is O.G. Comanche Club. Please keep us all updated on his progress. Bud Light instead of Miller High Life and this could have all been avoided Seriuosly though, getter better Don. Jeff

Where's the thermostat/water pump housing on the diesel? On the gasser, it's at the extreme lower left front corner of the block. The heater core hoses literally run straight vertical up the front of the engine, into the core which is level/slightly above the expansion tank. It's a gauranteed setup to push air into the core....stooped design.

Gray or black hoodie order inbound thanks mang.

Yup, I'm in on this one. It's got all the makings of something "Why did you do that????" "because it can be done." Shifter is epic. Carry on.

Rent the puller from the local parts store....don't try to McGyver the thing off any other way. On a 2.5 you can carefully get away with pulling it without pulling the radiator, but it's safer if you do. Replace the front seal on the timing cover while you have the HB off, it's cheap and worth it.

Yeah, but they can't do it right

If you can believe it, the NEW (second one) radiator is now leaking.. Not bad, but it's dripping a few drops a day from the driver side lower corner. Clamp on the top hose is tight and I can't see any telltale leak signs anywhere above the bottom on that side, so I'm assuming the tank gasket on that side is compromised somewhere. I'm beyond pissed off. I did swing by the shop that did the install today after work and was civil enough to have a good conversation with them about it. They conceded and said just bring it back in and they'll put another new one in it. Problem is, I finally got the heater core bled out and have good cabin heat and don't really want to open up the system again now that it's cold outside and I actually NEED the heater to work. I might take it up there this weekend and let them keep it for a day to put another rad in.....it's supposed to be in the upper 50's with a lot of rain.

Cwhite.... the snow is finally done.....ended up with 12.5". My driveway/walkway is bare

Pull the darn CAD cover off and slide the coupler over to lock the axle shafts together. Pull the vac lines and cap them, replace cover and never look back again. Were about 6" here now, with another 3-4 to go

^^^that is gorgeous, I agree My wife's uncle up in PA picked up a snowblower for me earlier this year (they don't really exist down here). It's only a single stage unit, but it's a Honda. I've been itching to see how it does, so I waited until about 2:00 today until we had about 5-6" in the driveway, and I fired her up. Despite this being a super wet, heavy snow, that thing was throwing rooster tails of snow out the chute about 20 feet. I did my driveway and walkway in 12 minutes flat. My neighbors are throwing me the stink eye, BIG time

I can grab some out of the 'yard here for ya Wahoo...but not right at the moment. We're in the midst of a blizzard here right now lol. How's it up there on the mountain? CHO looks like it's getting clobbered right now too, so I imagine you are too. Supposed to be in the low 50's here this weekend coming up tho, so I could swing down if you needed me too

Havin' us a good old fashioned snowmageddon here today. Started around 0800 and we already have 2+ inches so far. The real juicy stuff is supposed to move thru here early afternoon and if we're lucky enough we might even get some thunder snow. I'm guessing we end up with about 10 inches if it doesn't change over to ice later on today (fingers crossed it doesn't). It's been a steady 31 degrees here so far. Big, fat, wet sticky flakes Southwest VA and central NC are getting absolutely hammered by this storm, but I'll happily take my 10" of white goodness. Enough for me to not have to go to work tomorrow, lol. Schools here will probably be closed all week

That is awesome I realllllllyyyy want to do a whole pig roast one summer and invite all of my neighbors over for a big party. Problem is that my yard/grass is my hobby and I don't want to dig up/burn up any of it LOL. There's some common area beside my house that technically belongs to the HOA but I maintain it (I'm going to claim eminent domain on it in a couple years......) that I might use to build a temporary cinderblock oven on.

ummmm.....yeah. That would do it. You can pull the lifter(s) out without pulling the head. Just make sure you use the type of lifter puller with the little "ears" on the end of the rod that lock into the top of the lifter versus a magnetic type. They are a very tight squeeze to pull up through the head, so much so that you have to use the tool to physically pull them. Use the same tool to reinstall to make sure the lifter drops back into it's bore, otherwise they will fall over and roll around inside the lifter valley. It's a beoitch to get them picked back up and positioned correctly when they do that. Ask me how I know......

At 60K I doubt it's a timing chain issue. Shorting each cylinder like you did sort of proved its not a wrist pin or rod bearing issue, most likely. Drop the pan like sinkrun suggests, what you might find will probably point you in the right direction. Do you have dummy gauges in your cluster, or full gauges? If gauge, what's your oil pressure look like?

Doubtful it's a wrist pin, but you can check quick and dirty like to see. With the engine running and knocking, pull a plug wire off of each plug one at a time and see if the sound diminishes or goes away. If it does, it indicates a worn wrist pin. My 2.5 developed a clickity-clack sound when warmed up. Not quite as deep sounding as yours, but it ended up being a worn out timing chain tensioner that allowed the chain to start slapping the inside of the timing cover. Pull your distributor cap and watch the rotor tip as you carefully rotate the engine via a breaker bar/socket on the harmonic balancer bolt. If you get more than about 10 degrees of movement on the crank without the rotor moving, I'd say you have a worn out timing chain and/or tensioner. How many miles are on the engine?

I had (still have) a Verizon Boulder, flip phone. Best damn phone I ever owned. Replaced it with a Thunderbolt, which I still have too. It started getting wonky, so I got an S6 (or something). Yeah, I'm old

Don, I played literal hell getting my Homelink to work with my old opener. I ended up just mashing a bunch of buttons in random fits of rage until it finally worked, LOL. It took like 45 minutes. This new one was a breeze. Good luck! I did clean up all of the wiring, mounted the safety eyes up above the header and added a couple more brackets to both the powerhead and the ends of the door rails. She runs like buttah

Well, I have to eat my words on the Homelink install. I watched an instructional video on the Genie website......it looked next to impossible. Yesterday I pulled out the owners manual that came with the opener and got it dialed in on the first shot. It took like 45 seconds, LOL. -clear all the stored codes on the Homelink in the vehicle (hold buttons 1 and 3 down together for 20 seconds) -program the Homelink to one of the remotes (press remote button and Homelink button simultaneously for 3 seconds until Homelink blinks) -program Homelink to opener (press program button on opener until light flashes purple, press Homelink button 2X) Done.

Ok, I think I might be sold on a laser jet. Bonus points if it makes the "pew pew" sound when copying Looking at some prices, they seem reasonable considering just how many ink cartridges we've bought for this $100 inkjet since we got it. I can see a pretty quick ROI here.

Congrats on the job, go for it I had the chance to get CDL certified courtesy of Uncle Sam many years ago and didn't take the opportunity......I kick myself to this day for that. Do it! Also, your pics of your MJ made my heart skip a quick beat. It's a spitting image of what mine used to look like, almost to a T. Nice truck! I now wish I'd have never sold mine, even though I hardly used it much.

And then?....????