Jacobs

That's good compensation for a 6 hour job, nice!

Yep, just hack that thing out of there. All the lines going to it just pass in and out, with no crossovers internal to the piece so nothing to worry about.

Kind of a long shot here but you never know. Of course a bad ground issue will cause a voltage drop due to high resistance. The battery being fully charged might allow enough voltage to loop through the ground to get things fired up. I'd recommend checking the main battery connections and then where they meet the block, as well as the computer grounds on the passenger side of the block by the dipstick. Hey- it's a cheap (0$) fix if it works!

No, you are confusing your terminology. "Turning over" is what you call "cranking" -- the starter motor is making the crankshaft rotate. "Turning over" does not mean "starting" or "running." I agree! Crank and start are the only two words you need to describe this problem. No crank, crank no start, etc. But, it seems like half the country uses the exact opposite terms. I think as long as parts of the mainland refer to a Dana 30 as a 'front rear end' we will continue to have these kinds of problems.

No, you are confusing your terminology. "Turning over" is what you call "cranking" -- the starter motor is making the crankshaft rotate. "Turning over" does not mean "starting" or "running." I agree! Crank and start are the only two words you need to describe this problem. No crank, crank no start, etc. But, it seems like half the country uses the exact opposite terms. I think as long as parts of the mainland refer to a Dana 30 as a 'front rear end' we will continue to have these kinds of problems.

No Loctite- head bolts, rod bolts, main bolts, lugnuts Loctite- caliper bracket bolts, camshaft sprocket bolt Just a few examples. Loctite does not belong on main, rod, or head bolts, period.

I've seen diesel pumps running gassers and gasoline pumps feeding diesels, so that's no big deal. Most diesels only run about 6-7 lbs on the lift pump, so you might need to regulate it down. Lift pump = electric, to get the fuel to the mechanical high pressure pump.

My 2WD gofast Comanche weighs 3500 with me in it. That 401 is only 100 pounds heavier than the old 4.0, too. :dunno:

right- well let me know when you make up your mind, then.

That seems just a little off, I'm calculating more like 119mph in overdrive at 5k rpm. :???: With 4.56, auto, 31's. Of course the supercharger makes no difference in the speed per rpm.

Had a fairly worn Renix put down 104 on a Dynojet, corrected. The 4.0 I'm driving now probably wouldn't muster 80.

1 degree- it's a bit much, I see -.7 and .8 all the time though. Probably a typical tweaked D30 housing. You'll need to keep up on rotation to keep the tires from wearing unless you pony up for camber adjustment.

So if the prior owner was 60-70 years old, the vibration occurs at 65 mph? So a 40-50 year old owner would develop a vibration at 45 mph? Interesting.

Definitely have it done by someone with the tools and know-how. Pretty much all modern vehicles the windshield is held in with urethane. A glass guy told me they have to be certified because the strength of the body/glass joint basically doubles the strength of the roof section vs. no windshield.

That doesn't work nearly as well as leaving the weight of the truck on the ground. If the tires are in the air, there's not enough force to make the loose parts show deflection. I agree on tires being the likely culprit. However it's possible that the control arm bushings have softened up just a little since the tires were last on, a bolt elsewhere has worked its way loose, etc.

Fake as the day is long. Watch the last couple frames before it 'lands'.. planes don't act like that, ever. The rudder's deflected the wrong way, etc. Now, it is based off the same thing happening with an R/C plane, and that one is real, and amazing. The r/c pilot doesn't even miss a beat. He's a pro, did the r/c stuff in 'flyboys' and so on.

No weight in the bed. There were some difficulties getting it to hook at all on launch until we raised the front end a couple inches. Then it hooked, raised the power and it spins again. Over the winter I need to redo the front suspension to get all that sorted out. There's not much air at our tracks up here, Bandi is 5860, Pueblo and Douglas are 4800. The street/ race truck is kind of an odd choice I know. I've had about 10 xj's over the last 13 years. Wheeled quite a bit and smashed a lot of sheetmetal. It just doesn't get me excited anymore, but going fast does. Figured the mj'd be a good experiment on keeping it jeep.

89eliminator, the toolbox contained the nitrous bottle. It's now between the seats up front.. SoloCamo, sounds like a good plan! That D44 should take all you can throw at it. I'd love to get down to sea level with it some time, now that fuel costs are down a little it might be workable at some point. The shop I work at has a Mustang dyno, widely known as the stingiest chassis dyno. It put down 550 corrected. Pretty sure I could take it to a Dynojet, more or less the universal standard and show 620-ish. Here she is purring away at Bandimere. http://videos.streetfire.net/video/401- ... 198313.htm For comparison the tired old Renix 4.0 it had when I got it did 104 on a Dynojet. -Jon edit: livin' in Northern Colorado

That's no problem- he can be fastest, I'll be quickest. For now. It shouldn't be too hard to go quicker.

Hey guys! That's my old junker in the videos. Thanks for the kind words, except those that thought it was an 1/8 mile. :ack: j/k It's a 90 Eliminator, used to be 4x4. It's been to Moab a couple times and a few trails in CO. These days it's just a street/strip truck. 401 built up on nitrous, fuel injected on E85. TH400, stock 44 rear with 3.31 gears and Alloy shafts, cage, whatever else it took to meet the NHRA rules for 10's. If I could ever get it down near sea level and keep it halfway hooked up it should run in the high 9's as is. Oh, the flashy LED thing in the cluster is a Prologger wideband/ nitrous controller. It's also my only tach, I really need to hook a shift light up to it. These trucks hook up fairly well, anybody else on here into hotrodding them? -Jon