Pete M

How warm is warm?

Why? I've got a ~170 amp alt in my Jeep, I can't imagine needing more power than that. How many 15" woofers are you planning on? :brows:

Dude, at least upgrade your cell phone then! :roll:

Or down. Part of Windsor is south of Detroit. :D

Could be the light is burned out, or maybe the vacuum switch on the passenger side of the engine compartment is bad or sticking.

My old 2wd Peugeot always got noisier when the fluid level got low (had a leak out the back). You'll need to fashion a square drive to remove the plug. Many owners just take an old 3/8" extension and grind the edges till it fits snug. Make sure you can remove the fill plug before you tackle the drain. You wouldn't be the first that could easily removed the drain plug, but then it took a day to get the fill plug out. :D

http://www.jedi.com/obiwan/jeep/ford88.html This site should give you an idea of what's required. Welding will be necessary.

Stupid tiny car. :D If it wasn't so much fun to drive...

I've been going with the philosophy that if I stickied everything that needed to be stickied, we'd have a couple pages full of stickies and likely still be asked about them. :D So I try to resist.

Being in the Bahamas, he might have an export MJ.

And check your alignment. Any height adjustment will alter it.

I'm jealous, but a bit less than I'd normally be. A friend of mine is going out of town for a week starting Tuesday and leaving me with his stickshift Crossfire. :D

I worded that poorly. What I meant was that one could only get an auto behind the 5.9 in Dakotas/Durangos (and the 98 ZJ). A manual trans (nv-4500) was available behind the 5.9L in the fullsize Ram. The 5.2L was good for like 220 or 230 hp. Oh, and the stick was most certainly available behind the 5.2L. ebay dak with 5.2L/stick

When I lost brake lights in my 88 it was due to corrosion in the wire harness connector located behind the drivers side rear tire.

Some guys just like to be different. :D

My 90 has a 4.0/AX-15 with 31" tires and I had a 3.55 Dana 44 sitting in the garage so I found a matching 3.55 front and went with it. 3.55s should be close enough to work just fine. Truck still needs a floor so I haven't exactly done any road testing yet. :roll: But back in the day (when it was just a lowly 2wd) my 88 had 30s with 3.07s and it sucked, then I swapped in the 3.55 Dana 44 and the truck drove great. :D

There are others out there making an attempt, like the Nissan Xterra (rear locker, Bilstein shocks, 32" tires, etc) and if you can resist clicking on the chrome mirrors, grille and recovery loops, you can get the H3 with some impressive gear. To me, IFS is not unto itself a deal breaker if it can be bandaided with gears, lockers, cool engines or bigger tires. :D

Yeah, fuel economy standards and crash worthiness have a way of changing what companies can produce. Out of curiosity, in you guys' humble opinion, where does the new Rubicon rate in that list of classics? Or the new Power Wagon? Or how about the newer SuperDutys with high-pinion coil-over Dana 60s up front? How about Dodge's equivalent? What about the new diesels pushing 700 ft-lbs of torque? It's fun making fun of the Compass, but don't live too much in the past. It's not always all it's cracked up to be. Front drum brakes suck, 260 U-joints suck, and most of the really tough rigs from back in the day were indestructible because they had anemic engines and/or tiny tires. Don't kid yourselves, the best examples of today's engineering could walk all over the old-school technology of yesteryear. There are just too few examples of it, and more and more of the wussy 4x4s.

86-90 was TBI.

The 5.9L was only available with an auto in Dakotas (as part of the R/T package). And only as 2wd too. Durangos could get a 5.9/auto with 4wd (also R/T).

AX-15 ain't going to survive behind a Hemi. :brows:

Which Chrysler v8?

One more reason why leasing can actually be better than buying. :D After 2 or 3 years it's their problem. :brows:

Off the top of my head I think the firing order is 1,5,3,6,2,4

It can be rough trying to organize all the different schedules (both work and project status). Trust me on that. If anyone wants to try and organize a run, I say go for it! :D Research the location you want to go see (types of trails available, places to sleep) and then make your thoughts known to the community. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. But you'll never know until you try. :brows: