Pete M

the factory difference in axle width front to back is negligible and the effect on handling if they don't match perfectly is also negligible. this might apply to a high end performance car (except that there have been plenty of performance cars that don't have matching widths), but certainly not our our old trucks. do as you see fit. personally I'd add spacers to the rear only and get them to better match the front from a visual perspective.

yeah, well the daily has to take precedence over the truck I can't afford to drive even if it wasn't broken.

rear pass window failed and rolled itself down. tomorrow I'll tear into it and see if it's one I've repaired already. also my tire is contacting my windshield washer pump during turns, causing a leak and draining out all the fluid. I may have to address that. big tires for life on the plus side, I made 4 runs into town to pick up 2 loads of wood and 2 1000# trips of gravel and she mostly behaved herself

Jeepers helping Jeepers spend their money

went for a ton of gravel but found out the place still had 2 big bins of firewood left over from last year so I snatched that up too well seasoned!!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/326817959383 asking 17k+ in Norwalk, Connecticut

if anyone is curious as to what they can get me for xmas, someone found a nos 21 slot and threw it up on ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/236383634149

spotted some rear mudflaps on ebay if you need 'em: https://www.ebay.com/itm/167856786009

built a lego table for the kids out of an old butcher block countertop

near wall if cats or toddlers are an issue, near person for all other times until the heat death of the universe. in-ear buds or over-the-ear muffs?

I can make that work. later in the morning is usually better than earlier.

hour east of atlanta, just outside of Loganville.

with enough headsup I can do most any day. and as I tell everyone that swings by: start writing down a wish-list. my stuff isn't really setup for browsing.

random score on ebay

I know it's been that way for like 20 years now.

300 (minus caps) for whichever you feel is the nicest one. if you don't want to come browse the rest of my stuff, my folks are heading to Tryon in like a week and I'd wager I can get them to bring it along.

scored a mopar internal slave!

also I tracked down my amp issue to corrosion at the battery terminal. turns out amps don't like getting fed 8.5v.

needs bigger tires.

how well it's been treated matters more than anything else.

I've got a couple, but I'm over by Atlanta

I can't even imagine being an OG owner. like, no other owners have screwed up my wiring, or forgotten to change the oil for 20k, or jumped it and tweaked the frame and hid it under some underspray. congrats! I'm super jealous!

offhand I don't know for sure. 86 has a lot of weirdness. but it should be fairly easy to test each with a multimeter or test light. it'll have the same 5 wires as the plug above.

stop and go traffic will absolutely kill mpgs.