Pete M

Salt. Under much of Ohio and southern Michigan is a huge salt dome, and since the salt is so cheap, they use it in abundance on the roads. Bastards. :wall: :mad:

3 per side. Absolutely no deflection I've seen even after dropping the truck on them. :D I could probably have gotten away with 2 since I used DOM tube and put the bar through the frame, but better safe than sorry. Besides, the middle ones were the easy ones. :D I had the same frame strength concerns, but if you use a large plate to spread out the load, you should be fine. Even better if you can use some angle iron that wraps under the bottom of the frame. It is just double layered sheetmetal though, so be careful with the welding. Also, notice I lopped off the corners of the plate to lessen the chance of it being a stress point.

More pics and how it attaches to my frame at: http://www.picturetrail.com/petermontie in the protection folder.

Ours will be as accurate as possible, but even then there will be plenty of asterixes (sp?) because some parts of the MJ history are still a bit fuzzy.

Ownership isn't a requirement, but I can't imagine life without mine. The Surgeon General has rated the MJ highly addictive. :D

Mine: They go straight through and are welded to plates that are welded to the frame. For your idea, if you use a broad intermediate plate and add some gussets, it should be plenty strong.

The YJ/TJ parts are slightly different than XJ/MJ and some creativity is needed. The shifters (both the trans and the t-case) are different and the t-case is clocked higher up. I put a TJ assembly into my MJ and it's do-able, just not bolt-in. See: http://www.picturetrail.com/petermontie in the "drivetrain" folder.

I'll be doing the inside of my cab later this summer. The most important thing is to properly prep the paint/steel first. The liner material is really tough, but its adhesion to your truck is entirely up to you. Oh, and don't get any on your hootus. :D

I would keep it simple and strip the MJ down to the steel and swap the whole caboodle. But I'm a manual transmission guy myself so it's a tough choice. This is what I did with my Peugeot after it decided to self-destruct: I made little trophies! :D

Unless we're talking about stealing that sweet diesel out of one. (But not if the reason is better fuel mileage. No MPG gain could ever make up for the costs of swapping in one of those)

I'm "creative". :D

Eventually comancheclub will have pages like that, but even better. :D

My kit came with one, but not all of them do.

It's convertible time! :D

What condition was the pilot bearing in?

I used some cheapie rubber mounts. And added a second for triangulation and trimmed My crossmember is custom, but something like that should work on the stock one.

Something tells me he never corrected his speedometer.

I had a "bump" when my exhaust was loose and hitting the transmission crossmember.

I don't remember a gasket back when I was screwing around with the exhaust on my 88, but maybe it had welded itself to the manifold?

With the addition of lockers, you should start thinking about axle strength. What is your budget?

Then it must have been the entire sending cuircut that was switched. Not sure if swapping wires would fix it or kill it. :???:

In 91 the gas gauge was reversed. Or was it the fuel pump? I don't know for sure, but the change happened in 91 and that's why your needle is reversed.

Unfortunately Mythbusters didn't actually "prove" anything. A single experiment on the highway does not a "scientific study" make. And the "water tunnel" didn't actually prove anything except that the little vortex does form. According to what they showed on TV, it's pure speculation that the vortex has anything to do with drag. They should have tried to measure drag on the little model or run the highway test over and over and over again to eliminate all those other variables they didn't take into account. Now, I do believe that the tailgate is better up than down, but not because I watched the show. Auto manufacturers are desperate for every little mpg they can squeeze out of their thirsty pickups and if they could get a gain out of breeze-through tailgates, I'm sure they'd do it. I mean, they spent millions on MDS. Propping the tailgate open is, well, free.

Yeah, I'd say you might want to look into that. :D

Yeah, that's what I get for typing before my morning caffine. :ack: :loser: :shake: I should have said 89.5, but even then I think the cutoff is in September so that would be 89.75 :D