Pete M

I have so many questions...

can't help but notice you said you want the "fear" to end, not the "horrible things that the illness is doing to people" to end. either way, the only end is if enough people get masked and vaxed so we can choke out the spread.

a quick tap on the schrader valve in one of the ports will tell ya. chances are slim there's anything in there to worry about. grab all the parts you can.

is there any pressure left in the system?

diff is the same. axles are of the 29 spline variety. the snout has a flange on it so you'll need to either swap that out when regearing, or use a ujoint adapter afterwards.

I chose 4.10s for my 33s because that's the deepest factory ratio in late 70s ford axles and a pair sorta dropped into my lap so the cash savings was large. BUT, if I was to do it all again, I'd skip the heavier axles and go with a dana 30 and an '05+ Liberty 8.25 regeared to 4.56. maybe 4.88. the Liberty axle also has disks but is a couple inches wider than a dana 35 rather than narrower like the 8.8. the better to fill out the MJ's wide butt. explorer axles came in 3.07, 3.31, and 3.55 ratios too. more or less mirroring the various MJ ratios, which is strange but convenient.

car-part.com miiiight be able to find you a dana 30 with 4.10s.

I love it! where did you find them?

nice

all MJ dana 30s are high pinion.

GA has inspections?

it only takes ten to open up the classifieds, so you should be good to go now

the best things in life take a little time

never has such a southern thing been spoken.

entirely possible. maybe the old one stopped working? maybe they found one with a lower mileage before selling it? (fun fact: the mileage is totally adjustable!) also possible it's a hiccup in the spreadsheet. a ton of information was lost way back when before it got into chrysler's computers (the story we hear is that there was a flood in the basement where records were kept) and so the build sheets have both missing bits and errors.

I know, right? can't seem to get away from them often enough or for long enough!

truer words were never spoken. we're paying for every single person in the hospital. ever single workplace closure. every person that can't work due to the debilitating side effects they incurred. this is a global pandemic. people getting sick costs this country serious money and people who aren't vaccinated are by far the largest group getting really sick. it all comes back to us. we are paying for it. every penny. I'm sure most of you know my mom was in an accident recently. went to the hospital to get scans that showed brain bleeding. the only reason she got a room in the ICU was because one of the covid people died earlier that day. the kid in the other car had to go in for surgery, but by the time he was out of the ER, my mom had already taken that last room and so he was shipped via ambulance all the way to a different hospital that had some space. then 2 days later mom needed to go to stepdown but ended up being trapped in the same ICU room (thereby denying anyone else who really needed it) because there were no available stepdown rooms, once again due to the plethora of covid patients. what do you think this costs us? none of those people in the hospital are going to pay their substantial bill so it comes back to the rest of us via taxes or via health insurance premiums. the longer this goes on, the more it costs us. the shot is free and safe and plentiful. get it. or at the very least, please stop any efforts at preventing others from getting it.

if you don't like big Guv, you can totally leave them out of it. there are places down here that will gladly give you a shot with no paperwork or questions asked. you get protection and the government doesn't know a thing about it.

which side effect?

and who has convinced you that it is a bad thing?

with what part?

an easy way to tell is to pull it out and see if it's made in Japan (good) or Korea (not so good). the AUX is the only upgrade to them, and then you plug a bluetooth dongle into that AUX cord to give your BT connectivity.

there's no good reason to not get your shots. it is safe, and it is effective at keeping you safe. please stop getting your healthcare info from non-healthcare people. ask your doctor and listen to him/her.

being vaccinated helps your body fight it faster and thus prevent serious complications and shortens the time you are contagious. it doesn't make you the boy in the bubble. if you have tested positive, you should be wearing a mask inside your house and trying to distance yourself from your wife for a few days. just because you might have gotten a good roll of the dice doesn't mean she will also. there's no good reason to not get your shots.