Pete M

yeah, Dex is on my list of people I'd like to visit. I only have 5 and 2 halves Jeeps. mostly due to the aforementioned money/space/time limitations. lol

belt squeal is way down from before. still a bit of chirp there though until it warms up. I'm going to leave it alone for now. when I finally get to doing the timing belt I'll replace the serpentine too. that bearing howl on the other hand may need to be fixed sooner rather than later. no clue as to where it's coming from though. I'm trying to get new tires first to eliminate that as a noise.

that's a super tight bend, but I guess it's simply a compromise at this point. gotta do what ya gotta do to get that power.

no such thing as too many Jeeps, but there is such a thing as not enough money/space/time.

yet another drunk idiot ran his boat into the USS Midway Museum.

@jdog

if you can weld, you can buy his side brackets separate from a whole unit and grab a hitch from an Excursion from a local junkyard. I did that to the 88 I was working on. I used the excursion after failing to find a single pickup that had a wide enough hitch (they all seem to go between the inner frame walls rather than the MJ's outside-to-outside).

this is why I don't like people touching my stuff. the bolt on the left was holding my tensioner pulley in place. the bolt on the right did the same job on my spare engine. a huge thanks to whomever did the timing belt procedure a decade ago and crossthreaded a bolt that was too short to begin with.

in 16 years that kid's going to need a whip

don't get me wrong, if you can get more money, go for it. but I'd still keep the truck. wouldn't take much to get it running again and then you have all their money too.

that doesn't sound very "independent".

I might take $6979 if I get to keep my truck with a salvage title (assuming your area allows salvage titles). you can get your truck up and running for far less and then pocket the rest.

where's he located? who's closest that has a bar they can look at?

those are available new. just look on amazon or rockauto or your local auto parts store's website.

don't be afraid to look down south and out west. clean trucks go for less.

the little pedal to the left of your knee is missing? or you're missing the cables that run to the rear axle?

location matters a lot too. trucks cost a lot to ship/fetch. are you advertising on facebook marketplace?

and even some of the things that are the same are worth pulling pics of how bad the frame is? if you intend to seek out another MJ, you might want to wait on parting that one out. there's no telling what you might need on the next

like a lot of old Jeeps, she still looks good long as you don't get too close definitely needs tires though...

the rear half of the rockers need some love, but that's waaay down the list. thankfully my KJ came with the plastic covers so it looks fine rolling down the road.

the exhaust is a work in progress. I was able to salvage the middle hanger from my spare drivetrain. currently there are stainless hose clamps holding the pipe to the hanger. I'm not doing anything more until the Jeep proves reliable.

no!!!!

I've flat towed my MJ a time or 2 back in the day. I'm never ever doing that again. there's 0 tongue weight on the rear bumper and that makes driving... tricky. both for braking and for turning. there's nothing helping plant the rear tires and 3k pounds back there trying to push the back end sideways or even pick it up in the air during heavy braking.

she's been parked for the entire time I was working on that black MJ. like, over a year. I'm super stoked to see the ol' girl moving again