Pete M

you are most welcome. have you added your baby to the registry yet?

this is an odd topic though, as most everyone is going to buy the impact that uses the batteries that they already own. just how it works.

that's... not a good sound.

yup, add your truck to the CC registry and you'll get a build sheet and birthday for your baby

fwiw, tech Qs from the project thread owners should really be added to Tech so more eyes will see it and then the answers will pop up when people search through Tech.

how exciting!

-one of every kind of MJ (so I can start my museum) -99 town and country with a mid-engine rwd vette powerplant (grocery getter) -7.3L Excursion (camper hauler) -Gladiator with V8 conversion (for towing my MJs to shows) -83 Z-28 HO (my dad's car ) -KJ CRD (less rusty and this time with a manual transmission conversion to be my daily driver)

I tried a top down for the first one and it went poorly, but I've learned a lot since then and think I'm ready to revisit the concept.

ooooo! a 2 page ad! nice

I'm so confused...

since I have dewalt batteries, I got a dewalt impact. but I got the big boy. 700ftlb max (and 1200 breakaway torque, whatever that is) I've learned to leave it on the middle power setting until I need high, because the silly direction switch is super easy to bump and then snap off whatever bolt you're trying to remove. she's got some power, that's for sure. perfect for junkyards.

I doubt any normal Jeep winch is going to be of much help anyway.

I've only ever known them as 87s

all Libbys are IFS

yeah, I might have to break out the torch to accelerate the process a bit

are you talking about reaming out the shoulder that supports the wheel? or something else? pic?

don't see why not. maybe you could start a new one each week.

so today's experiment went sideways on me. I carefully made my layers of burnables and then stuffed the rest of the space with cardboard like I've seen guys do on youtube. but upon lighting the fire, it smoked a LOT and that smoke escaped out every door seal in the box. now the house stinks to high heaven and I had to open the windows to vent it out. I made the assumption that the box would seal in everything and that's just not the case. so tomorrow morning I'm going to make a small fire purely out of 2x4 splinters and some paper and slowly heat up the box and flue before I add more to the mix. we'll see how that goes. I might have to just bite the bullet and load up a lot of wood the night before so that the box is still warm in the morning. it's a waste of wood because it'll only warm a room that no one is in all night. hampers my ash removal too because, well, everything is hot when I push the ashes around so they fall down to the pan and that kinda sucks. oh well. it's just a matter of finding out what works best for this household. I'll get there.

that truck has doubled in age since he bought it.

I see there's a lot of variety of cheap kits out there. wondering what works well and what woesn't. I mean doesn't.

good!

someone call them up and order some sportbars.

that's how I got my NOS chrome grille for my Dakota. they advertised it on craigslist.

for what it's worth, I have a closed system but with a modern radiator (with cap) and the cap is rated 16lbs and has never popped.