Pete M

'tis glorious, that's for sure

so any day now my shipping boxes will be here so I'm starting the process of cleaning up my gauge clusters. some of them are nice, while others are pretty scratched up. is it as simple as polishing up like I would a headlight? what has worked for you guys?

If you find a couple really useful threads, please share them here so I can include them in the master DIY list

great find!

ooooo, that's a pretty grille

if your seat bolts aren't rusty, you can even pull the seats out and then have plenty of access to the door card.

it's a great feeling to finally be able to drive it in to town congrats!

lookin' fantastic!

been there, done that. turns out you can indeed get the inner panel off if you're desperate enough. but you can try a slim jim style tool first.

I was a few days away from seeing them in concert when everything closed down.

so after days and days of the rains juuuuust missing us, we finally got hit. and sure enough, little man still hanging out in the feeder right outside the living room window took note and started croaking

these are the 2 I have. note the bolt holes aren't quite the same. the lower elongated holes in the pic are the frame holes, the holes to the left on the parts are the crossmember holes. on your Jeep there should be some hexagonal shaped holes for each of the 4 mounting bolts' press in nuts.

yeah, she's been sitting a long time and the battery was out for a good chunk of that so I'm hoping all is "normal".

you say that now.... swapped in the ABS wires. what a pain in the butt. never did get the drivers side connected because digging into that side of the engine bay is a project unto itself, but it doesn't matter because apparently I only need the one. so speedo/odo works again. the AC worked great at the start of the day and diminished in effectiveness as I drove along. when I got to Lowes I checked and the E-fan wasn't doing a thing so I pulled a relay and it now runs on low speed. didn't really help much as the air coming out of the vents was still barely cooler than the 91* outside. the trans is shifting a little weird so after it cools down I'll check the fluid level. I also need to pull the battery cables and see if that resets anything (gotta pull the battery anyways to get at that other ABS connector) but that is all for another morning because I'm not working in this heat for something I don't need right now.

wow! 2 in one drive?!

smart man that is one snazzy lookin' machine!

at least we've got a bunch of photos. fills in a lot of blanks.

are the early hemi Durangos cheap enough yet?

CRD Liberty.

you'll find him in the Vendor's subforum of the classifieds.

that is most wise

that is the hope. The plan is to install them in the morning and drive to town. I still have plans to rewire the rear ABS sensor wires into the fronts and trick the system into giving me back my cruise control, but that's a project for another day. next up is the brakes on the durango and the wheelbearing on the cruiser

as long as you keep pluging away at it everything is fine. gotta keep the momentum even if the motivation falters.

although this assumes you're happy about selling your car. I wasn't happy about parting with my Dakota R/T, but I was happy about having a handful of cash.

scored some ABS cables at the 'yard today.