glundblad

Congratulations, nice truck. I hope you appreciate how rust prone these old guys are and how rust free yours is. :cheers:

I pulled a 5' x 8' trailer with a 800lbs garden tractor on a ball mounted to the factory bumper with no problems and did it throughout the summers. The Fey is stronger than the factory bumper IMO.

You are willing to cut a hole in your frame to run your exaust? :eek:

All stock comanche bumpers seem to look crooked even when in good condition. :dunno: Back in the day, I frequently towed a small trailer with the comanche on a bumper hitch. When I turned too sharp, the trailer cut into the bumper next to the ball. While I learned quickly, it only took one time to damage it. I have a fey bumper just like WBBKrazy that is much stronger than the stock bumper and I am sure it could handle a ball very easily. You may be able to see it in photos on my signature links below. But personally, I prefer frame hitches.

Rob, Very nice writeup. I own my '87 that I bought new and I remember that period very well. Technology has come along way since 1987 so comparing comanche to trucks made today may be unfair. But many of us may not realize that when comanche came out, the competition (if you could call them that) was Chevy S10 and Ford Ranger. There was no comparison. Furthermore, when that 4.0 came out, that was a big deal. I just bought a new rubicon but my comanche is not for sale at any price. don't forgot, to compare these to the new stuff, comanches are made of iron. Regarding the rust problem, in the '80's the imports were much worse. Diving those in the weather was like taking a kleenex box through a car wash. You may not make it home. And not to bragg tooooo much, but why did they get rid of the chief package anyway? Everyone knows that package was the best. :brows:

A couple of years ago, my commute was right at an hour. It is a big deal for a few weeks. Then you adjust to it and hardly notice. Just make sure you have a nice cd collection. I had to buy my own fuel but I had a diesel Jetta. I was getting 43mpg.

That is an impressive looking dealership. We don't have anything like that in the Ft Wayne Indiana area. Congradulations. :cheers:

I am considering purchasing a new Rubicon. It has a 6 speed manual and 3.8 liter V6 (202 hp). They are giving me a pretty good price for it. I read where Jeep was putting in a 280 hp 3.6L V6 into the 2011 Grand Cherokee. Does anyone know if that engine would be installed in the 2010 Rubicon? In other words, can anyone think of a reason to wait for a 2010 or will they be virtually unchanged next year? Any advice would be appreciated. Large purchases make me nervious.

Did you need to cut the door panels to make them fit?

Those would look great on my truck. My truck is red which would really match up nice with those red lights. I am working on a seat project right now but will finish soon. If you sell me those lights, I bet I can install them much faster than I can install my seats. :yes:

Well, I squeezed the connector and pulled but that didnt work. Finally, I squeezed the connector, pryed with a screwdriver, and prayed (in that order). It popped right off. I also delt with the speedometer cable . I unscrewed it from the transmission and pushed it. That gave me enough slack to feed into the firewall and pull the cluster away from the dash so I had room to work. That would be difficult in a junkyard if the tires are off and it is sitting on the ground. Interestingly, my speedometer cable was only hand tight.

Thanks but in this case, those are not fingers. After I examined it more closely, that is all one solid piece even though it has notches toward the opening that make it look like fingers. I am considering prying but I really don't like the thought of prying 22 year old plastic...

I am in the middle of upgrading my gauges. When I removed the cluster from the dash and tried to disconnect the speedometer cable, I was not able to figure out how the cable gets disconnected. This connector does not seem to look like other postings. Does anyone have any ideas? Image Not Found

I am not exactly sure why the Grand Cherokee is perceived to be too small for a family of 5. It feels much larger inside than an XJ. They made Grand Cherokee much wider. I feel it is a perfect size. I own two tahoes and sometimes feel they are too large for the Wal-Mart parking lot but I pull a boat and live on dirt roads. They do real well for that. There are laws for mini van owners that have caused me not to even consider purchasing one. First and foremost is the requirement that you need to wear black socks and dress shoes while wearing shorts and a tee shirt. :yes:

I have owned both but it has been awhile. I had a '96 Laredo with a v8 and a '95 Orvis with the 4.0. I thought the 4.0 was fine. What I didnt like was the groan associated with the 4.0. The 8 sounded smoother. Other than that, I liked the 4.0 just fine. I am glad I got rid of the '96 but I sure wish I kept the '95. My son has a Wj with the 4.0. It is a dog compared to our Tahoe with a big V8 (it seems faster than many cars). But WJ performance seems great to me. I don't know what the weather is like where you live and I really like the Wagoneer BUT, they are rust buckets. It is very rare to see them in Indiana, even in the junk yards.

I knew the Jeep brand would change since our beloved government took it over but I didnt see this coming. Regrettably, I admit Obama was right all along. Alternative fuel efficiant cars are real.

Yep. The knob for a TJ or a '99/2000 XJ is a direct replacement, and doesn't fall apart in use. Eagle, Thanks for the info. Sorry for the late response. Been on vacation.

Congratulations. That must be a real relief. I must admit I am a bit disappointed that you didnt go with the mopar dealer. I am in need of some parts. I feel sorry for you though. I just got off an airplane a few hours ago from visiting Mickey Mouse. I was there for over a week. Man, your weather sucks... :ack:

I am pretty clueless about engines so remember that as you read this. But I experienced the exact same problem. I bought my truck new in '87 and sold it to my dad in 1995. He put only 10k miles on it in over 10 years. So obviously it didnt run as often as it should have. I bought it back from him last summer. It ran ok but not like I remembered it. I replaced the rotor, plugs, wires, had the injectors & throttle body cleaned. I tried replacing the tps but that didnt help. It was better but still sputtered and sometimes died. I took it to the dealer last fall and they replaced the iac. It helped a little but still didnt run like I remembered it. It still stalled at times too. Stop lights were sometimes a challenge. On a couple of times, I had trouble starting it too. I took it back this spring and asked for an old guy that has worked on the old 4.0 renix for a long time and they had a mechanic that owned one. He replaced the egr valve and solenoid. I could tell the moment I started the truck that he fixed it. It now runs like it did when I bought it new in '87. Let me know if this helps.

Wow, good luck. If you get it, that makes you my new best friend. A couple of years ago, I worked 60 minutes from home. Now I am 7 minutes from home. I look back and wonder how I did it but while it was going on, I actually enjoyed the drive. The only thing to remember is your cd collection becomes your new best friend.

Also verify that your windows updates are getting installed automatically and use the most current service packs. THat will reduce your exposure but won't eliminate it.

One more thing. Just to show you how big of a waste of time it is to repair an infected computer, a couple of years ago, I used to be a network engineer. A small company consisting of a server with about 10 client pcs lost their entire domain. They didnt know what was going on. I found out that one of the employees was surfing porn in the computer room on the server no less. His computer had to be taken to the police station if that gives you any idea how bad off this company was. :no: I located the service that was the virus. I would wipe and reload a desktop. Within seconds after I installed a fresh computer on the network, the infection was installed on the new computer. It turned out that it was a laptop that was the culprit. My point is once a computer is infected, it may work ok but it may never be "right" again. You may think it is ok and then new problems surface later on.

Well, I am a business app guy and not a gamer. My rule of thumb has always been to use NTFS. NTFS came out when NT was released (early '90's?). I own a beauty shop (don't laugh, it's a lifestyle :yes: ) and it is an old dos ap but my wife would kill me if I upgraded it. Using Fat never crossed my mind. NTFS has always been more secure and reliable. I would dump doom on an NTFS partition and try it out. Games are a little funky compared to other programs but I bet it will work. I seriously doubt you will notice any difference after you convert. It has some minor features that may benefit you. For example, if you had pictures of a good looking 103lbs wife, that you don't want anyone else to see, you can encrypt that folder.

:hijack: Not to hijack this thread but... has anyone noticed the gearshift knobs on these things suck? They strip after a very short time and then they are loose forever.

In my humble opinion, don't get too hung up on which tool is best. That being said, Symantec/Norton tilts to the worthless side of the scale IMO. Trend is more commercial grade. Some people run into problems and they spend days trying to fix it. Then us IT folks look at their computers only to find 2 virus scanners and 15 freeware spyware apps. Then they hint that their computer "may be running a little slow". No kidding? Remember nothing catches everything but wipe and reload fixes everything so plan for that. If your computer came with actual restore cd's (some Dell's park the restore image in a partitiion), store that in a safe place. If you buy a computer, make sure it comes with restore cd's. Wipe and reload is the best fix there is as long as you have your backups. If you have the restore cd's it is pretty much automatic. Who knows, it may happen again in 30 days. By the way, if you don't have restore CD's and your image is stored on a drive partition, there should be a tool to make the cd's. You will want a copy of that in case your drive crashes. But on the other hand, you probably can't read any of this because your computer is hosed, right? :yes: