FrankTheDog

Great news! My wrangler really made a big show of marking it’s territory at work. Oil sending unit popped 3/4 of a mile from work. Big cloud of smoke and a trail all the way to my parking spot.

For my home made springs l used a set of 3.5” lift XJ springs with the eyes cut off the main leaf and the ends rounded similar to the stock leaves and bolted to the main leaf with a new center pin. Sat maybe an inch higher than a Metric ton MJ. I’ll find some pictures of it to post. I believe those are 265/70/16 on some liberty wheels. Maybe 245/70’s.

That’s more useful as a truck than the current Maverick.

Toyota FJ’s, the Swiss Army knife of the automotive world.

In a two door l might be interested, but my 2015 grand Cherokee has the same amount of room behind the back seat.

I’ve done more damage to that car than she has. I left it in neutral without the parking brake on and it rolled across the drive and it rubbed the front bumper on one of my XJ’s all the way down the passenger side. Left a crease down all four panels. Then I got T-boned in June on the drivers side. $9,500 worth of damage. It was appraised at $5,600 but there were more things wrong that they uncovered after yhey were to far into it to stop. It should have been totaled. I’m glad it wasn’t.

We’ve taken a 1998 XJ to 453,000 on the original 4.0, never opened up. Second one was a 99 that was still going strong just over 300k when we gave it to our daughters insignificant other and he clammed it up shortly after. Also had a 96 XJ that hit 335 before it evaporated.

Wife is fine, deer ran off. Car is damaged on the nose and passenger fender. Lots of body fluids down the side, none red. We just got the car back a month and a half ago from being T-boned. Nearly was totaled that time. Car still drives great though. I’m hoping to wear it out, not smash it out.

I won a Craftsman Versastak tool box at a Snowmobile swap meet a couple weeks ago. For the $10 investment I’m very happy. The tools are all organized by drive size with each drawer having room for other tools like a driver set with nut drivers torx bits screw driver bits and allen bits in one. Metric and American allen wrench sets in the second one and 4mm/1/4”-15mm/5/8 combination wrenches in the third. I’m hoping l can find a box that attaches to it so l can add a wiring kit to it.

I don’t know, my wife went out a little while later to run downtown to the pharmacy and on the way back she hit a deer.

In my yard Wednesday early evening.

They all are, even as a kid l couldn’t stand them.

When l first got my 92 back in 2011. The loads got bigger after l put in my home made 1 ton springs and Dana 44.

Once you own one you can’t unsee them. XJ’s too.

I would of simply shrugged and put them away in the garage with the rest of the trove.

Now you need to paint it one of the Mopar High lmpact colors.

The perpetrator saw that you were a Jeep guy and simply rehomed the parts rather than throwing them out.

15?!?! Wow! We learned about hot stuff by growing up around glowing wood stoves. With the scars to prove it. We were around 9-10 years old when we were put in charge of the burning barrel. It was always easier to get the fire going with a little splash of gasoline. Our Dad specifically said not to use gas to get a fire going so we had to experiment with it. Best experiment was when my little brother filled a 14oz Winchester 452AA can half full of diesel and cinched down the metal lid real tight. Then he tossed it in the hot flaming barrel. He didn’t stick around to see what would happen. He ran about a hundred feet away and got behind a stone wall. Made a mushroom cloud about 40 ft high and rattled the windows. Good Times.

Here you go. http://www.440source.com/strokerkits.htm

Yes, we would lightly singe ourselves with them when we were in grammar school. See who could singe the most.

800 lbs of ballast really hampers performance.

I blasted through all kinds of snow in my 1 legged 2wd MJ. It all depends on how much snow driving experience you have and your tires. We would spend hours hurling our heaps around empty parking lots through all kinds of snow. Usually on marginal tires. We would always get to where we were going.

Not a Comanche but still a 4.0 HO. 1998 XJ bought it in 2007 with 209k on it from original owner. At that point the engine had never been touched internally. I drove it to 453k in 2018 when I finally parked it. It still had never been opened up. Original valve cover and oil pan gaskets. It still ran halfway decently but the XJ was basically driven into the ground by then. No picture of 453k but here is one from 433k. It was my most favorite vehicle ever. We went on many adventures.