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I'll take a shot at the Eclipse: Is that close to what you had in mind?

My original bumper sagged a bit over the years and then I got hit by a Honda at a stoplight, then it sagged a lot. :( The replacement bumper hasn't sagged at all, but it is rusting through in several places. :headpop:

Glad this tale has a happy ending, great job!

I've always liked the chase in The Seven Ups: No crashes with enormous fireballs, no cars flying off ramps disguised as fruit stands, no CGI, just 10 minutes of pretty realistic high speed chasing in NYC and out into the country.

Interesting...wish the body crease would go straight from front to back, the dip at the door seems odd. The 2 door looks better than the crew cab verison. Edit: We must have discussed this truck before, I found an image I made at that point showing the crease as straight:

I bought my first house in April 89 and was driving a 69 Impala at the time. It was big, but not quite big enough for carrying all the supplies that go along with renovating a 76 year old house. After about 6 months of borrowing friend's trucks I decided I needed a pickup and started looking at what was available. Of all the trucks I looked at, the MJ was the one that impressed me the most. It looked and drove like a truck should when other trucks were starting to get more car-like. I picked it up as an end of the year deal in Oct 89 and have been been enjoying it ever since. While the house is completed now, I'm still using it for all sorts of projects and for work.

I bought mine new! I loved the truck then and 145k miles later I still love it. :thumbsup: Two months old:

There's a lot of great images here! I really like this one MercComet, amazing lighting:

Current: 89 LWB 4.0L BA10/5 2wd Pioneer

Beautiful pictures, thanks!

I've been using a PDF utility called doPDF: http://www.dopdf.com/ It's freeware and it adds itself as a printer driver so you can select any part or all of a post and use the print option to create a pdf file of the post. It's particularly useful for DIY posts with images because sometimes when you return later to a post the images are not there anymore. I save all the pdfs in a folder for future reference...very handy.

Donation Pay Pal'ed...I've saved many times the amount from what I have learned on this site about repairing and maintaining this truck. Thanks Pete and all the members!

A big, nasty, sweaty woman, wearing a sleeveless sundress, walks into a bar. She raises her right arm, revealing a big, hairy armpit as she points to all the people sitting at the bar and asks, "What man out there will buy a lady a drink?" The whole bar goes dead silent as the patrons try to ignore her. At the end of the bar, a skinny little drunk slams his hand on the bar and says, "Bartender! I want to buy that ballerina a drink!" The bartender pours the drink and the woman chugs it down. After she's completed the drink, she turns again to the patrons and points around at all of them, again revealing her hairy armpit, saying, "What man out there will buy a lady a drink?" Once again, the little drunk slaps his hand down on the bar and says, "Bartender! I'd like to buy the ballerina another drink!" After serving the lady her second drink, the bartender approaches the little drunk and says, "It's your business if you want to buy the lady a drink, but why do you call her a ballerina?" The drunk replies, "Sir! In my eyes, any woman who can lift her leg up that high has got to be a ballerina!" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- There was this little guy sitting in a bar, drinking, minding his own business when all of a sudden this great big dude comes in and --WHACK!!-- he knocks him off the bar stool and says, "That was a karate chop from Korea." The little guy thinks "GEEZ" but he gets back up on the stool and starts drinking again when all of a sudden --WHACK-- the big dude knocks him down AGAIN and says, "That was a judo chop from Japan." So the little guy has had enough of this so he leaves and is gone for an hour or so and when comes back --WHACK!!!"-- He knocks the big dude off his stool and out cold!!! The little guy looks at the bartender and says, "When he comes to, tell him that was a crowbar from Sears." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- There once was a priest who had to spend the night in a hotel. He asked the hat check girl to come up to his room for dinner. After a while he started making passes, when she stopped him and reminded him he was a holy man. "It's OK," he replied, "it's written in the Bible." So after a wild night of sex, the hat check girl asked to see where in the Bible it says it's okay to have wild, passionate sex. The priest picks up the Bible off the dresser opens to the first page where someone wrote in pencil: "The hat check girl puts out!"

WIFE VS. HUSBAND A couple drove down a country road for several miles, not saying a word. An earlier discussion had led to an argument and neither of them wanted to concede their position. As they passed a barnyard of mules, goats, and pigs, the husband asked sarcastically, 'Relatives of yours?' 'Yep,' the wife replied, 'in-laws.' LISTENING A husband read an article to his wife about how many words women use a day.... 30,000 to a man's 15,000. The wife replied, 'The reason has to be because we have to repeat everything to men... The husband then turned to his wife and said, 'What?' CREATION A man said to his wife one day, 'I don't know how you can be so stupid and so beautiful all at the same time. 'The wife responded, 'Allow me to explain. God made me beautiful so you would be attracted to me; God made me stupid so I would be attracted to you! THE SILENT TREATMENT A man and his wife were having some problems at home and were giving each other the silent treatment. Suddenly, the man realized that the next day, he would need his wife to wake him at 5:00 AM for an early morning business flight. Not wanting to be the first to break the silence (and LOSE), he wrote on a piece of paper, 'Please wake me at 5:00 AM.' He left it where he knew she would find it. The next morning, the man woke up, only to discover it was 9:00 AM and he had missed his flight Furious, he was about to go and see why his wife hadn't wakened him, when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed. The paper said, 'It is 5:00 AM. Wake up.'

They were all shot with a regular digital camera. Being that close to the layout surface left the foreground out of focus but I was able to crop out the foreground later to make the image look better.

I found the original Yahoo group while searching on something related to the truck and moved on to this forum when it was created. I bought my truck new and picked up a set of factory manuals at the same time, yet I have learned more about my MJ in the past few years thanks to you guys and this forum than I learned all those years before this. :thumbsup:

Thanks...funny you should mention the V&O, that was one of my inspirations when I was trying to plan what I wanted to build. If only I had as much space as Allen had!

I have an HO layout that I started 20 years ago and still haven't finished, that seems to be the way this hobby works. I haven't really done much with it in the past 5 years or so but I still run the trains now and then. More pics here: http://users.erols.com/true2scale/MRR

Thanks for the info!

Great writeup, somehow I missed this when it was first posted, thanks for putting it together. Buckets are on the "maybe someday list" so this will be valuable.

You can post a request for a working unit in the classifieds here. Most times when someone asks about one, someone comes through with unit they are willing to sell. Mine went bad a few years ago and I picked a working assembly here that worked out fine. Can't say for sure about the CJ/YJ brakes, but I've never seen anyone mention them as a useable replacement. Most likely they are in the center console like the XJ's. Good luck with the search.

Welcome! Here ya go....

According to the ConsumerGuide buying guide for 89: Turning Diameters... MJ-SB 38.9' MJ-LB 41.3' XJ 35.7'

After some more searching, it appears that the part they could get was the Wrangler version and the one I needed is the one that isn't available, at least not according to the dealer I went to. I just ordered the Bendix part and with my 3-5k per year useage I should be good for a while hopefully. Thanks for the info!

Here's a diagram of the fuse box if that helps: