Comanche County

It might be slightly tacky. But this isn't something to sue over. You sue someone for removing the wrong kidney, running over your grandmother, or you sue the govt for infringing on your rights to shoot guns or drive a gas-guzzling Jeep with massive tires.

I think its actually a compliment.

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It should be Dirteatr's, he's like Mathew Mcconaughey in Dazed and Confused, look at those hotties.

Yeah, they burn oil too because of the steel plenum cover under the aluminum intake. The two metals expand and contract at different temperatures which eventually breaks the seal and oil gets sucked into the valves, then coats the O2 sensors in carbon and just messes up the engine efficiency. I'm tempted to get one of the Hughes plenum kits. http://www.hugheseng...jkvNS4yLzUuOSk=

A little steep but it sure is nice.

Brother, she'd kill me. Well I have been known to abruptly break up with a Jeep in a nano-second as well as a woman. But this girl knows how to keep her Jeeper home at night so she's totally forgiven for murdering my 5.9. If I have to marry her to get the white one, I'll do it. Btw, got mine stripped down today. After 220K it still has the factory cross hatching in all the bores, no ridges either.

LS engines make a lot of sense if you don't care about the cross pollination of GM genes. But Magnum V8s would be at the top of my list. To me, old carbureted SBCs in jeeps have been done too much. I think they actually devalue the Jeep unless it's a very well built high HP engine.

You can kinda see the profile of one in the first oblique picture. They're there, these pics arent bery clear. I'll have to add a better shot of next time I see it.

I think that is a factory skid. I've got one on mine I'll get a pic of it up. Man, that engine compartment is shockingly clean. I like the manifold set up too! This is a very nice truck.

Okay, here's my GF story. Her Grand Caravan's PCM went, the BMW needs a trans, the Grand Am just plain gave up. So she's been driving my 5.9 ZJ for few months. She comes to the house today and there's a grinding noise coming from the engine. I'm thinking its just a pulley. She has an appt in 45 mins. I remove the belt, find that the water pump pulley bearings are shot, the pulley has significant wobble, I jet to Auto Zone, grab a water pump and get it on in <30min. Start it up check for leaks, then send her on the way. 10 minutes later, she calls, says the temp guage is at 260 and the jeep won't start.... :hmm: Then I realized, I loosened the radiator cap one notch to remove the large electric fan...(it doesn't have a mechanical fan)...but I never tightened the cap. :doh: My fault. We tow it home and she does pretty good driving the MJ for the first time, towing a vehicle for the first time. Here's the MJ earning its keep once again. Get it home and it runs great when cool, then warms to 220 and just sits there. Take it for a drive and it again pegs over 260 in a few miles. The new WP is working, Tstat is opening, I checked with an IR temp gun, 180 into the rad, 100 coming out. It did throw misfire codes for 3 cylinders, both banks. I'm thinking both head gaskets are done. Fortunately, I picked this up earlier this year from a wrecked 5.9, mileage is around 140K. Just going to swap it, should have it done in a few days. Don't have the dough to fix mine correctly right now. Its got 220K on it so it'll need a plenum gasket, and at least some head work, ensure the heads are true, valve seals etc) So now I've got a bit of a task at hand. But to her credit and mine (my idea of course), she purchased another 5.9 ZJ earlier this week. Just not tagged yet. 150K, near perfect interior! This will make 5.9 #4 (although not technically mine). Seller's photos

Dude, right up the road from you!

Thanks for the input guys. Another thing that has me worried is both toilets in the house get grey rings around them. If I let them go, they grow after a couple of weeks, its more like a living algae then a deposit. I replaced one of the toilets, installed a new wax ring and it still comes back. IDK, maybe there's something in the pipes in the house, either way the water supply is not a source of happiness for me right now. I have a suspicion that it could be because I'm at a one of the lowest areas of a city with an average elevation of just 20' above sea level, according to google maps, my elevation at the house is just 9.166'. There's been some flooding here in the past, go figure. If my water was hard enough to instantly repair leaking radiators like Jim's I'd be a happy camper and drink it religiously to clear up my perpetual upset stomach. But its not, so I just drink a lot of beer instead. :thumbsup:

So a formal looking guy with a clip board came by the house and said they were doing water testing in the area. He said he could send someone by to test the water. I remembered a couple of months ago the city sent out notices about ecoli in the water. So I scheduled a time for them to come by and test the water,,,,so I thought. It turned out to just be a water purification salesman to give a pitch about a $7K residential system. But the guy sold me when he did some tests with the water, then he scrubbed out a stain on the carpet that I couldn't get up. Anyway, I'm not spending that much cause I'd rather spend that much money on Jeeps, but I do think I need to do something about the hardness of the water. Someone school me up on water treatment. I've always just drank the tap water with no worries, now I'm worried. Maybe over nothing but anyway, what's a good system to put together myself? Has anyone put a filtration or softening system in their house?

Looks like that's an MJ roll bar in the back of it.

Congrats! I've been thinking about doing the same. The local Chrysler place has ads out to hire salesman that don't have any car sales experience. I would never give a pitch though and I wouldn't need any training. I would just start gabbing about the awesomeness of Jeeps. They sell themselves.

No way, not worth it. You'll have way more headaches getting the wiring, PCM, and gauges, fuel pump, etc working correctly. Just swap the block and keep jamming some sweet 80's Barry Manilow.

It's actually quite important.

Yeah I have two builds going in my head right now. Not as outlandish as the Radio Flyer but very useful in the real working man's world and both based on an MJ. Rock crawlers and off road vehicles are fun, but not truly useful in sense unless you're a professional racer. One is a Fire/Rescue MJ complete with recovery winches front and rear, complete medical kits and O2 in the rear, as well as a complete comms package with UHF, VHF, AM, FM, everything to communicate with first responders, Marine traffic, and civil air patrol. It would be painted fire red of course. A complete offroad search and rescue vehicle. The second is a farm MJ with a hydraulic hay fork on the front, hidden and integrated front winch, hydraulic 3 point off the rear to run any modern implement, a winch powered mini crane in the bed, under hood premier power welder, OBA. Everything to run cattle, repair fence, tool boxes integrated into the bedsides, etc. It would have a plated frame rails, mild lift, 31-32" pizza cutters, shortened one tons, doubler or at least a 4:1 TC and somewhere around 5.38-5.89 gearing depending on 4 or 6 cyl. Essentially a tractor with air conditioning capable of short on road trips when needed to pick up feed, tools, etc. A diesel MJ would be a nice platform to start with. If I have the money to build another one, it'll be something like this that is more useful than just a pick up with cargo space.

Nice pick for MJOTM, :thumbsup: This thing always makes me smile.

I read that these vehicles are being auctioned online. Not sure where?

That metal is pretty thick. You can cut some others off and weld em up. You could even add a bit of length to them also.

As mentioned above...have your clutch checked out. Ensure its bled properly, if its not disengaging all the way it will make it difficult to shift, especially into reverse. As stated above, I too usually shift into another forward gear before going to reverse. Don't ram it in gear. Give it a little rev, plop it in a forward gear, let out on the clutch just slightly to move the truck just a bit, then slide it in reverse and go. However, your pressure plate may be going out and not completely disengaging. So it could be new clutch time. Bleed it first, if its still tight to shift, then you probably need a clutch kit. You don't need to let it idle for more than just a few minutes. It should continue to warm up in a mile or two down the road. If the engine isn't warming up enough to blow hot air out of the heater, then cut a small piece of cardboard and slide it in front of the radiator. Don't cover all of it or you'll overheat. You'll have to experiment a couple of times for the right size depending on your truck's cooling efficiency vs the ambient temperature.

Hell Yeah! Long Live Lemmy!