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Get them to total it, buy it back, make it a rock bouncer. Lots of tube and 42" stickies.

Shout out to my boy Eric at www.knowwhere2jeep.com. He is one of the first people I met when I got into the sport. He knows just about everything. And he is fun to wheel with. Also, I dig the jeep. I have a long bed. But mine might get trimmed down a foot or two.

From my favorite sport talk radio show "this maybe dumb question" but can I just get a solid passenger side axle shaft and put in? I should probably Google search that. But it has been brought up.

The radiator cap is there. The fan and shroud cover the passenger half of the radiator, maybe 3/4. So the connection on that valve is vacuum, not electrical. I guess I am not as done as I hoped. Well. Good thing I did not go for a test drive yet. More pictures tomorrow. And I will start on the CAD crap. Maybe next week. Tomorrow is exhaust work me thinks. I have work and a honey doo list this weekend.

That guy is way outside of DC. But I was looking at that last night.

So the rain stopped. I was able to get some work done. I ran the two hoses and added an over flow tank. Here is what I have now: This looks right. I have a the overflow bottle, it just requires a little massaging. What is this doohickey? Good or bad to remove? And the last question. The blue line is severed. The other end of this line is sealed off. It is not connected to anything.

Hose Routing: Starting at the thermostat housing > 3/4 hose > 3/4 to 5/8 adapter > 5/8 hose > 5/8 heater core inlet (bottom) > 3/4 heater core outlet (top) > 3/4 hose > 3/4 to 5/8 adapter > 5/8 hose > 5/8 water pump inlet. If you need and extra pictures let me know That is perfect right there. I am going to make that change and add a reservoir bottle. The next question is, an forgive me for this but I have to ask. I still need to turn the engine on and fill the radiator through the radiator. Not fill the overflow reservoir.

It looks like like you replaced the jumble of innerconnected hoses coming off of the thermostat housing and had two hoses directly to the heater core. And you took the overflow hose into the reservoir bottle. You left the two, upper and lower, radiator hoses as is. Is that correct or am I missing something in the pictures?

That is prefect. Next time I am in Birmingham I am driving down to buy you a beer. Thank you.

If you look at the pictures closely, the hoses go into the heater core. There is no reservoir. I will try to draw out the hose pattern. They T off into each other. It is weird.

But can you still use the cigar lighter to light your cigars? These are important questions

What I have now does not have the flip lever.

Copy, I will pick on up today on my way home from work. That was in the plans. I was going to just get what ever is stock. But I will find a 16psi one.

That would be a great simple fix. I want to swap out the idiot lights with gauges. That is on the list.

The filler is fine. The cap blew off. The cap seems fine too. It went back on without an issue. Now that it is home it will sit until I figure out what I am going to do.

Good to know. But if that is the case should there be an over flow reservoir? I am trying to figure what a po has done. I was under the impression that the 1988 generation were factory closed systems. I would rather start over than repair a flawed system.

I play with TV stuff as a broadcast engineer. Today I am playing on here. Tomorrow I will read a Harry Potter book. Then who knows.

Howdy folks and good morning. Over the weekend we had some beautiful weather in Maryland and I decided to play with the jeep. I got a lot done. I was very happy. The steering is finally tight. I put about 40 miles on the girl to make sure everything is fine. It is driving like a champ. I stop for lunch with the wife and kid before I have to go to work. That is when the problems start. I am sitting in the parking lot of Panera Bread enjoying my newly discovered ice cold AC. When there is a very loud bang from under the hood and tons of steam pouring out from the engine bay. And the engine stalled out. I pop the hood and the radiator cap has been dislodged from the radiator. I get a ride home after lunch so I can jump in my DD so I can go to work. The temp light on the dash never came on. The light does come on, it did once when I first bought the truck. It does not normally come on. I spend the day at work searching open and closed cooling systems and new radiators and water pumps and all sorts of things. As I have a 1988 4.0 comanche I believe that I have a closed system. So after about 9 hours at work I go to a gas station and buy a few gallons of 50/50 coolant. I am crank the jeep up and she fires right up. I dump almost two gallons of coolant into the radiator and drive the half mile home. The jeep is sitting now. On the ride home I had no more steam, no temp light, no violently exploding radiator caps. Now here is my question: Does this look normal? I see no coolant reservoir, I see no over pressure tank, just a couple of hoses with T's that lead back into each other. There are two hoses going into the heater core and into the thermostat housing. If this angle of the picture is not helpful give me some suggestions and I will take more tonight. But I am very confused. At this point I am pretty much convinced that I am going to swap everything over to the open system just to make sure everything is correct. Thanks guys.

What did the doors look like? The driver side ones specifically.

I am looking into that option as well. My current gas tank dumps fuel until I am below 3/4 tank. I am hoping that it is just a sending unit that is broken or a bad connection. If the tank is bad I need to replace it. Either way the tank is going into the bed of the truck.

But the 80s gave you me.

Why do you need s door?

Because this thread is old I am posting up. Tom, what fuel cell did you buy? Did it come with mounting equipment? Any pictures of how it turned out?

Dude, the 80s were the best decade ever.

Thanks dill. That is something I had not thought of before. I am well aware there are better brands than husky. But recently I have had better luck with their hand tools than my craftsman. I am looking for opinions on a specific brand. I have found some IR impact tools on tooltopia.com for a decent price. That will factor into the ultimate decision. I would top end tools. But I have no garage or climate controlled storage. So I also must consider how much abuse the tools will take when they are stored. It seems a waste to buy nice equipment if it is to be abused when stored.