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A poignant read but DH shared his struggles with his usual snap. Others followed his lead

We get away with mounting them on an outside wall in eastern VA but temperatures don't drop below 10F often. Carbon monoxide is scary.

This topic has been covered a few times but the conclusion is not the same as I last understood. This morning I had a three piece rear window replaced with a one piece on an 89 MJ. One of the three panes had been replaced with plexiglass by the prior owner. I preferred one piece to cut down on noise and possible leaks. One piece glass is NOT available new. The glass is tempered. Fortunately, they had a used one from 2014. It has a scratch but otherwise it is ok. Additionally, 3 piece windows with sliding center panes ARE AVAILABLE NEW. He showed me the availability on his computer screen and I saw that has 3 panes, not the 4 pane ones we know about. It is available in CA, AZ, CT and possibly a few other places. He said shipping would be about $150 to VA. I preferred the one piece as stated. MaGrand is the glass company that he searched. He said it is not available to everyone. I paid $125 for the used rear window installed. I asked if he would match a price he charged me 3 years ago for windshield that they installed in an 87 MJ. He said prices are up and normally they would charge $165 but he cut the price to $150. The old windshield had a chip but passed inspection. My reason for replacing it was because of the surface fractures and the resulting night time starbursts. With windshields that cheap, a used one does not make sense. The rear glass is tempered and does not get surface fractures. It is amazing how clear a new windshield is after looking through an old one.

Neo, that's quite a story. You put so much of yourself in your projects and telling the story. Impressive. Gotta question: explain the funky vent pipe sticking out of the side of your house.

If you said it, it must be so. A reminder that if Pete tripled his salary, it would still be zero. Kudos to Krytro for behind the scene jobs well done. Give a hand.

First the taillights, now radios. If 4.0s become scarce, look for a big disturbance in the magnetic field around Minuetville

Dzi, what did your awesome blue look like when you bought it?

Jeff, you are the nice guy in the CC family, but do I understand you are not replacing the one with the offending noise until after the inlaws leave?

You are innocent of any wrong deed, intended or accidental, I think. I speculate there was a system update to the server hosting the CC. If Windows 10 runs the server, that is likely. An update to 10 could have corrupted CC performance. Figure that out and make the fix. Meanwhile, go to "threads I follow" that jumped in that should not have and delete those you don't want email from.

MJnewbie, we are trying to save you from yourself. Don't buy that truck. That much rust will cost you a ton and more than you would ever think. If you are going to tackle it yourself, it will take more time and money. That truck is not at any give away price either. A friend with a muscle car restorvation business advised it is the rust that you don't see that is the issue. He also advised going out west where they don't salt the roads. I was not so concerned about outside paint or seatcovers because both would be redone anyway. I bought that first one based on lots of pictures. I flew out and picked it up in Texas and drove it about 1200 miles home. The flight and motel cost me a thousand bucks or so. The best money I ever spent.

My preference is to get email from threads that I started but not from any others. I don't know your preference, but note this is a thread you started. If you frick around with "threads you follow", you will mostly get what you want.

I have had trouble too. The most direct fix has been to go to settings and to "threads I follow" and eliminate ones you do not want. Somehow ones you don't want there get there. Those are some but not all you have posted too.

The winner is butyl !!! Used by Jeep. Recommended by Minuit and seconded by AZJeff. (It probably keeps the rattle snakes out of his truck too.) What all are you doing in that truck of yours? I am not buying that bit about your hiding your cache of tail lights there again.

AZJeff, thanks for educating a dumbass like me. It is a hidden area, so whatever is most protective is what I have in mind. Is the "butyl strip stuff" better than good ole duct tape? "Reusable indefinitely" has a nice ring to it. Can it be used on an aging human body? Thanks for your post.

SVPete, yes that is the trim I alluded to. I wondered what that material is because it is definitely thicker than paint. I thought it was chrome showing through because it looks too shiny to be 30 year old aluminum. After seeing yours, I am going to peel off the covering material and leave metal showing. I think it looks more consistent with the truck than the original black coating. Won't WD40 get the gum off without abrading the surface? You did a good job of cleaning yours and not mucking up the metal. The look gets my vote. Is it necessary to remove the trim? I would not be a happy camper if I end up crimping the trim. Have a pic of what you mean? Hey, you have projects you haven't gotten around to also? l hope your list isn't as long as mine. Thanks for the input.

GJeep, I get a message that the vid is no longer available. Did you download and save it?

Dirty, you stand as a man alone that addressed the issue. Not once but twice. I realize that not enough is known from the original poster but your answer is expansive and provides some theories about a truck transmission that we probably will not know more about. I have no tranny issues but I am drawn to manual transmission malfunction mysteries and electrical issues. I had wondered if there might be a mechanical issue with the shifter or something gummed up or blocked internally. I assume he meant double clutch when he wrote double shift.Your ideas make as much sense as any offered. Lol. Thanks for your answer.

It is curious that no one wanted to venture an answer to this question when originally posted in April or a few days ago when reposted. I don't think the poster is still active on CC. It seems like a legitimate question. I recall decades ago if a car or truck jumped out of gear, the first thing many did was put a heavier oil or even grease in a straight transmission. I assume an MJ came along way too much later for anyone to have done that. When I was 15, I would drive a big old 1948 Ford truck with 8 foot slatted sides around the county with two or three mules loaded. The old truck had a ragged transmission and it would jump out of gear. . The solution was to drive with one hand and hold the floor gearshift with the other hand to keep it from jumping out of gear. It was not as much trouble as it might seem, because I started driving at 8 years old off road. I grew up in a small town, but my Dad raised tobacco on the side. Mules were used much later than with other crops because they could maneuver in tighter places better than a tractor. I still have vivid recall of walking behind a mule and have it fart in my face. Then take a dump. Piss like no tomorrow. Mules did not know about political correctness.A friend's father ran the school bus repair yard and I learned from him how to get a transmission out of gear if it seemed totally locked. I also learned how to drive without using the clutch and prided myself on how smoothly I could shift even the most ragged transmissions without using the clutch and without any scraping the gears. That skill came to good use later when a friend and I went to Datona for Spring break in college in his MG Midget. Things kept going wrong with the car and the local dealership could not manage to get things fixed. When the clutch went out, I drove the car 230 miles from Datona, FL to Savannah GA with the clutch not working at all. Some one in Savannah fixed it and we made our way back to VA. Now after all that, does anyone want to give the original question a try?

Glad to know the truck is running better for you. Most likely it is some fueling problem that Cruiser and others indicate. I bought an 89 MJ a couple years ago with 57K miles on it. I don't usually venture further than an hour and half from home in it because of the truck's age. Four months after I bought it I drove it to a family reunion that was 3 to 4 hours away. On he way, something not at all subtle happened to cause a big time loss of power. I had no idea what was wrong with it and thought the engine was doomed. I drove on to the reunion not knowing if I was likely to be stranded or not. Then back home. About 4 hours or so driving time after something went very wrong. I took it to a mechanic that has worked on the truck and waited for his call. He said rust had collapsed in the muffler and cat converter blocking the exhaust. He started speaking about replacing those. I asked if the Y pipe was good and it was. I told him to replace everything that came after that. The heat build up under the hood had melted a few things. He chuckled and said when he was in high school, which based on his age, would have been 40 or so years ago, they would put a potato in the exhaust pipe of others and it would cause the same loss of power.

And another oldie: Two guys are out. One has to take a whiz and is biten on his p.cker. The other guy hikes to town to find a doctor. He tells the doctor that the other man was biten by a poisonous snake. The doc tells him to go back and cut an X over the wound and suck the poison out. He goes back in the woods. The biten guy asks what the doctor said. The reply: The doctor said you are going to die.

What is the 2012 comment about a sweater vest about? As stated before, widerness survival and emergency make shift medicine have long been an interest. Torniqets are very easy to misuse and its too easy to lose a leg because of misuse. Bleeding cleaneses a wound. With a major cut or accidential amputation, the femural artery will likely retract into the muscle and cut off the flow. A belt will do in a pinch. Cram your fingers in the wound and worry about infection later. Having said that, which you probably knew anyway, there is the case of being biten by your favorite poisonous snake when out in the back country. Depending on particulars at the time, one course of action is to apply a tourniquet. Never, ever leave it on for a long time. Loosen it intermitently. I recall my Dad in the 50's having a government issued snake bite kit. About tripple the thickness of your thumb. The case was two rubber cups. Inside was a blade to cut an X over the bite. The cups would be squezed and placed over the wound to suck the poison out. Now all that is gone. Not recommended because there is two much chance of hitting an artery. If no kit was on hand and you were not alone, someone else was to cut the X and suck the poison out. A funny from back in the days: If you sit on a snake, you find out who your real friends are.

Thanksgivings for the CC. Maybe Pete will post the postal address for those that rather send a check

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This tranny issue was left hanging. Any ideas?