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Splice them back together?

Ben, Received calender today. Nice, Thanks, Jim

Soak it with penetrating oil and let set.

Yes, it would. The hot lead and the ground for the fuel pump is laced together with the tail light harness.

Unless you luck out and find a newly discovered OEM stash or come across some in the JY, FORGET IT! There ain't any. You can get a 4'X8' sheet and make your own or look for some from a similar truck, S10, Ford Ranger,etc.

Just because it's new doesn't mean it's good. I have taken new parts out of an unopened box and they were bad. If the battery goes dead while driving then it's not getting charged. Either the alt is bad or bad wiring, connection. Get a VM, volt meter and start at the alternator and check the circuit to the battery. The book says 14.6volts but anything from 14-15volts will charge the bat. That's while the motors running.

Let's see,,31+88,,is uhh,,, oh my God,,yer 119 years old? :huh???:

Type in the models (in small letters) in your browsers search box. Ex. BA10, AX15, etc Hit enter. You'll get a couple thousand replies with WIKI being at the top. It will identify it. Same thing for the search function of CC. Only the responses will be fewer but more informative.

I'm in the same boat. Also quarter of a century come August. Man, I'm getting old... Rob L. :D HUMPH!! :cheers:

PM sent. I got them both out OK. It was easy once i figured out how they were installed.

The last D44 I got was $90. No drums but otherwise complete. 4;11.

Measure the distance between the 2 shafts, the output shaft from transfer case and the end of the pinion from the differential. If it's a D35 subtract 3.5 inches from that measurement. That will be the length you need.

Kind of wondered about that myself. Me? Old enough to know better. Young enough to not care. I'm 75, will be 76 in April, and up to the time I was 60 I could claim a broken bone or a scar for everyone of them. My claim to fame? I owned more Corvairs than Comanche87. 32 of them.

Go to the starter relay. It's on the right fender. Remove the wire going to the starter solenoid. move it up about a inch and touch it to the big terminal with the hot wire from the battery. With the key on it will bypass everything and it should start. Or take a screwdriver and short the two terminals together.

Some of the younger peeps here may not know it, but at one time in the distant past there were people, human beings sitting at a drawing table, using soft lead mechanical pencils and india ink, black. They were transferring their individual ideas on automobile design into drawings that could be shared with other dreamers, designers and engineers to produce distinctive, unique motor cars that would appeal to the motoring public and get them to spend their hard earned money to buy one. They would have distinctive identifying features to make them more appealing and differentiate one car from another. Think hood ornaments and sweeping rear fenders that looked like an airplane vertical fin. Then as big brother slowly butted in, dictating how things should be done and economics, the need to compete and make a buck changed all that. Now a computer programmer sits in front of his hidef monitor and feeds the standard data into his machine, average ht, average wt, 2 adults, 2.5 kids, 30mpg, required this and required that and when he is through entering the same data that every car manufacturer in the world is entering in their computers and hits enter. guess what happens. They all get the same output. A bunch of reliable, economical, shiny chrome plated plastic automobiles. Well frankly I miss the throaty roar of my old 38 JagSS. I miss polishing the chrome hood ornament of my '41 chevy. I miss having to park my 50 Cad convertable on the dirt so the leaking oil wouldn't stain the driveway. I think I'll go buy another Jeep. An old one. That always cheers me up. Anybody that sat and read through all my rambling must really be hard up for something to do. Jim

I just gave away one of my MJ'S. Excuse me while I wipe away a tear. Actually i think it is in good hands and it is still in the family. My niece, my younger brothers daughter, was down for a visit yesterday. she's 14, almost 15. She has always showed an interest in mechanics and has helped me do something every chance gets. I picked out one that was rust free but kind a wore out mechanically. The deal is the truck stays here, she does all the work on it, I help where an when needed, I buy the parts needed and she pays me back with working around here, When she's finished and I'm satisfied with the quality of the work then she gets the title. I think it's a good deal for both of us. At least I'll know what happened to one of my trucks. Jim :banana:

But I don't need a book. All my table legs are even. :thwak:

There is nothing I can add to the 3 previous so I'll just say :agree:

Go through any used car lot or advertisements for used trucks looking for Tonka Toys,,er,,I mean Toyotas. Now go thru the same lots and ads looking for MJ'S. Nuff said.

Thanks so much man. Just funny how my vin is sort of mixed up according to my chiltons. It's not your VIN that's mixed up. It's Chiltons.

It has been done. The manifold is lower than the head so it needs to be ported down. There's not enough metal so the underside of the manifold is built up by welding. I think if I was going to go to that much trouble I would just get a piece of steel and cut it to match the head ( or just cut the flange off the manifold) and then weld tubing to it, making my own set of headers.

They will bolt up OK but the ports don't line up so basically it's a no-no.

I can have the measurement for you in the morning. It's to dark an cold out now.

Location?

!tsAComancheTh!ng wrote: :smart: Well yes any thing is possible LOL But if i loose my toes its my own stupidity :) Work place safety should not be taken lightly. During my gainful employment days one of my sources of income was a sawmill. Had a very clumsy fella working there, always tripping and banging his head. That sorta stuff. One day he tripped and fell onto the saw. Cut his hand off just above the wrist We immediately grabbed the severed hand, put it in a bag and rushed them to the hospital. A week later he was back at work. They had sewed his hand back on using micro- surgery and other than being a little sore he had full use of it. Dumb shet. tripped and fell onto the saw again. This time it cut his leg off. Again we grabbed the severed limb, put in a bag and rushed them to the hospital. Believe it or not, a week later he was back at work, working leg and all. Ain't modern medicine wonderful? This guy was really clumsy and never learned. After being back at work for a week he tripped and fell onto the saw, AGAIN. This time cutting his head off. Clean decapitation. Being used to this by now we knew what to do and did it. Gathered the parts, run to the hospital, etc,etc. The next day we all go to the hospital to see how he's doing. The Doc says "sorry but he's dead. We couldn't save him" Oh man, we all get ticked and jumped on the Doc. Why not? You sewed his arm and leg back on. Why not his head? "Well" the Doc replied. I could have but some idiot put his head in a plastic bag and he suffocated to death." :thwak: