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You ain't gonna know squat until oyu drop the pan. I have had spun rod bearings where I was able to just replace the bearing with no more parts, work needed, and I have had some where I had to junk the crank. And the ones in between where the journal needed turned. Drop the pan and see what ya got.

Get a second inspection and compare them. If they're the same you have a problem. If they're different send copies of both reports to what ever state dept is responsible for vehicle inspections. Also make a report to the local agency responsible for licensing garages.

Life is just to D*mn short to take it to serious.

MURDER AT WAL-MART... Tired of constantly being broke & stuck in an unhappy marriage, a young husband decided to solve both problems by taking out a large insurance policy on his wife with himself as the beneficiary, and then arranging to have her killed. A 'friend of a friend' put him in touch with a nefarious dark-side underworld figure who went by the name of 'Artie.' Artie then explained to the husband that his going price for snuffing out a spouse was $5,000.. The husband said he was willing to pay that amount, but that he wouldn't have any cash on hand until he could collect his wife's insurance money. Artie insisted on being paid at least something up front, so the man opened his wallet, displaying the single dollar bill that rested inside. Artie sighed, rolled his eyes, & reluctantly agreed to accept the dollar as down payment for the dirty deed. A few days later, Artie followed the man's wife to the local Super Wal-Mart store. There, he surprised her in the produce department & proceeded to strangle her with his gloved hands & as the poor unsuspecting woman drew her last breath & slumped to the floor ... The manager of the produce department stumbled unexpectedly onto the murder scene. Unwilling to leave any living witnesses behind, ol' Artie had no choice but to strangle the produce manager as well. However, unknown to Artie, the entire proceedings were captured by the hidden security cameras & observed by the store's security guard, who immediately called t he police. Artie was caught & arrested before he could even leave the store .. Under intense questioning at the police station, Artie revealed the whole sordid plan, including his unusual financial arrangements with the hapless husband who was also quickly arrested. The next day in the newspaper, the headline declared... (You're going to hate me for this ...) 'ARTIE CHOKES 2 for $1.00 @ WAL-MART!'

Jethro and Ellie Mae, a young hill billy couple gets married. They go to the big city for their honeymoon. 2 days later Jethro's dad is sitting on the veranda when he see's his son coming up the road, alone. Jethro gets to the porch and sits down on the steps. "Howdy Paw" "Howdy son" pause "so where's yer bride at son"? pause "Well paw. Me an Ellie got down to that there big city an we got a room at a hotel. Went up to the room and got undressed and got in bed. Started fooling around getting ready to do what we went there for an I found out she was a virgin. So I left her" Long pause as the ole man thinks this over :Well son , I reckon I can't blame ya fer leaving her. If she ain't good enuf fer her own kin, she ain't good enuf fer you" :waving:

Suggest You buy, borrow or rent a pressure tester and check your actual fuel pressure ( at the test port on the fuel rail ) before you go buying, replacing new fuel pumps. If it is low might just be a dirty strainer , in the gas tank, and not a bad pump.

Husband Down A husband and wife are shopping in their local Wal-Mart. The husband picks up a case of Budweiser and puts it in their cart. 'What do you think you're doing?' asks the wife. 'They're on sale, only $10 for 24 cans he replies. 'Put them back, we can't afford them demands the wife, and so they carry on shopping. A few aisles further on along the woman picks up a $20 jar of face cream and puts it in the basket. What do you think you're doing?' asks the husband. 'It’s my face cream. It makes me look beautiful,' replies the wife. Her husband retorts: 'So does 24 cans of Budweiser and it's half the price.' On the PA system: 'Cleanup on aisle 25, we have a husband down.' :rotf:

I have a '86 XJ with a metal valve cover, aluminum. I don't know if it's after market or OEM. It looks original but???? :dunno:

I'd like to know that myself.

:cheers: :USAflag: Capitalistic Radical. :USAflag: :cheers:

I have taken a bolt that fit the original threads with 3/8in or no shoulder and screwed a nut all the way on. Put the seat belt bracket on first. Screw the bolt into the hole until tight. Now go underneath and screw a second nut onto the bolt. Usually a 3in bolt will be log enough for this.Have at least 2 threads sticking out from the nut. If it's longer than that then cut off the excess. It will just rust and make it more difficult to remove at a later date.

Usually when the bolt is in to where it should be, there is enough threads sticking out from the bottom to screw another nut onto.

You might get lucky and find one. For some reason it seems like the first thing any body does when they sell their MJ,XJ is remove the radio and do it by cutting the wiring harness instead of unplugging it. Out of 15-20 XJ's i've gone thru I found 3 plugs still intact. Your best bet is to just use the wiring supplied with your unit and splice it in to the original harness. Make sure you cover the splice good so you don't have a short.

Probably the most fascinating part of my life was when I was working for LASL, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos New Mexico, And the PSL Physical Science Laboratory at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM. Was involved in developing the first NavSat launched, the fore runner of the GPS system. The millions we spent on R&D is what enabled the $59 GPS that you buy at WalMart now. Other millions we spent developing 'super adhesives' enabling suterless surgery, heat resistant tiles on space vehicles,and the ability to coat the bottom of your buddys coffee cup so when the heat activated the epoxy the cup was permantly attached to what ever surface it was sat down on. Don't know how many work benches and desk tops got replaced when they got so covered with coffee cups they were no longer useable. Yes, there is millions wasted but the good that comes out of these programs far out weighs the bad. My .02 cents worth.

Professional Indian camp follower. Get paid 5 wampuns per bow an arrow I clean the BS from. B=Buffalo, not Bull. 10 wampuns per pair moccasins. Part time fire fighter, following Dave around.

We ended up 3rd in class. Turns out if we didn't stop to pull a subaru out of a ditch, we would have been second. We all had a great time. I know I'm the weirdo in the crowd but I've always believed having fun, and doing what you feel is the right thing, is more important than winning.

I would suspect a PO before I'd blame Toledo.

One with frilly lace? There was a very interesting item on oil filters on another forum recently. I think it was NAXJA. As usual can't find something when looking for it. They took about a dozen filters and ran every test imaginable on them. Might try searching for it. As may be expected the more expensive filters came out tops in everything.

Repair it. There was a 'how to' posted recently. Use the search. I've done it several times but it's been so long I forget all the details. I just know it wasn't that hard. The hardest part was removing the lock plate. I made a tool to do it with. Maybe one of the other guys will cut in with a link or more details.

The Wix has a check valve. The Fram doesn't. Also the Wix has a more durable element, helps prevent it from collapsing.

It's the same size as the three bolts above it holding the bumper bracket. Take one of them out and measure it.

Where the fuel line goes into, and from, the fuel rail. They're 5/16 inch. Seems all available repair kits are 3/8 inch. I'm getting ready to jam, weld, braze a brass fitting into the hole and use ol fashion, but available, flare fittings

Now we're gonna find out how good they really are. The parts were the wrong size. Don't fit.Just talked to the girl at TC. She's going to check into it and call me back.

The smaller a person is in real life, the more they throw their weight around when they get a two bit government job.

I've hop scotched so many titles I've almost forgot there is any other way. Usually if I get a dated title and don't transfer it in the allotted 45 days I just tell them it was an inoperable vehicle and I just got it fixed. For some reason that makes it OK.Also in Colorado you can only transfer a title to a private citizen only once. To get around that I made good friends with a small lot dealer and for a couple bucks he puts his name on it. As Volare said "It is the duty of all citizens to find ways to avoid onerous taxes" I really don't know if he said that or not. But I bet somebody did. Jim