jimoshel

A couple months ago The Beauty Queen, '87MJ, 2.5 4spd, 2wd started making a front end noise when turning. Was lighter sound than a 'clunk' but heavier than a 'click'. Crawled underneath and shook, twisted, pried etc, etc, everything but couldn't find anything loose or wrong. Kept getting worse. This morning decided to find and fix or else. When pushing up-down on the tracking bar it would move about a 1/8 of an inch, at the frame mounting bracket side. After trying for an hour or so trying to remove the nut holding the bar to the mount finally gave up and removed the mounting bracket from the frame. Found another bar in the junk,,er,,stock pile and installed it. Problem solved. Wish it had been as easy to do as it is to tell about it. I'm getting to olde for this sh*t. :D

Always thought a 'push start' was when one vehicle got behind another butting bumpers and pushed.

As you all know, I've been on a search for a diesel engine for awhile. Just talked to a fella says he's got a 4.? V6 diesel came out of a '85 Pontiac 6000. Didn't know Pontiacs had diesels in them back then. Swears it runs good. Just pulled because car got wrecked. So obviously I know nothing about the characteristics of this engine.The good part. He'll' give it to me to me if I go get it. The bad part. It's a 150 mile drive one way. Anybody with any experience or knowledge of these engines got anything to say about them to influence my decision whether to go after it or not? JIm :dunno:

Just get a new lock cylinder.

If it's not leaking,,,leave it alone.

Is Missouri running out of grave sites? Was walking thru a cemetery out side of Joplin once. Saw a grave stone read "Here lies a lawyer, a politician and a honest man" Figured if they're burying more than one body to a hole they must be short on spaces.

Them dual exhausts for four cylinders are expensive.

The face plates can be removed and swapped separately. I think I read that someplace.

What year is your Jeep? If you have a '86 with V belts then your water pump, and fan, is clockwise. If you have a '87 and later with a serpentine belt, then the rotation is counter clock wise. Reread the post. You have an '86.

. You of all people I thought would appreciate an unorthodox solution. Salvaging lost oil is a well-known tactic touted for breakdowns in the Alaskan bush. When you are out there, you do what it takes to get home, or else you accept the alternative. I've heard of stuffing rags into a hole in the block caused by a thrown rod, then catching all the oil possible and sopping up any you can off the ground, dropping the oil pan, unbolting the offending rod and the one opposite it in the firing order, jamming them up into their cylinders with wadding, and buttoning back up as best you can - then driving the rig home hundreds of miles, using whatever you can scrounge up for the lubricant you lose (including wringing out lost oil drippings from catch rags, and when that runs out, substituting cooking oil or dish soap - ANYTHING that will lubricate better than dry metal-on-metal). When you are on your @$$ you do what it takes to keep going, or else your leave your rig (and maybe your bones) to decorate the wilderness. . When I was a farm kid I broke down often, sometimes hundreds of miles from home. I drove cheap crap (my first car I got at age 14 - an abandoned non-running 1963 Dodge Dart I got for $32 at auction - Dad bid for me but I paid for it, and I had it running 2 days later) that broke down all the time, but never resorted to shops and never abandoned a vehicle (couldn't afford either alternative). Here is one example: when my fuel pump crapped out one night, I made the 2-hour drive home with a 2.5 gallon Round-Up (herbicide) jug of gasoline strapped to my roof with baling twine and a siphon hose running from it to the carb of my 1967 Dodge Coronet V-8 flivver. Had to stop for gas several times - you should have seen the stares at the gas stations... *lol* . Bottom line is, when you are stuck, you do what you can afford and whatever it takes to get home. Upon rereading my response I can see why you castigated me. I did appreciate your solution and thought it was novel and original. And I have experienced break downs at the most inconvenient times requiring novel solutions. In 1951 I was driving a 1934 Chevy from LaVeta to Pueblo when a rod went thru the side of the block. Cut a piece of wire off a fence and wired the end of the rod up so it would clear the crank. Cut up a blanket and stuffed it into the hole to keep what oil I had left in. Drove it a little over 45 miles that way. Altho it didn't require any innovative thinking, in 1961 while flying a Bucker Jungmann from Barcelona to Irun I had a engine failure and landed in a rocky pasture bending a landing gear leg. A sheep herder saw me land and came over to see what was going on. His total tool box consisted of a axe, saw, pair of pliers, flat blade screw driver and a draw knife. Using the pliers, and totally rounding off the nuts in the process I got the fuel line off, confirming my suspicion. Clogged fuel line. Got that fixed. Got the herder to lift one wing enough for me to straighten the gear and wired it half assed together hoping it would hold well enough to get off. It did. We then spent two hours moving rocks to get a little smooth ground for take off. Gave the guy 100 Pesetas for his help, said a short prayer, I'm not a religous guy, and went for it. Obviously I made it since I'm here now talking about it. Although I may make sarcastic remarks, because I'm basically a sarcastic guy, I do appreciate innovation and originality.

I ordered three of these, only different colors. One for me and one each for my lil bro and GF. When they told me couldn't deliver before Friday it ticked me off so I told them to just keep 'em.

Wondering if he's serious? Or just pulling somebodies leg. I had the rear main seal go out on a '90 MJ a month back. Was only 30 miles from home so no biggy. The wind blew the dripping oil onto the exhaust and burned it.Was leaving a trail of blue smoke so thick a car couldn't get behind me for a 1/2 mile.

Sorry, didn't mean to hi jack your thread. But that's what I would do.

Never even thought about that. Certainly worth a try. Let you know how it turns out.I can't believe a reputable tire shop actually did that. I get a little PO'D everytime I think about it. She let her kid borrow the truck one night. He hit a curb, wiping out a tire and rim. Instead of going to JY and getting a matching rim for $40 they go to the tire store and get a non matching rim for $200 and another $200 for the tire. Doesn't have 500 miles on it and she goes back to the same store and gets four new tires and rims. So now she's got three matching tires and rims and one odd ball and she wants me to sell them for her. Don't mind me. Just venting. :fs1:

AH,,ER,,Ahem Don. Those aren't hammered on wheel weights. She's a fisher woman and and that's where she stores her sinkers.

It's really hard to sell a set of three. People either want a set of four or just one to complete a set. I've had a set of three 285-20'S off a 2006 Dodge for a year now. Gone from $200 a tire down to $75 each and never received one call on them.

These are valid points. As far as weight, I'm not sure on either. Don't worry about the weight. Just add a couple more PSI to the front tires.

I hate it when it leaves a pool of lube where I sit down.

Think I may have got it. Been on this half of last night and a couple hours this AM.When I would go to 'Tools' 'add ons ' or EXT I would look for something specific like Babylon, This morn I went to tools, ext and disabled or removed everything that I wasn't using. IT'S GONE. Now I'm going to go back and enable them, one at a time and that should tell which one it is. It's a good thing. At first it would only pop up in Comanche Club. Then it spread to Craigslist.Geez what a pain in the butt. Using Mozella Firefox Ver24 I think it is. Was also getting it with Google Chrome. Never tried IE. I don't even have IE on the puter. A little disagreement me and Bill Gates went thru awhile back.

There is a tool made for removing stickers, decals etc, from glass. Uses a single edge razor blade. works very well. just take it easy and don't rush it.

Don. Down loaded and tried your suggestion.Took 20 minutes to get working what with all the pop ups and everything. It found 97 problems including 2 Trojan horses a 14 Malwares. However it did not fix the problem. I'm still getting the FLV pop up and only getting it in Comanche Club.

After comparing the options of 2.8-4.0 swap I went with a 2.8. Took a 2.8 from a '93 S10 and downgraded it to '86 MJ specs. Maybe it doesn't have the power of a 4.0 but it has enough for my purpose and wasn't near as much work and rtrouble.

One of The first things I did when this first started happening was Google 'FLV, FLV Player." The first answer claimed that it was just a upgrade and wouldn't hurt anything. The second answer claimed that the FLV player itself was harmless but there was an untold number of bad things attached to it that would screw up my puter. Nothing like accurate, reliable sources of information. Gonna try try your suggestion on Google malware flv fix.We'll see.

Is there a bug in CC? For the last 3-4 days I have been getting constant pop ups in CC. from FLV player urging me to join, upgrade. I used McAfee, Norton and MS trying to remove it to no avail. Tonight I resorted to restore going back over a month. Had to reload Mozella Fire Fox. Ran several other apps with no pop up. Signed in to CC and there it is. Not as big or flashy as it was before restore but still there. Can one of the puter geeks here check this out and see what's going on?