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my truck didnt have the rear slider when i bought it, i had safetylite or whatever their name is coming out to replace the front windshield so i told them to bring a sliding glass for the rear and they had it then. that was last year around this time.

My only beef with rustys is they don't refund your money they keep it and give you store credit. my house in florida sits at the end of a dirt road,florida being mostly sugar sand means a dirt road can become a sand pit. which is exactly what is in front of my house.all i own is jeeps so it isnt a problem for me. when i left iraq last year i ordered alot of parts for the comanche i was going to buy when i got home. hoping when i got home theyd all be there waiting for me. well the ups drivers didnt like my dirt road. some of the parts got delivered,but i guess the heavy rear spring set and the sand were just to much for the driver. so after being home 2 weeks and my spring still havent showed up i call rustys and they say the springs were returned to them i said well I'm leaving in 2 weeks i don't have time to install them now anyway after hearing them say theyd try and resend if i would pay another shipping cost. i said no thanks just refund my money to my credit card. they said we don't refund money just give a store credit you can use anytime.i still have that store credit actually.

Today i pulled out the 9 inch rear end with the lunchbox locker and put a regular 9 inch in. i don't like the gears gonna have to change them out soon. i had 4.10 this one has 3.55's lost a ton of power.i also replaced the tie rod ends up front today. all and all the truck rides a lot better with the new front end parts and unlocked rear.i bought some aluminum rims last weekend i'm looking for some tires to put on them see if that helps with the power loss any for time being.

I have to go with Eagle on this one, i'm not buying anything else from rustys, and i wouldnt recommend them to anyone :(

i remember having alot of problems finding a tranny mount also.i had bought a mount from discount auto that didint work,went to the junk yard and got a cross member and a mount from a manche that had a 5 speed not sure which it was. it didnt fit either.i finally ended up modifying one of the ones i had to make it work. seems like some grinding of the mount itself and some widening of the holes and it finally fit.sorry this probably isnt much help :(

This is what I thinking about doing... :hmm: I cannot see what you mean :hmm: take the torx bit from a screw driver set or pull it out of the socket attachment so you only have the torx bit itsself.slid the boxend of a ratchet wrench over the end you slide in the screwdriver or socket and it fits right in there. you can do it with a regular wrench but it takes forever. with a ratchet wrench its like a socket just keep ratcheting it till it comes out

Torx socket with a ratchet wrench slid over the driver end i used to cuss a storm too until i discovered this trick :)

I've seen all 3 ZietGeist's theres some good stuff in there, but like with anything else of that nature, theres alot of paranoia mixed in too.

Congratulations, sounds like you're winning. I can't get the AF recruiter to call my son back. he even scored 83 on the mechanical part of the ASVAB which is real high :( He's Talking about the Marines now,I did 4 in the Corps and 8 in the army tried like hell to get him into that AF

Red, I took my YJ. my GF's YJ and my Sons XJ up to goodyear in Ocala,Right there off main street.i think for lifetime it was 120$ and for a one time alignment it was 60. i took my comanche to a place here in N.C. to have it aligned and sure as hell they told me it needed a steering gear box before they could do anything with it. the Tech drove it and said its really not to bad alignment just take it home and do the tape measure thing on it which is what i had done to start with.wound up having some loose nuts on tie rod ends anyway so didnt need the alignment.but basically I'm saying you can align them yourself with a tape measure, and that's what they will do at a shop if you have big tires and rims anyway.

Not sure what you're asking here.When i replace a tierod end i count the number of turns to take the old one out and screw the new one back in the same number of turns.theres a tool called a tuning fork that you can use to remove the old ones.since you have new ones you can just smack the old ones i guess don't have to worry about the threads getting messed up on them anyway.Important thing is count the threads so you keep your alignment

i was running the double platinums and read all the stuff about copper being the best for our engines. i went and bought the regular copper plugs and installed them and honestly i couldnt tell a difference between the two.this was almost a year ago i havent looked at the coppers since then so i can't attest to their longevity i had a little missing problem once and changed out my cps and it went away. i'm staying with the coppers from now on, since i couldnt tell any difference.

I have the HellCreek ton's on my LWB. haven't had any problems with them at all. put them under truck with very little help from a neighbor. and if i remember correctly they got here 3 days after i ordered them. it was very fast i do remember that.

probably just got air in the cooling system theres a how to somewhere here search for bleed cooling system maybe you can help him get it fixed no need to sell it without trying that first

I bought my MJ in Georgia. it had the second hand title, guy i bought it from never registered it.When i went to the tag office i just said i need to get this vehicle registered.didnt mention i got it from who or what. good point in life is don't give anyone information they don't need.you will need the vehicle there with you, any vehicle from out of state the Florida dmv needs to verify the VIN. if you have the title and its signed and the vin matched you should be ok :)

i was in Colorado springs for a week last month. guess i should have checked see who was there and tried to meet up :( I never think of these things though.Maybe next place i go i will.

i was in Colorado springs for a week last month. guess i should have checked see who was there and tried to meet up :( I never think of these things though.Maybe next place i go i will.

i was in Colorado springs for a week last month. guess i should have checked see who was there and tried to meet up :( I never think of these things though.Maybe next place i go i will.

i was in Colorado springs for a week last month. guess i should have checked see who was there and tried to meet up :( I never think of these things though.Maybe next place i go i will.

Brandon I bought a rebuild from titan motors out of Ocala last September. put it in the manche and about 3 days later drove it all the way to north Carolina.since then i've drove it back and forth between Nc and florida 4 times. i average around 75 mph on these trips.on a daily basis i drive it about 20 miles 1 way to work back and forth. I think with tax and all, i paid 1400.oo for the long block.They also have the strokers there i think they are 1000$ more.I havent had any problems with the motor at all.

mine does about the same thing. sometimes it fill it and it goes to full sometimes it only goes to 3/4ths always holding around 8 gallons .I'm not sure about the mpg mine varies from 13 to 15 mpg not sure when i never connected the 2 actually :)

the 15w40 rotella is a diesel motor oil that contains zinc,which helps with the tapping in the low end torque engines is how it was explained to me by engine rebuild guy. when i bought the engine he gave me engine break in additive which is basically a zinc additive too. so i run the rotella. the big thing with the inline 6's is don't use the fram filters :)

i have to agree with whoever said unibodys pull better. i've never driven a tj so i really can't comment on it.i also don't have a whole lot of rock climb exp.being from florida what i do have is mud exp. this is a true story; behind my house is a shallow canal leading out to a lake.its to shallow for anything but airboats or canoes.i bought my son a 88 xj lunchbox lockers front and rear running 33's i have a yj running G2 dana 44's front and rear. front had detroit trutrac rear has detroit locker,also running 33's.my son at 17 years old with less than 2 years exp in his xj went about 5 truck lengths farther out into the canal and drove out than i made it and had to be pulled out.i can't imagine a tj doing much better than the yj in this instance honestly.i'm not bashing the tj's at all i wish i had one lol.i'm just saying in my experience a slightly modified xj is a beast out on the trail. dollar for dollar hard to beat.

i've always had pretty good luck with quadratec actually.parts get here really fast. and are of a decent quality.i guess I'm just not that picky since I'm making trucks to drive thru the woods not show trucks. :)

They know, just jealous! best of both worlds a pickup and a jeep at the same time = win/win haters gonna hate lol