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Tried that, I figured it would do something but it hasn't. It's really inconsistent and confusing :nuts: freakjeep, nope, I generally don't bother. I have FireFox set up so it deletes temp files and history and NOT cookies or entered form data when I do that anyways, so theoretically it shouldn't matter.

Oh yeah... I forgot. I have ZJ canyons on mine so much better looking than the 10-hole stock Eliminator rims IMO. Yeah... you've had a worse run of luck than me. Isn't the transfer case about the only thing that hasn't blown up on you yet? (don't worry, I have a few spares I'll donate if you don't have one, but I suggest carrying one with you while wheeling just in case)

hahaha yeah probably. I hate this hellhole of a town... The 93 in a 65, 55 in a 35, and being talked to after a nap, basically everything up till the figure 8s in the parking lot were all in my 96 XJ, which was stock till just before the beer box in the back + nap incident. Everything after that has been in the MJ, since I've been DDing it pretty much constantly since February. I think I've put maybe 400 miles on the XJ and approx 15-20 on the MJ since then :dunno:

I wouldn't buy ANY axle off CL without pulling the cover... I have saved myself some serious pain twice now by doing that. The first was an hp d30 with 4.10s and a detroit, he claimed it was perfect, I checked and the pinion bearing was all kinds of shot so I pulled the cover, the shim setup was ultra sketchy (between the races and the housing, hanging out, etc :nuts:) and it had like 1/8" of backlash, so I said hell no and saved myself $250. Ended up buying one with a bad pinion bearing for $150, but I knew it had the bad bearing going in, thus didn't think the price was out of line. Buying from someone I knew and trusted (any local naxja or CC guy with a decent rep, basically) I would buy without opening the cover any day of the week. Heck, I scored myself a d35 with a trac-lok that way... it had heavily rusted 3.55s but I wasn't after those, just shafts/carrier/yoke really.

Likewise, I don't run rotor dust shields anymore so I get a nice straight "line of fire" onto the back edge of the hub flange, a couple whacks on each side and they pop right out. When I'm going to reuse the hub (because I'm just swapping balljoints/ujoints etc) I don't whack the flange, it's bad for the bearings, I use the method CW does except that I have a sacrificial 13mm 12pt socket I use, just put the socket on the bolts, loosen em up a bit, and whack the crap out of them with the UPSH (universal problem solving hammer.)

The 1996's will also have the newer higher CFM fan. Really? Nice, thanks a ton, the yard 2 miles from my apartment has a whole row of 96s right now. :cheers:

Too thin. Probably 14, 16, or 18 (i.e. a blue crimp terminal will fit fine.) You should use 12 or 10 gauge for your relay harness. This is another of those wonderful areas where Chrysler saved 20 cents by screwing us in the long run. EDIT: it does list it, at least in OBD-I and later vehicles, it's part of the circuit code - you'll see something like 18BK or 12RD/GRN which means an 18 gauge black wire or a 12 gauge red wire with a green stripe, etc. Not sure what year FSM you are looking at though, some of the older ones have wiring diagrams that are frankly about as much use as a map of the Tokyo underground. Hmm... my 93 FSM does not show it. Maybe it's only 96 and later ones that do. Sorry to mislead :( Checked and it looks like they started including it in 94 (don't have this FSM) or 95. So no MJ FSM will have it... On a 95 XJ, the high and low beam wires list as 16ga and the ground lists as 18ga (wtf!?)

I don't think that's an MJ, that's a super rare jeep "commanche" also see "jeep comanchie", "camanche", "cammanchee", "commance", etc. How do people manage to misspell it so many different ways when it is written on the side in big letters? :nuts:

Wow, you got some luck there... still haven't seen a single 44, only turdy5s and 8.25s. Pulled the "my back is gonna hate me" trick loading a d30 with brakes, shocks, control arms, and steering+trackbar still attached the other day, fortunately I had an MJ to throw it into instead of an XJ and my back is doing fine I did see a grand waggy with 44s still under it in a scrapyard yesterday though. Didn't care enough to lift it up and pull them out, I was on a mission to find a 97-up electric cooling fan, so I told the NAXJA NAC guys where it was and hopefully someone will use em.

:dunno: dodge neon or plymouth neon? :rotf: BTW... silicon might be a decent choice for an exhaust gasket, if you could get it into the proper form, say powdered silicon held together by a graphite or fiberglass (non-composite) matrix. Silicone on the other hand, HELL NO! It will burn, smell terrible, leak, poison the O2 sensors and cat, etc etc... and speaks volumes about the vehicle builder's intelligence. THEY ARE DIFFERENT! (sorry, pet peeve of mine)

Buy a broken Segway and combine the two, make it do a constant wheelie

I've had a mixed bag... been pulled over a bunch, ALWAYS courteous: * doing 93 in a 65 (yeah...), ticket, pled and got the 300 dollar surcharge removed and the ticket reduced a bit, paid up * "ran a stop sign" when there was no sign, cop gave me a huge attitude and called me an idiot, gave me a ticket, fought it and won :fs1: * doing 55 in a 35 (I honestly thought it was a 50 zone, and the road was empty and clear), cop wrote down 44 as my speed because I was polite and admitted what speed I was going instead of lying to him * stopped to take a short nap in a parking lot on my way home, cop thought I was a burglar, spoke to me and asked me to park in front of the police station instead of in front of a random building, I did so * parked at a rest stop on 495 on my way home (from the same place, NAXJA president's house, again, I have bad luck, this is the third time, the 55 in a 35 was on my way to his place), cop saw empty beer crates in the back and questioned me, I was clearly sober so he left me alone * doing figure 8s in a parking lot at a city park (tires were NOT squealing, no rubber left, I wasn't going more than 5mph or so and didn't even have my foot on the gas, just idling) while trying to figure out a steering issue, cop stopped, gave me a HUGE attitude, told me to get out of the car and put my hands on the hood while telling me he could send me to jail RIGHT NOW, every time I opened my mouth even when he was asking me questions he yelled at me like I was disrespecting him or something, yanked the seats on the MJ HARD trying to get them to fold forward and nearly broke them, I told him how to move them forward and he told me to get back in the car and get ****ing lost (because he couldn't figure out anything to give me a ticket or haul me in for and realized he was making a major @$$ of himself), wish I'd gotten his badge number, would have filed a complaint because I've never been threatened and given so much crap over nothing in my life :headpop: * pulled over on the way home from work, at just after midnight, given a written warning about the cracked windshield and the fact that I'd been sitting in the left lane for about 3 miles, cop did not care at all that I was doing 75 in a 65 (his words were "yeah you were doing about 75, it's not the end of the world") * pulled over on the way back from helping my friend Jack fix his airplane, due to cracked windshield, told the cop it was a project, my only driveable vehicle (all true) and that I'd already fixed a bunch of safety-related stuff, let me go with a verbal warning, probably because I stopped the vehicle, put it in park, then turned the engine off and put my hands on the steering wheel where he could see them perfectly (as I always do when stopped.) Pretty sure he appreciated the honesty and fact that I was trying as hard as possible to make him not worry about being shot. In short, I need to get that damn windshield fixed ASAP... wish I had somewhere to pull it and fix the rust on the windshield frame :(

It's the tube for the disgroanificator*, since this is a Jeep we're talking about, clearly that part was removed decades ago and the tube is thus no longer required. * a device which makes the vehicle stop groaning, rattling, etc

hahahahaha that's great. I'm stealing that one!

You can get the fuel tank on rockauto for decent money but the pump and sender assembly is impossible to find. GRAB IT!!!

I've checked the "keep me logged in" box till I'm blue in the face... The odd thing is, I'll check the forums after a couple days of not doing so, and I'll still be logged in. But after a random number of thread views it'll just randomly up and decide that I'm not logged in anymore! I haven't found any pattern to it yet.

Oh, I'm not debating that it's an awesome show. If I had cable, I'd watch it. I just can't stand some of the shortcuts and leaps of judgement they make while "proving" things :D

Actually, the mythbusters showed that tailgate-up has the least resistance. :D Interesting. I don't think mythbusters is the most scientific group around (some of their tests are downright stupid and don't prove anything), but I see why it would be that way now that I think about it more.

Manifold bolts I've never had an issue with... ever. I've pulled (I think) 6 of em now and they've all come out fine :dunno: Those blasted studs pressfit into the collector that hold the downpipe on though... :fs1: :headpop: :mad: I generally get at them with a few extensions from below and round them off, dump a little rust, grease, and road grime in my face for good measure, then cut them and replace.

Yep, people do this a lot on XJs. Anything up to a 96 is bolt-on, after that, the wing window disappears so it's sorta hard to make it work :rotf: Warning though, at least the first few times getting the vent window pieces in and out is a pain. They are part of the sliding window track. Where are you located? If it's within a few hours of Massachusetts, head on up this way and hit one of the pick a parts, the doors are generally in mostly OK shape when they first arrive but get dented by idiots, depends on your luck that day. I pay 50 bucks each for doors with mirrors and all accessories attached.

AWESOME BUILD! :bowdown: Looks like you have an original gas tank in that thing - how'd the '99 electronics like that? I know the RENIX to OBD-I switch reverses the fuel gauge, but I forget if 97 and later XJ senders reverse it again. 96 XJ senders are one of a kind and I won't get into the details on those.

AWESOME build! I think you might be the guy asking about '99 AC stuff on NAXJA, if so :cheers: btw imageshack > photobucket, never seems to run out of bandwidth and is much easier to use (at least IMO.)

Huh. I came pretty close to the bed max a few weeks ago... I had a 4.0 (with manifolds and most accessories, approx 500lbs), an AW4+231 (120lbs or so), spare front/rear driveshafts (call it 40lbs), engine hoist (140lbs), toolbag (70lbs), 50lbs of spare fluids, 50lbs of cooking gear and food, 50lbs of clothes and camping gear, 50lbs of water, 50lbs of beer+cooler+ice, and some other stuff I'm forgetting... plus my 200lb fat @$$. I guess my estimate of 1400lbs was pretty close. It rode like an elephant... a swimming elephant in heavy seas.

Well... I was checking out the NAC lots-o-post bs/chat thread in the NAC chapter forum on NAXJA sometime last fall, one of the guys (Ross / foxwar71) posted up a craigslist link for a $600 MJ and said "someone buy this so I don't!" I looked at it, it said it had an oil leak, picture was from far away so I figured it was going to be beat/rusty. Checked my bank account, couldn't afford to throw 600 bucks at a random vehicle. Hmmm... :hmm: Oh yeah! My friend jack said he was pretty sure his Honda was going to kick the bucket soon. I'll get him to buy it, so I know where it is when I have some spare cash! So I harassed him into taking a look at it with me. He figured it'd be useful to have a truck around, and needed a backup vehicle. Turned out it was beat and rusty like I thought, and the previous owner was the "beat it till it falls apart, then redneck it till it barely limps again, then beat it some more!" sort, it had terribly rusted brake lines and tranny cooler lines which had been patched with compression fittings and vinyl aquarium tubing respectively. One of the cooler lines had a pinhole in it that was shooting the filthy transmission fluid onto the side of the engine which made it look like an oil leak. We made an emergency trip to NAPA, picked up hose clamps and a foot of trans cooler line, patched it and he drove it 30 miles home. I told him we needed to replace the front axle, front springs, control arms, trans cooler lines, all brake lines, and all shocks ASAP. His idea of maintenance was roughly the same as the PO's however, so he just drove it... A month or two later he was screwing around on a dirt road near his apartment and the brakes felt squishy, so he slowed down and did the old "stomp on the brakes real hard" test. Sure enough, another line blew out. It sat for a few weeks while he drove the Honda, but then he totaled the Honda. So the Tuesday before Thanksgiving I get a call and he suddenly wants to replace the brake lines. I head for his place, turns out his idiot roommate left for California and left his car parked in front of the garage, and it's snowing. So around 10pm the roommate finally gets back from CA and moves his car. By 3am we had enough of the lines replaced to get it rolling again. He drove it to NJ for Thanksgiving and what blows out while he's down there? The transmission lines, so he borrowed a car and drove home. I noted that he was an idiot and we went down a few weeks later and replaced the transmission lines... Around mid-January I ended up driving this rolling disaster to NJ to pick up a replacement transmission for my XJ, and halfway down, recalled he said it was making a funny noise just as the oil pressure gauge dropped to 0. Turns out he'd been running it for months on almost no oil, I put 4.5 quarts in before it came to the full line :nuts: Drove it back north with an entire drivetrain in the back, bought the engine as well since I figured this one wasn't gonna last long. February, he bought an Audi and suddenly wanted to get rid of the MJ. I bought it off him for 800 (paid 400 cash since he owed me 400) since I knew he'd put at least 300 bucks worth of parts into it... I chose them and installed them! I've been daily driving it and slowly repairing its many problems since then :nuts: the engine still hasn't quit, in fact it's running great. 220k+ miles, after being whipped hard by every owner previous to me, oil pressure stays at 35-40, sounds great now that the flexplate bolts are tight again, transmission shifts great unless I really stomp on it, even though the fluid looked like way-overdue motor oil when I drained it.

REBUILD! Rockers, who cares, cut em out and do 2x6 rocker replacements if you don't like sheetmetal. The rest can be solved. If you can't get a title from the PO, did you get a bill of sale? Sometimes you can file for a lost title that way.