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voltage gauge - will work fine oil sender - not sure, probably will work fine temp sender - probably will work fine fuel gauge - will go backwards tach - not sure this will work? speedo - will work as soon as you put in the VSS from his, your cruise control may no longer work if you have it I would put in a RENIX cluster on your 87... so much stuff changed. The only real benefit of the 91-96 cluster is that it uses an electronic VSS so you don't have to work with that stupid mechanical speedo cable, I hate those for some reason. 96 XJ gauge cluster is the same as 91 through 95, it's OBD II but 96 was a hodgepodge year where they only really changed the ECU to meet the bare minimum OBD II requirements. 97 is the year the gauge cluster fully changed over to CCD bus and lost all the individual sensor lines it had before.

I have to agree on the "tha" thing, it does kinda distract me, but then again I use words like "kinda" so I can't really throw stones... Between the idiots who can't park and end up two feet from the curb, and the idiots who don't know how far from their side of the road they are and end up going right down the middle, city streets get interesting here too. On my too-narrow one way street at my last apartment on more than one winter evening I had to fold in my mirrors and have a roommate spot me down my own damn street or I would have removed paint and mirrors from many vehicles! :fs1: Glad your son is OK... hopefully he learned his lesson about going fast in residential areas with idiot drivers present.

I saw a nice blue one with woodgrain in a convenience store parking lot in Fitchburg MA yesterday... man I want one! no space for more vehicles right now though.

I have done 120mph in a stock Jeep XJ on 225s, it's a little flighty but quite controllable. Never had the MJ above 100, mostly because I had a real bad balljoint, some scarily rusted control arms, and sloppy steering that were keeping me somewhat sane. It will accelerate to 90mph going uphill on the highway with 1400lbs of spare parts and camping gear in the back though, WITHOUT overheating, on a heavily corroded radiator with almost no fins left

yeah definitely, I still got this stupid d35 trac-lok here tempting me too lol. I'm gonna be in NH wheeling the 5ton this Saturday but likely doing a motor/trans swap in the MJ or 96 XJ Sunday... free most evenings next week though. Wonder if jpnjim would be up for anything, I know he's in Boston, and CW is fairly nearby in CT somewhere or other...

I don't see a winch or any recovery points :no: :shake: where is the cage :shake: it'll fold like a taco!!!!

that's probably a good thing :ack:

I love responses like this. Yea, just go back to PA and get the seller to do a lot of work he probably doesn't want to. It's just that simple! I just tried to get a '98XJ with a salvage title 'recertified' for legal road use. There is NOTHING wrong with the truck. It was totaled and branded a salvage vehicle because some thieves smashed in rear window and a couple of cut wires that were used to hotwire the ignition. Anyway, I was told that I need to find the ORIGINAL owner of the Jeep and have him provide me with COLOR photographs of the XJ before it was broken into. My response was: "Ok, that's may be the response that you're programmed to give me. Now give me a response that's actually practical." Exactly. The bureaucrats just want to push people around and hand down fatwas from on high, read directly from their rulebook titled "regulations and certification processes: how to really make the plebs hate you"

It did end up being a 58 Jeep M54 that got rebuilt as a 90 Mack M54A2 :thumbsup: your friend was 100% correct. this turned out to be premature, the fittings on the tach cable are metric :nuts: still trying to digest this info and find a truck wrecking yard around here, for now I am picking up some 11x20s on 10 hole rims to use as spares for a whopping 5 bucks each! I love craigslist. I might also run the 395/85r20s (46s essentially) I mentioned on either modern 1-piece 20 inch rims or the stock rims + tubes, many people apparently do this but it sounds sketchy. I called the RMV and they told me that I need to go back to PA and have the seller retitle it as a 58 and send the updated title to me, I gave up on the bureaucrats helping after that and will be asking for advice/help in person at the RMV when I go.

Yep, my parents used to "accidentally" open my checking account statements. Made me pretty glad I was smart enough to buy my beer with cash only (they're very anti-alcohol.) I fixed the problem by moving out and sending my mail to my place... well not intentionally but that's how it ended up being fixed. The comedy option is to order some crazy set of stuff that could be construed as really fishy and they'll either ask you about it or never open your packages again :cheers: say... a few dozen feet of pipe, a gun sight, a grill lighter, and a 50 pound bag of potatoes.

X2. Note that at least she knows where you are... in the driveway under the truck! MARRY HER RIGHT NOW, DON'T LET HER GET AWAY :rotf:

depends on how much, and I don't know where you live :rotf:

I told him if he needed the money to buy the J10 I would lend it to him so he could do both and pay it off at some point in the future.

yep this is where you put the screws on UPS. FedEx did this crap to me a month or so ago, some parts were "delivered" but required no signature so they just left em on the front porch of a 20+ unit apartment building in a shady neighborhood. Of course they weren't there when I got home. Called up and registered my displeasure with them, the unhelpful phone person insisted there was nothing that could be done because no signature was required... I noted that the week before they had withheld a delivery that also didn't require a signature and I was extremely displeased. A week later just as I was getting ready to leave for work I heard the doorbell, walked to the front door to find the fedex guy standing inside the hall (not supposed to be able to get in) literally throwing the package down the stairs at my door. Apparently they "delivered" it to the wrong place or never delivered it at all and figured they'd get away with it. Ever since then they have been extremely careful with my stuff, I guess being the squeaky wheel / complaining because they are a pack of idiots resulted in them keeping an eye on my shipments better. They even leave "we delivered this so it aint our fault if it disappears" slips on the front door next to the package now.

back on topic... I am presently attempting to help convince a friend of mine to buy a J10 for 600 bucks instead of a cage for his XJ. EDIT: already got the camo fatigues, and a camo vietnam era radio helmet, only need a few more things for that idea :brows:

I'd punch holes and not worry about it. As long as the plaster isn't falling off the metal mesh it will not be hard to patch, it's far easier than wood lath + plaster because that is almost always falling off the lath and tough to hold still while patching. If you are careful you can probably even cut the metal mesh with a pair of dykes and then bend it back into place afterwards and spackle it, instead of having to patch the mesh.

idiots... I hope they enjoy those broken fingers.

You're giving me ideas :eek: :nuts: :hmm: On halloween this year I'm definitely driving it to work wearing my standard G-man costume (dark suit, dark sunglasses, aluminum briefcase with my laptop in it, some years I even manage to find my almost-invisible radio earpiece and wear that too)

I might consider doing that once I have some land and a house, but I'm still living in an apartment with one parking space right now :rotf: I don't have anything that can lift 1800lbs of engine and projects have to be done (or visibly done) in a single day or weekend. This sounds like an excuse to buy a 5 ton wrecker as well and use it as an engine hoist... :dunno: for now I am fighting the urge to get a set of 46" Michelin XMLs off 100dollarman and super-single it. I have at least one probably two badly flat-spotted tires and a couple others are onto the wear indicators, got RFQs into 100dollarman (for the XMLs), TNJ (for 11.00x20s in case nothing else pans out), and I'm looking for a semi truck wrecking yard somewhere around here that might have decent takeoffs on single piece rims. damn truck... I just want it to run and stop eating my wallet! :fs1: so much fun to drive though, it's totally worth it, the roof keeps much more junk from flying into my eyes while I drive but unfortunately means more people think it's an active military vehicle so the cute girl attention factor has dropped somewhat. I never picked the truck up intending to use it as a chick magnet (frankly I figured it'd be quite the opposite!) but I'm not about to complain, that is for sure.

NICE! :yes: :yes: :yes: I don't see any rust though, that looks more like a light oxide patina... MUCH cleaner than mine though I suspect your tailgate (at the very least) has been repainted, since it doesn't have black JEEP lettering. Looks like it was either done at a dealer (those are original decals on the sides I think) or they only did what needed doing though, instead of just spray bombing the whole thing.

I've got a tmobile G1 that I bought for 90 bucks on NAXJA classifieds. Does great except for a few infuriating user interface issues. Also have a blackberry 7105 that has been assaulted in nearly every way a mobile phone should not be assaulted... it has continued to work and is my backup phone for when I'm afraid I will be doing something that might damage my nice phone. Seriously, it's been saturated with water, dropped from a height of 10-15 feet multiple times, thrown across rooms, stood on, accidentally drowned with brake fluid / water / transmission fluid / mud / brake cleaner (all of the above mixed together, tipped over a drain pan), sat on while sliding down a fiberglass track at 20mph (alpine slides, it fell out of my pocket and now looks like I took a belt sander to it), and most recently I tripped and slid down a railroad embankment of heavy gravel on top of it, which smashed about a quarter of the case off and cracked the plastic over the screen. The power button literally shattered and fell off the PCB after that last one, I have to turn it back on using the edge of a knife to short out what's left of the switch. It still works... Android is definitely a bit slow and clunky if you do the wrong thing. I find the auto zoom in the web browser to be the most infuriating feature, it tends to zoom in on the wrong spot while I'm typing in a text entry box, leaving me typing blind, and cursor control is so sluggish it's nearly unusable. Oh and don't get me started on the blasted "synch address book from gmail" thing that basically nukes any contact you add while out of range of the cell network :fs1: at least that is what it was doing a few days ago.

Yea, the old timers at my work (no offense, Pete!) tell me that same thing all the time. I'm a techie geek and if there is one thing I cannot stand about some of the technology today it's that they cannot combine everything into one, compact device. My phone makes calls, too, but it also is a fully functioning GPS with turn-by-turn navigation, a wifi hotspot for when I, or anyone of my friend around me, need it. It'll take some pretty decent photos and record video. I could use it as my computer if I really needed to. Now, I haven't been able to get rid of my digital camera yet, but my old, clunky portable GPS is long gone. My old MP3 player got thrown in the trash and my personal laptop sees very little use. I'm excited for the future when cell phones will be able to be the ONLY device you need. I hate carrying around more than I need to and having 10 different AC chargers. I dread that future... I like separating functions out into multiple devices. Sure it means I have to carry more, but it also means that if I lose or break one, I still have the other functions.

It's already at 22:1 (multifuel ftw!) and I've seen 3 different threads on steelsoldiers with exactly the same head gasket failure I had :ack: I would very much like more torque :yes: but I don't want to do anything that will increase my chances of puking out another chunk of head gasket. I'm hoping they don't have to mill the top of the block (deck the block? not sure on terms) because I don't really want to take it out of the truck for this project, it weighs 1800lbs. Hoping I can get away with pulling a few hundred pounds of manifolds and heads, throw some gaskets in, get the heads milled, and put it back together.

speaking of hijacking (sorry, I'm good at it...) bad news :( apparently military head gaskets are not made from unobtainium. military engines are though :brows: I have been hearing a rhythmic hissing/sneezing sound from the front/top of the trans or back of the engine for like a week now. I tried to track it down but couldn't find where it was coming from. Figured since it was not leaking significant quantities of fluids and seemed to have air pressure and function properly it was likely just a normal noise I hadn't heard before. Well I drove it 70-80 miles to a friend's house last night, and noticed it was more of a dog accelerating on the highway than normal. When I got there the noise was a lot louder, so I investigated... saw something hanging off the back of the engine block. Stuck my hand back there and... it's a 2" long piece of head gasket that was ejected from the back of the motor. I can feel air from the #6 cylinder blasting out every compression stroke. I have probably put 5-600 miles on it like this :eek: No coolant in the oil, no oil in the coolant, great oil pressure, just got a dead hole venting to the atmosphere. I'm figuring out what gaskets and parts I need to order and planning to pull the heads, have em milled probably (it did overheat after all) then reassemble with new gaskets and keep on truckin'.

I used 85-140. Wanted to go with a better brand than Coastal, but even Coastal cost me 100 dollars :eek: The old stuff came out frothy and black, so I am glad I changed it. I was probably the first person to do so since the military surplused it out.