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So, I knew my negative battery cable was bad. There was a crack in the coating near the terminal and a small bare area near the engine attachment area. Glad I pulled it today. Check this out: This was maybe 8-10 inches from the engine side. It was hidden down there, so i had no idea it was this bad. The insulation was sticky and gooey and not burnt and hard like you'd expect from the picture. It was coming off in my fingers. Perhaps it was that consistency due to chemical and thermal stress. And old age. Anyhow, I replaced it with an Autozone 2-gauge replacement cable in 38-inches which was the perfect length. Man, do I feel better about my better/starter area now. One day I hope to budget in upgraded cables throughout.

it's wood hauling season, so I bought these rear bumpstops. I had one missing already and the one in the picture was pretty messed up as you can see. It was practically dangling from the frame. I think the reason they had failed is because of the hollow design. We can assume that they had been holding water. Water must creep in there and pool inside, causing corrosion and eventually rubber distortion and rotting detachment from the frame. My guess anyway. I chose to shoot some silicone caulk to better seal up this open pocket inside. May be overkill but it might help preserve the bumper stop's lifespan. Perhaps more importantly, it may help keep frame corrosion down in this area, as both the metal from the bump stop and the frame saw rust.

Are you sure you weren't reading The Turner Diaries? One for the record books.

I love it. I dig those early 10-slot grills. So clean.

Thanks fellas. Glad you enjoyed it. Yes, such a shame commercialism has practically taken over. We're on iTunes and we have three free songs on Spotify, "Perfect Christmas" being one of them.

Does that Nissan have the new-for-1983 2.4L twin spark engine? It arrived mid-year.

Did you ever get any? I've got the pair off of my 89 you can have. PM me.

This is next on my parts dream list once I can budget them. Mine's a 89, and I think I have the old type. Watching this tread intensely.

This has absolutely nothing to do with MJs, so I put it the pub. You can view this as shameless self-promotion or just a fellow member wishing to spread a little Christmas cheer to his Comanche pals. Not tired of Christmas music yet? My band just recently released our first Christmas song. Go to this website and arrow down till you see the "Perfect Christmas" video. www.hushharborband.com I hope you guys get a bunch of MJ parts and accessories under your tree this year. As for me, I dare not ask for MJ ANYTHING from my wife this Christmas. I've already wore down our budget and her patience for truck-related expenses these past few Months. Merry Christmas.

I had limited time to work on the problem this weekend, but I am relieved and excited to have found the solution in the one thing I was able to do. The problem seemed to be a dirty IAC. Cleaned the heck out of it with thinner and swabbed interior mount of the throttle body, slapped her back together and no more hesitation and engine dying. Seems to have smoother idle too, but this could just be my hyper-thrilled mind. Thanks for the input. Once again, this place in invaluable.

You darn right! This was last night. My wife just came off a long work day so I promised to take her in town for a nice restaurant dinner if she allowed me to grab some firewood on the way first. Check out how "Warrior" is squatting. I was a bit nervous, as I have only one stock rear axle bumper on the frame. I babied her the whole drive. New axle bumpers are on order. Very cold evening, but I warmed up pretty quick as I unloaded this beast in the dark. I felt too badly to leave her loaded with this heavy Ash all night.

ingenuity. Very cool.

I'm legal now. I got my LED lights set up on my license plate now. Krustyballer16 had built me a hitch-mounted plate holder which is really cool. I figured I'd better light it up before I fight the law and the law wins. There are LED-lit bolts. Had do install on bottom versus top due to clearance. Struggled with getting a good shot in the dark.

I'll start by checking vacuum lines around the air box, which is the only area I worked on under the hood during my refurbishing these last few weeks. Hopefully something obvious. I've never removed and cleaned my IAC, so that'll be a weekend task to complete. The engine now has 101K, so I doubt if any throttle area cleaning has ever been done. If I have time, I may just pull the entire throttle body and give her a good cleaning. Being a "cherry", I've never tackled a Renix TPS adjustment. This might be an interesting weekend.

I'm day three driving my MJ since getting her back together. This morning, the engine died 3 freakin' times as I performed a bunch of slow stop and goes, droving through my wife's huge work parking lot. it often dies, usually when I come to a complete stop. I figured my ECM just needs to relearn how to best operate the engine. If I am correct on an ECM relearn, then how long does this usually take before she figures out not to shut down when rpms suddenly drop? Am I being impatient or do I need to do something other than wait?

No. It's an 89. I can't turn it back, forward or down. No room.

Looks like I'm factory MJ. The harsh angle makes it look like the tape measure is not centered on top bolt, but it is. Thanks for the info. I now know something I didn't before.

More like the go-to man when a good ol' A$$-whooping is in order. I once drove for Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Lewis G. Lee. I was a Corporal and was scared shirtless of this man. I was asked to drive him around Okinawa once when he arrived on the island one day. As he approached the staff car, I opened the door for him. Big mistake. He coldly barked at me, "I'll open my own God$!#$@ door!" It was the most uncomfortable driving I'd ever done. The mean salty bastard didn't say a single word to me as the two of us traveled together the entire day. Total silence in the car. Longest day of my life.

I remember the story of a Naval ship Captain had kept referring to a certain Gunnery Sergeant in his LFOC as "Chief" instead of Gunny. After making the mistake a few times, the Captain apologizing said, "I'm sorry Gunny....It's just that if you were in the Navy, you'd be a Chief." The Gunny replied, "No sir, If I were in the Navy, I'd be an Admiral."

I swear I probably have at least another inch of lift in the rear now that I removed the factory bumper and the receiver hitch. I nearly broke my back lifting and tugging them once I broke them loose from the frame. The universal hitch was especially heavy. I remember the rear end of the truck shooting upwards like when a fat lady gets out of a Kia. I have a free rusty but very usable universal hitch if anyone wants it. I'll hang on to it for a month or two before scrapping it. Just PM me and come to Georgetown, Indiana to pick up.

Any buy the way, I was goofing around with a front license plate idea, hence the "HMFIC" I digitally stuck on this pic. Only certain guys will get the meaning, Haha!

Hitch pins in the rear of the bumper, which I thought was cool: And he made me a custom hitch license plate holder, which I really dig. My License plate bolt-LED's come in the mail today, so I'll be legal. I will rarely pull a trailer, so the plan is to use the hitch license plate mount with lighting attached via bullet connectors (stock wiring has them there already. When I need to remove the plate to hook up a trailer or something, I pull the bullet connectors and remove the hitch plate frame. I can always then tape the license plate to my back window or something. Buy from Krustyballer. He's good people and does some really great work.

woops! I got ahead of myself.... I wanted to brag on Krustyballer16 and his well-made rear bumper he did for me recently.

I'll go measure here shortly.

I don't know. I just assumed they were original MJ. Dude I bought it from was 2nd owner and really didn't know anything about the truck. I''m running a couple inches of lift in the rear (by measuring) and I"m still SUA.