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Before making a lockable lid, I’d just make a slightly larger panel and screw it over the hole. I’d worry that the lid would rattle.

The other thing that might be worth looking at is the engine to chassis ground. I’d start by cleaning the grounds and measuring the resistance of your battery cables. It should be near 0 ohms. If you need new battery cables, you could build new ones or get the big 7 battery cable kit from Jeepcables. I don’t think I’d trust parts store off the shelf ones. If you don’t need battery cables, get the battery load tested. It may be fully charged, but it might’ve died enough that it lost some capacity.

Looks great outside

You should've waited 3 more days to bump this, then it would've been a decade old

Neat!

You may want to make a new post about this issue, but I think that should be enough to start it. How do your battery cable ends look both at the battery and at their other ends?

That sounds like some cool stuff. Good to know.

Thank you!

I’m not terribly sure what I will do when I’m done with school. There’s a lot of mining, heavy equipment, or defense types of jobs down here, and I’m okay with any of those.

Looks like you've got a 21 slot grille. That is very rare.

This! It is important for vehicles to be driven. That said, the RMS would likely fix your leak at that mileage, but if it isn't a huge leak, I would probably just live with it. I'd look into painting it yourself too. Its doable.

What does it say are the Cold Cranking Amps (CCA) of the battery?

That would tell me that one of three things is happening. Your starter is dying, your battery cables aren’t making a good connection or are inadequate, or your battery doesn’t have enough cranking amps.

Not wanting to lay in the gravel is understandable. I’m not sure that pulling the carpet back and then having to work around the pedals is going to be a much better experience, but everyone has their preferences. Did you try getting it from the top side?

You shouldn’t need to do that. I can get to mind from either underneath or the engine compartment.

Mechanical engineering

Not sure if you still have the CAD front axle in your truck, but here’s my plan for an ultra low budget selectable locker. Put a ratcheting locker in the front axle, but then use one of those cable actuators to engage or disengage the disconnect. No clue if it would work in reality though.

That’s awesome! What an adventure.

This was one of my many reasons to go to the southwest for school and will look for a job out here after school too. It’s so much better for wheeling. I hate cleaning mud off of things.

Basically it replaces the coil on plug stuff with a Viper coil. It’s a coil with 6 terminals for your plug wires. Here is a video on it:

That testing procedure I think was in one of the threads I posted.

I see. I’ll stick with Renix haha

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Glad to see its on the road