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Yeah, translation is hard, especially with technical discussion. 30 years ago I could have helped. About all I remember now is "Quiero dos cervezas mas." and "¿Donde está el baño?"

It's also easy to bump up horsepower numbers by moving the torque curve up the RPM band. Put in a big cam with opened up intake and exhaust ports and you move the torque curve up quite a bit. 17 pounds of boost on a stock engine won't push you much over 300 HP. But bore and stroke it, big cam, ported heads, bigger valves, and boost will get you there.

Yes. You can even swap a 97+ front end if you want. Though it's a little bit of extra work.

You just need compatible ABS sensors. There's no more speedo sensors in almost everything these days.

I looked at that. The engine/trans/tcase works better as a single unit because of the computer. Swapping in JK or JL axles to get the speed sensors needed for controlling the transmission would be needed. Doable for sure but it's not a quick and easy swap for sure.

Unlikely. You'll probably need custom lines.

Yeah, the LS swap is definitely "some assembly required" but it has the most off-the-shelf parts available to support it. Motor mounts, exhaust, cooling, wiring harness, computer flashing, etc. are all readily available and make the swap easier than a build-it-yourself swap.

I became a member of the Jeeps Unlimited forum back when I got my new off the showroom floor 2001 XJ (not the one I have now).

I'm with George on this subject... (NSFW language)

There are lots of old people with experience. They disagree with each other as much as any other group because their experiences in life have differed greatly. They don't all come to the same conclusions. Smart people learn from their own experiences. Smarter people learn from other people's experiences. The smartest people keep learning until they die.

Yeah, I'm a big fan of doing something that other people haven't done. But I also recognize why "everyone does an LS swap".

I had considered making a Chevy Astro into an expedition camper. It's based off the S10 and probably could have been a decent platform for modification with, I'm sure, some hurdles.

You can shorten that to "politicians talking"...

I do too. Just because I can see it in others doesn't mean I'm not right there with everyone else. When I make a conscious effort to fight it, I can get along with a lot more people. But I catch myself being the old fart way more often.

Yep. From the farm town cafe to the big city coffe shop, everyone sits around in their own echo chamber. No one wants to put forward the effort to look at anything from someone else's point of view.

Some of the worst offenders there are old farts set in their ways getting their knickers in a twist when dealing with change.

I remember those email lists and Usenet groups. Waiting to get home, dial in with my 28.8K modem and waiting for 10 minutes for all of that text to download. Then I would read everything, queue up the replies, and log in again to upload them. And that was quite the improvement over the 2400 bps (not Kbps or Mbps) I had in college to dial in to the campus mainframe and the old BBS's.

It was about the same. I don't know Mopar very well at all and if it's not a Mustang, I don't really know Ford all that well either. Especially when it's between two consecutive model years.

Yup. We can choose our own opinions. But we shouldn't be attempting to choose our own facts. Trouble is, this saying is true and everyone falls into this trap to one degree or another: To the true believer, no proof is necessary. To the skeptic, no proof is possible. Even people who profess to be open minded rarely are. It does you no good to always question everything if you just reject the answers you don't like.

Skyjacker shocks get the job done well enough. They last for several years usually. There are better and there are worse.

That's just it. We as humans are all bad at agreeing to disagree. If you step away and look at things, you see that just about all of the arguing is one group trying to tell another group how to live their lives based on their personal beliefs. And yes, everyone does it. Your side, their side, that other side, those weirdos over there... I used to think it was just my ex girlfriends who thought like this but almost everyone views "compromise" as "everyone does it the way I want". The whole point of that ad was to start to change the tone of the rhetoric that invades everything these days and work towards "agreeing to disagree".

Of course

My preference is that the driveshaft ujoints are my fuse. First off, they're less likely to take out other parts when they let go (disclaimer, I've seen exceptions to that general rule). Second, they're a lot easier to fix/replace on the trail than interior axle bits. And unless you have a slip yoke, you can do without one of your two driveshafts in a pinch, Dealing with broken axle guts is more likely to put you in a "bad" situation.

The further out of center your point of view, the more everyone else looks to be "the other side". It's all a matter of perspective.