pizzaman09

I've driven a 2015 four door Rubicon with the Pentastar and manual and found it to be excellent. I don't much care if my trucks are fast, I have a 99 BMW M3 to go fast in and feel real torque.

This so much! If I could buy a 2 door truck based on the 4dr JL platform with the Pentastar and a manual, I'd buy it immediately. I considered a 4 door Gladiator, and after sitting in one at a dealership, I decided it was too long and had too small of a bed.

Very nice. I did a garage a bit larger than your building attached to my house, I considered in floor heat but instead did 2" of foam under the concrete and a mini-split to heat it all. I did the same in my basement and it's nice though not a toasty floor like what you are planning.

Love it! You got real lucky on the weather for concrete work. Good choice to do thicker on the conc for the lift. When I did the concrete for my garage (2400 sqft), I asked what the cost difference would be to take it from 4" to 5" on the whole thing, it was only $1600 more so it was a no brainer. Looks like you will have some nice storage up top too!

We'll see, maybe we end up switching to a chain drive. This snowblower is originally designed for a Zero turn mower so the input is around 3000 rpm and is driven off of a 5L belt. We plan a 5L belt on each motor all on roughly 6" diameter pulleys, so there will be a double pulley on the input to the blower with each belt going to the separate motors. Tractors run 540rpm input so way more torque is needed. We already have a generator sub panel setup in our house for important loads, well, refrigerator, septic, fireplace blower, a few lights. It will be nice to not have to buy a stand alone gas generator.

The 4.0L is an ok engine. I've found the Renix powered ones in the 2 Comanches I've had to be far smoother than the one in my parents 97 Grand Cherokee. My hot takes, 90s cars were the peak of automotive development. Quality was generally very good, engine management had been perfected with reliable ignition and excellent fuel injection but the rest of the vehicle didn't become a rolling computer. Also interiors were well laid out with real dedicated buttons for everything. 90s vehicles are relatively easy to repair too. Minivans are the most practical vehicle for most people. Fully enclosed storage space big enough to swallow 4x8 sheets, of which very few modern pickups and no SUVs can handle. Hold lots of people, get pretty good fuel economy, and they are comfortable. I'm not sure why nobody makes a luxury minivan in the theme of say a Denali or King Ranch. People think they need 4x4 for winter driving. Actually what they need is good snow tires. I live in the snowbelt and have never drive an AWD vehicle in the winter. Currently my winter daily is a 99 BMW M3, it has 4 inches of ground clearance, is RWD with an LSD. I plow snow with it and embarrass lots of AWD vehicles with the wrong tires.

I assure, there is going to be a lot of battery involved, all placed in the bed. We also plan to use the batteries for back up home power using a 48 volt inverter. The rest of the trip went well, it was a tremendous number of ups and downs. Ended up using the truck to transport a different snow blower for a friend the last 90 miles home. Yep, some engineering will be involved. The current plan is to put a ball hitch on the back then run a frame underneath to connect to that ball hitch for the majority of the load. There will be a winch bumper up front with a harbor freight winch to lift up and down. A couple extra bars and a fair bit of electronics.

I'm more of a late 90s BMW guy myself but this sounds like a low voltage issue, dead battery or dead alternator issue.

My twin brother and I happen to have a bit of a nasty driveway, 450 ft but it's up a 40ft hill while simultaneously turning. We live in the snowbelt off of Lake Erie so we need a serious snow blowing setup. So the master plan, mount a 54" wide snow blower on the front of a Kei truck. The two most important parts of the plan are now in motion. We acquired a snow blower for a zero turn mower of all things. The plan is to mount two 10hp DC electric motors by V belt to the blower drive and build a big lithium battery pack to run it all. The second important part is halfway home, we are right now driving this great little 1999 Suzuki Carry from just north west of Washington DC back to Erie, PA on only the back roads. It has a 49hp fuel injected engine, 5 speed manual, low range transfer case and an electronic rear diff lock.

That's really nice. Looks like it does a great job of tuning in the fuel pressure.

Ah!

That has the hurricane six cylinder in it! If I bought a classic Jeep of that vintage I have always had interest in that engine as it's the first American overhead cam 6 cylinder. Truck looks salvageable too.

Though it doesn't sound like my suggestion, do yourself a favor and check to see if your intake and exhaust header bolts are tight or even all present. It could just be a vacuum leak causing the engine to stumble off.

We did it for two years. The first year was a wedge shaped bot with a 2 lb aluminum wheel that we cast out of aluminum. There were two HSS lathe tool bits sticking out of the wheel to bite into other bots, it was spun by an 800W brushless out runner moter around 5k rpm. It packed a punch. The second year we built two bots. One was a helicopter type bot that had 1 lb blades at the ends of the rotor. That one did a great job chopping firewood. The second bot was a multi-bot, a 13.5 lb robot with a 10000 rpm beater bar and a second tiny 1.5 lb wedge that drove around separately. Generally our achilies heel was poor drivetrains, the weapons were over powered for their size and the drive was not particularly functional. A year after I graduated highschool, the team went on to refine the beater bar robot with an excellent drivetrain. They did well. This definitely stated off a long history of projects like this for me which resulted in me becoming a mechanical engineer.

I've always been impressed with CC. I've belonged to several forums, mostly related to whatever car I own at the time. I probably have over 10k posts over at Bimmerforums. M5board is another great forum much like CC. I've never bothered joining the Honda and Austin Healey forums, the advice and way people conduct themselves just didn't impress me. My goal in life is always to try to be helpful and make people happy, so if it's evident that I'm not doing that on a forum then I quickly dismiss myself from a conversation.

That box looks distinctly old to me.

Potentially, when I spoke with the dealer he said he was working on an M38.

Will do. I just found the Kei truck I want to buy, plan to head down to Maryland this weekend and drive it home.

On my Renix one it is just one large external hex. It's doable, I personally did it from under the truck.

I did the O-rings on mine and it fixed a ton of my passenger side leaks. It's not the easiest or hardest job ever, just some kinda unfortunate to remove bolts. Lots of work with a box end wrench as there wasn't enough space to back it all the way out with a socket.

Interesting thought, I might use the loose steel sleeve that comes on the cables to attach it with a hose clamp.

Oh boy, that's kinda disappointing, it was challenging to get that cable attached at both ends. I might just drop the exhaust and loop it back on the correct side.

Finally doing rear drum brakes. Purchased mostly new hardware. I wasn't going to do the drums but decided to order some after taking the old ones off. Also ordering some axle shaft seals. Also choose to do rear parking brake cables, I am excited to have a good parking brake rather than one that a small child could push the truck around with it engaged.

Purchased a 54" snow blower, for a zero turn of all things, and plan on electrifying it and mounting it to the front of a Japanese Kei truck.

I did BattleBots in highschool. It was 15 lb weight class which is plenty of weight to put a lot of power into one. My brother and I were the first team locally to start using brushless motors, and speed controllers from a new company named Castle Creations. It was a ton of fun! I do remember watching the old robot wars on Comedy Central back in the day.