pizzaman09

Yep, I have had experience with the prorated warranty on automotive batteries. Your experience sounds normal to me. The warranty is from the original battery and will play out to the end of that, it doesn't reset with a new battery.

Consider yourself smart for doing your research first before purchasing. I just went in on assumed reputation for Honda and a desire to own the highest revving factory K20 engine. Honestly the car works for me, but it really opened my eyes for how poorly built a car can be from a major OEM.

I know this is off topic. You all apparently have had better luck with Honda's than me. I have an 09 Civic Si, fun car, very competent at autocross and works well in the snow. However it has been the least reliable pain in the butt vehicle I've owned yet. That's saying a lot for someone who has owned mostly old Jeeps and BMWs. That Honda has the weirdest electrical issues and has come up with some odd mechanical ones too. It has definitely made me weary of wanting to try other Japanese vehicles.

Happy Christmas all! It's unusually warm here, we'll have a white Christmas but only because a couple of feet fell the first few weeks of the month.

Is this check valve arrangement also part of the larger football vacuum canister? I wonder if I hooked mine up incorrectly after installing cruise control.

The Rotary Lift I have used extensively is very nice. The only geometric challenge I have found is on shorter wheelbase cars it can be a challenge to center the vehicle forward and back to get the arms to swing past the tires or extended in far enough to hit the jack points. We have had that issue on my 99 BMW 3 series and my friends 86 Toyota MR2. The Comanche fits beautifully on the lift. When working on tall vehicles I would recommend the high rise lift points, we just have the flip up feet and they work but aren't ideal.

To me, vintage motoring is more about the connection to the original drivetrain and how one engages with it than the body itself. There is nothing that gives me less joy than to see a classic vehicle with a Chevy small block and a TH400 or 700R behind it. That looses all of the soul of the original drive. It's not a high powered race car, enjoy the unique nature of driving the original drivetrain. That said, I can get behind an odd ball swap, a Jeep 4.0L and an AX-15 would sure as heck move if one could shoehorn it in.

I have found in car shopping, wait for the one you want, you'll know it. I shopped three years for my MJ, looking for one with exactly the options I wanted. When the right one came along I jumped and didn't question price. Ended up spending $9800 for a 250k mile Eliminator that really needed some love, but it was straight and clean so everything else was just refreshing work. It felt expensive for what I got, and probably was but it was the exact vehicle I was looking for. My list was exacting, Renix 4.0L, 4x4, AX-15 transmission, bucket seats, full instrumentation, AC, and a short bed. Many trucks came along that had 90% of that but only a couple that were exactly what I was looking for. XJs have a far deeper pool to choose from, I'm not sure if MJs or XJs are worth more but in the end they aren't hens teeth.

Though I do think there are XJs that could be worth that much, that one isn't particularly special. It's nice, but you could get yourself just as nice for less with less miles on BaT.

I stacked an extra layer of gasket on mine too, it helps some.

Congratulations on buying the house! I can't imagine buying a home before graduation and considering putting in a lift. That sounds like a lot of expense. That said, I have a friend that put a new Rotary two post in his garage. It is a very good high quality lift and I would highly recommend one if you can find one. They come up for sale used more often than you'd expect. You can do it yourself. The professional install is probably less than you'd expect though assuming there is a lift distributor near where you live. I plan to do a two post lift in my new house in the future. I currently have a 4 post lift that I inherited and it's a wonderful tool but it doesn't allow one to do suspension work. Four post lifts are way cheaper than two post lifts but definitely not a useful.

My 277k mile Renix 4.0L absolutely pukes oil out of the valve cover. If one were to place an oil catch can in the system l, where would you put it? I was thinking the vacuum line between the manifold vacuum source and the back of the valve cover. I have replaced my rear main seal, oil filter housing and valve cover seals. I really would like to not have a 4" puddle or oil under my truck everywhere I park.

Is it a high tooth count ratchet? I've been looking for sources of some high quality wrenches. I typically use a very nice Channel Lock set but am looking for things like ratcheting breaker bars.

It's a 2.5L, I am generally not in the know but did the 2.5L get similar upgrades to the 4.0 HO in 1991?

Sounds like a Whitworth bolt... Jokes aside, if you want it off, external nut extractors do a great job of fitting any sized bolt, particularly if you use an air hammer to put them on.

I assume you have checked for spark?

Personally, I went right cheap likely knock off new 4 hole injectors and they work brilliantly. Definitely an improvement over the stock single hole injectors.

My 99 Oldsmobile Eighty Eight had double sun visors, if you flipped down the main one and rotated it to cover the door window, there was a second smaller one that could be flipped down for the front windshield. It was awesome for those drives on a road where the sun was at the a pillar and the road twisted left and right always changing which window the visor needed to cover. This feature was on both the drivers and passengers sun visors, every car should have it.

When I put a new blower motor resistor in, the lowest fan speed setting became just fan off and it lets the forced air blow through. The original blower motor resistor actually ran the fan.

I don't know the answer to your question but I can say the factory lit mirrors of my 1990 Eliminator have the bend in them.

This hits me hard, probably around 2013 a bunch of us in a congo line we're driving up to the Detroit Auto show. We were following the 2002 vintage GPS built into the car. Somewhere near Sandusky, Ohio the GPS just took us off of I-90 and took us on a loop just like us before putting us back into the highway.

Happy Thanksgiving! It's snowing here today, which is always nice on Thanksgiving, it covers up all the mud.

I've used a ratcheting box end wrench to put a bolt in at number 6 as the factory stud was missing. I also used the same wrench to snug up the others as they were loose. Just did it laying down under the truck.

Glad to hear it's back! Was any damage done?

That is awesome! I was lucky enough to buy a Comance that had recently spent 15 years owned by a Jeep dealership. They did a couple things that saved me a ton of headache including putting in a new clutch and installing dealer air conditioning, R134a. I even got all of the service records from their ownership. Unfortunately it was their parts running truck and they differed a lot of other maintenance, but it was generally simple stuff.