Thunderbear

Garage envy rising..

Were you really expecting anyone to tell you nay? :rotf:

I caught an interesting one at the light the other day..

Ouch, that hurts just reading about. Good luck, hope it works out. Going to convert to electrical fans now?

You're learning skills some of us would kill to have, I wouldn't exactly call that a waste...

Thought I had a line on both until this $#!&head company tried to gouge me for forty bucks in shipping. I'll definitely take the small bracket off your hands.

I knew that made no sense. Thank you. Now to find somewhere that has both the cable to the bracket and the bracket itself.

I drilled a hole through the piece of steel that goes across the two uprights and put a lock through it and one of the holes in the Hi-lift. I can post a pic tomorrow if any one wants... Heck yes. Could you fab up some more if other members wanted some?

I can only find the 89+ XJ brackets online, were the part numbers for the equalizer bracket different on early model years? Looks like this:

19 gallon.

I bought my truck with this swap already, so I'm no help, but your diagram with the warning lights is super helpful to me. Thanks! I went ahead and labeled them. Did I read you right?

That is an excellent use of that area. Can I suggest a nut and a lock instead of two regular nuts for theft deterrence? It's the one reason I don't mount my Hi-Lift outside of my TJ.

You posted pictures of your interior painting? I have to do that soon. Are you changing colors or just freshening up?

325 on the odo, 357.5 actual. Edit: That's just this tank. Last one got 371.5 actual.

15 minutes or so? Trip up the road and back. Finally pegged coming up the hill back home. Pulled in, turned it off, and touched the radiator. Half of the upper manifold on the left was warm, the rad cap was cold.. literally, cold. Opened the cap, spewed out cool coolant. Opened the water neck, pulled rad and heater hoses to check for obstructions.. nada. Not yet, I changed the CTS and it spit coolant immediately, parked roughly level. Every time I crack a hose or opening.. it spits coolant, no air.

Checked before I left, it was full both in the rad and the overflow. Just boiled the thermo, it works. Replaced the CTS, upper rad hose, thermostat, and still overheats, according to the gauge. I'm leaning toward water pump and radiator, since they're the hardest to swap, of course.

New symptom, gauge = pegged, radiator cold to touch, but pressurized. Water pump dead?

Wire. Only way to get across floats without going through the plane.

Up here, the aluminum tubes have all sorts of baggage. :D Sometimes we even strap stuff outside the tubes.

I've used the Tecnu stuff with decent results. Any oil busting detergent will break up the urushiol on your skin. Treating your clothes and sheets and anything you came in contact with is the hard part. The roots are the most surefire way I've found to ID Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron radicans), they are called adventitious roots, and they support the vine by attaching to whatever is handy. This allows the plant to grow in any number of ways, however. I have seen a poison ivy bush, a vine, a grass, a "tree" when it enveloped another sapling, and it will try to get you every time. Usually, Jewelweed (Impatiens spp.) will grow in mostly the same areas, and it has been used as a natural treatment for exposure. Poisonous plants are the first thing you pay attention to as a forester. ;)

So coming home from work yesterday, going a little faster than usual, temp indicator creeps up to around 230. Not cool, literally. So I stop at O' Reilly s and pick up hoses and a thermostat, since I haven't replaced any of that since I bought it. Get home find out it's running straight antifreeze without a thermostat. Fine, replace hoses,t-stat, pcv, etc, and fix the mix with water. Start it, runs fine, go to work today and the thing damn near pegs the gauge at 260. No steam or anything, no oil pressure fluctuations, nada. Kill it, let it cool for five or so, and pop the hood. Still no steam, radiator is hot, but not burning hot, just hot to the touch. Bad CTS? I can't figure out why the gauge would peg without steam unless some weird air pocket developed somehow. Ideas?

Installed TJs brake release yesterday. Today was new thermostat, new PCV, rad flush/remix, and new upper rad hose. The lower seems to be new. Realigned the right front headlight, only to have the "sealed" beam unseal itself into two pieces in my hands. Siliconed it up and back into place.

Hmm. So that's what a nice interior looks like. That is a damn fine looking truck. Don't change it up too much, it's a mint example of stock.

USAA, but you'll have to join the military to get it. :D

Alaska. Shipping is indeed a killer.