DirtyComanche

Duallys just look so awesome.

Or are they 3D printed CF? CF reinforced prints are pretty well standard stuff now. I agree if the file was available it would be nice to have made public. Watching SuperFastMatt stuff on the Youtoobs it is very apparent that a 3D scanner and a printer with decent capacity will absolutely change your world for making near factory (or maybe even better) quality parts easily.

I see they subscribe to the "undercoat covers all sins" theory of workmanship.

The EVs haven't reached enough market share for the "trickle down" (not a bad way to put it) to generally work out yet. There's other barriers, wrecks are often damaged more by overzealous firefighters or wreckers, insurance companies often demand some parts go to scrap instead of resale by recyclers, there is barriers in programming and modules that are unobtanium or suffer 100% failure rates, there is difficult rules on shipping used parts, etc, etc. That said there is something of a community for old/nostalgic EVs and/or swaps of older components. Teslas have by far the best past end of life/life extension support just because there was so many and they came with enough problems, along with that enthusiasts fixed a lot of things unofficially. A lot of the other options are just a bit too crappy for them to be mainstream, so it's pretty niche. Their first car, the Roadster, is highly sought after, and repairs for the battery modules/BCM/inverter/etc are well documented and available as commercial services. Nissan Leaf swaps into other stuff are somewhat common, lots of support for doing it easily. Currently someone found a GM EV1 and is in the process of restoring it with help from GM (interesting project but the YouTube videos they make are basically unwatchable due to not being edited down). There's a fairly robust community for the electric S10s they sold around the same time as the EV1, with guys upgrading the batteries and other components to make them actually drivable. There is people out there remanufacturing/repairing battery packs for a lot of stuff, but some things are just too weird to be overly feasible. It is like anything else and if your budget is large you can do anything; like guys convincing themselves that their LS swap will save them money by increased fuel economy and then buying a built engine that makes 600HP on pump gas, which the payoff on will be never but I fully support them doing it. At this point you can get a used Tesla Model 3 for cheap enough and keep it running with used parts that the math does work, on a beater versus beater type of equation. At least if you live in the contiguous United States and assuming you're charging it at home too. For me here, eh, maybe not so much.

To get the pan out you need to jack up the frame/body and set it on your jackstands and let the axle hang down. You may need to take the shocks off to get enough space, I don't recall, but with a 2"~ lift (and the longer shocks you'd have with it) it's very doable. Just loosen/undo the top mount on them if you need more space, then it's easy to put back together by just putting the weight back on the axles and tightening the top mount back up. You should not need to jack up the engine, leave it supported by the motor and trans mounts. I've personally always had good luck with the one piece pan gaskets.

If you're now getting spark you can try misting some gas into the throttle body and see if it will fire off. You may get it to go that way. Otherwise it's move on to checking timing, fuel pressure, that the injectors are firing, etc.

Slow crank reduces the voltage. There is effectively a minimum cranking speed to make a suitable signal for the engine to run. You need to address your slow crank before doing other things. If you have a jump pack or an extra battery try giving it some beans with that.

A - 55Ft-Lbs B - 70Ft-Lbs D - 27Ft-Lbs That's from the 89 FSM.

Yeah, it does make for a fun driving experience, especially paired with a manual transmission. It doesn't necessarily make for a practical powertrain. SUVs are not worse "in every way" compared with a minivan. There is tradeoffs. Most minvans have a dismal to nothing tow rating, while the right SUV can reasonably tow a lot of things (medium sized camper, small horse trailer, decent sized utility trailer, car trailer with a car or SxS/ATVs on it, etc) which can cover the towing needs of most people who sort of need a truck but are better off with more interior space. Minivans also tend to be objectively worse in extreme snow or mild "off road" compared with a real SUV. Even from a fuel economy standpoint it's often fairly much a tie. Power, well, go drive a Suburban with a 6.2L and tell me what minivan is going to do that. Minivans win on the door design, that is a fact. They win on being generally cheaper for the same thing. They will likely win on lower cost of ownership over their lifespan, at least if compared to a vehicle from the same brand. I debated buying a Ridgeline to DD. The wife said no more trucks, so I didn't. They're only hated by "real truck" enthusiasts. The new ones are ugly, yes. The tailgate design is idiotic, assuming they all come with a swing tailgate (like a Wrangler has), as it is the worst of all worlds for being inconvenient in a parking lot or garage and not allowing you to support something longer than the bed; it is a design that caters to the limp wrist type that bought a Ridgeline because he needs a "truck" to take 2 bags of mulch and a bag of potting soil home from HomeDepot twice a year. As to unified manufacturing... No. Competition breeds innovation. I do not want Ford's cam phasers combined with GM's AFM and Chrysler's plastic critical components, because that's probably what you would get with a room of executives and engineers deciding to cost reduce it the best they could with the options they have. Keep in mind the EV crowd said our ICE vehicles would have negative value years ago and that our EVs would be out actively making money for us while we weren't driving them, so I wouldn't count on EVs taking over the world for a while.

So, how did you find it?

Rockauto's shipping options are always good for a laugh. I've seen $1000+ options to get things across the border to me. That said, there is scenarios where you just might be that desperate.

Yes, that's what you want, but $82 seems steep. Swaybar end link is the more proper term for them, my post was unclear.

Sometimes the threads are stretched from the bar and link pounding against each other. So they will just break, nothing can be done to stop it. I would order new links and plan on changing them too, but that's me. Edit, a Mevotech link with bushings is around $11 USD on Rockauto (my pricing is in CAD and I convert back, but it's about that), so $22 would get you both links and you only need to buy the bushings that go around the bar.

They're terrible. I was going to buy one instead of another JK but I couldn't find one in the right condition/price to do it for me. They all had blown transmissions, rotten frames, or some combination of both of those issues.

There is good reason that modern pickup truck design has evolved to the current state; the market spoke and manufacturers reacted. The last two year round DD trucks I've had have been crew cabs. Before them it was extended cabs, and before them it was the old single cab trucks. That is the natural progression of the market. This is excluding my "fun" DDs, which are always fairly useless and impractical (last was a TJ, before that a 2 door Cutlass, before that a MJ, and they are a whole other story). Yes, the single cab truck can still do truck things, but what it can't do is a much longer list. When I was a single guy doing single guy stuff, sure, you could stuff whatever you wanted to not get stolen/wet into the cab with you; but now, no. I always have a car seat, a backpack or bag of kid stuff, plus apparently I'm expected to pick family up from the airport or whatever and take them places, the average grocery shopping trip is more stuff than would even fit in the cab without a passenger, etc etc. Suddenly you're just accepting that a crew cab is what works. It's not 1980 anymore where you could just put the kids and extra family members in the box and tell them to hang on. There's also a cultural shift where now if it's in the back of your truck and not locked up, it might well walk away in the 10 minutes it takes you to run into a store to buy something. Personally, if I didn't regularly buy construction materials, landscaping supplies, greasy old transmissions and engines, and tow heavy, I would just wind up with a full size SUV myself, as interior space has become much more valuable on most days versus exterior space. So, long story short, for most people a single cab is nearly useless. That's why the sales numbers for them are generally dismal. Plus the other aspect of truck ownership is towing, and with modern everything being bigger/better, the demand is to be able to tow absurd amounts. That said, I think they still should make a 2 door single cab (with a little bit of space behind the seats) JT. My new "fun" DD is a JK because yeah, interior space. I have no idea how the Bogans in Upsidedownland handle using a Ute all the time. When I was working there I was given a fullsize car (a Ford something-or-other, it was a total POS) to tow a very small service trailer with because there is no trucks. I think that since the Land of Oz is basically entirely flat is the only reason you can get away with towing like that, and anyone who has to deal with towing anything bigger winds up with a small medium duty cabover. Meanwhile the Ute crowd seemed to mostly have them as a second vehicle, or they were young/single. The culture is different too, more people are clustered in the few large city centers and the rest of the country is a barren wasteland, so a lot less large outdoor toys, and people seemed to have most building/landscaping supplies delivered normally. I wasn't there long enough to fully flesh out the Ute culture, but I did enjoy the odd VB long neck for breakfast.