DirtyComanche

The original rear bumper on my '88 XJ lasted 18 years. The replacement is barely two years old, hasn't seen anywhere near as much snow and salt, and is already rusted through the "chrome" plating on the top surface. It's got to be plated properly... The OEM peices are generally quite good. At least with the chrome door handles I can take them off without breaking them.

I like chrome a lot of the time, it cleans up a lot better with just a hose. And it doesn't rust. Ah how I hate rust.

Any clearance issues? Disty? Control arms?

Leaking through the HVAC stuff? I know YJs do that... And I think a MJ could.

Who made the motor mounts?

I think mine is easy enough to figure out. But I'm DirtyMJ on most boards. Which causes some confusion - apparently most people have no idea what a MJ is and assume I must be a pervert or something.

So that's what happened to Pat. Well, you gotta make money while you can.

I think you could do it then flush it out. But you've got to do a really good job of getting it off. I know when they dip cars/parts then normally pressure wash them like crazy afterwards to make sure they're completely clean. I'd probably spray it with zinc chromate afterwards.

If you leave it on there long term it will do bad things, AFAIK.

VIH (Vancouver Island Helicopters). Oil is up, so we're busy.

Mine got lots of looks. And a couple of 'nice chop' comments.

The truck needs more time than money. But it's all good, I'm going to start saving for a down payment on a house.

A pressure carb is those found in chainsaws and some lawnmowers and such. Fuel flow to the nozzle/jet is regulated by air pressure not float bowl fuel height. They can run at any angle (normally). It's sorta like mechanical fuel injection, but it still uses a venturi to provide fuel atomization - a major drawback. And no, I've never seen a pressure carb on a vehicle but if anybody did it it'd be the british. I've seen pressure carbs on aircraft engines though. However, they're crap.

Living at work or working constantly? I have to move out of here by the end of next week - and I HOPE I have a place. Working constantly will probably be for a couple more months then I'll be on rotation (yet to be decided, 3 weeks on 2 weeks off is most likely). Unless I take a base position, which might get offered. But I'm not conviced I want to - I'd not work as much (regular hours) but I'd also make a LOT less. I've been working mostly 12 hour days for the 20 on. Kinda leaves a guy burned out.

That's what I've been doing. It's nice. Now only if I didn't actually live at work (crew housing off the side of the hanger) it'd be even better.

And I'm probably going to be pretty quiet for a while. This was my first day off in about 20 days now. And I'm probably going to do another 2 weeks before I get any more time off.

Personally I'd sell the lock-wrong and use the cash to buy a real locker. But that's me.

These ones? http://www.comancheclub.com/forums/view ... light=scca Search 'SCCA' and there's a few other threads.

Yes, you are... I've never actually seen one in person.

4mph would have been well within my margin of rounding, if you mean it works out to 120. I'd take your spreadsheet but lack excel. What formula do you use? If you don't have Excel, my spreadsheet ain't gonna help you. I originally developed it in Quattro Pro, but I long since migrated it over to Excel. Your formula isn't based on actual tire rolling radius. When I did up the spreadsheet I spent a lot of time with tire company brochures and web sites, finding the actual revolutions per mile for various tire sizes. Then I factored that in and created a speed-to-RPM chart for just about every tire size from 205/75-15 up through (IIRC) 33". Yeah, I knew I wasn't factoring in actual height or revs per mile. For my purposes it didn't matter. I was just wondering if there was a more fundamental flaw with my formula.

Photobucket is better.

Speed at given rpm in OD with 4.56s and 31s.

4mph would have been well within my margin of rounding, if you mean it works out to 120. I'd take your spreadsheet but lack excel. What formula do you use?

Given: 4800rpm .78 OD 4.56 gears 31" tire I do: (4800rpm)(60min/hour)(31inchs)(3.14) --------------------------------------- (.78OD)(4.56gears)(12inchs/foot)(5280feet/mile) Giving about 124mph. Out to lunch?

Like I said, unreliable. And they just won't accept that. They seem to think if you rev a 4.0 beyond 3krpm it'll explode on the spot. Uh-huh. I'd bet money on an abused 4.0 out-lasting any toyota motor anyday.