DirtyComanche

Buick = GM.

It'll be a BA10/5 unless it has been swapped - which is possible but not likely. They're not a bad tranny, but are entirely unable to hold up to the torque output of the 4.0. If you find one that has been babied, it'll last as long as the engine. But who does that? So normally they start dropping gears at inoppertune times.

3" with 35s looks pretty good.

Definatly not mine, I don't run a 44 rear... Or rear bumpstops for that matter... It might be CW's?

One that comes without an engine or axles, but a good body. Yes, I said it.

FWIW, I've looked at running one more than once. I think I found an adapter to mate an AW4 to one, so I might actually do it...

Buick-Olds-Pontiac pattern. Sometimes they say BOPC for buick-olds-poncho-caddy - but not all caddys are actually that pattern. Or something. Anyways, it's more likely called BOP.

No, it's BOP. It's a great light weight engine with huge aftermarket. But there's not much for tranny options unless you use adapters. There's a somewhat larger version of it too - 4.1L.

You could get them in any year MJ other than 86 - they had AMC20s optional.

I agree. Pretty good ones at that. And an aluminum V8.

How about paint the engine too. If you dare - white. No oil leak will be missed!

The point of using an optima is they're a gell-cell and don't have any of the nasties of lead-acid batteries. That'd be puking acid and venting hydrogen and acidic fumes or w/e other nasties come out. You don't want to have the battery near you in a roll-over... Either way, I doubt it would fit. Since you got the battery out of the way, you're now free to remove some inner fender! Okay, the purists will hate that.

I sold all of my rusty's stuff. I explained to the guy who bought it all the short comings with it and what he should change. As far as I know he at least took part of my advice on it. I hope he changed the joints to something better... I didn't give him a choice on their track bar mount, I'd already ribbed it. And same goes for all the hardware - it was replaced with gr8. I wasn't willing to sell it otherwise. As I see it, Rusty engineered a death trap with that LA setup.

I had some homebrew beer once. What an experience. My toilet will never forgive me. The floor probably wasn't too happy about it either.

I'd rather not pay double... I'd just go without.

What's wrong with him? He's just got a steelie for a spare. EVERYONE knows if your spare is visible, it must be bling too...

I think that they admitted to it.

Perhaps. There has been no toy solid front axles since what, 87? Look how much more aftermarket there is for them now, than there was then. That includeds new housings, knuckles, shafts/joints, thirds, and all the little BS. Personally I'd rather not turn to the aftermarket if I don't have to. It'sa lot cheaper to buy stuff used from the boneyard. But that day may be coming to an end.

It is a ballast resistor, but it is for the fuel pump. When it goes bad, the jeep will start and run for a couple seconds, then die. The pump is given full voltage during start-up, but once running it is routed through the resistor so the pump isn't cranking out way more fuel than needed.

I dunno, I think they've made decent sales on the new wrangler things.

I think it'll extend pump life too. The junkyard is full of them. How'd you break it? Hammer?

I don't care what jeep does. They discontinued the stuff I like. And they never really sold much in the way of good drivetran stuff. I care about ford, chevy, dodge, IH, 'suzu, etc who all have been known to make some pretty good parts donors. If they all decide there is no room for solid axles and standard configured engines... Inevitably we're hooped.

Okay, good, I was a little worried. The generator is worth more than my jeep... Actually, both of my jeeps.

Well, the funny thing about it is the pump might actually have failed because it ran dry... His hydro-assist leaked so bad that it prompted using used oil in the first place, and such that the pump would run dry after a couple hours...

Apparently some people keep diesel in red cans. And the generator was dry out (had emptied it last fall) so I just started pouring away... I was thinking 'funny, 'tis pink. Is this marked gas?" Then I started to think. And sure enough, it wasn't gonna start on that. I fulled the fuel lines and flushed it all as best I could using gas (the regular yellow stuff). There's some residual diesel in everything.... Think it'll cause me any grief? It's a 4-stroke...