DirtyComanche

Support the engine with a floor jack and pull the mount out piece by piece. The pipe nipple extractors are low profile and you should just be able to pound one in and put a wrench on it. Alternatively Snap-On sells some small extractors for not too much, Google search REX114A for an example.

My 86 is in the same boat, it basically needs one of everything to be usable. There is a fair amount of info out there on EV conversions and some good forums, and one of the better known retailers and manufacturers of conversion parts is in the same province as me. It would be a huge task to do a clean and useful conversion, and I believe I would be into it for at least $15k, but need to do more research. That said, I find I'm far more able to get my own projects completed if other people are enthused about them, it makes for a positive feedback loop when you post updates, and I'm not sure this is going to go that way.

Looks really nice. Did you have a club card to leave under the wiper?

There's much cheaper OEM components that can be used. And they're probably more reliable. I forget what the common power steering pump is to use, I think it's off an Audi or something. It doesn't have as much jam as an engine driven one but it will still probably be adequate for anything I'd do.

You can get standalone vacuum and hydraulic pumps that are run off pressure switches. The zuk I linked has a vacuum pump from a diesel VW. He has manual steering.

It looks thin enough you might be able to collapse an edge of it with a punch, then turn it out with a pair of pliers.

I guess. As long as they're good at explaining what they did and how... Because there is a lot of good info in that for everyone. The FSJ forums have a "Priss" section for that type of stuff, since they tend to be their own little cult.

I want it for the braking, having had and lived through several vehicle brake failures; you're left with pretty minimal options if the motor is freespooling and you have no brakes, at least with a normal combustion engine you can gear down or even throw the transmission in reverse. It's certainly cheaper to just run a DC setup and not worry about it, and the guys that are interested in going fast and only going fast certainly do that. You only really see something like a 10% increase in range with the regenerative braking, but that's still something, especially with my intended 'route' featuring a couple long hills that you have to go both down and up. I don't want to build a hybrid, I think it would be way too heavy to have any use, I'd be better off just throwing the little Kubota diesel in the thing and running dual transmissions.

Take the engine mount off for access? Pound in a pipe extractor and turn it with a wrench?

Might be a lot of power, but it seems like a rip off for a set of injectors, a thermostat, and a pulley...

Powerpoint, wow, there's a program I wish had never existed. Edit, how many slides is it? Worst case I can probably type it out at work one of these days...

Do you mean have the driveshaft pass through the motor? Since most of these motors have keyed or splined drives on each end. I don't know if you would get enough torque unless you went big. Everything I'm looking at is retaining the transmission and the transfer case for any sort of usage beyond just going fast. And I want A/C for regenerative braking, because then it actually holds you back or can even stop you.

I'm torn on if I agree with you or not.

Here's the Zuk I was talking about: It's funny because with no engine noise you can hear all sorts of stuff... And no shouting directions or anything else.

Yes, lots of S10 and Ranger conversions are out there. But they're S10s and Rangers so they suck.

I was just going to get a Honda Eu2000i to recharge it if I went too far. I believe that's all the guy on Pirate uses. To actually fit a hybrid system permanently would require much more trouble, and isn't really what I want it for. 90% of the time I drive to town and pick up steel, wood, groceries, etc, and drive back, which is about a 100km round trip as a maximum. The reality is the economics of such a project would never make sense though, I drive a mixed fleet of my own vehicles maybe 15000km a year, and this could not replace every vehicle (nor would I want it to) so the economics are somewhat beside the point.

Yes, one keeps my tropical plants alive during the annual 6 months of darkness.

I post on Pirate because I love the abuse. No, actually it's because the hivemind of the internet is often right and what you're doing might be stupid and a bad idea...

I'm aware you can donate to his Patreon and see them early. He's still looking for views, plain and simple, as views turn into both ad revenue and Patreons, plus they turn into Youtube (and Google) recommending his videos, which turns into more views (and more ad revenue and Patreons). He is (well) over the threshold to monetize his channel, so he is getting paid for most views (save people running ad block and videos with copywrite material), even if it is a very small amount. As you're implying, the real money is in Patreon at this point, but the revenue off views is still there and will not be insignificant. He would be absolutely stupid to actually post anything prior to releasing it in a video that is made public, since doing so would directly cut into his own views. He could post the content when the videos are released to the general populace, but there is little point, as if he posts the pictures the forum dwellers are likely to just look at the pictures and not the videos (I can attest to this based on my own build threads on other sites), and if he just posts the videos then it's pretty much a waste of time anyways since somebody here is going to make a thread/post containing them anyways.

Not really. He's not posting on forums at all that I see anymore. If he posts it here he might get a couple hundred views out of it, it's not worth his time. Instead he's releasing stuff at the exact time to play into Youtube's analytics and keep his videos recommended or next up in playlists. He's better of having people share the videos and talk about it on here with him not being involved, as there's no effort on his part, and it avoids the negative backlash of the attitude of "I'm not watching the videos he posts on here because he's just trying to make money off the Youtube ads."

How would you feel about an electric MJ? Would it be a project you would find interesting, or would you feel it is blasphemy of the worst sort? I've had long drunken conversations with an ex-coworker of mine about converting a vehicle, on the basis that the currently offered electric vehicles are either ugly econobox commuter cars, super expensive/not available (Bolinger), or not really practical for living where I do with the lifestyle I have (Tesla). There's a guy on Pirate with an electric Samurai that is able to run the Rubicon, I need to dig into it a little more to see what it's really capable of, but it's set up with three Chevy Volt batteries and an 71HP A/C motor with regeneration.

Doubly worth it if the leafs were still usable.

Yeah, it might be warped but there's a good chance it was just installed poorly... If it won't line up, at that point a guy might as well oval the holes so at least you can get a bolt in them, or buy a new manifold. Most of them are cracked anyways...

There's a paint additive that makes it flexible for doing just that. No personal experience with it though. Like everything else to do with paint I imagine it's 98% about the prep work that determines if it comes out well or not.

I imagine you can pull the cover. However a needle point grease gun fitting would probably be easier.