relyt120

"The funny thing is, on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook."

This update may seem trivial but I replaced the shifter knob with one out of a 99 xj. I'm already inexperienced driving a stick, the wobbly knob was NOT helping anything!

I've got one in my back yard if you want it, no rust but plenty of dents , only a short drive for you to Nashville :rotf:

Pay about 200 at jys around here. Then they want to charge you extra for anything attached to it...

Scored a set of MJ bucket seats today at the JY :banana: I've been begging anyone with a 2 dr xj for sale on craigslist to sell me their buckets; now i can stop. Both seats have their quirks: passenger's seat won't fold forward, driver's has tears and two of the mounting holes are trashed they both were soaking wet when i picked them, i guess the truck had been rolled or something so the windshield was gone allowing the rain we have been having to thoroughly coat them. So they will need some work, but like I said before if they didn't need work then where would the fun be? I also got a couple spare taillights, both cracked but good for spares. :idea: on the way out I also found a full inst. panel out of a 90 xj

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Yeah I know it's just as easy as turning a wrench but for the life of me I cannot get these bolts to budge. Just for reference the truck I'm talking about is 89 2wd 5 speed, the bumblebee. I was able to get the bolts out fairly easily from my other MJ but seriously on these I have tried everything I got. socket wrench, normal wrench with mallet / hammer, cordless impact, tried it hot, tired it cold. These things at 14mm right?? I used my 14mm wrench on it with a mallet and it actually seems to be rounding it off! Could it be that these are SAE? I'm going to soak them with penetrating oil tonight and see if that helps....any tips? I've got to replace the muffler to take it through emissions before my temp tag runs out next week so any help will be appreciated!

removed the tape and re-installed the bed liner.Note to self: get better tape next time; this tape bled a bit. Starting to notice we may have scratched the bed up a little more than I realized when we loaded it at the JY. Not a big deal since its getting fresh paint down the road, just irritating!

Do stuff to the MJs :thumbsup: EDIT: and classes take some time too!

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Well you're the only one! :laughin:

Go BIG BLUE!

Whats the paint code for that color?? Also truck is coming along beautifully!

It was as bad as I thought so I went ahead and wire wheeled the entirety of the bed rails and reapplied the rust reformer. Here's some pics of the process: We will see how it looks in the morning after it has had a chance to completely dry. Though I'm not too worried about it as the drop in bed liner is going to cover it anyway.

Lol yeah might have to find a new name when the time comes. On another note I took a wire wheel to the rust on the bed rails and was about to spray some rust reformer and it starts raining out of nowhere. I had to rush to spray the exposed metal. Needless to say it looks like crap and has water bubbles. Covered it with a tarp. I'll probably sand it down and do it again, will have to see ihow it looks when it dries.

Yeah 2wd

Mine is an auto on the column and it does not have the notch

I have something that bolts to the bottom of my gas tank. Its plastic and provides like an inch and a half space between it and the tank. Attached with like 8 tiny bolts directly to the tank straps. What y'all think that is?

Thanks. Going to be painting the whole thing Baltic dark blue. A factory color that my cousin chose. That is not on the short list of thing to do though, so many other things to fix first, like parking brake buckets and dash.

Got the bed put on. I had it sitting on the uni-body before the new year but went on a trip to visit family so all the bolting in and reconnecting of stuff had to wait till I returned. Whenever I took the drop in bed liner out it revealed the only rust on the bed. Minor rust on the bed rails. I'm going to sand the rust out and shoot some rust reformer on it and then throw the bed liner back on until its time for paint. As for the tailgate I just happen to have a red one so I through it on.. because I obviously care a lot about matching colors :rotf: Also swapped the fuel doors since the red one was bent for some odd reason. Here's the pics: Oh Yeah! I also got to test out the trailer wiring adapter I made. It works like a charm!

What a great truck to start of the new year of MJOTM! :drool:

I got my last tailgate for free. Lady at the Pallapart cut me a break since I had so much stuff. Ended up with complete gray intertior, speaker brackets, tailgate, taillights and a tailight wiring harness all for $80. :yes: So all the cheap parts are in TN lol :rotf:

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