Jeep Driver

Damn, I'd almost do that. Close to me too.

Check the wiring to the down stream O2.

You will have- Ground Hot (acc) Memory (always hot). Dimmer wire (possibly) Typically- Black Red Yellow Blue/purple ? All of which can be verified with a test light in about 2 minutes. As for speaker wires...........wouldn't even bother, cut them out, run new. Ground your radio chassis.

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I got my JW Speaker headlights a couple of days ago.

Thank you. Now that I have the truck outside I like it even more, I'll still end up cut-and-buffing it out but it's good, real good.

Save yourself the grief......and you'll likely burn through anyway. https://www.partsgeek.com/gbproducts/DC/2237-05487211.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=ff&utm_content=DN&utm_campaign=PartsGeek+Google+Base&utm_term=1987-1992+Jeep+Comanche+Fuel+Tank+Spectra+Premium+JP5B+87-92+Jeep+Fuel+Tank+89+88&fp=pp&gbm=a&utm_source=google&utm_medium=ff&utm_campaign=PartsGeek+Google+Base&gclid=Cj0KCQjwhJrqBRDZARIsALhp1WSVNhEUsOaxbg1zZCbn3D-e-wP1pMfHzov2uyVCjT6WAI9QRyonu0QaAnyZEALw_wcB

Thank you.

There is a term for it which escapes me at the moment- Your insurance company is responsible for helping your recoup any damage costs from the other driver, including the hiring of an attorney and filing a law suit. Talk to them about this. Here- https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/car-accident-claims-bad-faith-failure-settle.html and https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/tennessee-car-insurance-requirements.html You need to sue the driver who hit you. Was he/she cited for the accident? arrested for no insurance? I can become extremely ugly to those to do not treat me fairly, to those who have harmed me or mine.........get tough with this, you've been wronged, make it right!

Do NOT under any circumstances let YOUR insurance company total YOUR truck! See here- https://www.tn.gov/revenue/title-and-registration/additional-information/salvage--non-repairable-and-rebuilt-vehicles.html Let's assume you have a $500 deductible and they offer you $1000, your gain is $500, less the salvage fee and your fee to apply for and go through the process of obtaining a Rebuilt Title. You then have to have it inspected and you must apply a sticker to the door jamb and you must sell as 'rebuilt'..........you'll never have a clean title again. Stop right here, call your insurance company and tell them to F right off. As for repairs- Drive it as is........do the red tape over the tail light deal until you have a resolution..........just let things be for the moment. Look for, as suggested, a donor bed. As for a cut-n-weld patch..........I doubt you'll find a body shop willing to take the job. If you do, maybe a restoration shop, estimate will be at least $3K. You'll have a better chance of finding a shop to paint a loose bed...... they can handle that........scuff and shoot should cost you around $800. Get a couple of guys together to help swap the bed and bumper. If they offer you $6K.........well, that's another matter.......but....they won't. In that case demand salvage rights.

Apparently there is a term for what I did here, didn't know it was a thing, Flow-Coat. I got it this time, no sags, no runs, no dust, no bugs, no excessive orange peeling. Helps to use the correct tip too, not the suggested one.

Just because I'm a helpful problem solver.

Yes, of course I do.

I've had the 4600s all around. These have never been listed for the MJ, fronts are listed for the XJ. Measure, go to Bilstein site, select size, order, it's that simple. No, I don't have pics of the part numbers nor do I remember.

Single wire, resistance to ground.

Here is the later MPI intake that I'm currently using, doesn't show the bosses but as you can see it's different.........with this one I think you can use the 4.0 bracket but not the pulley.

Here is a Renix 2.5 intake, the same intake that you have. This intake is completely different than a 4.0..........bosses. Different than a later 2.5 MPI intake. Different brackets, different mounts, different pulleys. It's been a few years since I went through this, don't have the parts anymore, maybe I forgot something, maybe I missed something.........maybe I'm all washed up........IDK? But............It ain't gonna work out like you think.

If it runs and drives and you can pick it up for $500.........there are no cons.

Thank you, I appreciate your candor. Interesting to see or learn that there are tiers in every industry. If I'm vertical I'm working, if I'm working I have tools in my hand. Some will say that a true craftsman will deliver regardless of the tools in hand, this is not true, particularly when a craftsman operates in a production mode. Last year I made just over $60K, I'm a one man band. I wholesale my labor to GCs, it's the only way I can make any money here. Can I double my earnings? you bet. That would require me to quadruple my production, to do that I'd have to enter into a partnership or hire employees, my overhead would skyrocket. More than anything though I would be living under the stress of keeping everyone busy, my full-time job would be finding work. Finding capable, willing, and ethical people here is nearly impossible, every contractor has this problem to overcome, constant struggle. Those of us in the trades are getting older and the generation behind us do not want to work with their hands. Also, tools matter, tools are expensive, most guys simply are not willing to invest in tools, or trucks and trailers for that matter. I stay busy because I'm reliable, dependable, self-sufficient, and I like to think I'm pretty good at what I do. The only thing I have to sell is myself. Tools? Mechanics is a hobby for me, really want to get past this damn paint job and get back to turning a wrench. I'll buy the best I can afford or what I think will suit me at a fair price. Same for work, however, I buy the tool and not the brand. I build a lot of bathrooms, showers, tile.....etc........basically any type of interior finish work but I guess my specialty is kitchens and baths. Below is an example, I create my own cap (bullnose) .........whatever they throw at me, I just give them what they want.

My brother and his wife earn well into the 7 figures, neither of them do what they were educated to do. Conversely, I know more people who are wealthy who have no formal education. I also know a lot of really stupid people with Masters and PHDs. What I'm really curious about- How much does Dirty earn as a helicopter mechanic? How much does coolwind expect to earn as an aviation mechanic? As Dirty stated- "get the Snap-on", how much of this is based on social pressures? Does the aviation mechanic's culture demand Snap-on? Someone shows up with Cornwell tools, is he considered less-than? Example- Typical farmer here may bail 100 rolls of hay per year, large round bail may be worth $60, annual revenue of $6000. Couple of years ago farmer I know took delivery of a $85K John Deere with round baler and a couple of other attachments. I stopped and asked him how he justifies spending 85K for $6000 of annual revenue? Drive around here and you'll see relatively new excavators and front-end loaders sitting idle in fields for days at a time, $100K machines doing nothing. I ask, who can afford this? I watch a lot of SMA, Eric O's vids.........$15K for a Snap-on scan tool that does not work half the time. Eric has no formal education.........constantly refers to- "what memaw taught me". That said, he gets cars and trucks (jobs) that have left the dealer's mechanics more broken than when they arrived. Schardien is retired, I figured as much. I assumed he made his way in this world one way or another. My question was not a attack nor was it sarcastic. Nor was my question even personal. I struggle to make money.......my problem is my problem, no one else's. That said, I look around and it seems as though others have money thrown at them. As I said, I'm curious, I like to know what people do and how they do it and why?

ZJ box and a WJ pump with XJ hoses. Where are you getting the bracket and pulley for the '87 2.5?

Seriously? How did you construe this to be an attack? I'm genuinely curious about everything (almost). The man answered the question fairly, however, I have more questions but I did not want to put him on the spot. He went through the process, time and energy and money, to receive an "education" and I'm curious how it benefited him and what he got out of it.

In the Fall I'm going to do my brake swap, I'll be opening the rear to get the axles out, I'll post pics of the fluid. I'm curious myself just how clean it is after about 30K miles. Would I suggest anyone else do this experiment? No, of course not.........however....... People are taught BS by others, they accept what they are taught as truth and regurgitate it whether it is true or not.

By doing so I'm making the statement that it doesn't matter as much as the oil-nazis think it does.