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Looks like some sort of dip tank. Electrolysis cleaning bath or acid bath?

Is the steering linkage all in good working order? What about the steering gearbox and lower steering column? Do you feel the vibration in the entire truck, or mainly in the steering wheel? is it random when it occurs, or related to turns or bumps in the road? What condition are your wheel bearings in?

I think this might be the elusive (86?) Only tire carrier bar.....

When I was younger, custom parts made me go oooo-ahhhh. Now that I have some life experiences, I have learned "custom" usually means "no easy replacement" later down the road. There is definitely a value to the K.I.S.S. methodology in auto repair and maintenance.

I'm definitely not against the idea of helicoil repair. I just know my luck with things like this. Id end up breaking 4 drill bits and wasting 2 days trying to fix the old one. Only to give up in frustration and buy a junkyard unit.

Does 276 cool as well as r12? Not that it matters since I have a stashed away can of r12 waiting in the wings..... Guess I'm just curious. Lol

Replacement tb from the junkyard would also be an option. Also there are aftermarket ones a available. I would at least give the repair a shot, before spending the coin on those though.

I would seriously question AMC doing something just to make money. If that was their motivation, where did it all go wrong?

I'll have to get a pic of my jack and lug wrench setup. I think between your setup and mine we are getting close to perfection. I have a scissor jack (I think from a xj) that I chose because it is a hex head drive not the hook like the h1. I can only imagine the h1 jack is much more substantial. I also have a custom made tool for lower the spare winch and a lug wrench with extendable handle and a double sided socket. Between those and typically having my battery impact along there isnt much roadside\parking lot repair I can't handle. And the battery impact isn't necessary, just saves a lot of hand cranking. I'll try to remember a pic in the morning.

The upholstery should all interchange between bucket seats. I have 4 door xj upholstery with MJ seats in my truck. What part were you having trouble fitting? Edit: I almost forgot to say, the base cushions are interchangeable from xj passenger seats. Much better chance of finding a good passenger base, then just swap the upholstery.

I thought they were all pretty universal except for the length. Long ones for no overhead console, short ones with the console.

I'm here. Just don't have much to say. Lol

I had a set of curved sliders in an MJ years ago. Personally I didn't care for them. I'm 6' and while they do provide nice leg support I felt like I needed a sunroof for my head to stick up.

Didnt mean I wanted to get rid of them. I have a pretty good ra magnet collection that I am proud of. It shows how good I am at buying junk vehicles.

I believe so. Pretty sure it is hard plastic until a rubber end that connects to the controls.

It is the vacuum line that runs the heater\ac control. They are a hard plastic line factory.

Spying eyes are everywhere....

Well the only solution I see to that, is to do a renix swap. Then you could just pull the timer.

I think I might be sitting on a gold mine @ $4\ea.

Pull the timer out. As far as I know without special equipment it can't be reset.

I see. I didn't remember them being different. But it's been a while since I pulled mine for the tow mirrors. Now I gotta go pull my flag mirrors out and look.

Mirror gaskets should be the same as the ones he just made for the "mirror delete".

If I'm not mistaken the maintenance required light is simply run off a timer. I believe it was set up so that light would come on at certain mileage intervals to remind you to take it to be serviced. But it's been a long time since I had a maintenance timer.

I was always taught to just use the Marlboro I was smoking. Lol

Read the original post. Cruiser mod was done long ago, with no improvement.