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I seem to be putting in more parts then I take out... It seems some scews and bolts are deemed as unneeded. Now when it's a factory torks head screw or bolt they go into my circular file and get replaced with a rear bolt or screw.

I used to work with a guy who had a beeper style alarm. Watching him drop everything, and blast out the door with the crazed axmurder look on his face brought the lolz (all were false alarms :clapping: ). Tip of the day: Don't set the sensitivity too low, unless you need the exercise. :D Openning a door is what will set it off so it won't be a false alarm.

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It looks like its time for adjustable upper control arms to locate the axle correctly. :roll: Some control arm drop brackets shoud also be used. It also needs about 4" of rear bumpstop extentions and about 3" of bumpstop extentions up front. :shake: The front bumper mounts need to extend back end be held on by more bolts for it to be a safe pull point. :nuts: You need the XJ Front Unibody Tie-In Bracket fron JCR Offroad to be safe... It also shouldn't be driven with the upper end off the brake hose dangling by the line and not attached to the body.... :fool: So it sits 3.5" higher in the back then the front... :rotf: How tight are the emergency brake cables when flexed??? It's probably time to deal with the steering angles by upgrading to a better steering design. At this time IMHO it's not safe to drive on the road or trail... :no: Keep it in the driveway. :ack: BTW. Nice tiny tires.. :hmm:

It was a option on a 4.0 auto only. '92 -'95 4.0 HO's that have a NP242 are a direct swap. '92-'01 NP242's have a 23 spline input shaft. Older ones have a 21 spline input shaft. '96 and newer NP242's have a different new style outout shaft. They are great in snow. I run mine in fulltime 95% of the time.

Thats a 29 spline axle too then. :thumbsup: I'm guessing you will be looking at it in your driveway then.

You might want the valve cover too. If you do you can upgrade to a 4.0 throttle body and make sure you remove the taper below the throttle plate. Doing this will improve throttle response. You will nee to grind the intake hole larger too but this swap is a great one for power and throttle response. Here is a link I found http://www.creeperjeepers.org/throttle%20body%20swap.html

This time it will have an alarm that has a silent alarm setting and I will have pepper spray. My MJ will be indoors or within the 2 mile radius that the pager has. It probably will be within 100 yards to tell the truth. The MJ will also have tie-straps that are handcuff size for after the spray. :brows: I also have umbrella coverage insurance for a reason. ;)

That sucks... :wall: I've had it happen too. About 15 years ago I punk smashed out my drivers window on my 1971 'Çuda 340 pistol grip 4 speed I had while I was at work. :fs1: He busted a bunch of trim getting my Alpine 7901 cd stereo out of it. :rant: He wasn't expecting the razor blades taped all around the back of the it. :rotfl2: He had already cut all the wires including the 16 bit linear lead I'm guessing. When he got out he left quite a few bloody finger prints. :rotf: I called the cops and when they showed up and found out it was a week old $750.00 stereo they called the detectives. They told me that it was grand theft and finger printed my car while I was standing out in the 40 degree weather we had. :shake: He took pictures and said he would let me know what he could find out. He laughed about the razor blades and said the blood left great fingerprints. The ride home sucked because it was a drag car without any heat. :headpop: The next morning he called and told me he arrested the punk that broke into my car at Waukesha hospital when he was getting 12 stitches put in his hand. He said he gave that hand a good squeeze when he cuffed him just for me. :D The punk was wanted for 7 other offenses and was sent to the Waupon state pen for 5 years. 8) I was paid for all the damage and the stereo too. :D Since I knew who he was I paid him a visit after he got out. He had a nice Camaro he was driving. I took a syringe full of deer piss and skunk scent and stuck it threw his weatherstrip. I sprayed the entire interior with it and dumped a bottle of skunk scent into his fresh air inlet in the cowl. :teehee: I left no finger prints or any evidence behind. :brows: He thought someone else I knew did it and went over to kick his @$$ with a baseball bat. My buddy was working in his shop with all the doors closed and the guy made the bad mistake of entering without permission. He didn't know my buddy was a blackbelt that fought in competitions. Needless to say he got his @$$ kicked along with 3 broken ribs and a broken arm. My buddy blocked two swings the punk made and took the bat away from him. :bowdown: The punk was arrested by the same cop that busted him the first time for parol violatition and assult to do bodily harm since he had a baseball bat. He was sent back to Waupon State pen for 8 more years. :banana: Nobody has heard from him since... :rotf: I can tell you this because the state statue of limitations has been over for years. :thumbsup: Hopefully yours will end with good results too. :cheers:

The engine harness/fuel system makes a great MPI swap for a 4 cyl TBI engine too. It will have the 297 u-joints shafts with no disconnect with 4.11 gears(unless someone already swapped them) and a 23 spline 231 transfercase. How's the sheet metal on it?

So where can I get that sticker? I'm swapping in a Mopar V-8 with Mopar Performance parts? Today I did some welding on my left wheelwell and will be working on it more tomorrow.(I mean later this morning) :roll: . Hopefully I will finish it so I can post pictures later today. :D I worked on the figuring out the mounting locations for a pair of 4" lift Rubicon Express YJ 4" lift leaf springs I'm swapping in front.

When you buy front springs get BDS coils, they have the spring rate for you. The lifetime no questons asked warranty is nice too. I'm going to be putting a plow on my MJ, but I think I'm going with a 7.5' plow. I blew up my snowblower last week... I just need to plow my driveway and my tenants driveway.

No problem. I enjoy helping out. :cheers:

Thanks I like the test light because I can tell at a glace if I found it. I've got a couple of good Fluke multimeters. I just find it easier to do with the test light and then verify the repair is complete using my ammeter in series. My Snap-On test light doesn't dim until its below a 1 amp draw.

A test light will work also. I have chased voltage draws a ton of times. Remove the keys from the ignitions and close both doors. Disconnect the battery positive battery termal and hook one side up to the battery and hook the clip up to the cable. A vise grips does a good job of holding the light to the battery post. The test light should be brightly lit because of the current flowing threw it. Look at the test light to see is it changes to being hardly lit between each step. Disconnect the hood switch. Open a door and disconnect the door switch. Open the other door and do the same thing. Open the glove box and disconnect the light switch. Now start disconnecting each fuse one at a time. If the test light is still lit after checking each step above and all the fuses I would disconnect the headlight switch and then disconnect the ignition switch. If its still lit bright start disconnecting under hood relays, fuses and fusable links. If this still doesn't pinpoint the problem disconnect the firewall bulk head connecter. By now you should have found which circuit has the problem. Check every thing on that circit to find the draw. If not do the following. If it went dim when you disconnected the bulk head connecter the problem would still be inside unless it has add wiring. If it stayed bright the problem is underhood. Check which side you found the draw on because you coulkd have missed something. The radio and the engine comuter have a slight draw which is normal. They are what keep the light lit dimly. If you have a ammeter check the draw after you fix it and it should be about .25 amps.. Hope this helps. :cheers:

I use mine to take up half of my garage space, pile parts on it, store parts under it, look at it because of my back, weld on it, cut it, spend my money on it, trade parts from it for other parts, piss the wife off with it, have fight with the wife about it, block off the other half of the garage with more parts for it, store stuff in the cab of it, figure out what I want to do to with it, post here to talk about it, create an obstical course of parts that I can trip on from it, hope one day I will wheel it and daily drive it. Wow that was a huge run on sentence... :ack: There wasn't that option on your list. :D :cheers:

It makes the pump last longer too.

Mid '95 was the change over year. 297 joints elongate the hole in the axle and the axles are usually junk when a joint lets loose. A 260 joint breaks the joint but the axle can be reused most of the time. They use the same blank. Why hasn't someone made a stong/super 260 joint. If the joint was as strong as a 297 joint, the super 260 joint and stock axle shaft would be stronger then a 297 joint and stock axle shaft would be.

Stazworks also has 16.5" Pitbull tires

Comanche lyrics by Cake from the "Motorcade of Generosity" album You need to straighten your posture and suck in your gut. You need to pull back your shoulders and tighten your butt. Yeah, come Comanche, Comanche, Comanche, commode. If you want to have cities, you've got to build roads. You need to find some new feathers and buy some new clothes. Just get rid of the antlers and lighten your load. Yeah, come Comanche, Comanche, Comanche, commode. Yeah, if you want to have cities, you've got to build roads. You need to straighten your posture and suck in your gut. You need to pull back your shoulders and tighten your butt. Yeah, come Comanche, Comanche, Comanche, commode. Ah, if you want to have cities, Yeah, if you want to have cities, No, if you want to have cities, You've got to build roads. Here's a link to the song. http://www.last.fm/music/CAKE/_/Comanche

Have a six pack and say that fast three times...

sometimes I get bored. sometimes I'm well medicated sometimes I try to have some fun and have a good laugh sometimes I'm due for my meds... so I guess I'll be right back... :cheers:

Friday, March 6, 2009 Comanche Station The final film of Budd Boetticher's acclaimed Ranown cycle — the seven Westerns he made with actor Randolph Scott — is Comanche Station, a typically solid, straightforward venture that recycles and shuffles around plot elements from the series' previous film, Ride Lonesome. In both films, Scott plays a man who's initially mistaken for a bounty hunter of sorts, riding the territory trying to strike it rich by trading in people, but who is actually on a private mission of his own. In the aftermath of an Indian attack, he falls in with a pretty woman and a group of no-good outlaws who want to relieve him of his bounty and his life. The two films share these basic elements, though the later film casts them in a new light. In Comanche Station, Scott's Jefferson Cody isn't bringing in a murderer to be hanged, but rescuing Nancy Lowe (Nancy Gates) from the Comanche tribe who kidnapped her. Mrs. Lowe's husband had announced a $5000 reward for any man who brought her back to him, and naturally this attracts the attention of the rough outlaw Ben (Claude Akins) and his two younger partners, Frank (Richard Rust) and Dobie (Skip Homeier). Cody, of course, wasn't in it for the money; he'd lost his wife to the Indians ten years before, and had been looking for her ever since, going after any women he heard about in the increasingly slender hope of someday finding his own missing wife. When attacking Indians throw Cody and Mrs. Lowe in with the three outlaws, the trip back to her hometown becomes a tense journey through some of the most astoundingly beautiful vistas to be featured in any of Boetticher's films. With the threat of Indians signaled in the hills by their pillars of black smoke and bird calls in the surrounding woods, Cody finds himself trapped between the Indians and the potential treachery of his riding partners. It hardly helps that he served as Ben's commanding officer in the army, and presided over the other man's dishonorable discharge. There's a lot of bad blood in their past, though Ben seems to foster a grudging respect for the honorable, straight-talking Cody — just not enough respect to dissuade him from taking a shot at that $5000. Despite the high stakes, the film has a meandering, lazy feel completely at odds with the dramatic tension at its core. Perhaps Boetticher's defining characteristic as a director of Westerns is his recognition that plot is one of the least important aspects of these kinds of films. He often seems indifferent to concerns like pacing or narrative details or dramatic content, as epitomized by the way this film casually riffs on the plot of Ride Lonesome, essentially retelling the story with slightly different motivations driving the characters. His sense of pacing is deliberate and calm, following up a frenzied Indian attack with a long sequence of dialogue-free shots in which the group's train of horses winds across various Western landscapes. All of Boetticher's films have room for such moments, time to stop and appreciate the pictorial beauty of the surroundings, but this film in particular is as much a celebration of the land where it was made as it is an action story. Boetticher bookends the film with shots of the same rocky, barren terrain, like a strangely beautiful alien landscape, boulders piled high on top of one another. And his camera frequently sweeps across the widescreen vistas his characters are riding through; his takes are often extended enough to follow Cody and his group across a very large patch of land, slowly panning along with the trotting horses. Boetticher also frequently slows the narrative down in order to allow for moments of unexpected humor, puncturing the deadly seriousness of so many other Hollywood Westerns. Frank and Dobie certainly fulfill the role of comic relief, particularly in the scene where Dobie impresses his friend by proving that he can read — not "books or newspapers," but simple signs at least. Later, after a long and heartfelt conversation in which Dobie describes his father's longstanding advice that a man has to "amount to something," Dobie concludes by lamenting, "it's a shame: he never did amount to anything." This dim-witted pair is comical but also kind of sad, in that they're obviously with the ruthless Ben only because they have no other real options, no chance to make anything of themselves unless they're holding a gun. Boetticher's comedy is never mean-spirited, never aimed at completely ridiculing or cutting down its target; there is always complexity and depth even to Boetticher's comic foils. He even directs his wit at Scott himself, in a scene where Cody, after being wounded in an attack, is treated by Mrs. Lowe. She pours some harsh liquor on his leg, warning him ahead of time that it's going to hurt, but instead of taking it with the expected stoicism and steely reserve, perhaps emitting a quick rush of breath, Cody whoops and throws his hands in the air, exclaiming in pain and then jumping around on his one good leg for a while, shaking the wounded one around to soothe it. It's a startling moment because it cuts so directly against the archetype of the tough, squint-eyed Western hero. Under Boetticher's direction, Scott's hero can be funny, flawed, even silly, can feel pain: he's no stoic superman with a gunbelt, and all of Boetticher's films with the actor feature at least one moment like this. Boetticher loves Western tropes, and films like this revel in the typical lore of the West, but he loves undermining and tweaking these archetypal elements just as much. It's this sensibility, this love of the Western coupled with the desire to open up the genre, to explore its more unusual facets, that makes Comanche Station, like all of Boetticher's Westerns, such a fascinating exemplar of the genre.

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These were my favorite 4x4 tire (regular, non 16.5" sizes), till they got discontinued :( Sidewalls were thin, but a great tire otherwise (& I'm guessing the Hummer versions got better sidewalls than the civi's) I might order 6 of them. I always liked them too. The 37's for a Hummer were 425.00 each new. I believe they have better sidewalls too.