eaglescout526 Posted April 4, 2022 Author Share Posted April 4, 2022 14 hours ago, Dzimm said: Yeah that spring is a pain for sure. Looks good! Thanks and it’s an amazing product for sure. I’ll report on if it survives the AZ heat and sun. 9 hours ago, watchamakalit said: Tow mirrors for the win...... Ha ha. If I found a set and could grow a pair to install a set I would. That being said I don’t tow so they would be purely aesthetic. Also an AMC car show is this weekend. And y’all can be sure as hell I’m going to enter into this! I am really excited for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglescout526 Posted April 9, 2022 Author Share Posted April 9, 2022 Little Reds second show! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglescout526 Posted April 9, 2022 Author Share Posted April 9, 2022 Just an AMC car show. There are 3 original Jeepsters here and bunch’s of AMXs. I am the only late AMC Jeep here. It’s nuts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete M Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 gotta represent the late models Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglescout526 Posted April 10, 2022 Author Share Posted April 10, 2022 Pretty much Pete! It was a blast! I even registered to become a member of the AZ chapter of the AMO. Met a few AMC guys and talked about my Jeep with a few people. Finally met the owner of an MJ that lives close to @MJCARENA today as well. His MJ is white with those fancy metal body moldings that have the laser etched Comanche on the door moldings. Learned that it’s hard to talk about an addiction with folks that are there to look at cars and not so much learn about your vehicle. Oh and I got to educate an older gentleman that AMC made their own 4cyl as he thought I had that stupid iron duke engine. And I also represented CC by putting CC as my club affiliation as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglescout526 Posted May 1, 2022 Author Share Posted May 1, 2022 To install or not to install I probably will install this as I looked at my e-brake pedal this morn and saw that it’s definitely seeing it’s at its end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiatslug87 Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 Install it! Its purpose is not to sit on a shelf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglescout526 Posted May 2, 2022 Author Share Posted May 2, 2022 Done! 35 years of OEM service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglescout526 Posted May 7, 2022 Author Share Posted May 7, 2022 .....Seriously? I havent even had AC for a solid 3 years and the compressor is crapping out. Ugh and before summer too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglescout526 Posted May 13, 2022 Author Share Posted May 13, 2022 Well I got the system evaced today. NOS compressor showed up. Lets begin! So I got the old compressor removed. Easy-peasy right? Well all went good until I needed the valves on top the compressor. Well the Jeepair kit with the suction side valve had a wonky nut on it but it still went on. Well its stuck on the old compressor. So I fought and fought with it until I panicked due to the valve not coming off. Welllll I have an older compressor on standby to rebuild soon and it has valves on it. I was told theyre older R134 valves. So I ran to O' reillys and got an R12 retrofit kit and bingo we were in business! The new adaptors fit on them perfectly. Ok crisis adverted. Now to get the compressor installed. Done! My only concern right now is the discharge hose being bent as it is. Granted it worked fine when it did work, but when I tightened it down, the hose I swore was bending and flexing. I couldve been imagining it as I can't get the hose to move so I have no idea. Hopefully all goes well tomorrow. Oh and Minuit, I did drain out the old mineral oil and put in the proper PAG oil in case you read this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete M Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 max coolness! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglescout526 Posted May 13, 2022 Author Share Posted May 13, 2022 We are charged and good to go. I’m hearing a new sound but it could be just the compressor breaking in as it has sat for about 30 years since new. So I’ll be sure to baby it for a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglescout526 Posted June 5, 2022 Author Share Posted June 5, 2022 It is really nice to have cold AC once more. This time we are slightly over charged but its been fine and blowing damn cold and I mean I hop in with a sweaty back and I can be home in about 15 and half way through the drive my back won't be sweaty. Pretty nice actually. Now I just need to insulate the roof and cab better one day. Hopefully on one of my three day weekends. Any who I have a couple things. 1. Without molesting the factory speaker harness, I have found a way to add in the Jensen tweeters. Now why would I do that? Why the hell not, if I found a way without messing with the factory harness or connectors too much, I plan to do it. I do need to fix the speaker wires in the door though, Ill do that too when I get the connector to speaker adaptor. 2. So recently my grandfather passed away a week or so ago, leaving us with a bunch of stuff to go through and possibly a new project for the wife and I in the future but that I will spare any info on until its set and stone mine. Anyways he was a man who really didnt like you looking at his stuff. So I went over there today to help with trimming of some trees with my father and I was roaming some of the junk he has sprawled about his yard. I found a Reel-to-Reel in a woodgrain case laying on the ground and then I spotted something that looked awfully familiar.... My original license plate lamp harness with lenses!! I couldnt believe it! They were just sitting on a bucket in a pile of scrap. This makes me wonder about the history of my MJ, sadly my grandfather didnt remember much after his multiple strokes and quad bypass as thats when he became more crotchety and forgetful. He claimed he had a full cluster which I never saw from him and told me of how he would drop the tailgate and load in his little fishing boat and take it to the lake. Anyways this makes me wonder if my MJ did indeed have a factory accessory bumper from the factory. Granted yes a dealer couldve put on those aftermarket ones and put the harness in but I can't make any assumptions with the lack of info. Anyways I wanted to share my excitement in finding something that belonged to my MJ where I got her from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
89 MJ Posted June 5, 2022 Share Posted June 5, 2022 Sorry to hear about your grandfather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglescout526 Posted June 5, 2022 Author Share Posted June 5, 2022 9 hours ago, 89 MJ said: Sorry to hear about your grandfather. Thanks…but he’s probably in less pain now. Anywhoooo I sat down with some time to see how and of an install the factory tweeters are. Really wasn’t. Maybe took me about 30-45 min. I took the old packcons apart and snipped off the old terminals. Crimped new ones with the new connector together per side and bam! Tweeters are installed and playing well. I can definitely hear a difference with them in place and I can notice the lack of load on the door speakers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minuit Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 On 6/5/2022 at 5:42 PM, eaglescout526 said: Thanks…but he’s probably in less pain now. Anywhoooo I sat down with some time to see how and of an install the factory tweeters are. Really wasn’t. Maybe took me about 30-45 min. I took the old packcons apart and snipped off the old terminals. Crimped new ones with the new connector together per side and bam! Tweeters are installed and playing well. I can definitely hear a difference with them in place and I can notice the lack of load on the door speakers. ...and you can do this with them too What happened to the A/C compressor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglescout526 Posted August 17, 2022 Author Share Posted August 17, 2022 3 hours ago, Minuit said: ...and you can do this with them too What happened to the A/C compressor? True hahaha This is the weird part. The compressor itself wasn’t actually failing. I’m pretty sure the compressor itself is fine but the clutch was slipping and was barely allowing the compressor to turn to push the refrigerant around. Kinda odd since the compressor wasn’t that old unless the clutch was poor quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglescout526 Posted October 4, 2022 Author Share Posted October 4, 2022 Not much of an update. She’s been a happy camper driving around until I got bandit running and driving. Now by complete coincidence is when I started having idle issues when bandit was driving and filled little red up with gas. I’ve been spending a few days tearing my hair out. I know I have a vac leak and cyl 3 isn’t firing well. Remove the wire and it remains the same. So I replaced the wire and the plug and no change. Even changed the cap and cleaned the rotor, no change. I also had thoughts of a bad head gasket and valve seals were failed or even push rods for that cylinder failed, luckily the latter two aren’t it. So I decided to just take my lunch and go examine my vac lines once more and see what’s loose. I then give up, look down for some loose manifold bolts and lo and behold! I am missing two bolts. Both bottom intake bolts and I can hear the vac leak coming from intake port 3. So I’m gonna fix that tonight with hopes of a change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watchamakalit Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 Intake gasket failure/loose intake bolts would cause a vacuum leak signifigant enough to stop a cylider from firing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglescout526 Posted October 5, 2022 Author Share Posted October 5, 2022 1 hour ago, watchamakalit said: Intake gasket failure/loose intake bolts would cause a vacuum leak signifigant enough to stop a cylider from firing. Yeah that’s an understatement and a half hahah. I just added the two new bolts and we are back to normal baby!! Now I can put my attention back to the other two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglescout526 Posted December 4, 2022 Author Share Posted December 4, 2022 3 and a half hours later and I have the low washer warning lamp working. Take a look at the “adding low washer warning” thread to see how I did it. But I will say adding it took bit of a mental toll seeing how I had to take the C100 apart twice to add two wires that didn’t exist at all on the MJ dash harness. I truly do wonder why AMC didn’t just have the wiring there seeing how AMC offered a single pump reservoir with the sensor but I digress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglescout526 Posted December 5, 2022 Author Share Posted December 5, 2022 Hole saw showed up so I got this done Now it’s proper and set up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvagedcircuit Posted December 6, 2022 Share Posted December 6, 2022 4 hours ago, eaglescout526 said: Hole saw showed up so I got this done Now it’s proper and set up. Cool! Curious, where did you find a windshield washer tank sensor? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglescout526 Posted December 6, 2022 Author Share Posted December 6, 2022 35 minutes ago, commissioneranthony said: Cool! Curious, where did you find a windshield washer tank sensor? Thanks! I did but didnt. It’s one of my NOS coolant level sensors. I know there’s a couple of the sensors out there at dealers as NOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglescout526 Posted December 7, 2022 Author Share Posted December 7, 2022 I finally got around to doing the insulation for the roof! Sounds pretty nice and quiet and not so hollow and should hopefully keep the summer heat out and the cool in. No need for pics cause I’m not too proud of the job I did. Also I entered into a car show this weekend, so Friday I’ll go get little red a bath and have her looking nice and spiffy for the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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