89 Sportruck

[watchamakalit]

I don't know how other states work, but Indiana has an affidavit program that allows mileage exemptions to be corrected. I think you have to contact 2 or 3 previous owners and have them sign off the mileage being correct. Not sure but on a collectable vehicle it might be worth a shot if your state has a similar program.

[89 MJ]

That’s interesting. Definitely worth looking into for the right car. 

[89 MJ]

Not very often anymore that I do work to this thing and take pictures to prove it, but here we go. 
 

Pulled the dash to do the heater core because it puked coolant all over my carpet and got my seat brackets for the bucket seat swap all painted up. 

[89 MJ]

Interior all back together. Unfortunate, the battery went bad though, so that needs replacing. 

[89 MJ]

Swapped the water pump to the new flowkooler. Seems to be much more efficient, but hard to say so far. The block looked great inside. 

[89 MJ]

I believe I can finally put this overheating issue to rest. The flowkooler water pump took care of it. Drove it 90 miles last night and it got warm, but I think there might’ve been an air pocket in the cooling system. Drove it 90 miles back home (same route as yesterday, just in the other direction), and it ran perfectly cool. Very satisfying to have this issue solved. And the buckets are so much more comfortable than the old bench. 

[89 MJ]

Now that I like the truck again, I had it out in the yard and decided to snap some pics of it. It’s absolutely filthy with all of the pollen and planting here, plus sitting outside for 3 weeks and not having been washed, but it still looks good. 

[Salvagedcircuit]

11 hours ago, 89 MJ said:

Now that I like the truck again, I had it out in the yard and decided to snap some pics of it. It’s absolutely filthy with all of the pollen and planting here, plus sitting outside for 3 weeks and not having been washed, but it still looks good. 

Boo yeah, lookin good

[fiatslug87]

Very shiny, looks fantastic!

[89 MJ]

54 minutes ago, Salvagedcircuit said:

Boo yeah, lookin good

 

41 minutes ago, fiatslug87 said:

Very shiny, looks fantastic!

Thank you!

[89 MJ]

I'm back in AZ, so the truck is parked again, but I wanted to give some thoughts on the rocker bases in the seats. 

 

The seats themselves are the same as any standard XJ or MJ bucket. I do sit 2-3" higher in the rocker base buckets than I did in the bench. I don't think that I sit too high though. My line of sight is mostly out of the upper half of the windows, which I prefer. I also swapped in my tilt column, but there is room between my legs and the steering wheel with the column straight.