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I drive old beat up junky jeeps. Going to list them from heaviest to lightest because there isn't really a defined DD, I drive whatever is most functional at the moment... The 1958 Kaiser Jeep M54A2 5-ton military surplus cargo truck. 10 wheel drive, 42 inch tires (stock), 20 thousand pounds of camouflage painted, earsplitting military destruction. If you can parallel park this you can park ANYTHING. The day after I bought it, I drove it to my office engineering job for fun:  The hardest park (those are two foot tall boulders under the rear wheels)   The 1991 Jeep Comanche. 33" ATs, 4" lift, 4x4, 5-speed. Bought it as a bone stock 2wd auto complete with sagging springs and blown shocks.  I have a stock dark blue 1988 Jeep Comanche I'm planning on putting 4x4, a 5-speed, and a 360 V8 from a dodge 2500/3500 in, but it's pretty boring and looks like any other comanche you'd see around. Also a 1998 Jeep Cherokee that's getting a lift and 35s at some point, but again, boring.
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yeah, that's the bottom half of a 6 ton jackstand from HF. It was just un-level enough that after a few seconds of sitting still in neutral with the e-brake off it would slowly roll back. Since the e-brake perpetually loosens on this thing, and I don't like to leave it in gear (since it's mechanically injected and will happily run on anything, including its own oil leaking through turbo seals, with the electric system entirely turned off) I generally chock the wheels rather than use the e-brake or leaving it in 1st. In fact I keep a wheel chock with 10 feet of rope tied to it on hand so I can get in, start it, and keep my foot on the brake while I drag the chock up into the cab.
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Nov 26, 2011 05:57
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You really don't. It's almost entirely rust from the bottoms of the doors down. My last wheeling trip buckled the frame under the bed, nearly ripped a leaf hangar off (it's only attached by one side), and collapsed the rusted out frame above the LCA mount on the driver side. The floors are horribly rusty and so is everything else. I'm currently scheming up a way to replace the entire frame with quarter inch wall box tubing and redo the floors all at the same time because I refuse to let this one die.
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Nov 27, 2011 06:01
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JaySB posted:After a couple years, my car is finally about where I want it in terms of looks sportscars are totally not my thing and that is STILL amazingly beautiful. Great work.
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Dec 3, 2011 03:53
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Sockington posted:Automotive Sanity: Sportscars are totally not my thing. Where'd I park my champagne Corolla? I only own 4x4 (or 10x10) big lifted rusty dented redneck trucks. gently caress corollas 
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Dec 4, 2011 04:58
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aside from the subsidies on ethanol, corn ethanol would not be used, because it takes more energy/money to produce than you get out of it. If we used something other than corn to produce ethanol it could actually help us. Oh, and it wouldn't spike the hell out of corn-based food product prices, either.
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Dec 14, 2011 23:33
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Those wheels look pretty ok, aside from the color. I just can't stand fisher price color schemes for some reason. Whatever floats your boat though, your ride not mine!
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Jan 19, 2012 21:45
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I hit 120 in my Comanche a few weeks before I lifted it, and it had some acceleration left... I was afraid to go any faster. It only does 103 now, because it can't maintain speed in 5th  I need to upgrade my diff gears.
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Feb 13, 2012 01:16
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^^^ my neighbor (he's an owner/operator OTR trucker, keeps his big rig parked on the road between his house and mine) was telling me the other day that he has owned his truck for like 12 years now and never gotten more than two days out of a wash. It's kinda funny because I see him out there at least a couple times a week washing it, so I know he's not making it up.Method Loser posted:These cars are definitely geared all silly-like. 70-something mph in second? Sure! However, it should make it easier to drive with a whole shitload of power, as I plan, so there's that. I never did find its top speed in third or overdrive. Overdrive max was probably lower than third max due to wind drag... I was afraid to go any faster than about 110 and it still had a little bit left in it. (For those of you thinking I am a pansy for wimping out at 110... remember... this is a lifted jeep with a floppy suspension and more body roll than some sports cars have suspension travel. It was a white knuckle ride at anything above 80) kastein fucked around with this message at 06:19 on Mar 19, 2012 |
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Mar 19, 2012 06:17
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coming down the other side of this outcropping was somewhat interesting, it felt quite tippy though I'm sure I was still fairly far from a rollover.
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Apr 16, 2012 06:08
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I'll race you, I choose the course (hope you don't have a CAI)
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Apr 26, 2012 16:39
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meatpimp posted:He's not talking "course." He lives his life a quarter mile at a time. so do I. My quarter miles aren't quite as smooth though  
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Apr 26, 2012 17:19
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Generally the CEL will flash if the ECU detects  REALLY BAD THINGS HAPPENING YOU ARE MELTING YOUR CAT AND BURNING YOUR VALVES AND SPINNING YOUR MUFFLER BEARINGS but I'm not sure if that's a standardized thing or not. If you go easy on it you'll probably be fine.
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Apr 28, 2012 03:19
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 Walked out of the Worcester Advance Auto a few weeks ago to see this. I didn't even notice the third one there when I parked, though I did see the second one. (mine is the POS red 6/4 cylinder one all the way to the left, the middle was a 6 cyl standard 4x4 owned by a young father who I ran into in the store) e: just gonna say this now quote:Three Jeeps at the parts store at the same time? Who would have seen that coming! 
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May 9, 2012 04:58
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mod sassinator posted:Haha--at least they can drive themselves to the part store. All the electronics might be on the fritz and every inch of the car has a different mystery sound, but it will still drive. yup. Mine made it there with the heatercore blown, head gasket blown (2 cylinders dead), PS pump screaming, trackbar clunking, and the gauges mostly not functional. Oh, and the wires for the rear o2 sensor dangling in the breeze, because the exhaust is falling off and the o2 sensor wires were the only thing holding it up for a couple months. Still goes way faster than a jeep should ever go, too... and got 15mpg on a recent tank of gas. I've been beating the poor thing for over a year now trying to kill it the rest of the way so I have some pics for the horrible mechanical failures thread, but the drat engine just won't die, even with a head gasket so badly blown that it consumes coolant and the two middle cylinders are linked together.
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May 9, 2012 05:30
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Faerunner posted:What do I have to sacrifice, and to whom, for similar results? Have you recalibrated your speedo/odo with a new VSS gear? There is a good chance you are actually getting a bit better mileage. The tires and roof rack are not gonna really help, nothing you can really do about that. I am not so sure about mileage decreases from just the lift, as I saw none on my XJ in the few weeks I had it lifted with stock tires. I am almost afraid to gently caress with the XJ and its magical good fuel economy by putting a new engine in before it blows. With my luck it will get 12mpg after I fix it. E: for anyone who is thinking I should just throw ahead gasket in it - I have been driving it with a super heavy right foot and a blown HG for over a year now. It's not so much a question of fire deck erosion/flame polishing or not, but rather, how many fractions of an inch I have eroded... this block and head are almost certainly coffee table material. kastein fucked around with this message at 15:12 on May 9, 2012 |
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May 9, 2012 15:09
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Faerunner posted:The tires are stock size, they're just BFG A/Ts, not the smoothest ride, so I can't imagine them being being too good for fuel economy. wow, stock BFG ATs and you're getting worse than me with 2 cylinders dead and a heavy right foot? Either your roof rack is massive and your lift is insane, or something needs addressing in your engine management system. How long since you replaced the upstream O2 sensor(s)? Do the MAP/IAT/TPS give sane readings if you plug in an OBD2 reader like a scangauge2? Any driveability issues?
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May 10, 2012 04:35
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Former 96 owner here... how are you liking being repeatedly punched in the face by Chrysler? Last year of the old body style and first year of a bunch of other stuff equals hell at the parts store. I did my time on that thing...
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May 12, 2012 14:54
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yeah... I started upgrading my one stock daily driver jeep and now I have 4 jeeps, a trailer, a parts jeep, a broken dodge supposedly for towing the jeep, a parts dodge for another of the jeeps, and AI pretty much convinced me to junk the broken dodge and buy two more jeeps to tow the jeep. Well, one more. But then I showed up at the seller's house and it turned into a package deal. WHERE DID ALL MY MONEY GO
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May 20, 2012 15:04
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MiniFoo posted:They can always just integrate a small screen into the rearview mirror for the backup camera, you know. or... they could use their goddamn turn signals. I would like a pressure sensitive brake switch - press real hard and it flashes the brake lights / sets the emergency lights, press gently while traveling at over 30mph for more than one minute and it turns on the horn. Maybe people would stop riding the brakes if their cars beeped at them for it.
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May 31, 2012 21:42
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You're in Connecticut? Let me know if you break down and need parts/tools/something for some reason, I'm fairly close by.
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Jun 5, 2012 03:43
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meatpimp posted:Why are you waiting through that checklist? If you weren't going to pay with cash (understandable with the stack that car costs), you can have a bank hold the title until it's funded, even if the seller owns the car outright. Plus wire transfers are instantaneous, were there scheduling problems? same. I generally bring the plate from my most disreputable vehicle (I have a lot to choose from) slap er on and drive home, very carefully. In MA you are allowed to do this as long as you intend to switch the registration to the new vehicle within 7 days and do not keep the plate donor registered as well. Worth noting, btw - MA apparently does not recognize any other states temp transport plates, and does not issue its own. Look out if driving a temp plated vehicle in or through massachusetts, though I've been lucky (might have been the fact that the one time I did this, I was driving a 20,000lb military surplus cargo truck and I'm pretty sure every officer who saw me expected it to be more of a pain in the rear end than it was worth.)
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Jun 8, 2012 03:05
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Rhyno posted:Indeed. Soon it will be time for Wheelchair Insanity. a pulsejet? in my wheelchair? Better put a good rollcage on that thing.
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Jun 10, 2012 04:21
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looks fine to me, but then again the smallest tire I own is 28" tall and 75% profile (p225/75r15), and the biggest is 46" tall and 85% profile (395/85r20)... I don't think I've worried about a pothole or speedbump in years. 
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Jul 9, 2012 02:38
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that's salt, not sand... it's why they call it the salt flats.
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Jul 18, 2012 22:41
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Goober Peas posted:The likelihood of you learning very soon is high with that many miles on it Is there just an electric hydro pump and no vacuum boost on those vehicles? If so, that sounds remarkably similar to the terrible Bendix ABS setup used on Jeep XJs from the early 80s through '91, at which point they switched to a sane setup that actually has fully mechanical brakes plus ABS and won't turn into a 3300lb, 50mph game of russian roulette if the hydro pump fails. The 80s and very early 90s: a bad time to be an ABS-equipped passenger vehicle, apparently.
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Aug 23, 2012 02:43
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That reminds me so much of my pic of my M54A2 parked next to a coworker's Prius. Across three (or four, I forget) parking spaces. AI, parking big ugly awesome trucks at offices. 
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Aug 23, 2012 04:04
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Yeah, I'm here against my will. Rather be in NH, upstate VT, somewhere in Maine, way up in the Rockies, or maybe in the cascades/high desert... but I'm kinda pinned down by projects. And at 5mpg, I don't think I'll ever make it past PA with the 5 ton, even if it doesn't blow another head gasket (please please please)
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Aug 23, 2012 04:52
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Goober Peas posted:The power steering and brakes are completely hydraulic with no vacuum boost. The bomb stores up enough pressure for ~30 applications of the brakes or a couple of lock to lock turns of the steering with the engine off. Back in the day, the hydraulic fluid (green gold) ran about $30/qt. The seals in the bomb and the steering rack are notorious for leaking. I believe the door locks are also hydraulic. I don't have any Audis - I think you might be replying to the guy I was replying to. Either way, that sounds like some truly stunning 80s brake system engineering, as I expected  Steering and brake hydraulics are on the same pump? Who thought THAT was a good idea? I might be retarded, but I'd rather have separate systems, so a brake failure won't also take out my steering or vice versa. If I can't stop at least I want to be able to dodge...
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Aug 26, 2012 23:26
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Darchangel posted:GM uses a system called Hydroboost that uses power steering pressure for brake assist on lots of cars and trucks, particularly diesel trucks. My wife's Astro van had it for space reasons, and we never had any trouble out of it. Ford uses it, too. true, but don't you still get brake function (albeit with no power assist) if the unit goes bad, like a vacuum booster? The old bendix ABS system used on the XJs and (from what Goober Peas said, anyways, I might be misunderstanding it) the similar system used on older Audis has a nitrogen charged reservoir and an electric hydro pump plus a large amount of goofy valve crap and other stuff to make it all work with the ABS system, and if your hydro pump fails, you get what amounts to a semi random number of brake applications before the pedal simply goes to the floor and you don't stop. I know that's what happens on the Jeeps, just not sure on the Audis. It's essentially a game of automobile russian roulette and even better, the hydro pump is known for failing frequently, while apparently the "bomb" or nitro-charged reservoir on the Audis is also known for failing frequently. The Jeep setup was put on an extended warranty after a large number of them failed, but that doesn't do you much good if it pops and sends you to a firey death. Here, have another failure prone part to replace the one that failed! I guess I really should stop derailing and post some pics of this junk to the horrible failures thread.
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Aug 27, 2012 03:21
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Looks like NY plates at first glance, but isn't. NY plates have a dark blue or black section at the top. NY:  AK: 
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Aug 30, 2012 22:03
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Not enough of a photo bomb.
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Aug 31, 2012 04:26
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metaxus posted:Head unit has a 24C06 in the main unit, and one in the fascia. Huh, I somehow never realized there was a 24C06, I thought they only came in powers of two (24C02, 24C04, 24C08 etc.)
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Oct 1, 2012 04:55
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IOwnCalculus posted:It's kinda like a rental in that you can beat it like a rented mule, except that even though you own it, the consequences never really come back to haunt you. They may not, but every time I've made a statement like this, it has come back to haunt me. I've mostly learned my lesson. GramCracker posted:Okay, this will seem like a silly reason. I know why I like wagons (aka Avant's to me), but why do the goons like them? I'd love to hear everyone's reason for why they like an awesome wagon, and also give myself some additional ammo for when someone is all "ZOMG WHI U GET WAGONE?" People don't call em shaggin' wagons for nothing  Seriously though, they hold a lot of stuff and still handle well. I took a friend's 01 Audi A4 Quattro 1.8T/manual Avant for a spin after doing a brake and front cv shaft job on it a few weeks ago and goddamn, that thing went wherever I pointed it. I can see why he likes it.
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Oct 10, 2012 23:58
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Bovril Delight posted:I just can't accept a 4 door jeep. It seems wrong. neither can I, but I like my 2 door jeeps to use 4-door jeep doors.  (not my ride, mine is substantially more of a hick ride than that)
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Oct 23, 2012 19:28
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They're required here in Mass if you have red lettered plates, if you have the old green lettered plates (they used to issue a single green lettered plate years ago) you can still run only one but they're starting to really push the issue of switching over to new red letters now. I actually got pulled over and reamed out, then ticketed, for not having my front plate on back in June or so. Sucked.
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Jan 9, 2013 07:44
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Cage posted:I hate to be that guy but man that thing looks like its ready to go off road. Or for that matter, might last a few miles on Boston roads. Do they know how to maintain the roads in Texas or is it the same "yo dawg we heard you like potholes so we put potholes in your crevasses" poo poo we get up here?
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Jan 17, 2013 01:58
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Faerunner posted:Body shop estimate is over $7200 so far, not worth completing the estimate. 'New' car time. Do any come with steel reinforced steel bumpers on all sides? Like a metal bumper car?  If they don't just fly underneath you, they certainly aren't going to do any damage. (I suggest retrofitting seatbelts, however) Not my ride, but drat if it isn't on the "jump on it instantly if seen on CL for under $xxxx" list.
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Feb 8, 2013 00:23
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That's an M715 that's been somewhat customized. They were marginally lower and with somewhat smaller tires from the factory.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:3.4 DOHC? That has to be quite possibly the biggest pile of poo poo GM turned out. But when it did run, it was a fun motor .... hey now, it's no 2.8 LR2 60 degree V6.
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