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Isn't that fun? That's a common experience with my Justy and Comanches, too. "Last time I saw one of those was ten years ago...", the dealer looks at you funny and laughs when you ask for parts, NAPA's got nothing, and RockAuto says it also fits an impreza so you know it's the wrong thing.
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14 BAR RIFF posted:...but you order it anyways just in case Yup. Well, in some cases. I got one of the last 3 Justy timing chain guides in all of existence. Only paid $120 for it! I can stop whenever I want! *twitches*
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Aug 31, 2016 20:21
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veedubfreak posted:Stocking up on j/o crystals for the trip? Those look small enough to sound with. Can I recommend supergluing a monofilament retrieval thread to them first though?
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Sep 1, 2016 20:39
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Try lotrimin regular cream or the liquid spray, they have clotrimazole in them instead of butenafine like the ultra cream. They're also the only things that knock down athletes foot for me within days. Tinactin and all the rest did absolutely nothing for me after weeks. Also, see you sometime this coming week! 
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Sep 9, 2016 23:51
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You guys always have the weird poo poo. I love it, but I still go to CAP, NAPA, AAP, and AZ first because Oreillys is also the furthest from me  Seriously, I've gotten more Justy parts and RENIX jeep parts same-day and next-day from Oreillys than all the other places. Combined.
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Sep 10, 2016 10:47
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I still need to check my spare parts pile for that one for you, I keep forgetting That Justy's motor died the way they all do, seized and threw a rod, based on the few leavings we found. Trans, longblock, and most other stuff was gone but I grabbed a bunch of random poo poo I stupidly left on the ground when I bought my spare motor parts pile in CO. I really want one of those 6CTA8.3 cummins for the 5 ton but not sure shipping them 3k miles would be economical.
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Sep 16, 2016 02:59
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  Unsure if 2015/2016 dodge 1500 is fat as hell or if honda is tiny E: gently caress I forgot to grab the rearview off the Justy too. Might have to go back for that and the radio surround. kastein fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Sep 16, 2016 |
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Sep 16, 2016 04:13
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I think 14 is gonna have to carry the torch on the return to the yard for more justy parts. I'll gladly pay for that drat mirror + labor, can't believe I forgot it.GOD IS BED posted:i got hella hyped before i realized Ken hadn't joined in on the "old truck fury road" adventure I'd be on that like flies on poo poo if this was 2012 or 2013, but my life is different now and I can't just gently caress off for a few weeks anymore (On the other hand, it is much improved this way.)
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Sep 17, 2016 05:55
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R134a ones? Those are like 5 bucks brand new at the parts store IIRC... I might have a spare set at home but I can't remember to ship things to save my life.
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Sep 17, 2016 06:05
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ExplodingSims posted:If only you knew someone who was transporting a large truck across the country. Sadly I am in new england, which means you guys are avoiding my corner of the lower 48 unless you are going for a full tour of the nation and adding another thousand miles or so.
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Sep 17, 2016 20:55
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angryrobots posted:Have room, will store. Could probably move it north however far I could get back in a full day on i95 from mid state sc, for gas money. I'll keep that in mind, and I'd be more than happy to pay, but just so you're aware, it's a cummins 6CTA8.3 along with all the hosing, ancillaries, intercooler, flywheel and clutch, etc from a city bus. It weighs 3/4 of a ton as a longblock and probably a full ton complete. I need to find out price, what redline and torque/power these ones are tuned for, how I'd get it out of the bus and some other stuff.
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Sep 18, 2016 08:27
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I fit in that Honda, so maybe you're talking about the landscape mode ones not fitting rather than the portrait-of-a-phone-pole mode ones not fitting. Also it turns out that the bus engines we looked at in the junkyard are Cummins C8.3-275Gs... the C8.3 means 8.3 liters, C series, inline 6. The 275 means 275 horsepower and an implied 2400rpm rev limiter (lower than what I want but maybe usable.) The G means... natural gas powered.  I didn't even realize there was a natgas C-series. Guess those engines are out of the running.
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Sep 19, 2016 22:20
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Sure would, but I'm not spending 3-4k in engine and shipping to convert a diesel truck to natgas or carbureted gasoline, or the R&D and tuning to EFI convert it.
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Sep 20, 2016 04:22
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I wonder if the rear end in a top hat who got the causemaro towed saw me taking a pic of it parked in front of their house when we got back (so you'd have evidence that it was parked before the curb suddenly became yellow this time) and got bitter.
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Sep 20, 2016 19:26
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Seeing as that coffee shop is like, right next to an auto shop with a parking lot that is full of cars that appear to have sat for longer and had worse mechanical problems than everything in my shitrod fleet combined, and part of their wall/roof is actively falling down worse than my house was when I bought it, I don't think they really have grounds to complain.
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Oct 5, 2016 23:59
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I recommend changing your wifi SSID to "the coffee loving sucks" and putting up a free wifi sign in the shop's front window late one night
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Oct 6, 2016 03:24
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I saw not one, not two, but THREE causemaros (in condition and even color, in one case) parked next to each other on Green St in Clinton MA today on my way to work and thought of you. Guy's got dedication to his chosen automotive platform, I'll give him that.
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Oct 13, 2016 23:07
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If they all moved and could be gotten to the same spot for a picture, he would be on the fury road already!
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Oct 27, 2016 18:23
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In Mass there's a gift declaration form that results in $0 tax, but you can only use it in certain circumstances - same last name, family member, once a year, etc etc. Otherwise they take the value you paid, or the NADA fair condition value, whichever is greater, and charge you based on that. Ask me about the time I paid $260 in sales tax on a $300 Forester that I bought with no engine!
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Oct 27, 2016 18:50
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14 BAR RIFF posted:Well I figured if poo poo was torally hosed cock in rear end sideways, at least I got my room picked up, laundry done, and tools located and sorted again. That thing is a cockroach and I dig the homemade K&N but it will gently caress with you if you only bring a DMM, RENIX jeeps are harsh overlords that know you are a soft modern mechanic if that's all you have. If you come within 20 feet of them with an ELM327 expect to hear haunting laughter and need a new CPS as soon as you are out of range of a parts store. If you bring an analog meter and optionally a snapon mt2500 with the RENIX adaptor it will know you are to be respected, though.
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Oct 28, 2016 13:20
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Midjack posted:So what happens when they meet? Some kind of matter-antimatter thing? We went to the junkyard and almost bought a murder weapon, then bought justy parts and tried to drive a retired muni bus around the yard that they hadn't pulled the batteries from yet. Unfortunately bus driving is not something either of us have done so the vast array of switches and controls saved us from certain ejection and lifetime banning That cluster is the mid optioned one. It has gauges for oil and temp, but no tach. Povspec XJs got dummy lamps for the oil and temp too. Well optioned ones got a small fuel gauge where that dummy lamp is (what's it for, redline? Upshift?) And a real tach.
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gileadexile posted:I had pov gauges in my '92 XJ Sport and learned to drive stick by the shift light. Imagine my chagrin trying to transfer over to a mid '90s Tercel with a 4 speed and NO torque. I actually don't even look at the tach while driving anymore, I really only use it while diagnosing engine issues. Which makes my 88 MJ with the same exact gauge cluster really annoying to diagnose... Rhyno posted:Kastein you need to get your rear end to Nebraska. I would totally be down if I had any vacation time left and wasn't married, I don't want to just run off to the middle of nowhere for fun and she's out of vacation time too
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ExplodingSims posted:I'm not sure. The parts we need all have to be shipped in, and since this a small town that takes time. what in the gently caress, 13/16-14, really? loving GM I never expected a clutch fork pivot ball to be the serious gamestopper. Wish I'd realized it was missing from the bellhousing you bought... And yeah, Dave, I really don't think it's wise to push onward, unfortunately. If the drat thing isn't gonna make the trip to FL anyways, no real sense pushing hard and ending up broke, in Nebraska, with two vehicles that won't make it home instead of just one. Can always return home, attempt to mend fences with gremlin dude (especially seeing as the jeep has returned and is even working better now), and give it another shot when NE-FL truck pilgrimage part 2 goes down.
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ExplodingSims posted:Yeah, why a bellhousing from the 60s has such a weird threading is beyond me. Yeah, there's nothing like diving in headfirst to find all the weird problems you didn't expect in the first place. Unknown unknowns are a bitch - we ran into this quite a bit on the XJ 4.0L/EFI/AX15/NP231/SYE/8.25 swap into Sandbagger's 80s automatic YJ. The number of times I went to the junkyard for one stupid loving part, or had him rockauto order a handful of random things, was amazing. You guys are making great time by comparison. Once I'd done it once, IIRC we had Slow is Fast's dad's CJ5 started up running EFI after one weekend of wiring, after he ordered and junkyarded a bunch of random poo poo I told him to get and spent a weekend slamming the new motor in. Doing something like this once is difficult and has a steep learning curve because no one on car forums fully documents every single weird little year split and detail about every odd thing they had to deal with (because they forgot as soon as they got it working - been there done that), but doing it again is cake. Don't beat yourself up too bad, I was really pretty surprised how smoothly everything was going till this point. How well next time goes (if you don't pull off a miracle...) is going to depend heavily on how well you took notes about everything that went wrong or seemed "odd"* as you were working on it this time. * example: I got an NP231 transfer case from a friend for Sandbagger, it was from a 1994 4.0L ZJ. I said gently caress it, it's a 23 spline NP231, they are all the same, and installed the slip yoke eliminator kit, then tried to bolt it to the trans, except it bottomed out on the output shaft of the trans a quarter inch before the flanges met. Much parts catalog research and cursing later, I discovered that the tcase had come from behind a weird auto trans that was only used for a few years and had a specific input gear installed on it that, while 23 spline, had an odd pilot bushing pressed into the back to mate with the trans' output shaft pilot tip. Stupid. But I was stupid for assuming too much about my own knowledge, and it bit us hard. I ended up having to source a different transfer case, uninstall the SYE, reinstall it in the other transfer case, and then install that in the jeep. It cost me a wasted day in the shop and roughly a week on the project schedule as I recall. TL;DR: unknown unknowns will gently caress you hard especially if you assume you know all the details. Either way, this is down to the wire and if you can't solve that clutch pivot ball problem for sure by Wednesday, I would recommend spending time on stuff you have to do either way, wrapping up loose ends, documenting everything obsessively for your future self's sanity, telling Dave to abort mission, and giving it another shot once you regroup.
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Oil pressure looks pretty good (50-60psi hot running?) for a 4.0L that old, but I'm assuming some of that is the lucas talking. Volt gauge is at the very end of a long bare-minimum-gauge wiring loop, that voltage looks absolutely fine for a RENIX w/ the old Delco alternator setup. If he has the headlights or blower or both running, he's probably actually boiling the battery right now with the gauge reading like that, headlights-on @ normal charging voltage on those usually means you'll see like 12 or 13 on the gauge, headlights+blower you can see as low as 10 to 12. It's retarded and I'm glad they fixed that in 97. I think that might also be the second highest speed I've ever seen indicated on a RENIX speedo. Highest was 97mph in my friend Sam's '90 2.5L (!) TBI (!!) 4speed (!!!) MJ. No, I don't know how. What is the plan? Is the jeep ending up stranded in NE, stranded in FL, or going back to WA after? I suppose that depends on the truck outcome somewhat. INQUIRING MINDS NEED TO KNOW
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angryrobots posted:
Seat Safety Switch posted:How does a loving 4.0 knock? The one in my 98 did after 250k+ miles (in a different chassis), 20 or 30k miles with me, followed by hooning it around back roads with 1.5-2 quarts of oil in it without lifting in corners even when hearing rod knock and lifter rattle due to losing oil pressure. I tore it down during the mantrans swap and found each rod bearing had about 2/3 of its copper showing, slid new bearings in with a bit of assembly lube, and it quieted right down, then rejected its organ transplant within days and knocked again. Still drove it the same, still didn't care, it quieted down after about a half mile of driving in the morning.
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1500quidporsche posted:I've got to admit. I really didn't expect this to happen after the endless buildup of trying and failing to get various vehicles running and then getting stranded in Spokane with a vehicle he had ownership of for less than a week but God loving drat well done 14". Reminds me of the time I got a free rapevan from my parents, that had been sitting in their driveway for 3 years with flat tires, filled the tires up, put a new battery and alt in it (dead and seized from sitting, respectively), did the front brakes and wheelbearings (what sidelined it in the first place) and immediately towed my jeep a thousand miles to indiana to go fourwheeling in an abandoned quarry with internet friends I had never met. Then towed my jeep home a thousand miles at the end of the long weekend, and no more than 700 miles later the transmission exploded (for the fourth time in my family's ownership period) so I loving scrapped the thing for 500 bucks (only a $100 loss, yay, and I kept the cushy bench seats as future garage sofas) and never looked back. Jeeps do weird things to people. It seems 14 needs to realize the sheer power and responsibility he has been entrusted with though, you can drive a tiny honda flat out and never get in trouble but jeeps are clearly just too much power.
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Deteriorata posted:I thought he'd end up getting there by Greyhound, though. I am stunned that vehicle didn't explode somewhere in Montana. It doesn't even have 200k on the clock yet. A third of the 4.0L jeeps I have bought have had more than that turd does the day I registered them! Every single one made at least another 50 to 75k and still runs to this day. I ran one for 15k miles with my foot on the floor and a 1/2" gap burned in the head gasket between holes 3 and 4. Got it stuck in the woods with half the cooling system empty and neutral dropped it repeatedly while banging off the rev limiter into drive and reverse till I wasn't stuck, several minutes later. You could smell the ATF from ten feet away. That transmission still worked mostly alright 50k miles later and I never even changed the fluid. 4.0L XJs run on hatred and neglect. Mine began failing me when I tried to fix it until it was nice again. I bet that thing will make Florida if he tosses a new set of plugs in it, and that it will do it with less than 5qt of oil consumed if the CCV system is restored to oem specs.
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I hear Wells Fargo will open new accounts for drat near anyone at the drop of a hat. 
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I think it's because people don't look over their shoulders far enough when backing up. My 98 had a dent in exactly the same spot too and I think my buddy Jay's '90 has one there also... his was bad enough he had to beat the kink on the top face down with a hammer to open the hatch.
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A friend of mine just blocked out his name on his license and uploaded it to their name verifier and they accepted it 
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