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<... to the body shop and by NINE FREAKING THIRTY its like 70 & SUNNY!!!!!!! the jeep gods hate me jeep gods work in mysterious ways. body work is best done on a dry day. the jeeps gods are smiling on you, and the glass is half full. I heard an engineer once observe the glass is twice as...

the way engines work is they want to run full bore, and you control it by starving it for air and gas ("throttle" means grab it by the neck and squeeze it until the eyes bug out). if everything is working as it should, you can starve it down to a whimper. if you don't have that level of control...

<... it started and ran fine last fall. It has sat since October, but periodically I would go out and try to start it during the winter. I park it during the winter any chance you have a mouse nest in the air cleaner and sucked some into the valve seats? them critters can be sneaky. I'd do a...

<Starts right up, have to feather the gas to maintain a rough idle. that could be rich or lean mix, vacuum leak, or fast idle cam not involved...I need more specific info. such as "runs out of fuel and pedal squirts accelerator pump spray for engine to catch for a second" <All emissions were...

you save odds and ends and soon have a pile of scrap... decades later you may find a use for the piece, otherwise it gets taken to the curb when they clean house to liquidate the estate <It started out as a "brotherhood" type thing. > more like honor amongst thieves... it was individuals who...

I've had jeeps since my 59 3B in the mid 60s, the wave was between rarely seen vehicles shunned on the edge of civilized society, folks carried tools, a shop manual, extra points ect...a chain, and it began as a surprised happy recognition, (camaraderie)... if you were broke on the side of the...

I had a wild thought. in the old days we'd eyeball a vertical thumb and throw the dice, but in this age of little cameras and zoom computer screens, the picture you take is just as good as the b&w picture in the service manual... take it to where you can see it... after you stir your coffee...

What's the best way to get rid of 15 gallons of gas, without running it in my Jeep, or dumping it out? label it "Jeep Universal Solvent" , then get a plastic weed killer spray can and thin your used oil (gear lube and all) enough to spray. then coat the underside every couple months to handle...

I have a track bar question. front bar pivots off the driver's side, rear pivots off the pass side. that guarantees the axles are off track to each other much of the time and amplified when stressed. I might buy platform-ish stability, but at what cost? cornering at speed, seems to me a bit...

check the compression and post the results. diagnosis is simply ruling out what's good.

I'm ball parking my restoration around $5K...which should result in another 10-15 years trouble free. you can do it cheaper if you expect to nickle and dime it later.

<just flop the body on it's side on to some 4x4's, it's lite enough that one person can toss it around with minimal effort. I don't juggle like I used to. <Lastly.. DO I spy either a honda CB in the background or is it a triumph? '07 T100. 865... I like it a lot...very similar feel to the...

your truth may differ from mine heat expands, cold contracts in most corners of the universe I'm familiar with. it's a wise man who capitalizes on this physical phenomena.

make sure the breather is clear when you pull the cover. the 1/4" ID tends to clog with carbon/sludge. a bad breather will raise internal pressures.

do a compression check. that will quickly rule out damage concerns. you want all numbers above 125 psi. within 10% of each other. 150 psi would be good. 90 psi is trouble. after that, I'd lean towards spark. Sears sells a $10 pocket tester that you lay on the plug wires while running and...

game plan is stock nothing special in the gorilla jeep dept. (we'll see how long that lasts with all these creative things I see on these Jeep sites) middle daughter is doing bio-medical engineering at Case aiming at extended schooling and potent degrees so this may well be her reward for hard...

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pics screwed up again...you may not get to see this after all.