Joe Handley

Looks cool!

I think that's what Barris started with...........

Well, the roads will almost be safe to travel on then

You know nick, it's not hard to a video of a rotory failing Now here is an engine failure! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g7_bHlQhd8...feature=related

It is the Jeep 4.0l and from what I understand, it is the last engine from the Rambler engine family. Sounds like there was enough water in the jackets that as the engine overheated after the pump locked up it was able to build up some steam the cyliders and protect them! Dad's begining to think that by the time she got to the house that the steam was starting to get out of the engine and cause the electronics to freak out and stall the engine. Looks like it didn't hurt the motor, but only time will tell. I did read something on another forum from somebody who has a friend who works at a Jeep dealer. They had an '87 or '88 4.0l Comanche come in with 77k on the clock and the engine locked up solid. Turns out the truck was still running on the factory fill of motor oil!

What'd you use for the roof, a second Merc?

My Little Sister overheated her 200k+ mile Cherokee so bad today that it locked the motor as she pulled in the driveway. She drove it for a few miles with the water pump locked up and a thrown belt. Dad chewed her out for not stopping someplace safe (plent of spots to do so) and calling him ASAP as well as not fixing it as soon as we noticed the noise and the puddles it was leaving behind. Once it cooled back down Dad was actually able to get it to start back up! He put a new pump and belt on hit while she and mom were inside hosting bachelorette party for a co worker of her's and she was able to drive it back to the apartment she shares with her boyfriend tonight. Dad and I followed her back home and Dad wondered why Mom wanted us to do so. We were wondering if mom didn't trust his repair or that the truck wasn't too badly damaged, but he said no to the later and added "It's a tough old block." It won't be the same it was before (it was already getting tired anyway), but atleast it's still driveable!

That's "correct"? Looks like a FUBAR waiting to happen!

Love to know why they call them wisdom teeth if thay ainn't smart enough to grow in straight Good luck with the removal

http://www.scale4x4rc.org/forums/showthread.php?t=23630 Not sure what's going to melt down first, the computer or my brain!

I noticed that and still think that it's a screwed up way of doing it, even if he used the proper square bolts instead of u-bolts and blocks that would fit better. If GM did it that way, then I'm still amazed it worked as well, for that many years, on as many vehicles as it did before the lowering job happened. Personally, I'd have re-routed the brake lines and I refuse to use blocks to go up or down on a leaf spring vehicle, just don't trust the things.

Very cool looking, love the suttle scallops too!

Dad was amazed he even made it out of teh driveway like this, let alone navigate the railroad tracks right next to where the truck wa sparked.

Went to a local cruise night with Dad tonight, and after we finished looking around and started to walk back to my Jeep and came across a very well used post war Chevy p/u that had been lowerd a bit. Just before we got to the truck Dad and I both noticed something that made both of us stop in our tracks. The guy used lowering blocks and new u-bolts to drop the rear, but didn't have the bolts over the axle tube Here's the pics Dad took! Yea, the bed was bad enough we didn't need to look under the truck to see the lowering job! I actually saw the guy driving past the street the car show was on, Dad and I still can't believe it's held together this well

Almost forgot, I was running a Parma lexan Dodge Tradesman body for the Tamiya Lunchbox on my Axial Scorpion for a while, had to severly bob and dovetail it, bit it worked halfway decent Still may put one on my Tamiya Mini Cooper And I still want to build a Venom Mini-Giant based Quiggley Van, think I may call it Mr. Quiggles

Wow, she's already lookin' way better than she did fresh outta the ground! I remember hearing about that Wildcat, the guy told his Co ot whomever that he had t wide open id it wasn't making any power, which forved him to dump it right off the run way. Of course he caught hell for sinking the plane, and when it was brought up, the throttles were shoved as far forward as they would go...just as he claimed they were. Don't know if he ever lived long enough to see it in person again, but he was shown the video of it as the plane was brought up and placed on shore as well as was told that the way the recovery crew found it confirmed his story!

Not sure where the Crown parts are made, I'll have to check the box today, the OE starter was built by Mitsubishi America here in the states. The reason I went with the starter sourced from where I did was that it was a new part, immeadiately available, and cost less that $200 (new Mopar is nearly $300 with my Jeep Club discount!) Normally I prefer factory parts where ever possible depending on both availablity and pocket depth at the time. I did have problems with Remans my Lebaron (alternator started squeeling within a month or two and had one starter fall apart and the replacement for that one nearly started the car on fire!) on this truck (actually that was one of a couple total Carmax repair problem, told them that the steering box was locking up so they put a reman PS pump in it that started to fail on the way home, had to take it to a Jeep dealer to get it fixed right after 3-4 trips to the CM I bought it at!!)

Don't know about you, but sometimes I think that discount cost me more money than just being a customer

Actually, the one that broke was a new one from an aftermarket company, we had to use a part form the factory starter to get the truck back on the road!

Everything was tight enough it took a little "persuasion" to get the solenoid off the starter. Atleast this failure wasn't like the battery failure I had in my E-Revo, that was a rather impressive to watch

Seems that way, atleast when I have had starting issues, it just flat quits at home! When the solenoid on the OE starter started to quit, I'd go at it with a ball peen hammer.......kinda left a large number of hammer marks in the top of the solenoid casing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maybe I need to lay off the forearm exercises at the gym

I'm thinking a questionable idea, poorly executed on the aftermarket. Believe it or not, you can't buy just a solenoid around here, all the parts houses carry are whole starters in either new or reman........ It started to go away when I gassed up yeasterday and was probably lucky to get home with it. We held onto the factory starter ans was able to part it out for this little project. Unfortunetly......the ###### thing broke in time to keep me from going to a RC Crawler comp!

Has anybody ever broken the nylon plunger in the starter solenoid before? Had the one on the Crown replacement starter in my '98 Cherokee do that yesterday or today. I held on to the OE starter so Dad and I were able to swap the plungers to make a working starter but it seemed like a pretty odd thing to break. Here's a couple pics The OE one that's been cleaned up for reuse in the new starter and here's the broken one.

SHe must like having her picture taken as much as Mom does.............

Just these two, the beater I built in HS and teh other I need to actually finish....... The Beater has a Webber carbed SBC in it and one of the bubble windows has clear plastic glued in on the rusty side and the kustom one is on a stretched C5 chassis! Then again, I've also been around vans for years Here's the only pic I've got of our 1987 G20 CHevy Beauville, it's been dead for a couple years now but still hanging around as a storage container for the time being. Don't have a picture of it, but this one replaced a nearly identical G20 '78 Beauville. Here's my folks '06 T&C, can happily say that there has yet to be a problem with it!