Joe Handley

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!

Could have that Twin I Beam joke that for used for a couple decades. From what I understand, those were a bushing eater on rail road owned/leased Ford highrails that Dad worked with at the railroad.

Geez man, how can you see after working on that little thing!

Very nice, do those bodies fit the lowrider Caddy or Caprice/Impala SS chassis?

I love the way that looks, great job! Yea, the Chevy Van kits are the same way, you get a decent engine, a decent dash and wheel, but that's about it.

Could have sworn I what that car became in a commercial last night.

Makes a good looking panel!

I remember working with a kid who had a second 300ZX-TT with the Hi-Cas 4WS, it actually caused him to slide off the road on more than one occasion when he'd get the car sideways and it would steer the back end funny causing him to spin out into a ditch!

Click on it, it's part of a raffle to help injured solders

Just painted up a replacement body for my E-Revo with Mopar Parts Jeep Moss Green Pearl spray touch up for my XJ May shoot one of the HPI '69 Charger monster truck bodies and '70 AAR Cuda touring car bodies in the same stuff.

Nope, probably should have gone further with my description though.

I love that Audi commercial, it always gets a laugh from me and Dad!

No, these guys were people I actually knew from work and are mods on www.ChitownRC.com .

Wait a minute....you guys agree with me Last time I said something like that I was all but called a retard by the fireman and mortician who were mods on the forum

Actually I was talking about things like ABS, Traction Control, Stability Control, Tire Pressure Monitors, Air Bags, Post OBD1 emissions controls, ect. Now leave most of that stuff as options for those that are willing to take the cost, weight, and complexity penaltys can have them while those like myself who don't have much interest in them, or like smaller stature folks that can be injured by airbags can opt out of them. It's funny., I saw somewhere the other day that the insurance industry was going to be increasing premiums because people were costing more to take care of post wreck and cars were begining to cost more to repair and/or replace after a wreck, yet some of the problems with the greater cost is some of the stuff I mentioned above again like airbags that are one use only and cost a small forture to replace and repair damage from:blink:

Don;t forget Nick, even the newer and/or bigger Ni-MH Sub-C cells have been known to explode like a firecracker (had it happen to me with a 7 cell 100mAh 2/3 A pack a few years ago) and injure people. Some people on RCCrawler have started thinking Li-Po's might be a safer compared to the newer Ni-MH's Somebody else on their said that the crawling club he's affiliated with is considering mandating Li-Po sacks for Ni-MH cells at their GTG's and comps after a pack let loose in a local park while charging during a comp on somebody's car!

not a bad idea........................................

Wouldn't that mean the return of Drive In's then? I've started to park the Jeep and go into the places, I can drive in, park, walk in, order and receive my food, then walk back out to the Jeep and leave in less time than it takes to go through the drive up most of the time! I've thought about it some and it wouldn't really take much to make drive throughs more efficient, put the lanes on just enough of a downward incline towards the pickup windows so all you would have to do is coast down hill, preferably with the engine off and the trans in neutral. Of course some idiot would find a way to screw it up and kill someone And yes I was sober while typing that In some ways my Cherokee Limited with the 4.0l I-6 or my parents '06 Town and Country Touring with 3.8l V-6 and power side doors and hatch could be the same as that or a Ranger, Dad got around 23-25mpg on the interstate when he and Mom borrowed if for a mid winter get away a couple years back and on the interstate the T&C can pull that same mileage with 3 overweight adults and their luggage at 65+ MPH! Something else too, and yes I'm still sober as I type this too , is maybe roll back some of the emissions and safety standards that seem to add weight and/or reduce efficiency over what was produced a little as 10 years ago.

Now that I think of it, wonder who it is that writes with a stutter, the sign maker or the property owner.

Found this on a local Jeep Club's forum