Joe Handley

What did you think of the show? I ended up spending about 6 hours there and walking about 9.7 miles and over 15500 steps!

Took a vacation day so I could go to the Chicago Auto Show mid week and managed to completely blow a stop sign while stopping at the Thornton's less than 3/4 mile from home. Didn't see the sign or the cop until he followed me into the station lot with the lights flashing!

I saw them, took a quick glance, and walked straight back to the pharmacy, and the tech had me rang out before I knew it, at that point, I figured it was best to just get out!

I watched Brittany's crash and then Ashley lose in the first round today, home Brittany is ok though, that was a nasty hit.

ROFL, I had to pick up a prescription at the one Mom and I worked at and sure enough, I saw what appeared to be a donut box, bit in white with this odd red lettering, got closer for a look and sure enough, that's what they were! I was able to leave them behind though.

While I'm not sure how much the 2.5l OHV Jeep engine useed, the 4.0l I-6 requires 6 quarts, both of which are derived from AMC's I-6 engine family. Now the Chrysler 2.2/2.5 SOHC engines used 4 quarts for the naturally aspirated engines while the turbocharged versions needed 5 quarts to help lube and cool the turbos. Not positive, but I wouldn't be surprised if the ones that had the Cosworth/Maserati or Lotus DOHC heads also used 5 quarts, since they too, were turbo motors.

He's a teenager, he just comes out and grabs a shovel then starts pushing! The doctor that came to the house for a house visit with Mom told me that he appreciated that we had the drive, walkway, and front steps cleared form him when he got here.

I spent a at least a few hours of my "snow day" clearing the driveway and back yard with both a shovel (and help from my neighbor's kid, very grateful for that!) and snowblower. I then had a late lunch and crashed for at least a few hours in the evening.

We got just enough that my office closed as well as the one in Iowa, luckily working for a lawn company that doesn't do much this time of year (we don't do plowing), we have other call centers in warmer areas that can handle the volume, and they'd rather we be safe than risk coming to work in bad conditions.

Huh, the intake manifold on that turquiose engine kinda reminds me of the one for the '99/'00-'06 Jeep 4.0l I-6!

I'm too young for the '67 blizzard (I'm only 41) plus my folks were still dating and living in Iowa at time, they didn't get married until that October (we spent their 50th at CDH in Winfield, where Mom was a patient at the time). They did live in Minnesota for a while and managed to move there after a big snow store, as well as floods that the melting snow caused, apparently there were fish laying in the streets after the waters receeded and snow piles were up to the second story of they stayed in when they first moved there, according to what a hotel employee told them. They had moved back to Iowa from Minnesota and Illinois for a while and when we moved back (well, for them anyway, I was born in Iowa too) in '79, we had managed to miss the '78 storm by almost 2 years. We were here for the early-mid 80's deep freeze, kinda for the blizzard of '99 (we were in Iowa for a funeral and followed the storm home), then here for the '11 blizzard, as well as the Polar Vortex of '14.

When it comes to George Ryan, I'll give you that! Considering his corruption gave commercial licenses to people that had no right getting them, he and the people who took the bribes for him should have been charged with manslaughter for every death one of those drivers caused.

That said, I guess at least we've actually tried to do something to punish ours.

Well, at least Illinois isn't listed as "Having the most jailed governors"!

I tried to swap that bulb today, unbolted the coolant bottle, pulled the rivet for the windshield cleaner bottle and found that my forearm is too big to get between the mounting brackets AND get enough of a grip on the protective cap on the back of the housing to be able to turn it to get at the bulb and plug. Quick update, the plug was just loose, dealer didn't charge me to find that and I was able to return the bulb.

Those regulations are still present when it comes to new cars as well as roadbocks to getting better lighting in this country. Not sure how far it's trickled down so far, but Mercedes was putting this trick LED light array on their S Class sedans that had sensors that would detect traffic and other things to allow for better visibility at night. If you were n a dark road, the all of the LEDs would light up to give the best amount of light, then if they senses another car coming at you, they would turn off or dim the LEDs closest to the oncoming car while keeping the other side well lit for visibility and would even light up to act as cornering lamps (kinda like what the Tucker's middle light was supposed to do). Great ideas, but since we're stuck in the 50's, regulation wise, things range from basic sealed beams.....still, to good purpose build LED headlight assemblies that provide more light, but are still inferior to what is sold in other countries.

Tried my local store, don't have what I'm looking for.

I've been thinking about getting the clear GTS light covers so I can attack those with a scraper and not hurt the pricey lights!

I'm trying to research LED bulbs, but can't find much about them and the reliability as of yet. Kinda want LEDs for both, but the ones for my XJ are probably more than the rusty old Heep are worth.

Ah ha!!! That first one is the video I saw that recommended to move the fusebox, coolant and window washer bottles! Rob, you might want to look on there for how to change the bulbs on your Grand.

Check around the back side of the assemblies, I'm begining to think the Chrysler designers may have engineered in a way to get at that stuff from under the hood without complete disassembly of the nose. Can't remember what site I found the underhood method for the 200's on off the top of my head, but once they pointee it out, it's actually stupid simple, requiring 3 bolts, a reusable plastic rivit, and a push in "Christmas Tree" retainer to be removed, the lower airbox isn't fully bolted down and the fusebox is just clipped into place.

I'm beginning to have a lower opinion of those that recommend taking the front off the car to do the work, it's more work than my XJ, but actually fewer fasteners!

I think that could work pretty good, there is a similar process for R/C bodies that involves that rubbery non slip shelf and drawer liner, that would scale out perfectly for 1/25th!

That's why I suggested the 3.6l/6 speed if in the budget 283hp should be more than enough power to get the job done, especially when backed by an AWD system to help push it through the head or cross wind. Not sure what the Journey weights, but the Caravan/T&C with that combo and fwd only weighs around 4600-4800 lbs and supposedly those move out pretty good, while my 200 only weighs 3600lbs and on the factory E85 tune with wider and stickier than stock tires, it'll straight up boogie!