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Another solution: Available here: http://www.jeepcovers.com/ Functionally equivalent rain-parking covers are available from several truck/Jeep aftermarket sources. Such a cover might also prove useful during a rainstorm while you away from home and your Jeep soft-top is off or down...

Hi Phatty, I did use the foam tape commonly sold to form a seal between a pickup truck bed and a cap. The tape is sticky on one side after you peel off the paper. I stick the tape on the underside of the hardtop flange and then lower the top onto the Jeep. I happened to buy the tape at a...

Hi-Ya, ecor, I dunno...seems like a good idea from the perspective of a New Yorker familiar with winter related rim damage, but also one of those things that you want to "see it to believe it." I will state that unless one has very expensive rims, $49.00 a shot seems way too high a price. The...

Hi-Ya 90Xjay, Yes, you could indeed have a bad relay. Relays fail, just as all other gizmos might fail. For what it might be worth, here is how I added TJ fog-lights to my CJ: Wired as shown above: (1) Fog-Lights illuminate only when headlights are on. (2) Switch-2 wiper down, fog-lights...

A pretty good battery tutorial will be found here: http://www.windsun.com/Batteries/Battery_FAQ.htm Yes, any modern inboard boat engine will have an alternator, but a boat of any size will also have a built-in AC (shore power) battery charger. The shore-powered battery charger provides...

RE: What I'm with Tug on this one. I also support all that stuff about the right to bare arms. In fact, everyone should own at least two. (Photo from the Springfield Armary archive) Regards, Gadget :mrgreen:

RE: Im Back!!! Tug-n-pull wrote: Tug, since I am the one who appraised Michael Moore as "pond scum," I will assume you alluded to my previous post. If my assumption is incorrect, please disregard what follows. If my assumption is correct, then recall that Mr. Moore has a history. My...

Which GPS? The danger a larger than force-3 hurricane might pose to New Orleans has been documented since the 1920s. Therefore, along with the current President, and a few living ex-presidents, we need to dig up the remains of a host of dead presidents and kick their bones too. Here is a...

cj parts needed Mingez wrote: Interesting. Using that quality-of-people yardstick, the following people – all with speech defects -- would have been relegated to the junkpile of humanity by Mingez: Moses Demosthenes Aesop Roman Emperor, Claudias Aristotle Isaac Newton Charles Canon...

possible axle swap candidates I can’t help but wonder why the IQs of Kerry and Bush are being argued before the debate has raged as regards correlation of IQ and past academic achievement as reliable predictors of performance as President of the United States of America. Is there an...

RE: Re: RE: Aging Jeep- For 2000 and up jeep owners The engine hoods from certain older vehicles are good (relatively inexpensive) sources of automotive grade and more or less flat sheet metal. Older Dodge Ram(s), for example. Regards, Gadget

Colorado Trail suggestions Hi-Ya, LJF, While at the dealer/service department, you might ask about the details of buying an extended warranty. Extended warrantys come in more flavors than HoJo's had flavors of ice cream, so one has to be careful about their purchase. As regards a good spring...

RE: Emmissions for a V8ed CJ Hi-Ya texasjeeper, The fix for the BBD problem is available right here on Jeepz dot com. The article is located over in the "How To" section. Here is the link: http://www.jeepz.com/Howto-article16-page1.html One failing of the article is that the Jeep used for...

There isn't really much new under the sun: Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback Odd how people have never heard the term "wetback." I have known of the pejorative "wetback" since childhood. My Father might have been a wetback too. He came to the U.S. from Wales via...

Gadget goes into old-guy reverie and remembers: Pumping gasoline at 23-cents per gallon and giving a customer S&H Green Stamps in the amount of his/her gasoline purchase ... A fill-up (defined as 10 gallons or more) got you ... A drinking glass, with the big red Texaco Star logo Oil checked...