Furbird

I feel your pain, legitimately. Now I have a climate controlled shop with a lift and hydraulic jacks because I'm too old for that shit.

KBB.com offers an instant cash deal where you fill in all the pertinent information (and it is pretty detailed) and they will email you a legit offer for it. Trade in shows 22-25k even deducting for the no AC option and that's in my zip code so it should be higher in an area where AC is not basically mandatory. It may be worth attempting to see if you can get what you want out of it. I would also take it to Carmax so that way you'll have some hard numbers to look at to see if it's worth keeping or not. No sense in giving it away if you have firm offers for more money and allowing somebody else to flip it at your loss. If you really don't want it going to a dealer you could stick it on ebay with a buy it now close to what your kbb and carmax offers are.

I guess the 24k offer guy didn't show up? Why not trade it in, or are they raping you with an offer? What about Carmax or whoever it is that gives you a cash offer on the spot?

Speaking of this thread, did you sell the Jeep yet?

I've always used that type of tool in addition to a press. Use that to "lip" under the bearing/race and use the press to do the hard work. Never had an issue, but then again, never used a harbor freight version of that particular tool. Do have a harbor freight press though.

I have Superhawk blocked because of the constant barrage of berating responses and negativity to every single post I made for quite a stretch. I even posted that I would not tolerate it any longer and that he would be blocked, then contacted another member for advice on how to do it. Stress removal has been a huge deal for me in the real world, mostly by not watching college football or caring about politics anymore. Not going to replace it with getting mad at people on a motorcycle forum I've been on for, what, almost 20 years. If you don't see what they say, you can't get mad. I'm quite certain if I met him or any of the rest of you we'd get along just fine. But the issue is sarcasm or poking the bear or subtlety is difficult to express in a reply and people read what they want to read when they don't get the inflection of tone as you do in person. Fact is most of us have been here so long we know how to push a button or ten. There's a difference between pushing a button once for a rise versus pushing the button over and over like fucking Morse code. If you know what pisses people off, and you continue to piss them off, then who's really being the child?

I'm surprised one of the 8 you mentioned earlier hasn't jumped the gun and come buy it yet.

Good grief, could they make the pinion shaft any longer?!? Any reason it's set up like that and not shorter with a longer driveshaft? That car isn't that big, a few more inches and they could have just bolted it directly to the trans!

Gotta be 24's or bigger to come up missing these days.

Swampy, that Jeep just got bumped down a notch.

So, it's the Pontiac Aztec of Jeep? Hideous but practical and you can't kill it. Oh, except for that whole radiator thing 🤣

Oh shit, you just opened Pandora's Box... 🤣

I kinda figured. No dog in this hunt but I am actually shocked they still offer a Jeep with no AC. It would never sell down here.

But...... why?

If you're staring at it out of the car, replace it. You don't want to put all that back together with all new bearings except for one or two. That metal is in the bearing and has caused wear on it, so it is compromised.

Interesting. Car-part shows that an 87 also fits that car, and a place in California has two on the shelf for turbo locking diff for $125 but no shipping. There's only 4 in the country and they all show 87-91 fitment.

You never gave a year so I can't try to find you one. You also didn't say it was an upgrade for a weaker version in another vehicle. The 350z guys figured out the 370z rear axles and wheel bearings are significantly beefier than the 350z version, and are direct bolt in, so now the parts have been on intergalactic backorder for months. Nissan can't make the parts fast enough to keep up with demand. One aftermarket supplier has 100 sets on order and they're all sold. Clearly "bulletproof" is an overstatement since it broke. You sure it's not a Ford?

That tells you it's prone to failure. I've had body shops buy an entire front clip for a Focus and the junkyard give them the motor and trans for free because they don't break and it's not worth unbolting it before they cut the front end off. On the flip side, a non-broken 3.7 in a Traverse is over 2 grand for just the engine because they break daily.

You're probably right, but if it's eating bearings you need to replace them all. It's not rocket surgery if you have the right tools, but people think you have to have voodoo, Tinkerbell, and say bibbidi-bobbidi-boo while rolling your tongue and standing on your head to set them up correctly. Might be better off buying an entire unit from a scrap yard or new if you have that DaveK bank account. Side note: I would never run a car at 100mph with the wheels off the ground unless it was on a lift.

That is fluke of all flukes. I ran a 12/49 combo with a slick on the dragbird and never broke a chain. Definitely a factory flaw.

It has to do with the branding and the way the law is written. Alabama doesn't do safety inspections (annual inspections, insert your state's gestapo-level taxation term here). When a vehicle has been determined to be totaled and a salvage title is issued, the only way to get a rebuilt title is to return the vehicle to the condition that existed prior to the salvage event. Hail means the hail damage was the reason for salvage, so all the hail damage has to be repaired. With Michael they invented this new term called storm damage, because they were a combination of water and flying debris, so we had vehicles that weren't dented, but the glass and body panels looked like somebody had drug shingles across them at 150mph (because that is basically what happened) so we were inspecting them as a hail vehicle. Some people got lucky and could buff everything out and touchup paint, others were all-over paint jobs. You also have a junk car, which can be branded as certificate of destruction/crush/junk/parts only/bill of sale only/etc. and those can never be title in Alabama. I've seen cars that were run and drive that needed a fender and a headlight, yet had certificates of destruction so they are parts cars. You can sell a salvage title car to anybody, but you have to disclose separately that the vehicle has a salvage/rebuilt branded title as part of it. However, the salvage title itself will remain in the name printed on the front until it is either rebuilt or crushed. Clean title has no such disclosure. So if you own a car and do not have full coverage, you never have to worry about a salvage brand. It's only when an insurance company has paid a total loss settlement on a vehicle that it gets branded. Believe me, I get the question a lot as people drive some pure junk on the roads here, but they are clean title. That is at the discretion of the patrol officers to determine roadworthiness of a vehicle and if it is outside of DOT and NHTSA compliance, which is extremely rare and would require just an absolute dangerous level of hazard for them to down a vehicle for that. That is usually only used when somebody is driving without a wheel or tire, parts of the car are dragging on the ground, parts are falling off causing a hazard to other motorists (aka "Harley Davidson"), etc.

You need to check the salvage laws in your state. What requirements it takes to bid and purchase the vehicle, how the titles are branded, whether you can have them inspected as an individual or have to have a license, what the state requirements are to pass inspection, etc. As one of the salvage inspectors in Alabama, I can tell you that here an individual cannot buy a car from the auction with a salvage title, they cannot have it inspected if purchased from an auction outside of Alabama (as it has to go through a licensed rebuilder), and on a hail car ALL hail damage has to be repaired. Of all the hail cars ever submitted to me, only two passed. One was a cop, and one was a rebuilder who said "never again."

No idea who that is but I like it. I'm always a fan of anybody who paints realism, as in identifiable art, not "monkey throws paint on a wall and it's worth 1 billion dollars." I'm also a fan of multiple mediums instead of just one. Impressive work. I have a Salvador Dali print in the entryway of my house. That's about as close as I'll ever get to owning the real thing.

Assuming these are EFI tanks? Also, what all is included, or are they just the tank itself?

Interesting. I was told that you use the same ground as the house for your outbuildings. My garage and my shop are both wired to the house ground.