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Automatic transmissions (especially the 32rh) are astonishingly simple. It’s honestly just a stack of parts with some snap rings. The valve body is some real black magic, but you don’t have to know how it works. You just need the valves to move freely in the bores and have the springs push...

if it goes into 2nd fine then your kickdown servo and band are fine, and your rear clutches are good. If you eventually have reverse then your L/R band is fine, although it could be out of adjustment, hard to say. But it's the clutches that fit both symptoms. 3rd and Reverse both use the...

Burned fluid is not a good sign. But it being slow to get to reverse either means a servo is bleeding pressure off, or something is making it build pressure slow. Reverse takes 3x the pressure so it maybe isn’t surprising that you see the problem there but not other places. Not wanting to...

if I had a little more time (by which I mean had I started this earlier as I intended) I might have put my router on the edge and made a nice rounded edge. Instead, gotta find a pool noodle somewhere at the end of the season. In all, I'm pretty pleased with my hack carpentry. But I guess...

I built this with some scrap wood. Mainly goes from glovebox to tailgate. I made use of a shelf I had built for last years trip, and then tied the platform into that. The design is by no means perfect, but it should work really well for the 2 nights I’m gonna need it for. The cooler...

Some $9 chinese thing off Amazon. My currently-MIA multimeter was also a $9 amazon special but I loved it. Unfortunately it is no longer available. Claude found the same chassis under other brand names, but none on amazon (where I can easily return it if it ain't as advertised). Or maybe...

After wiring in my radio I suddenly lost my trans temp gauge. Was pretty sure it was a ground, but Glowshift actually makes this pretty easy to test. There are exposed contacts on the pigtail that let you backprobe without needing to stick a needle into the wire. The wires on the pigtail is...

What on earth gave you this impression? If you have an 03-06 TJ the HHR will probably be a lot harder, but if you have a 97-02 TJ the HHR will be much harder.

Must not be true then. /thread

As much as I hate the HOA, that would almost certainly get me a letter. And given that the length of the trailer is longer than the jeep, it would create a problem rather than solve one.

Also had a bug fly into my ear. I could hear it flapping in there. Wife washed it out with supplies that just arrived from the chemistry class she teaches on the side. Pretty sure it was the water bottle and not the 16 molar HNO3.

I need the cruiser and the jeep up in Norman. The cruiser to tow the trailer, and then the jeep because without it the trailer would be very lightweight. So unless she’s going on the trip (she AINT!), we have to take two trips to ferry the cars to his house. Plus we’re leaving at 6am so there...

I still have my JKU t-tops bag, Im told they'll fit in that, but I need to try. I would much rather have the zip in windows but all this stuff is hard to come by. And then the last bit of stress before we head out — the trailer. We're going to be gone for a day longer than usual and...

Somehow this is actually easier to read than this I recognize all those words, but I swear I've never seen them in that order before. I asked Claude for a translation using Sonnet 4.6 Hi everyone, I'm about to buy a 2003 tj 4.0 and I would like to improve it a little aesthetically, without...

The pics look really nice but I can't see putting anything other than cloth into a jeep that sees a ton of sun. But I'm just one voice, and as a guy who routinely uses Autozone parts, I'm probably far too cheap to spend any money on this project anyway.