Recent content by WallyWest

Yeah, I meant parallel. Blue wire was hot, got it partly wired up before I ran out of daylight. Cheapo bumper from Amazon but I like the look and it'll be fine for the type of trails I do.

'03 Sport. Got a front bumper with integrated LED lights. Not really fog lights, but my plan is to connect them to the fog light wiring. Wires running to the factory fogs are blue and black. New bumper has two LEDs on each side. My plan is to wire them in series and connect to the the...

I'll look into that, I was under the impression it was just a more expensive version of the BAFX reader.

I have the BAFX thing for standard OBD2 stuff. Works fine, but I'm looking for a reasonably priced reader that also gets all the manufacturer specific stuff. Like airbag codes, basically something that can read anything the car's ECU is reporting. Live sensor data would be nice too, but I...

You're strapped into it like a hang glider. Which is basically all it is, just a sitting position in a small enclosure instead of laid out underneath it.

Maybe already addressed, but the point in the OP about wasted electricity during charging being like pouring 2 gallons of gas on the ground when you fill up. Yeah, that's kind of how gas engines work too. You are effectively doing that since gas engines are nowhere near 100% efficient. In...

Lost art for sure. I park on the street every day so no problem. My neighbor on the other hand, been here for 20+ years, can't do it to save his life. I back up large box trucks at work, threading them through some tight quarters, with no rear cameras. I'm one of the few that have never...

Background. Covid craziness basically screwed me out of a 15 year career in food service. I worked in a bakery for a while, liked it, then went to Culinary school. Got a degree (yeah, it's a real thing, lol) in baking and pastry arts. Worked for some crappy places, and finally clawed my way...

Makes no difference, the "softer" part of the spring will compress first regardless.

I have the Hooke (I think that's the right spelling), they look fine, and there's no effect on cooling. They just snap into place, takes 30 seconds to install.

Yeah, oil pan crossed my mind too. The plug looks like it belongs there, same flat black finish as the pan and it has a rubber washer.

I got the Fumoto F101S which says it has 1/2-20 UNF threads. This was what their website said I should get for a 2003 4.0. Yeah, well it doesn't fit mine. Way too small, doesn't even touch the threads. So did Fumoto give me bad info? Or should that be the right one? In which case I guess...

Ok, so I found a video on Youtube with a couple guys swapping out a compressor on the same year, model, engine as mine. When they went to recharge it they used the port in my picture for the high side. I went over every inch of the A/C lines, never found another port. So I rented the tool...

So I did find this on Rockauto. What we're looking at in that photo is an accumulator / drier, whatever that is. But apparently not the high side service port. I saw they had an A/C valve repair kit, which comes with three caps and two different types of valves. It would seem I just...

This is for a 2008 Grand Cherokee, 3.7 V6. AC system was leaking a bit last year, this year it's empty. So I got one of those high/low valve kits. The low side was easy, it had the standard valve. Then I searched around for the high side, found it at the top of a cylinder mounted next to...