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Fuel System


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HVAC


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Lifts/Tires


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Steering/Suspension

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Transmission




Wheeling Odds & Ends




Odds & Ends


EDIT: apparently there is a 50,000 character limit per post, and we hit it around the time I categorized the final pages.


cc: @Chris

I've been kind annoyed by how hard it is to find specific how-to guides on our little forum. We have some great content, but I find it hard to search, even using google. Maybe your google fu is stronger than mine, IDK. But w/o too much effort I extracted the links from the how-to subforum and attempted to classify them. My thinking was that it is easier to do a quick visual scan in a labeled subsection or a ctrl-F to find a specific word. Maybe I'm the only one who thinks so, I guess we'll see. At this point we don't get that much new content here so maintaining this shouldn't be super hard.

If you disagree with the classification of a topic, I can move it. Lots of topics span multiple categories, so I tried to go with the primary topic. Case in point is the guide on the 4WD light. Is that transfer case, electrical, lighting, or interior? I went with lighting, because I had to pick something. There are a bunch of others that weren't immediately obvious how to categorize, so I stuck them in the drunk drawer, confident that y'all would come out of the woodwork to tell me where they should be classified.

Anyway, I hope this helps. I know it will help me. And maybe it will save people from making duplicate how-to's. You probably didn't realize how many of those we had.


Enjoy, flame away.
 
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hear said:
cc: @Chris

I've been kind annoyed by how hard it is to find specific how-to guides on our little forum. We have some great content, but I find it hard to search, even using google. Maybe your google fu is stronger than mine, IDK. But w/o too much effort I extracted the links from the how-to subforum and attempted to classify them. My thinking was that it is easier to do a quick visual scan in a labeled subsection or a ctrl-F to find a specific word. Maybe I'm the only one who thinks so, I guess we'll see. At this point we don't get that much new content here so maintaining this shouldn't be super hard. I think I'm through page 8, with 3 pages to go to have them all moved into this index, so if you see something missing from page 11, that's why.

If you disagree with the classification of a topic, I can move it. Lots of topics span multiple categories, so I tried to go with the primary topic. Case in point is the guide on the 4WD light. Is that transfer case, electrical, lighting, or interior? I went with lighting, because I had to pick something. There are a bunch of others that weren't immediately obvious how to categorize, so I stuck them in the drunk drawer, confident that y'all would come out of the woodwork to tell me where they should be classified.

Anyway, I hope this helps. I know it will help me. And maybe it will save people from making duplicate how-to's. You probably didn't realize how many of those we had.


Enjoy, flame away.
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Thanks so much for doing this!
 
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Man, I owe you a beer, @hear! Job well done! How long did this take you?
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Honestly, not all that long. A better man would've written some code to scrape the links from the page, but I didn't consider that until after I had already categorized about 3 pages. It maybe took me 5-10 min/page to copy the link, paste it in another doc & categorize it. The python to convert them to bulleted links was near zero effort. Because I spent zero effort on the python, I had to manually paste each category into PyCharm and then run my script, then paste the output into the post draft. I got a pretty good flow going and did that in probably 30 minutes or so.

All told, I have a couple of hours invested, not including the time spent convincing you this was a good idea. :p
 
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I lied. It took me 16 minutes to rebuild the index from scratch. There's an xkcd comic about the ROI on automation, where it gives a grid of how long it takes to automate something vs how much time you save by automating x how often it needs to run. I'm still well into the positive ROI for the time being.


Also, @Chris I found these threads that somehow survived peer-review. There may be a couple of others that made it into the index before I decided to categorize these. I fully expect to crowd source the remaining quality/categorization issues.

https://wranglertjforum.com/threads/bank-1-lean-code-help.35500/
https://wranglertjforum.com/threads...o-i-need-to-run-these-wheels-and-tires.34374/
https://wranglertjforum.com/threads/help-with-gear-mesh-contact-pattern.33765/
https://wranglertjforum.com/threads/97-tj-stalls-when-giving-it-gas.33074/
https://wranglertjforum.com/threads/will-a-4-0-from-a-98-tj-work-in-my-2004-with-a-2-4.31732/
https://wranglertjforum.com/threads/2004.28129/

Another lost jeeper:
 
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And since I'll probably wonder how I did this, or if somebody else wants to do better....

Python: 
import csv

with open('scratch_1.txt') as file:
    csv_reader = csv.reader(file)
    print('[list]')
    for link in csv_reader:
        l = link[0]

        # the BBcode link needs the wranglertjforum domain prefix
        addr = l.replace('https://', '')
       
        # hygiene the human readable link
        s = l.replace('https://wranglertjforum.com/threads/', '')
        s = s.replace('-', ' ')
        s = s[:s.rfind('.')]

        print(f'[*][url="{addr}"]{s}[/url]')

    print('[/list]')
 
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hear said:
Honestly, not all that long. A better man would've written some code to scrape the links from the page, but I didn't consider that until after I had already categorized about 3 pages. It maybe took me 5-10 min/page to copy the link, paste it in another doc & categorize it. The python to convert them to bulleted links was near zero effort. Because I spent zero effort on the python, I had to manually paste each category into PyCharm and then run my script, then paste the output into the post draft. I got a pretty good flow going and did that in probably 30 minutes or so.

All told, I have a couple of hours invested, not including the time spent convincing you this was a good idea. :p
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Okay, I thought you had sat there and done this all by long process copy and paste. I was pretty taken aback. Now it makes more sense!
 
Chris said:
Okay, I thought you had sat there and done this all by long process copy and paste. I was pretty taken aback. Now it makes more sense!
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ha, no way. I only thought it would be a good idea because I could do it in a minimal amount of time. I might write a lambda function that looks for new links and alerts me when a new one shows up. I could probably programmatically add it to the index but I'm not interested enough to figure out the nuance of how.
 
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hear said:
ha, no way. I only thought it would be a good idea because I could do it in a minimal amount of time. I might write a lambda function that looks for new links and alerts me when a new one shows up. I could probably programmatically add it to the index but I'm not interested enough to figure out the nuance of how.
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In any case, I appreciate it. It certainly does add organization to the forum which I am very big on.
 
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