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Dang Tom, if I still lived in California I would be hitting you up for a job! Working on flat rate is starting to get old. BTW, ASE has been good to me. In 2010 I won Lexus/ASE Master Technician of the Year, got a Caribbean cruise for the prize. Then last year this thing showed up in the mail...

You guys are sure tough to please! If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Seems like it would be easier to address whatever goes wrong with the 4.7, if it fails, rather than trying to engineer something better. I really love the way my 4.7 runs. It is smooth, quiet, powerful and gets better...

That is the evap system purge valve. It is duty-cycle controlled, hence the clicking sound. The green cap covers the test port, where a technician can check for leaks of the fuel tank.

This popped up in the Albuquerque Journal classifieds this morning: Somebody needs to give it a loving home!

Dish up, Joe - What sort of problems soured you on the WJ? Real world experiences like yours will help others decide if the WJ is the right choice or would it be better to move on to something else. :)

Thanks for the pics Jeff, that was a fun day!

Sounds like a lot of work for a daily/mild off road rig! Yes, blend doors are a problem with the WJ. Lucky for me the heater core leaked so I was presented with the opportunity to pull my heater box. While it was out I replaced the left & right blend doors and the recirc door with some nice...

Don't buy anything other than an 02-04 Overland. I have had a lot of fun and gone a lot of places with mine. It currently has 160k on the clock and yes, I have fixed a few things along the way. They do depreciate quickly, that works to our advantage. :) BTW, this is what I had for 10...

It's a hot air balloon... you can't plan your landing site like an airplane or chopper. :)

I moved to the Southwest in part to be closer to Moab and the surrounding Canyon Country. Randy (IntrepidXJ) did the same. How may people uproot themselves to be closer to Raush Creek or Harlan or Big Dogs? I am pretty sure if the experience of visiting those places were better than Moab we...

I agree with you about NM web wheelers. Let's get together for lunch this week and you can tell me about all of the fun things that were happening here Oct. 8 - 12. :D

I'd be willing to take on a newbie. I showed Mitch around on Fins-n-Things, it was his first trip to Moab. It was a blast! He had a smile that would barely fit back into his Jeep. That was the guy we were looking to buy your towhooks for. His XJ was as stock as could be! One other suggestion...

We could also resurrect the Spring IC Moab trip for those who want a shorter, more casual trip. Put an invite in non-tech or the foreign chapter forums. I can not honestly say if I will make the 2014 Fall Fling. I only get 2 weeks PTO, I had to take a couple of unpaid weeks to fit in everything...

That is all here, not just for Fall Fling but every event NAXJA has done: http://www.naxja.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=69

I think nametags are a great idea too. Have our screen name and real name on them. Maybe put our screen name on the back window of our Jeep with shoe polish? It would probably last about one day before becoming covered in dust. To that end I also have a habit of "forcing" everybody to introduce...