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          412 hours ago

          That’s 4 years newer than the Cherokee I drive! Haha. The alternator is new though… Well newly refurbished, it died last week.

          • @[email protected]
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            310 hours ago

            Oh, well that is more of a house. I miss my old XJ. Thing was a tank. I don’t miss getting 8mpg though.

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              9 hours ago

              I’ve gotten lucky with it, I’m getting about 18mpg with the straight 6.

              Although I need to recharge the AC… and the liquid is illegal to buy now. Apparently I have to get it converted by a professional or something? Still looking into that. Have till summer I suppose

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                28 hours ago

                Mine was built as a crawler so commuting 50 miles when gas was >$4/gal sucked. And off road or crawling it was <4mpg. But so much fun. I kept it always entirely covered in mud. If it rained and washed off that just meant there were new mud pits to go cover it again. Had water over the hood with no snorkel plenty. And omg I love that straight 6, honestlyy favorite engine. Easiest thing to work on. Now I do Subaru boxers where pretty much anything just means pull the engine. And transverse i4s that are just like… I wish this engine was pointed the right way.

                You can usually get a pretty good deal on the r12 to r134 conversion is you ask around, lots of shadetree guys around that just need to he asked. But its also not impossible to get r12. But you do need to know who. If it isn’t working anyways then slowly doing the r134 conversion yourself can be pretty easy. Start now while its still cold and you could do it yourself by the time you need it.

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                  Thanks for the advice. How about do I approach the conversion. I assume you have to suck all of the r12 out if there is still residual, and then get an adapter that fits the input? Then check the seal? I know the connections didn’t match the ones for the r134.

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    3320 hours ago

    Trying to explain to my 14 kids from three different fathers and the accumulated 217 grandkids that back in the 1950s we definitely were not fucking casually.

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      1219 hours ago

      My guess is brie, but I’m not sure due to all the jpg.