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my pic didnt attatch i guess.... http://www.tirerack.com/tires/BigPic.jsp?sidewall=Outlined+White+Letters&tireMake=Michelin&tireModel=LTX+A%2FT+2 like most michelin, these get excellent reviews all around. noise, ride comfort, longevity, fuel efficiency, pavement traction, trail traction, and safety. and just judging by looks alone, they look like they would be tame and smooth on the freeway, but do pretty decent on gravel and dry or damp dirt. you might not be able to climb up a sheer cliff in a hurricane, but as you know, tires ARE aaaaalways a compromise. you cant have it all, at least not in one tire. like all michelins, though, they arent dirt cheap. tirerack.com says $143 per tire for the smallest size, 235-75-15.

hey scott. i know this thread is a bit older, but hey, here i am anyhow. everyone beats that same dead horse of grabbers and bfg a/t's. MICHELIN is a very good quality brand though. and i would run THESE if i had 15s or if they came in 14.

THANKS a lot you three!! i didnt NEED a new clutch, it was in great shape. therefore, no clutch kit, hence, no alignment tool. i will try the loose p.p. bolts trick... hehe "PP". lol...... that means tinkle, hee hee..... just kidding.... by the way, i didnt even think this post went through. it kept getting an error message. im glad it did. im ready for this gosh durn thing to get installed and on the road again. like willy nelson.

i got it hanging there in my engine bay. the tranny shaft thing is IN the flywheel/clutch pressure plate. i just cant quite get it that last half inch. i dont recall hearing/reading about needing any conversion for those parts?. i have the sjr plate on it. whats the deal? please help, before i jump off a cliff. and NO, i dont have/didnt use the clutch alignment key whatchamacallit. grrrrrrrrr........... also, if anyone wants my old coil, and the coil clamp hanger thing, its yours.

UH OH!!! got your girlfriend experiencing the dreaded "baby fever" huh? my girl is like that too. every time, any time, anywhere, if theres anyone under age 4 at the grocery store, gas station, restaurant, ANYWHERE ANYTIME, she is ALL over that baby, and its kinda scary.... heh..... been thinking about a rollcage and more speakers in the brat, PURELY for the sake of making it a ONE seater. "sorry babe, no room for passengers". lmao

i dont have the ea. so i have the awesome, bone crushing 110hp. and yea, you may have crawled your car at angles. but have you done 30 or 40mph on a curvy gravel road with loose surface and not nearly enough of a bank to the roadbed on the hairpin corners? THATS what scares me. and im still stock height. im planning to add a 2 inch lift. what do you mean by 150-200? like tools and stuff? what does a lift kit weigh? i kinda wonder what a factory low-bar weighs.

input is definately appreciated, thank you. the steering is the same as before, i assume? its still factory steering. the only diff is the actual powerplant. but i could see where a fairly large power increase would affect the effort it takes to control the vehicle.

no, why? does the added power make a big difference? im all ears. im well aware that im no expert and that lots of guys here know much that i do not. so speak up, please. my biggest thing is that the passenger corner of the engine bay is real crowded. my radiator doesnt look like it will even fit. and the p/s assembly <pump, belt, reserv> is exactly WHERE i could use the extra few inches.

my brat didnt have it originally, and i loved the feel of the wheel. lots of response, great "connection" with the pavement. and i have 185-75-14s on alloy pugs. meaning my rollers dont weigh much. i totally understand the attraction of power steer in say.... a half ton work truck. or like a classic muscle car, cutlass, chevelle, whatever..... but i have experienced p/s in a small sports car, like a miata. its SCARY. its TOO easy to steer, and it makes the car squirrely. no thanks. also, it takes ROOM. and my radiator is pinched in as it is. i like a hood compartment with LOTS of elbow room. not crowded. and yes, i agree, the p/s is fairly light. but its way up front, and up high, and 6-7 lbs at the far extreme of the car has a definite affect on a car is light, and also extremely FRONT heavy, such as a brat with an ej18 swap. i dont know the facts, but if i had to guess, id say the brat with the ej, bullbar, skid plate, and tranny support frame thingy, is around 80/20 front/rear. 70/30 at best. off topic- what would be really awesome, relating to overall weight, and weight ratio f/r, would be a high strength, aircraft aluminum bullbar, skid plate, tranny mount. rollbar also would be cool, but id prefer the rollbar as a fully welded extension of the frame. cant get a strong weld between ferrous, and non ferrous. bullbar/skid plate, etc on the other hand, is a BOLT in unit, and rightly so. IDEAL for a high tensile aluminum. anyhow, my personal feeling is that a super-stront bullbar is kinda scary. in an impact, whatever energy the bumpers refuse to absorb, the humans gotta swallow. not fun. ive been in a major car wreck, heli-lift to hospital and all that, 580,000 dollar hospital bill, 3 years on narcotics. id rather just have a bumper that crumples when it needs to.

my fiancee and loooovely partner, sarah, lived near there. in palmyra, on monticello rd. i had to fly my butt ALL the way there, and drive 3,000 miles ALL the way home. her fine round butt BETTER appreciate, y'all.....

i dont want it. three questions. 1. how do i remove it? 2. a-what does it WEIGH? b-how much parasitic loss does it cause? 3. what do i do for the new belt? is there a part number i should know? and i final, but seperate question???? does anyone WANT it when i remove it? the belt will come with it. i think ten bucks is a fair price. at least then i can buy my smaller belt.

alright, well, i dont have a ton of hardcore offroad experience. just an occasional 30mph bombing run through a big ol' mud puddle, or a exploration of logging road. nothing too crazy like one eye and qman do. possibly you also, i am just naming the two im aware of having an extreme offroad reputation. i just like to be able to BOMB down some remote gravel roads, and maybe cross a creek when i need to. and the diamond plate rockers look pretty dang cool.

p.s. concrete is a cool area. i suppose you already are well aware of the de niro movie set in concrete? lol, just realized the double entendre <set in concrete>

and i think i could fab up a design where the diamond plate are seperate from the mount. like an expendable piece, easily replaced. a "pawn" if you will. diamond plate aluminum is so common in junkyards, old damaged pickup bed-boxes and such. enough to protect the entire lower rocker couldnt weigh more than maybe, i dunno, twenty lbs. twenty lbs, even on a 4 cylinder asian car, is not a big deal. if anything, its USEFUL weight. its down low, it could act as a mild ballast, to counteract the high-up weight, especially in lifted rigs that are so tippy and top heavy.

couldnt weigh much more than any of the other junk some guys haul. and im not saying it needs to be attatched JUST like the picture. that was just a visual reference. not carved in stone.

im thinking that body fabrication on a cherokee and a brat is pretty similiar in a lot of ways, considering the uni-body design. and brats tending to be a fair bit LOWER, even with a 4 inch lift, rocker panel armor is something we could all use. i think SJR or HTI could probably make a real quality design, and and i bet they would sell at LEAST a dozen in the first month. [ATTACH]8807[/ATTACH] of course, it wouldnt be EXACTLY like this. a cherokee is square, where a brat or lego is much more rounded/45degree at the rocker panel.

i see em on jeep cherokees a lot. sometimes on dodge ram pickups. never seen it on a soob, though. anyone done it? kinda surprised McBrat doesnt have this on his bad beast. [ATTACH]8805[/ATTACH] but more like THIS, tuffer, thicker, and with the nerf incorporated into the same strong unit: [ATTACH]8806[/ATTACH]

thanks rob. and yea, i prefer a brat. im just saying, if i gotinto that famous situation where you get married, and a baby or two, and the wife starts crackin the whip for a minivan or station wagon. nothing against suby wagons. but they are so much more often seen than a brat. i gotta be different. plus these have a pickup bed. and they are uglier than a legacy wagon, much uglier. if i gotta buy a family 4 door in 5 years or ten years, i want an ugly one. dont ask why, its just the way my mind works. cuckoo. lol

kinda tight in that subaru sort of way, huh? like an early 80s brat. handy, practical, kinda ugly in a GOOD way, and kinda cool and not at all yuppy prissy.

well, gas mileage, simpler wiring, fear of excess power. dont get me wrong, im not scared of big power. i have had cars with a LOT of power. my 67 riviera has about 550 ft lbs of torque....... at the rear wheels...... at 2800rpm THATS a fair amount of power. a lot more than these prissy shiny new f250 super dutys that all the limpy yuppies drive to starbucks and to pick their kids up at school. lol..... i bought it from suberdave. also, i heard rumors from friends that stayimg with equal displacement is good from a registration aspect. on a sidenote, what do you think of these VW dokas?

hey, thanks man!! i got a lot more plans. the ej18 is in it now. once i get it all hooked up and able to make it to the gas station and also the DMV, i will take a couple more pics, of course.

ok, THATS what i forgot. i scored a nice bullbar/skid plate/transfer case support, off of craigslist. i screwed with it and screwed with it. couldnt seem to get it to match up. eventually i met true2blue, and he had a nice lift. and we at least got the back mounted up, it all used the original crossmember bolts. but the front still didnt attach. eventually i realized it was a gen ONE bullbar. but i moved the front mounts a bit and made it work. i still havent managed to convince the skid plate to fit.

the empty, lonely engine bay, sans engine.

simpsons/dinner. the first pic i took, the previous owners driveway:

i didnt even know they MADE tracers for rimfire cartridges. im kind of a tightass about tracers and such in my yard, anyhow. or shotguns. you know, im on well-water out here. phosphorous, lead, etc, no fun. plus i got 2 dozen free-range chickens. and apparently they havent been told of the danger of eating lead..... dummies.