Recent content by Selahdoor

Thank you very much! I stopped relying on those rubber band thingies years ago, and threw them away. For a while, I used rope. Woven in a star pattern, stretched tight with trucker's hitches. etc. Then tightened again after about a 1/4 mile. Now, I use cheapo ratchet straps in the same way...

Pinch weld?

Thank you! I'll look that up. It'll be interesting to see what you did with the license plate. Ok, I found it already. That looks good, but doesn't go anywhere near far enough up. If you look at the frame where I bolted the chain, had I gone with the driver's side, and hooked a cable to that...

Installed one chain today. On the rear. I got to looking at the front. It will be a lot more work, and so I may just wait until I have a trailer hitch to install. Recovery point in the front. Yeah. No. But I beleive that I can use the sway bar as an anchor point, while doing work in the...

Thank you. I'll look into that!

Thank you. I did already know that. But not even that, is going to be in the budget for quite a while. This information is matter of fact. It's really no one's business, but it is pertinent to my approach to maintenance of the vehicle, so here goes. I live on 900 dollars a month. Yes. I do. I...

Next up, I need some recovery points on this thing. There is nothing at all on this vehicle for recovery points. I need some in case I get stuck in mud or snow. But I use them much more often... to anchor the vehicle to a tree, while doing any work, in my driveway. I don't want to damage any...

Now what I did was to install a ratchet strap, with one end hooked through the bar where the three cables meet. And the other end through a steel bracket toward the front of the vehicle. I pulled the handle up as far as it would go. Then I ratcheted the strap tight. I then grabbed that tang...

Next up, the hand brake was really bothering me. I could pull it as far up as it could possibly go, and it had zero effect. Just wasn't doing anything at all. I hoped I'd be able to do as I have done with other vehicles, and just adjust the cables at the handle. Researched all over the net for...

The damage to the driver's side tailight was obviously from an accident. Well, that damage extended to the screw in 'nipple' pieces that get shoved into the holes in the body of the vehicle. Those got broken off, along with a good bit of the plastic. Here is a pic of the good ones on the right...

With that fixed, the assembly still was not working. I had a look at the connection points in the housing, for the sockets. On the top one, the heat had gotten so bad that it had melted the metal connection point, right into the housing plastic. Here is a good socket connection point compared...

On the drivers side, as I said, the housing was broken. But the damage was a lot more than that broken corner you can see. A couple other things were wrong with it. First of all, there is something that I think is common with these early 2000 liberty driver's tail lights. There is a piece of...

When the switch came in, I replaced it and sure enough, it fixed the problem. That's all it took. Not free, but not costly, either. And the temporary fix WAS free, and got me home. Probably would have gone on being just fine for years. But was cheap enough, to do right, so why not? I left the...

That is my favorite price for fixin what needs fixin. This thread will mostly be about things I do to fix what needs fixing, for a cheap as possible. I'll kludge. I'll reverse engineer. I'll even make parts myself, if I need to. I won't be posting beauty pics. My vehicle has to earn it's keep...