Sounds like a broken track wheel on the window regulator.
Lucky8 a new one, and a new motor will speed it up as well.
I think it's $70-$80 ish per door, to do both.
A quick and easy job too.

 

Sweet. I'll have to add those to the list of things to get

148k now, flushed the cooling system this past weekend and made quite a difference in operating temps - yay.

 

Man, ball joints are really bad. Probably just going to do them myself but ive been wanting to get an electric impact to help with the job first. Hopefully Santa is good to me I was also thinking that all the rubber bushings on the chassis / arms probably need a change as well.

My year old ebay driveshaft failed - front joint at the diff is extremely notchy and is rather hard to move, where all the other joints are fluid. Was getting vibrations at 55mph, yanked shaft and it went away. I have a replacement Moog already so just got to find time in the next few days to get that thrown in and the shaft installed.

Passenger window is still broken

Almost at 150k already -- commuting sucks but what can you do.

 

Milwaukee cordless impact is amazing. I absolutely love mine

 

Lots of the guys at the shop swear by Milwaukee for their tool needs.. have to really look into it. Didn't get an impact for the holidays but my amazing wifey did get me a new headunit instead

Been wanting to do something about the stock headunit but didn't want to go all out on a whole new setup which i have done in the past. MagPie is an SE so I've got the middle of the road stock stereo with the amp under the drivers seat and changer but not HK. Sounds decent enough to me (subs in the rear door rattle so also have to fix that soon) but I really just wanted to add BT and be done with it. Grom would be a perfect solution but at $150 or whatever it is, I could get a media headunit for 1/2 that and maybe get some speakers or something Anyways, had a Pioneer media HU in my amazon cart for eons and the wifey took note and got me one along with Metra 70-1786 harness (the one with RCAs) She actually got me the Pioneer S4120bt which has a CD player.

Thew it in today, took around 2-3 hours I'd say -- lot of that time was just cleaning parts and fixing some plastics. Metra harness worked perfectly, just used the RCA connections on the HU and the harness and bundled up the the other wires. Left the orange wire unconnected since there was no corresponding wire on the HU harness. Soldered the same colors and that was it.



Ripped apart the dash and cleaned up some wire mess along with fixing cracked plastics and really cleaning everything. The HVAC panel had alway had a stain or beverage spill on the inside which drove me nuts. Finally took care of that today -- took the unit apart and cleaned it up. Easy.





Yikes.



Yay.



Sounds good, still need to dial everything in but off to a good start. Going to make something out of wood from work to fill the spot underneath

 

Jeez, I havent posted in general in a while and here I go again with more updates! Hit the junkyard to see if I could score a drivers side head light / side marker light and was successful! Also found a sweet front drive shaft which was actually built locally so I can just take it to them if i run into any issues

Old light -- cracked and broken. Tape holding the marker light inplace.



New bits!



Also picked up the upper bumper caps / wrap around parts -- been wanted to make the back end a little more appealing visually. Since the lower quarter panels have been trimmed due to the home brew bumper, these parts need to be modified to fit..

 

Well, in other news. The PS pump greneded on me this weekend. Amazon to the rescue, less than 24 hours i had a new PS pump installed -- just need to get new fluid from work and things should be good. Hoses looked to be in good knick so didn't replace them at this point, filter in the PS fluid tank looked cleanish so didn't replace either Hopefully things will last through the winter..



PS -- drunk because of bday so yah for me -- 39 young.. yay!

Upper airbox clip thing broken but epoxied back together

 

Ugh, 2 1/2 tins of Pentosin later and everything is all good. Should have read Jukes post more about bleeding / flushing more closely but oh well. Fluid is still not green like Pestosin is out of the can but way better than the red / black crap that was in there originally. Pump is quiet, tried to bleed as best I could bleed the system flying solo but i'm sure ill have to probably buy a 4th tin of fluid to get everything bled properly. Napa auto has the Pestosin for about $26 here in Denver, but if yer nice and have a AAA card that price is around $20 so not horrid

Re-foamed the intake hose that connects directly to the fender from bits from work -- happy to send any to anyone if they need to do the same job. Work is great like that, really amazing materials that end up in the scrap bin..

Also threw in a new Mahn air filter since I haven't changed it since I bought MagPie -- it was probably time

Got a new work light with a magnet on it from my Mother and Law for my birthday and it really works well -- really stoked on it!

 

Well, i suppose this thread has really become just a reminder of what i've needed to do to keep things rollin' haha



Almost at 155k now, nothing new to report. Bought some new subs for the rear door but haven't installed them yet. Almost snagged a pair of 9" led off road lights from CL but missed it them by about 10 mins

I have a feeling that Earth Roamer is going to be shut down by the state so I'll have some free time to get some projects done (finally) that I have been putting off for the longest time -- mainly aux wiring stuff. Also have to patch my spare tire since I somehow picked up a... drill bit in it.

 

Yep, make the best of a bad situation.