[Sirius Lee]

Her problems are mainly engine issues.

Should have stayed with the tried and true straight six. I still see these guys on the road around here.

I made the switch to Toyota 4X4s.

[NorthMountain]

I don’t know what engines are in her vehicles ... none of them are particularly new.

Aside ... Back in the 1980s and 1990s, I had a Mercury Zephyr with an inline 6. That was a great engine ... plenty of power, and easy to service. Tranny leaked bad, though ...

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I had a 1976 CJ7 and it was great fun. A buddy and I drove it from the San Fran Bay Area to Durango, CO to go skiing with another friend. The cabin heater was so anemic and the ragtop leaked so much air that our water bottles froze INSIDE the truck.

It gradually started losing power and, over a few weeks, go so bad it would hardly run. I found a pinhole leak in the head gasket which was blowing hot gas directly onto a vacuum hose, burning a hole in it. The exhaust gas then got sucked directly into the vacuum hose, changing the mixture. It was my very own self-grown exhaust gas circulation system!

There was nothing like it for runs through the redwood forests to the ocean with the top down on a summer day.

The yutes in East Palo Alto discovered I kept it in my driveway and thought it was a great source of spare parts. One time I came home from a business trip to find my entire front bumper and KC Highlights off-road lights gone. My wife never noticed. After another business trip, the Jeep sounded weird when I started it. I lifted the hood and found they had helped themselves to my air cleaner.