Read This xj owners!!
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From: spearfish, SD
Year: 74
Model: Wagoneer
Engine: 318
Our auto tech class had a brand new ford crate motor among other engines donated to the class to use for teaching. Did any students ever touch these? NO. They sat in a storage room locked. We also had an in-floor dyno (slightly out dated), that was never used. The teacher was to lazy to do anything at all. Most of the kids who took this class were pot heads and kids who just wanted an easy grade so all they wanted to do was sit on the computers. Pisses me off that this is what auto tech classes have come to when theres kids like me and you out there actually wanting to learn.
hey atleast you guys have auto shop. spearfish high school dropped it even though there was great intrest in it
. also all my stoner friends work on cars to. 
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You should replace the entire set at one time. They wear together, and putting a new chain on previoulsy worn srockets, is a very bad idea. This is why the teacher was acting like that, I'd bet he assumed you would pick it all up at once. My $.02, anyways...
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From: Washington
Year: 1991
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0 HO
I wish my high school would have had autoshop. 
And your autoshop teacher sounds like kind of a dick head. Granted, it might have been the right move for you to get the timing set, but there's no reason for him to kick your Jeep out of there.
And your autoshop teacher sounds like kind of a dick head. Granted, it might have been the right move for you to get the timing set, but there's no reason for him to kick your Jeep out of there.
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From: WNY
Year: 1999
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYByl_-3viw
this is our autotech class, thats me in the beginning counting down, i have tons more where this came from haha
this is our autotech class, thats me in the beginning counting down, i have tons more where this came from haha
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From: Chesapeake, Virginia
Year: 2002
Model: Grand Cherokee
Engine: 4.7
Lol post up some more then bro and I should clarify my previous post, in no way is my auto shop teacher a moron, he knows his stuff, hes just a hard *** to the people who actually want to be in the class and graduate with a good grade and a good understanding of the different systems on an automobile. But he ignors people way to much. He dosent mind letting you do work but hes sarchastic and it comes off as being a smart *** at times.
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From: Southern California
Year: 1989 Laredo
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0 Inline 6 Renix
Sorry about bad experiences in auto tech, that class has the potential of being the best class in school! I'm in the auto tech program at college and I'm loving it! Great professors all around. I get to do a lot of work on my XJ during class too, which i LOVE. My professor even helped me install and balance my BFG's just last month, had a blast doin' it. 
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From: WNY
Year: 1999
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I did watch that one and a few others, they were bad, i liked the fire works one, that was freakin hilarious haha
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From: Chesapeake, Virginia
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i also found some more videos from our class, ill try to put them on youtube tonight, ive got one of the xterra we stripped down to pretty much nothing, and a few others too
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From: WNY
Year: 1999
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Nice man, throw em up, ill take a look at them, i shouldve video taped me and my friends pretty much beating the hell out of this 94 geo prizim last year, burnt the clutch to hell haha later pulled the engine, bout the funnest part of this year so far
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From: Chesapeake, Virginia
Year: 2002
Model: Grand Cherokee
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haha thats awesome, i think ive got a video of us bouncing the back end of a celica we had in the shop off the ground with a bunch of guys, i got to get some from my buddy, hes got most of them, hes like our designated cameraman for anything funny or stupid we do haha
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Year: 1999
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haha thats awesome, i think ive got a video of us bouncing the back end of a celica we had in the shop off the ground with a bunch of guys, i got to get some from my buddy, hes got most of them, hes like our designated cameraman for anything funny or stupid we do haha
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From: Chesapeake, Virginia
Year: 2002
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yeah we tried to get a good senior prank going, the only think we ended up doing is a bunch of us went up this hill out of the parking lot on the last day of school, and supposedly a bunch of other people followed us, we didnt stick around to find out haha
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From: WNY
Year: 1999
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haha yeah they were just shop cars, it should hopefully be sometime tonight ill get them up
yeah we tried to get a good senior prank going, the only think we ended up doing is a bunch of us went up this hill out of the parking lot on the last day of school, and supposedly a bunch of other people followed us, we didnt stick around to find out haha
yeah we tried to get a good senior prank going, the only think we ended up doing is a bunch of us went up this hill out of the parking lot on the last day of school, and supposedly a bunch of other people followed us, we didnt stick around to find out haha