DougW

Mike Romain wrote:
> Big Daddy wrote:
>>
>> Mike Romain wrote:
>>
>>> You cannot scrape or bang the ice off plastic windows, you have to hit
>>> the heater on defrost and let it melt first. It does melt fast because
>>> it is just plastic.
>>
>> Or you cold flex the window around a little and cause the sheets of ice to
>> breakup and pick off smaller pieces until it's clear, if it's not
>> rediculously cold.
>
> That is what my old employee thought too.
>
> I have 2 shattered windows that says it don't work.
>
> The ice cracks and the window cracks right along with it.

Put a plastic garbage bag over the door before you close it
and the ice can't build up on the window. :) You could
make a door cover out of awning material and slip it in over
the door.

twaldron

Actually, that g-bag idea isn't bad, esp. as often as it frosts/ices
here in Texas.

DougW wrote:
> Put a plastic garbage bag over the door before you close it
> and the ice can't build up on the window. :) You could
> make a door cover out of awning material and slip it in over
> the door.

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twaldron

Actually, that g-bag idea isn't bad, esp. as often as it frosts/ices
here in Texas.

DougW wrote:
> Put a plastic garbage bag over the door before you close it
> and the ice can't build up on the window. :) You could
> make a door cover out of awning material and slip it in over
> the door.

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Boots Crofoot

Thanks for all the info. Now, one more question. Who makes
the 4.0 V6 and how is the mileage?
"Big Daddy" <DontBother@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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Boots Crofoot wrote:

> Am thinking about getting one with the cloth top. Would
like
> to know how warn they are in the winter? Also understand
> they have plastic side windows. How to you scrape the ice
> off of them? Thanks

My '94 Wrangler is perfectly warm in the winter. As a matter
of fact,
sometimes I have passengers in my car that turn the heat
down! I live in
Cincinnati, and we have a real mix in the winter and only
see really cold
weather (less than 10 degrees) for maybe two weeks or so, if
at all.
Sometimes we get serious artic temps (as history has
recorded in the
infamous Bengals' "Freezer Bowl" that had wind chills
below -50 degrees)
and some years we never get below the lower 20's.

The only problem I have with my Wrangler is highway speeds
with wind gusts
from trucks and stuff will cause your soft upper doors to
pull away from
its seal and allow blasts of cold air in. Many times on the
highway, I'll
have to run my heater full blast to compensate for it.

Those that claim CJ's and Wranglers are cold in the winter
with soft tops
must have never owned one...

Boots Crofoot

Thanks for all the info. Now, one more question. Who makes
the 4.0 V6 and how is the mileage?
"Big Daddy" <DontBother@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:3f48c038$0$12616$a0465688@nnrp.fuse.net...
Boots Crofoot wrote:

> Am thinking about getting one with the cloth top. Would
like
> to know how warn they are in the winter? Also understand
> they have plastic side windows. How to you scrape the ice
> off of them? Thanks

My '94 Wrangler is perfectly warm in the winter. As a matter
of fact,
sometimes I have passengers in my car that turn the heat
down! I live in
Cincinnati, and we have a real mix in the winter and only
see really cold
weather (less than 10 degrees) for maybe two weeks or so, if
at all.
Sometimes we get serious artic temps (as history has
recorded in the
infamous Bengals' "Freezer Bowl" that had wind chills
below -50 degrees)
and some years we never get below the lower 20's.

The only problem I have with my Wrangler is highway speeds
with wind gusts
from trucks and stuff will cause your soft upper doors to
pull away from
its seal and allow blasts of cold air in. Many times on the
highway, I'll
have to run my heater full blast to compensate for it.

Those that claim CJ's and Wranglers are cold in the winter
with soft tops
must have never owned one...

David C. Moller

V6? Not on a Wrangler.... not yet anyway (to the best of my
knowledge).

Dave
http://home1.gte.net/res0p2es/david/index.htm

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 14:57:16 -0500, "Boots Crofoot" <boots@dcwis.com>
wrote:

>Thanks for all the info. Now, one more question. Who makes
>the 4.0 V6 and how is the mileage?

David C. Moller

V6? Not on a Wrangler.... not yet anyway (to the best of my
knowledge).

Dave
http://home1.gte.net/res0p2es/david/index.htm

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 14:57:16 -0500, "Boots Crofoot" <boots@dcwis.com>
wrote:

>Thanks for all the info. Now, one more question. Who makes
>the 4.0 V6 and how is the mileage?

Big Daddy

Boots Crofoot wrote:

> Thanks for all the info. Now, one more question. Who makes
> the 4.0 V6 and how is the mileage?

It's a derivative of the 258 (4.2L) STRAIGHT six. It's not in a V
configuration at all. The 258 was an AMC design, I believe, and redesigned
several times over by Chrysler/DC. It's a very durable engine, but the gas
mileage in any 4WD sucks. Even as small as the Wrangler is, and packing
only six cylinders, it gets similar gas mileage as my friend's Silverado
Z71 with a V8.

Big Daddy

Boots Crofoot wrote:

> Thanks for all the info. Now, one more question. Who makes
> the 4.0 V6 and how is the mileage?

It's a derivative of the 258 (4.2L) STRAIGHT six. It's not in a V
configuration at all. The 258 was an AMC design, I believe, and redesigned
several times over by Chrysler/DC. It's a very durable engine, but the gas
mileage in any 4WD sucks. Even as small as the Wrangler is, and packing
only six cylinders, it gets similar gas mileage as my friend's Silverado
Z71 with a V8.

Matt Macchiarolo

In article <3f49189e$0$43850$39cecf19@news.twtelecom.net>, "Boots Crofoot"
<boots@dcwis.com> writes:

>Thanks for all the info. Now, one more question. Who makes
>the 4.0 V6 and how is the mileage?

I think Ford makes a 4.0 V6, but that's irrelevent, since the 4.0 straight six
in the Wrangler is made by Daimler Chrysler, based on the AMC six.

Expect 14-18 mpg. The Wrangler has the aerodynamics of a barn door. The 4-cyl
won't be much better.
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Matt Macchiarolo
www.townpeddler.com
www.wolverine4wd.org
http://wolverine4wd.org/rigs/macchiarolo_ml.html