Went to Discount Tire and had a set of Nitto Recon Grapplers installed to get rid of the crappy SUV tires that came with him. Not quite the effect of the Black Widow I thought I wanted so bad a few years ago, but this will definitely do. Especially with my back being junked out – at 6’5″ I can pretty much slide into Clifford with hardly any effort – the Black Widow would’ve been a challenge to daily drive in my current condition. Looks like a dodged a bullet on that front (but, the truck was pretty dang cool… and I hate black rims, but those spoke to me for some reason).

After returning home to find Dave ready to throw something, we finally agreed there was no further progress to be had on our own, so I caved and called Edelbrock Tech Support. The tech was friendly and helpful, and suggested I get a NOID light to check all of the injector plugs… just to rule that out. Well, by the time we got the NOID light, made a harness adapter for it to plug into and checked all the injector leads only to determine we’re right and the ECU is telling the injectors to fire – but they aren’t – we called back only to discover that they punch-out for the day exactly on-time.

GAUGH!!! OK – I guess we’ll call ’em back tomorrow.

I’m not asking for much. Just let the engine run and be happy so we can finish reinstalling the brakes, steering column, rear driveshaft, get the seats set where they need to be, and get the lights hooked back up so I can go get a sticker and re-register by COB Friday and we can take a cruise together in our Jeeps before he needs to leave.