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Wow, looking good in all its blackness, those wheels really helped the look. I'm always impressed when i see how much effort some people put into rescuing these cars from what would othervise be certain death.

Thank you, I will take good care of it. True the D44 is noisy and I will have to have closer look at it before i install the lockers, but I've been told by a friend that owned an old XJ for many years that this is "normal"

I like it too but its actually bit to tight. The fasteners that hold it to the tailgate are hard to clip on and much worse to get off. Other than that it does a good job of keeping rain out and hiding my stuff from thievin bastards, if I secure it with the rear fasteners it's probably harder to get into the bed then getting into the cab :razz:

Nooo! As I've written earlier in the thread only about 100 MJ were ever sold in Norway and with our salted roads very few have survived. the only body parts I would ever consider modifying would the ones that I could get of an XJ.

Plans for the car. I intend to keep the body completely stock, no cutting. As I mentioned these cars are very rare here in Norway with less than a hundred sold. as a concequence they are also really expensive compared to XJ's I had to pay more than 7000$ for mine :eek: but even the for a rusted old heap you'd still have to pay more than 3000$ It will be built to handle mild to medium offroad conditions and should still be useable as a daily driver. lift will be around 4" and it will be running 31/10,5-15" TrxUS MT tires on Cragar 15x8 soft 8's. Powertrax No-slip lockers front and rear and quick disconnects. Eventually i will make front and rear bumpers with 2" receivers so I can use a multi mount winch if I decide to get one. Might also make myself some rocker guards. I just need to learn how to weld first :roll: Parts ordered so far: 15x8 Cragar soft 8 31/10,5-15 TrxUS MT 2x OE replacement electric fans Passenger side power window mechanism 3" Skyjacker lift with rear AAL 4x Skyjacker Nitro shocks "Quicker disconnects" Agr high performance steering pump 6" over stock stainless brake lines Powertrax No-slip front and rear manual remote mirrors both sides 4x Warn 4x rectangular driving lights All of this been ordered through US suppliers which means 6-8 weeks delivery time but in most cases it's half price or less compared to Norway so I guess I can live with that :D Thanks for all the inspiration guys, without you a norvegian MJ owner would feel all alone in this world. I've read every single post in every project thread over the last week :popcorn:

After I got i pressure washed the whole car and the engine bay since it was full of dirt and mud wrom the wheeling. When it wouldn't start afterwards I wasn't to surprised. There was no spark. I checked the distributor and all the wires and connections but I couldn't find any water ingress anywhere :dunno: . I then started searching the tech section on this forum to find a solution. One thing came up again and again, CPS (crankshaft position sensor). This page http://www.lunghd.com/Tech_Articles/Engine/Basic_Sensors_Diagnostics.htm mentioned a method to measure the sensor. I tried this out and it seemed to be dead. I got a new one and swapped it which was a $#!&ty job, those of you who have done it know what I'm talking about. Still no spark :???: I measured the new sensor and got the same result as before, turns out my multimeter couldn't measure ac this low. which I guess means the old one was ok. When I bought the CPS I also bought some other parts to do a general tune up so I changed the Air filter, Distributor cap, plug lead and plugs. Still no spark. The only thing left was the coil. Bought a new coil and it started right up. thankfully the new coil seems to sealed a lot better so hopefully it will surwive a pressure wash in the future. As I mentioned earlier the engine has felt a bit lazy since I got the car so I bought a gauge to check the cylinder pressure. It was between 8 and 9 Bar (116-130 Psi) on all cylinders. From what i've been told this is an acceptable difference between the cylinders but does anyone know how good or bad this value is? and if its bad, how much would it affects engine power? I checked all the engine sensors and they seemded to give acceptable readings. I was not able to fully check the O2 sensor. does anyone know how much a slightly defective O2 sensor would affect the engine? As it is the engine is running nicely but the idle is a bit unsteady even after I calibrated the throttle position sensor.

There were a few small problems that I knew of when I bought it -Drivers side window window would not move, a new motor came with the car -Passenger side window would only go down a few inches -Central locking did not work -Cruise control did not work What I didn't know was that the engine would overheat when driving slowly or left on idle for more than five minutes and start squirting coolant out of a hole in the rad. Since the hoses heated up nicely shortly after starting it i figured that the rad was the problem. A (really expensive) replacement was bought from a special radiator supplier. The stealership wanted almost 1300$ for an original :nuts: and it would take two weeks to get it, this was just my first experience with crazy prices and long deliver times at the stealership. Thankfully there's a few specialist suppliers for US cars around where I live that have more sensible prices and carry most parts in stock. I changed the rad and things looked good for about fifteen minutes before it boiled again. After some head scratching I started looking at the mechanical fan, my car doesn't have the extra electrical fan since there's no AC. There was very little resistance in the clutch even when the engine was really hot. I made a temporary fix by connecting the bolts on the pulley with the bolts on the fan with a metal band, forcing the fan to follow the engine speed. This fixed the cooling but the metal bands have a tendency to snap from fatigue when reving the engine. A more permanent fix will be to add a second electrical fan. I have ordered two since I was thinking about going all electrical but I might keep the mechanical one. I replaced the driver side window motor which was a pain in the &%? since everything is fastened with about a Gazzilion rivets. With a temporary fix for the cooling and a window that allowed me to see where my wheels were it was time for some wheeling. I hadn't planned on driving the water holes. but as you can probably tell I sort of forgot I wasn't esxpexting this one to be so deep. look closely at my face as I'm driving out of it My day was cut a little short as I suddenly noticed a weird smell. turned out my sealed Exide battery had boiled and squirted battery acid around the engine bay :eek: I sort of knew this battery was not quite healthy as it would be drained if i didn't use the car for a couple of days, and when I tried to charge it the current reading would newer go below 5 amps. I guess it had some sort of internal short which together with the slow speed driving caused it to overheat. Amazingly it still worked well enough to get me home and start the car several times after this. Currently I'm running on a borrowed battery with no such problems anymore. I guess I will try to get the battery replaced under warranty since it's only a year old The rest of the pictures: http://vagner.jeje.je/bilder/Offroad-GP-svinndag-04-08-2007?page=1 To be continued......

My baby the day i bought it Aint she a beauty :brows: She's an 87' SWB 4.0L with a Dana 44 Trac lok rear axle, if you think MJ's are rare in the US just imagine that only around a hundred of these were ever sold in here in Norway :eek: . With the wet climate and the salted roads very few of these have survived. I was extremely lucky to find this one with all the right options and almost no rust whatsoever, just a few patches of surface rust on the bed . she has done 230K kilometers which translates to about 140K miles, not bad for a twenty year old car. The interior is just as good as the outside with separate seats and the drivers side has beed replaced by a Recaro seat in good condition. She ran beautifully the the whole 400 miles back home but seemed to be a little down on power, but it was sort of hard to tell since this is my first Jeep and I don't have experience with these engines. The ride home, me as a passenger in this photo and my friend Halvard driving First things first, she really needed a lift and some nice wheels, she was looking a little sorry for herself next to Halvards XJ. The previous owner had bought 1.5" lift shackles and spacers. Luckily I have access to a proper garage lift which made the job a whole lot easier As Halvard had a lot of road miles ahead of him he agreed to lend me his 31" TrxUS on American racing steelies. He got the ekstra set of road wheels that also came with the car. Lookin good