Geonovast

Was it frozen?

What distributor is in it?

I had Wal Mart do one tire for me. Only because the stupid thing went flat that day, I was out of same-size spares, and it was Sunday. Sunday = Wal Mart only tire place open. Luckily I had an extra rim sitting around that I got from Worlds Fastest Comanche during the AMC guy's visit. I carried it into Wal Mart, they mounted the tire, I wheeled it out, and changed it in the parking lot.

I don't think the DTRL module came on American Jeeps. My family has owned 86, 87, two 88s, 89, 91, 92, 98, and two 99 XJs. Not a single one of them had the headlights come on automatically.

I've forgotten what snow is.

Stuck relay?

Is it just the one light, or both?

I can't see the video. :hmm:

Oh yes, and if you ever read a how-to on re-gearing, you'd understand why. You can't just bolt new gears in. They have to be extremely meticulously adjusted. To figure out gears, the easiest way is to pop the cover and look. There should be a stamp on the ring gear with at least the tooth counts, but probably the ratio itself too. If it's just got the tooth counts, divide the bigger number by the smaller number. Ex. if the stamp is 41 10, 41 ÷ 10 = 4.10

Nope. What makes you think it's the dizzy? The dist itself rarely causes problems. Do a regular tune-up on the 89, also check to make sure the coil and CPS aren't the problem. Could also be low fuel pressure.

While I agree with the pinion angle and moving the perches the XJ perches are not offset as much as the picture shows. I measured the rear 44 in my MJ and the 8.25 from my old 93 XJ and there was only 1" of difference from center to center. I don't care how good it might look, or how little it's "off". These are suspension components. Cutting corners puts your life, your passenger's lives, and other people on the road's lives at risk. Do it right or don't do it. It would have been convenient to for AMC to put the perch width the same, but for some reason they didn't.

The 2.5 did that before I stopped driving it. Ended up being a carrier bearing.

You CANNOT simply bolt up an XJ axle and make your truck SOA. Not only will this not give you proper pinion angle, but the perches are at a different width. You still need to move the perches, regardless of which axle you use. Even if it looks like it lines up, it doesn't. If you bolt the XJ axle on as-is, you'll be stressing your springs(twisting). They don't like that and could break.

4-5 cranks to start for a Renix is normal. HOs can sometimes take a few as well, even if there's nothing wrong with it.

There could actually be two problems there. This is assuming the timing mark is in the correct place and the outer piece of the balancer hasn't shifted. As 91coMANche stated, you could have been on the exhaust stroke. That would put your timing 180 off. Also, even if you were TDC on the compression stroke, did you put the rotor pointing directly at the #1 post? If you did... that could be the problem. The rotor should be pointing just past #1 at TDC.

This implies that you changed motors because your original was a 2wd one.

Wait wait wait. There is NO difference between 4wd and 2wd motors. None. You do have the 88's distributor in the 96 motor, right? Won't run with the 96 dizzy.

Your truck has 3 temp sensors. One in the back of the head for the light/gauge, and the one you got looks like it's for a gauge. One in the radiator for an electric fan. The other one's in the bottom middle of the block, driver's side, next to the knock sensor. This one's for the computer. The e-fan and computer sensors should have pigtails.

I've had 800 lbs in the back of a non- metric ton and it didn't sag that much.

If you really want a different kind of sound, snap one of the bolts holding the manifold to the rest of the exhaust system, then drive 550 miles. But don't do that.

Yup, dash lights share a fuse with the tails, most likely so you'd know something was wrong if you lost your tails.

That is the exact definition of not having limited slip.

It was a 70s something Honda whatever. I think we got it for free when a neighbor moved and then sold it for $75. It was in pieces and didn't run. Nobody in the family was motorcycle savvy or definitely not a Honda fan, so it went away.

MO isn't too far is it? Bring it out here with a new donor and we'll have ya fixed up in a jiffy.