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But, Don -- it says they use "Superior materials and sub-components." Surely Amazon wouldn't lie ... would they?

But they aren't 9/16" bolts -- they're 14mm.

Did my eyes deceive me, or does that ... thing ...have a tachometer?

No, dissing on Renix MJs is a common affliction among the envious souls who are forced to endure with the Chryco injected models.

That is NOT a stock J-truck. What is that, aftermarket injection?

I respectfully disagree. The XJ is a spring over, with the springs set up to have essentially no arch when sitting at curb weight. That means whether the spring takes on more load or is unloaded, the rear shackle is always going to more forward Because either way the spring is bending/arching more, thus getting shorter). The MJ starts at curb weight with significant arch, and as the bed gets loaded the spring flattens and gets longer. For an MJ, the basic curb weight orientation should have the shackle closer to vertical, to allow the spring to work properly as the load is increased.

Quadratec has the front flares and the retainer strips. https://www.quadratec.com/search/cherokee%20flares If you're using the original MJ flares in the rear, the OEM style flares in the front will look better than anything else, even when trimmed to fit the 97+ front clip.

But WJ wheels have a different bolt circle. They won't fit an MJ. My bad on the tire size. Basically, a 245/70R16 is the same diameter as a 30x9.50-15, and it's a tenth of in inch wider in cross section. My comment remains unchanged: I ran 30x9.50s for a number of years, before moving up to 31x10.50s, and the 30s rubbed on the LCAs at full steering lock. Not a lot, but consistently, and I NEVER remembered it was going to happen until I heard the rumble, and said to myself "You dummy, when are you going to learn?"

.5 inches larger than what? 235/75R15 was never a factory tire size, neither on the MJ nor on the XJ. The largest tire size from the factory was 225/75R15. So even a 235/75 is larger than the largest tire offered from the factory. It's 0.6 inches taller and 0.4 inches wider. Compared to a 235/75R15, a 245/70R15 is actually 0.4 inches smaller in diameter, but it's 0.3 inches wider in cross section. And that's where it WON'T fit. It's wider than a 30x9.50-15, and I know first-hand that 30x9.50s rub on the lower control arms at full steering lock. And lift does NOT eliminate that problem; the only thing that eliminates it is either wheels with less backspacing, or WJ lower control arms.

I didn't see any photos in the discussion page you posted a link to ... As to Chevy body lines being similar ... have your eyeglasses prescription checked. I can't imaging how Chevy flares would fit on an MJ without some major modifications.

A little faster would be nice. Sometimes the speed is okay, but at certain times I have to just give up and come back later. Better search I find the edit window very frustrating. It works okay to create a new, blank post but, when quoting someone else's post, it's very difficult to delete PART of the quoted post without either losing it all, or getting shut out of the area to insert my own new post. Maybe a couple of optional "skins"? Web sites and forums these days all seem to default to a pale, pastel colour scheme, which for those of us with aging eyes (combined -- in my case -- with red-green colour blindness) is often very difficult to read.

Keep in mind that the larger air hose to the valve cover (the one in the front) is an intake hose. For the CCV system to function as designed, the skinny little line toward the rear of the valve cover also has to be open, because that's the one that uses engine vacuum to create a negative pressure in the crankcase to suck out fumes. It's not a great design, because hot, oily fumes tend to clog up the little line. Once that happens, you no longer have a crankcase "ventilation system" -- you now have a crankcase that gets pressurized by piston blowby, and the pressure goes out anywhere it can. If the front intake tube is also clogged, it'll force the fumes (and oil) out the rear main seal. I once had one blow the oil fill cap right off on the highway.

Make your own. Somewhere on this site, someone has posted dimensional drawings of both the LWB and SWB chassis. With the dimensions, it shouldn't be difficult to fabricate and locate replacement brackets. I'm sure members here will be happy to provide close-up photos of what the brackets look like on the truck.

Was the ignition turned on and the fan switch set to the "Hi" position? If so, then you're not getting power to the fan. So the next step is to unplug the connector at the resistor pack and see if you're getting power to the input side of the resistors.

Unplug the fan connector under the hood and check for power at the connector. If you have power, the problem may be the ground. Remember that fan speed is controlled by a resistor pack, so you won't see 12 volts except with the control on the high speed setting.

The problem isn't the fuel pump, it's the sender and the gauge. The polarity of the gauge is different on the newer vehicle. Are you swappiing in the '96 dashboard and gauge cluster?

Brakes are good. Brakes that work are better. :)

Congratulations. The young lady certainly looks happy -- inexplicably, considering the other face in the photo. Maybe that was the best man, the groom was the photographer? Anyway, best wishes to both of you. May you have a long and harmonious marriage.

It looks to me like a competitor for those Kawasaki utility quads with the micro "pickup" box on the back.

The following is from the draft of the book I haven't finished. It confirms my recollection. Please do not reproduce. It's copyrighted, and I'm posting it here for information. I am not granting permission for anyone to reproduce it.

No, they had a HUGE problem in the rust belt with the two-piece rotors self-destructing. They finally went back to a one-pieve design, and I believe the change was made in mid-year of the 1999 model run. That would explain why there are two part numbers.

Tech is changing at neck breaking speed, if not the tech, the way tech is being used. My brother is a corporate snob who deals a lot with millennials, he tells me that that many are using the 'personal cloud' as a means to work around everyone else' 'terms of service'. I have two millennial daughters myself. They way we do things is not the way they do things. They will dictate the way things are done, they already are. Cable TV, for example, will, has, will go, the way of the floppy disc, betamax, VHS, CDs, DVDs, etc..... you just haven't caught on yet. :P I know, I'm a Luddite. Can't help it, it's just the way my brain is wired. I've never been at the bleeding edge of any technological advances -- I'm always trailing at the end of the pack, dragged kicking and screaming into last year's (or the year before that) technology. I still don't trust the cloud, and I prefer to own the license to my software, not rent it. I bought a license for Microsoft Office 2016, rather than paying every month to "rent" Office 365.

Anything you put on "the cloud" is ultimately at the mercy of whoever owns the cloud server(s). Photobucket is "the cloud." Dropbox is "the cloud." Google Docs is "the cloud." They can change their price structure and/or terms of service tomorrow. The very best control, which most of us can't afford and probably don't have the technical resources to do anyway, is to have your own server hosting your own domain. I know one guy in town who does that -- but he's an IT professional for a large hospital, and he has a bank of servers in a rack in his basement. Aside from the servers, the big roadblock to hosting your own site is that you need a fast connection. I have the fastest DSL connection available in my corner of the universe, and it's nowhere near fast enough to handle having my own server connected to the Internet. Next best is to register your own domain name and rent hosting from a company that's in the business of hosting. Their prices may increase a bit with each renewal, but probably never on the order of magnitude of what Photobucket did. (Going from zero to $399 is, mathematically, an infinite increase. Not 10%, not 100%, not even 400% -- it's "infinite.") They have their business plan figured out so their fees cover their costs plus profit. Photobucket was trying to make their income with ads, but they got greedy to the point that users were almost forced to run ad blockers, which obviously reduced the effectiveness of the ads. A friend pointed out that with a hundred million users, most of them subscribed to the free service, if Photobucket had decided to charge just $10 a year their income would increased by about $1 BILLION dollars a year. Most of us would have paid $10/year. $400/year -- not a chance.

Getting voltage on the hot side tells you nothing about the ground.

Are you saying your header wasn't connected to the engine, or to the muffler? Did you and Noriyori read the original post? His exhaust pipe is disconnected from the manifold. He should NOT drive it that way.