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How bad is it? From the photos, it looks basically intact. Intact enough that a little TLC should be able to put it back on the road.

Then those are not metric ton springs, they're lift springs. The factory metric ton springs didn't ride any higher than standard 4WD springs. I have to say that if I ordered what I thought was a set of replacement springs for my stock MJ and the new springs produced a 4-inch lift over stock ride height, I would NOT be a happy camper. But too many people have reported that the General "MT" springs result in a 3" to 4" lift. I'd rather roll my own with junkyard leaves than pay premium prices for something that doesn't do what it's supposed to do.

Is the belt tight? If so, there should be some rather loud noise and a smell of burning rubber. Basically, there's a good chance one of the pulleys the belt runs over has a seized bearing: Water pump, alternator, a/c compressor (or idler), power steering pump.

No knock sensor.

Looks interesting. Thanks. Now I just need to figure out if the coil rail is actually the problem.

What's the Viper mod y'all are mentioning?

This is a technical problem, but it's outside the MJ years so I'm posting in The Pub. 2000 XJ Sport has started throwing OBD-II codes: P0303, P1294, and P1494. It runs fine with the check engine light on, and the fuel mileage doesn't appear to be affected. My reference says code P0303 is "Cyl 3 misfire." The 2000 XJ has the coil rail ignition rather than a conventional coil and distributor. I hope this doesn't mean I have to replace the coil rail assembly, but I'm afraid it might. Does anyone have access to a better explanation of what these codes are supposed to signify?

Cool! Thanks for the info. I had no idea that such a network of cabins existed.

In this latest video Heather mentioned "another" maintained cabin, and I recall a cabin in one of the previous videos that showed a cabin that seemed to have some fairly new (-ish) accoutrements in it. I was surprised that the new-ish stuff hadn't been stolen or vandalized. Who maintains these cabins, and for what purpose?

So is this the Lumix? What's the microphone you have attached to it? I guess I haven't priced DSLR cameras for awhile. $2k strikes me as a lot to pay for a camera unless you're a professional photographer.

I just watched part 2 on YooToob. Some very cool stuff. I had a quick glimpse of your camera when you were entering the lava tube, but I couldn't read the brand. I was expecting a GoPro, but what I saw was a DSLR. What's your primary setup? Camera make and model, microphone, etc.?

Oops. I guess I was reading those subscriber numbers a bit optimistically. The quality of your videos is right up there with anything on YooToob, but what I love is your MJ. It's still an MJ. You put a mild lift on it, added some trekking gear, and it's being used the way an MJ should be used. I cringe every time I see someone take a perfectly good MJ and carve it up to make a tube buggy rock crawler out of it. With an LS engine, no less. What's the point? Start with an XJ, not a rare MJ -- or start with an S10 or a Ford ranger. Your MJ is where I would have liked my off-road MJ to have gone. Life intervened.

1950 Hudson Pacemanker 1960 Rambler American wagon 1959 Rambler Classic sedan 1966 Rambler convertible 1966 Rambler American hardtop 1955 Ford station wagon 1946 Hudson pickup 1947 Hudson pickup 1946 Hudson pickup 1950 Hudson sedan 1949 Hudson sedan 1968 Javelin 1968 Amx 1964 Austin Healy Sprite 1968 Javelin 1968 Javelin 1968 AMX 1968 AMX 1968 Javelin (6-cyl) 1980 Renault LeCar 1982 Honda Civic 1300 FE 1988 Jeep XJ 1978 Jeep Cherokee (FS) 1993 Honda Accord 1987 Jeep Comanche 1988 Jeep Comanche 1988 Jeep Comanche 1986 Jeep Comanche 1989 Jeep Comanche 1986 Jeep XJ 1987 Jeep XJ 1989 Jeep XJ 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee 2000 Jeep XJ Classic 2000 Jeep XJ Sport I'm probably forgetting a few, but that's most of 'em

Yay! Another one of your videos. Looks like you're closing in on 200,000 subscribers! That's very good. I love your videos -- I'm too old and too poor for any more road trips to the western U.S., so I have to live vicariously through your videos. Keep 'em coming.

I will look forward to the video(s).

You DO realize that if the starter is making the engine rotate, that's "turning over" -- right? What you man is that it cranked over but didn't fire.

Depends on what it's in. If you have a good received hitch, that should work. If your receiver is just a box bolted to the bumper, you'll probably wreck the bumper.

It's the "without tweaking my frame" part that's the problem. The front "frame" horns are basically sheet metal. It won't take much of a pull to tweak one of them. That's whay the factory tow hitch kit includes reinforcing brackets, and even then they're not very strong for anything except a straight ahead pull.

There are several potentially confusing typographical errors in the above. More important, it completely omits the part about resetting the shuttle and then bleeding the rear brakes a second time to bleed any residual air out of the normal side of the rear brake circuit.

That's the way the system is intended to work. If the front brakes fail, the shuttle moves to allow the system to bypass the rear proportioning valve. If the rear brakes fail, all the shuttle does is turn on the brake system warning light. Tripping the shuttle is necessary in order to bleed the bypass circuit in the rear brakes. If you don't trip the shuttle, bleeding only bleeds the normal (proportioned) part of the rear brake system, which may leave air in the bypass circuit. That would not be a good thing.

Nice truck. I see tow hooks under the front bumper. Does it have skid plates under the front steering linkage, under the transfer case, and under the gas tank? How many leaves in the rear leaf springs? Please post a photo of the rear differential cover. You may have the off-road option package.

2000 for the NV3550

Wives should be happy we're wRenching instead of wenching ...

Yeah - reliability. When my '88 XJ hit 250,000 miles I was so concerned that it might become unreliable that I bought a new 1999 Grand Cherokee. I think I owned it seven months -- might have been eight. Out of the time I owned it, it spent at least a full month and a half in the shop (once for three straight weeks) while they tried (unsuccessfully) to repair various problems. The first time in my life I experienced death wobble was in that new Grand Cherokee. It had never been farther off road than my gravel driveway and was completely stock. Then, at about 7,000 miles, it just ... quit ... in the middle of the road. I had it towed to the dealership. They had good news and they had bad news. The good news was that they had diagnosed why it quit. The bad news was that the part needed to repair it wasn't available in the parts system yet. A told them to keep it. Dimestore-Chrysler bought it back from me to prevent me from invoking the lemon law. The '88 Cherokee now has 287,000 miles on it. It'll still run, but my daily driver is now a 2000 XJ that I bought (new) several months after dumping the Grand Cherokee.

Answer to part one: "Why?" Answer to part two: "What makes anything under 5 years old reliable? They are far more dependent on electronics than the Jeeps." Taxes on the Jeeps are WAY lower than on a new vehicle. Insurance is probably a lot cheaper (not liability insurance, of course, but comprehensive and collision insurance). You know how to work on the Jeeps, and you have a ready-made support team. With a new vehicle, you'll be at the dealer's mercy. They're not spying on you.