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Google translates doesn't "translate" so much as "transliterate." It's perhaps marginally better than Bing translator -- but not much. DeepL is far better, but I need a technical/mechanical situation explained and the computer translators don't have the vocabulary to even begin to handle it.

If anyone speaks Spanish fluently, please contact me via PM. Thank you.

Keep in mind that draining the transmission pan -- whether you pull the plug or drop the pan -- doesn't drain the torque converter. Because iof the dip stick issue, I would start by just pulling the tranny drain plug. Drain, refill, drive it a bit (even if all you do is jack the rear wheels off the ground and run it in the air, then do another drain and refill to purge as much of the old, nasty fluid as possible.

You have a transmission problem.

Bolt-in. The box is exactly the same, the only difference is the MJ box has a 14:1 ratio and the ZJ box has a 12.7:1 ratio. I swapped a ZJ box into a 2001 XJ that needed a box. On the road (on 235/75-15 tires) it drove exactly the same as my 2000 XJ. In parking maneuvers, the ZJ box is 3 turns lock-to-lock and the XJ/MJ box is 3-1/2 turns lock-to-lock. I don't regard it as an improvement or an "upgrade," but it is a viable swap.

Thank you. If you think it's any good, please spread the word. The real hurdle with self-publishing, it turns out, isn't the writing or the publishing, it's the promotion. Most of the writer web forums suggest that authors should have web sites, but those are mostly people who churn out romances or fantasy books on almost a mass production basis, so they have lots of titles and they can always talk about the next one that's "coming soon." Having a web site when I only have one, potentially boring title doesn't seem to me like a great investment in resources.

Pete beat me to it. One of the aftermarket gasket makers has a rear main seal that has two wiper lips on it. The second wiper rides on a part of the crank that won't be worn, so it should seal even if the crank is scored. Be sure to lube the new seal with Vaseline when you install it. You should never install a seal like that dry. Just don't get Vaseline on the ends where they have to be glued together with RTV.

If there was a Yahoo group for XJs, it wasn't the foundation for NAXJA. Prior to NAXJA, there was an XJ forum. I don't remember the name of it, but it was an actual forum. The domain was owned by an individual, and he had the contract with whatever service was hosting it. I was active on it, along with a number of others. We would send the guy money periodically to keep things running. And then, one fine day, he just ... disappeared. My fuzzy recollection is that he pulled his disappearing act right after having conducted a fairly successful fund raising campaign, but I'm no longer clear on that. Anyhoo ... the guy who owned it was in absentia. We kept it going for a short while by sending money directly to the hosting service, but that eventually ended when they realized they were no longer dealing with the owner of the domain. Plus -- the now-missing owner was the only person with the password to be able to get in and act as admin for the site. Somebody (I don't remember who) put together a campaign to raise funds to migrate the whole mess over to a new domain, on a new server, using new software, and with paid memberships. The deal was that people who chipped in to get it started (IIRC we ponied up $150 each as seed money) would be established as Life Members. I chipped in. Somebody knew somebody who drew up a set of by-laws, and NAXJA was born. By comparison, the Comanche Club was (from my perspective) much easier. I wheeled an MJ in those days, and I was of the opinion that NAXJA didn't really give Comanches the coverage or respect they deserve. I was thinking about starting a forum dedicated to MJs but I had no idea how to go about doing it. And then I woke up one day to find that some dude named Pete M had gone and done it. So I signed up and sent Pete a few bucks, and here we are.

Hey! I resemble that remark! (Danged compooters, n fuel injectors n stuff. Carburetors RULE!)

Again, I have to disagree. You can't "choose your truths." Truth is what IS, and truth is truth irrespective of who believes it and even if NO ONE believes it. You can choose what you want to believe but, if you choose incorrectly, then your belief is not truth.

"Agreeing to disagree" is nothing more than saying "You can't ever convince me that what you are saying is right or correct and I don't have time to try to convert you to my way of thinking, so we'll just call it quits. You live your life and I'll live my life, and we won't interfere with each other." How is your veracity or morality in any way compromised (in the sense of "diminished") by that? You haven't agreed to what the other person says or claims, you have done nothing more than acknowledge that neither side is going to change the other's view(s).

That one is MUCH more difficult.

We don't choose what truth is. Truth IS. If everyone lies about everything, the only thing we can choose is which lie to believe, or to try to imagine what we think might be the truth. The fact we might choose to believe lie 'A' rather than lie 'B' doesn't make lie 'A' the truth. It may be (and probably is) that none of us will ever know -- within the span of our lives -- what the real truth is. Of course, at my age it's more likely that I'll never know the truth than it is for you younger folks. Maybe the truth will somehow get out within the span of your lives. But when most of the media (and effectively ALL of the major media) have been co-opted, even if you hear the truth someday, how will you know it's the truth rather than just another version of another lie?

The lock ring and gasket usually aren't the problem. What often happens is that the steel tubes are (I think) soldered where they pass through the mounting flange, and the solder joint cracks. If you add enough gas to make it leak, you'll probably see it weeping around one or both of those two steel tubes. I think there used to be a member here who repaired that for other members, but J-B Weld has been reported to work well. You'll need to siphon out enough gas to stop the weeping, then clean both the tubes and the mounting flange VERY well, down to bare metal. Then mix up your J-B Weld and apply it.

Not "hang" -- "tilt." Support the tailshaft or tranny or transfer case body with a scissor jack or small hydraulic jack.

What if the truth doesn't lie between the two, but well outside the two? What do you do when both sides lie so much that it becomes virtually impossible to discern what the truth is?

I thought that ad was one of THE most cringe-worthy ads of all time. It was condescension raised to exponential levels. That is all.

92%. I think my age is showing.

So where you you find a dummy AA battery? {Edit} Never mind ... https://www.amazon.com/Battery-Placeholder-Cylinder-Dummy-Setup/dp/B07QL5JFP7

I think we all wish you had asked before you bought. The XJ hitch mounts to the underside of the "frame" rails, with those nut strips slid in from the back after removing the rear bumper. MJ hitches mount to the sides of the rear frame, using the same mounting points as the bumper mounts.

No, it doesn't. I used to know how to make those -- I still have a couple lying around here, somewhere, I think, but it must be fifty years since I made one and I couldn't do one now from memory. For those who don't know what that is -- it's called a "Monkey's Fist."

Short answer: I don't know. Long answer: A lot has changed in twenty+ years. About twenty years ago I "helped" a friend get a book printed that her older brother had written but which didn't get published before he died. She had a friend who was (or claimed to be) a literary agent. The agent friend tried shopping the book and no major publisher was interested, so my friend and the brother's widow decided to self-publish it as a memorial to him. In those days, that meant printing out your own, camera-ready master copy and sending it to a vanity press printer. The printer would then print out however many copies you wanted -- but IIRC the minimum was 500 copies. So, after a ton of work and several thousand dollars, you ended up with a pile of cartons of books in your garage that you were then on your own to sell. Of course, neither my friend nor the widow knew how to do any of that -- so I did it all for them (except for paying for it). I didn't charge them anything for the time I put in, and it was extensive. I even designed the cover. I think it cost them $3,000 or $3,500 for 500 copies of the book, which they then gave to members of the family. But they did send two copies to the Library of Congress, so it's officially a book. Both the Kindle e-book version and the paperback version of my book were done through Amazon KDP (Kindle Direct Publisher). The print version is set up as print-on-demand, so it doesn't cost me anything up front, and I don't have to store cartons of books and try to market them. I submitted the book as a fully formatted PDF file (and a separate PDF of the cover). KDP takes the file and holds it. When someone buys a copy of the book, they print *a* copy of the book and send it to them. So I don't have copies of the book that I can send without paying Jeff Bezos' markup. I wish I did.

Backspace is the distance from the wheel mounting surface (where your wheel's center section actually contacts the brake rotor) to the inside flange of the wheel. For stock factory 15x7 XJ/MJ wheels, the backspacing is 5.25". Any more backspacing wouldn't allow the wheel to turn because the inside flange would be making contact with something. There are NO aftermarket wheel for the XJ or MJ that offer 5.25" backspacing. Most aftermarket wheels seem to run 4" to 4.5" backspacing. Don't confuse "backspacing" with "offset." They are not the same thing.

The XJ and MJ 4.0Ls in 1987 didn't have the ballast resistor. It was added for the 1988 model year to reduce the noise of the fuel pump. You can bypass it permanently without doing any harm.