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Then my Jeep Comanche FSM is wrong. The crush sleeve (which they call a collapsible spacer) is discussed on page H-46 in how to replace the pinion seal, it is shown in the exploded diagram on page H-50 (part # 15), it is mentioned on page H-52 under removing the pinion, it is stated on page H-60 that "The collapsible spacer controls the pinion bearing preload. Do not reuse the old spacer, Use a replacement spacer only." and installation and torquing of the collapsible spacer to set preload is discussed on page H-60.

The D44 does use a crush sleeve, and if you over-torqued it you have to buy a new sleeve and a new seal and a new pinion nut and start over. The instructions are the same as I posted yesterday for doing a Dana 35. You don't measure the torque on the nut. You measure the preload by how many INCH-pounds are required to turn the pinion. You do this when the center section is not installed, so you aren't turning the rung gear, only the pinion. BTW -- no amount of over-torquing the crush sleeve should have affected the backlash, since the pinion depth is controlled by shims inside the housing, and the crush sleeve is on the outside. If the backlash changed, there was something wrong with the assembly before you put the torque wrench to it.

It cuts out until warm,(and if you go into full lock on reverse) and idles at about 700 revs - generally you can hear it struggling and it does "hunt" - just recently the battery light comes on at speed (60mph) too so am guessing my alternator may be failing too?... (however I think the guy who had the truck before me put a different alternator on as there has been a new bracket put on to hold it?.... There is also a bottom end rattle on the engine which I was told was related to the timing - it also runs on a little after the inginition is switched off ..... I can't even find a spec in the FSM but I think 700 - 750 RPM is the correct idle speed, so you are not idling "way too low." And a low-end rattle is usually an indication of bad rob bearings, not timing issues. Timing on these engines is not adjustable, anyway. It sounds like you have other issues.

Sorry -- my bad. I thought we were discussing dana 35 rears. I completely missed the D30 mention in the opening post.

What plans? Chop it off, weld a 'Y' to the front ... done.

What is "way too slow"? How are you measuring, and what RPM does it idle at?

Is that from the Ford FSM for the 8.8? It can't be from the Jeep FSM because the Dana 35 axle does not use preload shims. The only shims on the pinion are for adjusting the pinion depth. The preload is set by collapsing the crush sleeve. I have the original MJ FSM. It says the same thing as the '88 Cherokee FSM. That's direct from the book, step-by-step. There is NO mention of the actual torque on the pinion nut because that's not the way the FSM says to check it. However, friends who worked in Jeep dealerships have told me that it takes a lot more than 250 ft-lbs to collapse the sleeve to get the indicated rotating torque.

I've never heard of bleeding a master without looping lines from the outlets back into the reservoirs. Putting your fingers over the holes? That sounds to me like a great way to spray brake fluid all over the engine compartment. How difficult can it be to take two short lengths of brake line and make up loops that run from each outlet up into the reservoir?

It takes considerably more than 210 foot-pounds to initially crush the sleeve, but you want to be sure you don't go too far because then you get to install a new sleeve and start over. I believe the torque required will be in the 350 foot-pound range, but the fact is that's not what you measure, so I don't know if anyone has quantified it. You have an inch-pound torque wrench? The actual measurement is how much resistance there is to rotating the pinion with no carrier installed in the housing. That's measured in inch-pounds. (Sounds like you already know that.)

I ran a ""high performance" turbo muffler cat-back system on my '88 XJ for awhile. My brother managed a Speedy muffler shop and he talked me into it. BIG mistake. It sounded okay, but not great. There was a noticeable loss of low-end torque, and gas mileage took a hit of about 2 MPG. It was the only time in my entire life (all 66 years of it) when I actually wanted an exhaust system to rust out so I could justify replacing it. Get a standard OEM replacement from Auto Zone or Advance with the lifetime warranty and call it good.

With a 2" lift you can probably get away with running stock shocks. If you decide to buy Monroe, though, do NOT buy the Sensatrac series with a lift. The Sensatrac has grooves machined inside the bore near the center of the vertical height so that at normal ride height some fluid bleed bast the piston, making a softer ride. As the piston gets farther toward either compressed or extended, the grooves disappear and the shocks stiffen up. If you run those shocks with a 2" lift, the shock will ride at the top of the grooves and as the suspension compresses (on bumps) the pistol will move into the grooves rather than out of them, resulting in a mushy ride and poor handling. You're better off going one line cheaper, or getting the Reflex series, which use different technology.

Long arm conversion.

:agree: Dealer one-off, not designed to happen. I seriously doubt, in fact, that it was done at or by a dealership. The guy who did it might have worked at a dealership in the day, but I cannot imagine any dealership being willing to incur the potential liability of doing a swap like that.

If you capped one side of the rear brakes, there may be air in there and you have no way to bleed that side. Like the man said ... fix it, don't play with it. And by the way -- if your truck still has the rear height sensing valve, be sure you follow the correct procedure for bleeding, or you may never have brakes.

I have been pondering the same question, and my conclusion is that unless you need a 4-door cab, the only viable solution is another MJ. Realistically, the other compact PUs are junk. A friend of mine bought a NEW Toyota PU a couple of years ago. It was only rated to carry 800 pounds! None of the small pickups have any capacity at all. If you need a 4-door, I think I'd look at a Dodge Dakota -- it's in an intermediate size class that it pretty much occupies by itself. But any used PU ten years old or less that isn't a candidate for the scrap heap is going to be selling for $10k or more. For that kind of money, you could buy an MJ with a decent body and have the engine rebuilt as a preemptive strike, and have the equivalent of a new truck -- for probably half what a ten-year old used one would cost.

I'm turning you in the FBI task force for money laundering ...

No problem, Mate, I didn't think any disrespect was intended. It's just that if we don't remember what Memorial Day memorializes, it loses its true meaning. Personally, I think we should all thank veterans and those in service every day. It doesn't need a special day for that. My outlook is perhaps colored/tainted by being a Vietnam veteran. I was in 'Nam comparatively early -- 1968. I came home when protests against the war were still ramping up.We returning veterans were universally reviled. Those of you who are too young to remember (or weren't even born yet) may find it difficult to believe, but the stories about veterans being insulted and even spit on are completely true. CW and anyone else from southern New England may know the Stafford Springs raceway. Its a stock car track. My friend normally raced at the former track at Agawam, MA (on the site of what is now Six Flags Amusement Park). Once or twice a year he'd go to "open" events at other tracks, and the first summer after I came home he was racing at Stafford, and I went to watch. We were pretty far up in the nosebleed seats. Some drunk started mouthing off at me during the National Anthem. My brother and another friend pulled me off the guy just before I tossed him off the back of the grandstand. The respect our soldiers (and sailors and flyboys) receive today is a well-deserved change, and should be expressed on a daily basis. That's not to say that for 364 days out of the year we should completely forget that people died in wars. Far from it. But ... Memorial Day has been set aside as THE national holiday to officially remember and recognize them, and I just don't like to see the importance of that recognition get watered down by treating Memorial Day as a day to pay ordinary respect to living veterans and active service people. Enlisting is one thing. Going where they send you and ducking incoming as best you can is one thing. Dieing in the line of duty is something entirely different. Yes, it could happen to anyone who puts on a uniform (look at Lori Piestewa -- she was supposed to be a supply clerk, but she was KIA in Iraq), but some of us luck out. Maybe it's just me, but I think the emotion behind solemnly remembering and honoring those who died is (and should be) different from thanking those who are living. Over and out.

The fuel sending unit is inside the tank. It doesn't need a skid plate. Standard equipment on the MJ was a plastic baffle that hung off the tank straps to serve as a gravel guard ... nothing more. Steel skid plates were optional, but they protected the bottom of the tank, not the fuel pump area.

Yeah. And Memorial Day is NOT about them. If you really want to understand Memorial Day, find out where the nearest national cemetery is. Go there on Memorial Day, walk out into the middle, and look at the sea of white crosses and Stars of David marching into the distance in every direction. Close your eyes and try to imagine what it must have been like storming the beaches of Normandy, or Iwo Jima, or scaling the cliffs of Point du Hoc in Normandy. Try to imagine flights of literally hundreds of DC-3s, spewing out thousands of paratroopers into the night sky over occupied France, men jumping into terrain they didn't know and couldn't even see. Many were killed before they even hit the ground. I've been to Normandy. I walked in the D-Day beaches. I visited several of the cemeteries. I went through some of the D-Day museums. THAT's what Memorial day is about ... not the veterans who lived through it or who are still alive, not the men and women who are in uniform today. As I already posted ... they have their own holidays. Memorial Day is the day to honor those who gave their very lives so that this country would remain free and strong. I think (personally) it dishonors them to dilute the meaning of Memorial Day and treat it as a general purpose salute to all members of the military. Sorry, but I have strong feelings about the issue. Every male member of my family who was of the right generation served in WW2. (That would be my father, four uncles, and at least one first cousin once removed.) My Grandfather volunteered for the Scottish Black Watch regiment before the U.S. even entered WW1. I served in Vietnam. Our family was blessed in that we all made it back, but most of us were in combat or at least combat zones and we all knew men who made a one-way trip. A lot of people did NOT make it back. Please give them the respect they earned.

It seems I have to do this every year, but if that's what it takes to keep history alive and accurate, so be it. Memorial Day began informally around 1865, on a local and then a state basis, as a day for remembering those who died in the American Civil War. In many places it was originally known as Decoration Day, so named because the tradition was to decorate the graves of those who died in the war on that day. It became more widely accepted after World War 1, and at that time it came to honor those Americans who died in "The Great War" as well as in the Civil War. The name Memorial Day started being used alongside Decoration day in the late 1800s or early 1900s. The day did not become a national holiday until 1967, when it was officially named Memorial Day. Memorial Day is a day of remembrance for those who died in the defense of the United States of America. It was not intended to honor living veterans, or those who are currently in the military. For the living veterans, there is Veterans' Day. For those currently in service, there is Armed Forces Day. I am a Vietnam veteran myself. This is not intended to in any way belittle the service of those who survived or those who serve today. But ... for the sake of understanding the origin and the intent of the holiday, please let's not spread the idea that it is anything other than what it is. For those who personally wish to also honor the living veterans and the current men and women at arms, that's fine. But please teach your children the true meaning of the day, and let each person decide for him/herself if they want it to mean more to them. http://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries/index.php

But for the 4.0L the "tone ring" for the CPS is the flywheel or flex plate. If he keeps the Renix system, all he has to do is keep the original flywheel or flexplate and CPS. The ports on the HO head are shaped differently and set slightly higher, so making the head match up with the Renix manifolds offers some challenges. Not having done the swap I don't know what the best solution is. The throttle bodies have different bolt patterns, but the "easy" way just might be to drill the HO intake manifold to accept the Renix throttle body. You might also try a search -- I think someone reported that you can adapt the HO throttle body to use the Renix sensors. (???) Like the man said ... do your homework. But this swap has been done numerous times. It can be done, and it ain't rocket science.

Whatever floats your boat, I guess, but undertaking a 6" lift just because you found one in a junkyard, when the goal is to be a "nice" daily driver, does not strike me as a good plan. My '88 MJ had a 4" lift when I bought it. I ran it that way for two or three years, then put it back down to stock height and I have been MUCH happier since. With the lift, it rode horribly, handled worse, was a PITA to get into and out of (and I'm 6'-2"). I was only running 31x10.50s so I didn't need the lift. I respectfully suggest that you reexamine your priorities. As has been pointed out previously, both here and on other forums, just because something CAN be done doesn't mean it's a good idea.

http://www.naute.com/thinkery/obituary.phtml Many years ago, when I was about 12, our Collie mix (from my aunt's purebred Collie) died. A friend of my mother gave us the pick of the litter from a new batch of purebred German Shepherds - her husband was a breeder and trainer. We got a beautiful, female shepherd. Smart, great lines, loyal -- and not nearly as "nippy" with visitors as the Collie had been. The kicker was -- the guy who bred her always kvetched because we let her sleep indoors. His rationale was that they were bred from wolves, they were bred as working dogs (after all, what does "shepherd" mean?) and they were MEANT to sleep outdoors. He felt letting a shepherd sleep indoors ruined the dog. We let her sleep indoors anyway, but I'd love to turn him loose on the shelter idiots who won't let you adopt a farm dog because you want it to be a farm dog.

Once again proving beyond doubt that, just because you CAN do something ... doesn't mean it's a good idea.

Only 165,000 miles? My '88 XJ has 287,000 miles on it and still runs strong. You don't need an engine. You need to get to a NAPA and buy replacement CCV lines/hoses, then remove the valve cover and clean out the baffles where the front and rear CCV lines go into the top of the valve cover.