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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.

The transmission would not throw CPS or TPS codes. Not sure, but I believe in '97 the TCU was still a separate box from the ECU, and the OBD-II diagnostic connector won't give you transmission codes. So if you are getting engine codes, then I would suggest before you start throwing transmissions at it -- find out what the problem is. What did the "jumping out of gear" feel like? When the CPS goes bad, the engine may cut out and leave you essentially coasting. I think you probably just need a CPS, but others may have more/better ideas.

The fronts are the same. The rears are entirely different, and the backing plates likewise are different.

The 40 gig drive had one 40-gig partition. More than likely, when you cloned the drive it cloned the partition size as well as identification. I don't remember hos to get into the partition info in the new versions of Windows -- what you're looking for is the equivalent of the old FDISK command in MS-DOS. You want to find out how many partitions your drive has and what sizes. Since you are only seeing 40 gigs, there are (I think) only two possibilities: (1) You have one 40-gig partition and a lot of unallocated space; or (2) You have one 40-gig partition and a second, 460-gig partition that needs to have a logical drive letter assigned to it and be formatted before you can use it. I believe there is a utility (but I don't recall if it's in Windows or aftermarket) to dynamically expand a partition to take up all unused, unallocated space available on the drive. Maybe Google on "Expand+Partition"?

But ... you have two, parallel lines doing the job of one. That may be okay of you live in Arizona, but in my neck of the woods if I can have ten feet of brake line subject to rust rather than twenty feet, I'm all over it.

What are you running for rims? You don't need any lift to clear 31x10.50s on Jeep rims. The only rubiing with stock rims is the inner shoulder of the tire rubbing the lower control arm when the steering is at full lock ... and NO amount of lift will eliminate that.

Not quite. The "T" is already there in the back, on the axle. Run the new line from the front to the upper end of the rear flex hose, where it's clipped to the chassis.

May close attention to the condition of the rear frame rails, right under the cab/bed gap, and around the area of the front leaf spring hangers.

This is incorrect. The usual way to eliminate the rear height sensing valve is the remove both the valve and both hard lines from the front distribution block to the rear. Plug the outlet on the bottom of the front distribution block, then run a new hard line from the "nose" outlet directly to the upper end of the rear flex hose. I disagree with my colleague CWLONGSHOT about using an XJ front proportioning valve, though. I've been driving XJs for 22+ years and I was very active in NAXJA for many years before focusing more on MJs. I still have multiple XJs. One of the primary complaints about XJs is that the rear brakes suck. The reason they suck is that front proportioning valve. What most XJ owners who address that problem do is open up the valve, remove the spring and O-ring from inside, and set the plunger to the full-forward position. What this does is disable the proportioning feature. That makes it the functional equivalent of the MJ system ... so why bother? The XJ proportioning valve is a stupid device anyway. When it works (until it gets gummed up inside and sticks), what it does is prevent the rear brakes from doing anything unless you apply extreme pressure -- like in a panic stop. But premature rear lockup isn't a problem in normal driving, it's a problem in ... a panic stop. So what's the use of a device that eliminates the rear brakes most of the time yet provides no proportioning under the ONLY conditions when you need it? Does not compute.

A quick search on this site will turn up innumerable discussions of this problem. I think it's safe to say that most of us recommend scrapping the rear height sensing valve entirely.

I paid $500 for one a couple of years ago, and I had to drive two hours each way to get it.

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Correction. That hunk of plastic is NOT an overflow bottle. It is a surge tank and it is an integral part of the pressurized cooling system.

Regardless of how much lift each might provide, do NOT get a short AAL.

No, the "wagon wheels" were the steel 6 or 8-spoke factory rims. The turbine rims in the photos are the 10-spoke alloys that were the optional rim on the 84-89 (or 90?) XJ and 86-89 (90?) MJ. They are 15x7 ... so are the wagon wheels. No, the steel 6 or 8 spoke factory wheels were the Rally's. You are correct in that the factory called the 6- or 8-spoke steelies "Rally" wheels. But nobody actually calls them that. I haven't heard them referred to as anything other than wagon wheels for at least 15 years.

My suggestion would be: If you don't want to see posts or threads disappear, don't post stuff that might need to disappear. We are here to discuss Jeeps -- Comanches, primarily -- so if you want to discuss religion, politics, or any other potentially sensitive/divisive/controversial topic -- take it elsewhere. Don't post a hot steamin' load and then complain when posts or threads go walkabout. And if you see a post that looks like it's inviting a snarky response ... try declining the invitation.