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One: English. I had two years of Spanish, four years of French, and two years of Latin going through school, and my wife is from Chile. It's pretty confusing, because now the Spanish keeps pushing the French out of my tiny brain. There was a time when I could actually converse (at a rudimentary level) in French, but I don't think I can do it today.

Guys, I stand corrected. Wisconsin is not like other states. I called the Wisconsin DOT and spoke with a gal named Stephanie. It seems in Wisconsin a new buyer is required to obtain a new title immediately after buying the vehicle, even if the buyer doesn't plan to drive the vehicle. No exceptions. I explained to her (sort of) the situation, and she said the only way for "my friend" to sell the MJ to "his friend" is to first get a new title in his own name. PARTS!

Did you replace the injectors one at a time, or as a batch? If you did it as a batch, are you certain you put the correct wire on each injector? I know a guy who replaced his injectors. The truck ran like junk for over a year until he realized the injectors were cross-wired.

Looks to me like you need a Wisconsin DMV form MV2488 - Vehicle Transfer and Odometer Mileage Statement. You can order it here: www.dot.wisconsin.gov/drivers/forms/dt1435.doc

Bon jour, Jean-Philippe, Vous êtes l'accueil pour joindre notre forum si vous êtes intéressé dans le Comanche. N'est ce pas nécessaire de celui posséder. Est-ce que vous etes certain sont seulement 2 ou 3 dans tout de la France? J'ai un ami dans Grèce. Il m'a dit une fois qu'il et son fils a trouvé un Comanche abandonné sur le côté de la route, approche d'Athènes. Je crois que le camion a été vendu dans les numéros comparativement "significatif" (pas "grand") dans l'Europe. Votre Cherokee est très impressionnant, et j'aime la caravane beaucoup. C'est une grande idée. J'ai ici l'accident d'un Cherokee. Les dommages sont dans le devant, ainsi peut-être je commencerai un projet similaire. Félicitations. Bienvenu à notre groupe. ------------------------------------ Good day, Jean-Philippe, You are welcome to join our forum if you are interested in the Comanche. It is not necessary to own one. Are you certain there are only 2 or 3 in all of France? I have a friend in Greece. He told me once that he and his son found a Comanche abandoned on the side of the road, near Athens. I believe the truck was sold in comparatively "significant" (not "large"} numbers in Europe. Your Cherokee is very impressive, and I like the trailer very much. It is a great idea. I have here the wreck of a Cherokee. The damage is in the front, thus perhaps I will begin a similar project. Congratulations. Welcome to our group.

The XJ and MJ steering columns were GM steering columns. If you saw one in an 86 MJ, it'll fit any MJ.

Sorry, but you are wrong. The back of the title form is a legal transfer of ownership document. Once the name of a buyer is filled in and the seller signs and dates it, that is a legal document that says ownership has been transferred to the person listed as the buyer. (In this case, the aforementioned "moron," although in this case he's really not a moron because he didn't do anything wrong.) The fact that the transfer of ownership has not been recorded at the DMV does not make it invalid, "wrong," or nonexistent. Let's say the original owner (the "seller" on the title form) were to show up at the moron's house and try to take the MJ back. The moron calls the cops. The cops say "Who owns the vehicle?" The seller says "I do." The moron shows them the title form, dated 8 months ago, with the seller's signature that he sold the truck to the moron. Who do you think the cops are going to say owns the truck? Most of you are still confusing registration with ownership. They are not the same thing. There is no "fine for not registering" a motor vehicle. There is a fine if you are caught driving an unregistered motor vehicle, but not for just buying a vehicle and letting it rest. I have ten or twelve Jeeps here at the moment (please, someone, buy a couple of them!). You don't think I registered all of them the day I bought them, do you? I haven't broken any motor vehicle laws by not registering them. (If I drive one on the street, that's another story.) Stay focused on the issue. The issue is the TITLE. Registration is not the issue. The fact this other kid was driving an unregistered vehicle is not the issue, and it's better to not mention that. It will only cause confusion. Pat - CALL THE DMV AND ASK ABOUT A FORM FOR SUPPLEMENTAL TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP. That's what we're talking about here, and it should be as simple as dirt.

Pat, the problem is that you are trying to bend this into a process that skips steps. Your friend bought an MJ. He should have had his name put on the title as buyer the day he bought the vehicle. That's what that space on the back of the title is for. He became the owner on that day. The fact is, if your pal had crashed the truck with no name on the title, he could have told the cops he borrowed it from the original owner, and that poor dolt would have had a hard time explaining that he hadn't owned the vehicle for 8 months. You are trying to make it appear that your pal never owned the truck, that the original seller sold it directly to you. That isn't what happened, and filling out the paperwork to make it appear so is technically fraudulent. Yeah, I know it's done all the time ... that does NOT make it right or legal. You are trying to make your friend's ___ months of ownership disappear. Why do that? There's no legal reason why he could NOT own a vehicle for ___ months and then sell it to you. I won't sell a vehicle without putting the buyer's name on the title when I hand it to them. I am NOT going to put my neck in a noose for what someone I've never seen before does with a motor vehicle I will no longer have any control over. My name comes off the title the day they drive it (or tow it) out of my yard. You are confusing ownership with registration. Call the DMV, explain to them what the situation is, and ask them what form to use for a secondary transfer. Do not tell them your friend was driving it. That doesn't enter into the discussion. The important fact is, he bought it ___ months ago, he did not register it, now he wants to sell it. What piece of paper is needed to do that?

So what? He bought it. Who else should sign it? You are the one making it sound more difficult than it is. Unless Wisconsin has laws very different from the other 49 states, the title and the registration are two different things. I dropped the registration on my '87 MJ about three years ago because I wasn't driving it and couldn't afford to insure it. But the title is still valid. I still own the vehicle. I have several other XJs and MJs here that I have never registered. But I own them. So your pal bought an MJ and didn't register it. So what? He still has a title form the assigns the title to him. It is his vehicle. I seriously doubt that the law requires him to register it, and I seriously doubt that the law establishes any maximum time that can elapse before a purchaser of a motor vehicle decides to register or sell the vehicle. Maybe WI is different, but I'm telling you that here we can pass a vehicle through ten different owners, using the "supplemental assignment of title" form, before anyone ever gets around to registering the vehicle and/or having a new title issued. Call your DMV and ask them if they have such a form. Do NOT tell them your friend has been driving the vehicle without a registration. That's an operation matter. This is an ownership matter. The fact he didn't register it does not matter. As far as this question is concerned, the vehicle could have been stored in his garage since he bought it, or sitting out in the north pasture getting rained and snowed on. It doesn't matter. What matters is the paper trail, and so far the paper trail has NOT been broken.

Then there shouldn't be a problem. The DMV does not need to know he was driving it without a registration. By the paper trail, he is the legal owner. There's no law that says you must drive a vehicle when you buy it, right? So he bought it, and now he wants to sell it. Ask the DMV if they have a supplemental transfer form, like the one we have in CT, for such situations. This CAN'T be the first time somoen in WI has wanted to sell a vehicle without ever putting tags on it.

You just don't understand how the courtesy lights work. The door switch isn't a switched power lead, it's a switched ground. The wire(s) to the interior lights are always hot, and opening the door just closes the ground leg to complete the circuit.

Gotcha. Yeah, that could be a problem.

MA is MUCH easier than CT. A friend of my wife's (from CT) bought a used car from a small, independent dealer just over the line in Massachusetts. Went to register the car, and the DMV told her the papers weren't right so they wouldn't touch it. Dealer told her the papers were fine, so he refused to do anything. I took the papers and went to a branch where I know one of the inspectors. He called the supervisor over, and we spent about a half hour figuring out what had happened. Seems the original owner was from Virginia, and had bought the car there. She then traded it in at a Toyota dealer in MA, and had her VA title signed over to the Toyota dealer. The Toyota dealer then auctioned the car, and it was bought by the independent. Whatever document the Toyota dealer used to transfer title to the independent said CLEARLY on the face that it was not valid for transfer of title. But both the Toyota dealer and the independent swore on stacks of bibles that they use that form for transfers all the time. In the end, I drove one 200 mile round trip to get the correct document from the Tpoyota dealer. Then the independent wasn't there that day, so I did another 200 mile round trip to get his signature on the correct form, all so the poor lady could register the car she had bought. DON'T talk to me about Massachusetts!

Well, the French car maker who at the time had a stake in AMC is pronounced REHN-awlt (or rehn-OH, if you speak French), so I have always mentally pronounced it REHN-icks.

I don't understand the problem. Registration has nothing to do with it. He owned it, he signed the title. If you're just passing it along to someone else, your name doesn't even have to appear on any papers. The next owner just takes the signed title, fills in his name as the recipient, and goes to the DMV. I've seen vehicles with a signed title pass through several sets of hands before someone finally took the paperwork to the DMV and became the new owner. So what if the "seller" never saw or even heard of the "buyer"? Also, I don't know about WI but CT has a form called "Supplemental transfer of motor vehicle" that is used for such situations. It can be used as a simple bill-of-sale, and it can also be used if one person buys a vehicle, then sells it again without ever reistering it or getting a new title. The supplemental transfer form has the same spaces as the transfer block on the back of the title, so by using supplemental transfers a vehicle can legally pass through an infinite number of owners before anyone gets it registered and a new title issued. It's no big deal.

The early Jeep injection/ignition system was a joint design produced by Renault, Bendix, and AMC/Jeep. Most of the design & development work was done by Renault and Bendix, so it is referred to as Renix as a contraction of "RENault-bendIX"

You may have water or sludge in your gas. That'll do it.

Those Rockcrawlers are the cheapest, most universally-available steel rim out there. You should be able to find them in a 7" width just about anywhere, and they won't be expensive. Worst case, you can live with an 8" width, but no wider for the tires you have.

Ummm ... the rear tire is not in any way "stuffed" in either of those pictures.

Probably

4.88 is the deepest ratio available for the Dana 30, unless things have changed when I wasn't paying attention. Last I knew, even 4.88 was available only aftermarket, because Dana-Spicer won't go beyond 4.56 due to the small size of the pinion.

Y'all forced me into it. I just Googled up the BFG tires web site and updated my spreadsheet to include 35" tires. New data, for 35x12.50R15 (and almost identical for 35s on other rim diameters) will be 3410 RPM at 70 in 4th gear, and 2558 RPM in 5th gear.

No, it won't be okay. At 4" of backspacing, your tires will hit the flares in the front AND the back. Lift does not affect this -- the tires still "stuff" into the same wheel wells. The only way to prevent it is to extend the bump stops far enough to stop the tires before they can touch the flares. That severely limits articulation, so it's a solution for a street vehicle but probably not a good solution for a trail vehicle. If you want 31x10.50s to stuff without hitting the flares and sheet metal, you have to stay with the stock rims.

"Too much?" As in, too deep a ratio with 35" tires? More likely, "not enough," but let's see. You don't say what tranny you have or what year MJ, so I'll assume it's a 5-speed manual with 4.10 gears. Stock tire size would have been probably 205/75-15 or 215/75-15. Using the 205/75 as a baseline, with 4.10 gears you would be turning 3607 RPM in 4th gear at 70 MPH, and 2705 RPM in 5th gear at 70 MPH. Unfortunately, my tire & gear spreadsheet doesn't even include 35" tires, because when I made it up several years ago I never thought anyone would put 35" tires on a street XJ or MJ. The biggest I have data for is 33" tires, so I'll post that and you can extrapolate. 4.88 gears and 33" tires, in 4th gear you'd be turning 3638 RPM at 70 MPH and in 5th gear you'd be turning 2729 RPM at 70 MPH. In other words, VERY close to the same RPMs as stock tires with the stock 4.10 gears. Jump it up to 35" tires, and you will effectively be running less gear than stock. You'll have a hard time holding 70 MPH on the highway, not because you're over-revving the engine but just because the engine probably won't be putting out enough power to handle upgrades.

It's more likely the cable. Try squirting penetrating oil down it and working it -- a lot -- with the hood open and no resistance from the latch mechanism.