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JC Whitney used to sell them. I haven't paid much attention to JCW for a few years so I don't know if they still have them. I found their web site impossible to use (which is why I've been staying away from them), so you might need to call and ask a live person.

If the engine is getting oil, then the pump is pumping. There is a by-pass for when the filter gets plugged, so perhaps your by-pass is malfunctioning. The one-piece gasket is a factory item. They started using it in model year 1994, I think. If not '94 then '95. Should also be available from aftermarket brands such as Fel-Pro. Yes, it fits.

:cheers: Today was a rainy, shut-in kind of day so Grandma took pity and gave the kid the Sims game today instead of waiting for her birthday. Success. It runs on Grandma's computer, and she's a happy camper (for at least 24 hours, probably). Thanks, folks. I appreciate all the advice.

Rock magnets, is what they are. The '88 MJ had them on when I bought it. I wheeled it for a couple of years with the brackets, a 4" lift, and 31s. Then I took off the lift, removed the brackets, and running 30s I can go anywhere I could go before -- with less scraping up front. They are for street trucks that want to run big tires.

Anybody else got a picture of their TCU, or remember looking at the numbers? I see two number boxes on that one, and the right-hand box says '88.' With the cruise box being an AMC unit, why do I get the feeling that '88' refers to the year of the vehicle? Does this "96" XJ have an air bag in the steering wheel? Chrysler began using driver's side air bags in the 1995 model year for the XJ. If your donor is a '96 it should have an air bag. It should also have an electronic speedo. Does the speedo have a cable?

I wandered into Wally World today and wasted some time looking at computer games. They have the Sims2 game, and the system requirements greatly exceed anything I have in the house -- desktop or notebook. In fact, pretty much everything they have needs piles more horsepower than any computer I have -- even the cheapie $10 game CDs. I finally found a couple of $10 discs that may run, and I found the last surviving copy of the original Sims game, which only requires a Pentium III 400 and 128 MB of RAM. That we have, so I grabbed that, and it'll just have to keep her happy until she gets back to Chile and can exchange pirateware with her uncle Sebastian -- on his computer, not mine. (I think I now I know why half the time when my wife is in Chile she has to use an Internet cafe for e-mail because Sebastian's computer isn't working right.) Considering that my home computer is orders of magnitude better than what I use at work, this game thing is making it clear that something is seriously wrong. When a 12-year old child needs mega-times more computer than we use to operate a damned TOWN ... that's just plan wrong. Good summary on the thread, by the way. I guess at this point I should append Eagle: :nuts: :dunno: :hateputers:

Just before Christmas I was in bad shape with a back injury, the weather here was terrible, and I was slated for a road trip of about 600 miles each way. And my front axle u-joints were toast. So I broke the cardinal rule and paid a shop to replace them. Today as I was driving home I noticed (as I have several times over the last few days) that I could see my door handles in my left side mirror. And again it occurred to me that I should not be able to see the door handles, because the side view mirror is for ... well ... seeing the SIDE view. So this time I stopped, and checked, and I found that indeed the "side" view was largely an overlap of the rear view. I reset the side mirror, and the glass felt sort of wobbly. And then I remembered that when I picked up the XJ from the shop the guy mentioned that he had road tested it. Which means that this idiot readjusted my side view mirror, probably breaking the gimbel inside because it hasn't been moved in twenty years (yes, Old Faithful is 20 years old this week), just to drive a couple of miles on a 2-lane state road for a road test. However many synonyms you can think of for PISSED OFF! ... that's me right about now.

Yeah, her birthday is coming next week so I think I'm going to just buy a new copy. I tried to read (not load) the CD in my computer using Windows explorere and all I got was a "Drive Not Ready" error message. I guess that's what we might call a "clue." Thanks, gents. False alarm. (I hope.)

That's the problem with big lifts. You want the pinion to point up for your u-joint angles to stay within reason, but caster is supposed to be around 8 degrees POSITIVE for proper steering, handling, and avoiding death wobble. So you have to find a "happy medium" -- which often isn't really "happy" for either the u-joints or the steering, but it's the best you can get. Somewhere around 5 to 6 degrees positive is probably where you'll end up. The right way to do it, of course, is the pop the welds on your axle ears and reweld so the knuckles are at a different angle to the center section. This site may help: http://gojeep.willyshotrod.com/HowtoAlignment.htm

If he's advertising a '98 ZJ with a "Dana 44" rear axle that hasn't imploded yet, he's right -- those would be very rare.

This is on an MJ? Both axles are solid axles. The rear has no camber. In the front, the camber is fixed with the steering knuckles are attached to the axles, and the only way to change/adjust it is to use special, offset balljoints. What I'm saying is, lifting an MJ does NOT change the camber.

AMC used 10" drums. Chrysler used 9" drums. '89 was the last year for the 10" and 90 was the first year for the 9". The 10x1.75 brakes are significantly better than the Mopar 9" brakes, and easier to work on as well. And, of course, the 10" x 2.5" D44 brakes are the best of all.

You're just showing your age. Now we know that (like me!) you are old enough to remember radios with mechanical tuners. Radio Shack did, indeed, sell "tuner cleaner." I doubt you can find it today, though.

Having just posted that I don't know what the game is ... I think I do know, if I understood her correctly. I *think* she said it's "The Sims 2" (deluxe). Is that a game anyone has ever heard of? Anyone know what it requires to run? Thanks again.

The problem is, I don't know. It's a piracted copy she brought with her from Chile, so there's nothing on the CD that means anything to me. When I put it in my notebook computer all we got was a blank screen (grey, not even a blue screen of death), and in my desktop it froze the machine -- so I don't even get to a splash screen that I can identify. And she speaks Spanish and I don't, so she can't explain to me what the game is about. She's a "young" 12-year old girl, so it ain't Mortal Combat or any of those military sniper games ... but I don't have a clue what it is.

Why? Do you routinely run it without oil? Do you periodically fill it with steel shavings? Do you use it for target practice with a .50 BMG sniper rifle? My '88 XJ has the "dreaded" Peugeot tranny. I'm at 270,000 miles and (knock on wood) it's still doin' its thing. I'd say unless you make it a point to abuse your equipment you should be good for at least another 100,000 miles or so.

No need to get insulting, Mate. My stepgranddaughter brought her games with her from Chile and she doesn't have the original packaging. Anyone else care to offer demeaning and unhelpful suggestions, or can we now return to finding the most cost-effective way to getting my step-granddaughter a box to play her games on?

You won't have any issues. The ECU will continue to run the engine, and you'll abandon the TCU and harness. The 94 XJ will not have a disconnect front axle, so your 4WD indicator light on the dash probbaly won't work. I don't know how to make it work, but there's probably a way.

It's more likely that some bearing is seized up, which is what fried your old belt, and with a new belt properly tensioned the starter has to try to turn the seized bearing. I would loosen or remove the belt and check to see if the a/c compressor, water pump, idler pulley, alternator, and power steering pump all turn freely.

I knew RAM was the key -- and Dell screwed me yet again because both the desktops we have won't recognize any more than the 512k I have installed. And they are old enough that I don't think it's worth buying a new motherboard. So I should be looking for 2GB of RAM? Most of the lower priced boxes I've found still have 512k, and a few are 1 GB. Maybe I'll just have to hit the next computer fair -- if they still have them around here. I haven't been to one of those for maybe five years.

I use Catco direct-fits, from Summit Racing.

The GM 3.1L or 3.4L out of any rear wheel drive vehicle (Camaro, Firebird, S-10, etc) will work.

The water pump problem is that Jeep sold the 4.0L engine in the Cherokee and Comanche while they still offered the 4.2L in the Wrangler. ALL the 4.0L applications used a serpentine belt, but the 4.2L used the standard belt ... and a water pump that doesn't spin in the "reverse" direction. Since the blocks are essentially the same, you can install a 4.2L water pump on a 4.0L engine and vice versa. The 2.5L engine in the XJ and MJ came with either a standard vee belt or a serpentine belt, depending on options. I don't know if those water pumps are the same as the 4.0L or 4.2L pumps, but it wouldn't surprise me.

My wife's 12-year old granddaughter is staying with us for awhile -- like, several months, and possibly longer. Like all kids that age, she's addicted to computer games. I know I'm a technophobe and a dinosaur, but even so I was astonished to discover that neither my wife's desktop box nor mine, nor our Dell notebook, will run ANY of the kid's games. So today I went looking to see what's out there in the way of affordable boxes. Keyboards I have (and she needs a Spanish keyboard anyway, and fortunately I brought a spare home the last time I was in Chile), monitor I have and can probably scrounge something better from the computer graveyard at my part-time job, but I have to face the music and realize that to run games, we're probably going to have to buy a new computer. So -- first stop: Best Buy. They had a few desktops on display, and after some poking and probing I was able to determine that they will actually sell you a box, rather than an entire system. Cheapest one they had was an Acer with 1024 MB of RAM and a 320 GB hard drive, and a CD/DVD read/write drive. Is that enough horsepower to run games? The price was $449.95 Next stop was Circuit City. Are they going out of business? The store looked stripped, and there wasn't a single desktop computer in the place. Oh, well. On to CompUSA and their going out of business sale. Two or three months ago, I was in the same store and saw two desktop boxes priced under $400 -- one was an eMachine at $349, and the other was perhaps an Acer at $399. Not today. Today, the cheapest desktop box in the store was $899, less a whopping 5% reduction. Thanks, but no thanks. Anybody got any suggestions as to where's the cheapest place to get a half-decent box that has enough Moxie to run games?

Agreed Both will rub the lower control arms, though. The largest tire that (usually) fits with NO rubbing is 235/75-15