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What a shame. Those parts aren't quite irreplaceable, but they certainly are (were) rare. Storage is a real problem. Many, many years ago, long before the MJ even hit the drawing board at AMC, my brother, a friend, and I were very active in the Hudson-Essex-Terraplane Club. We had a friend of the family whose late father had run a sand and gravel business. The business ended when he died, but there was a 3-bay garage on the land where the old gravel pit was located, and it was dry. She allowed us to park some of our vehicles in there. My bother and our friend put early 50s Hudson sedans in there. Sandwiched between them I had a 1947 Hudson pickup. We went down one day to check on them, to find that some kids from the area had been using the sand pit as a backstop for shooting with a .22. They got tired of shooting sand, and cut loose on the structure. There were literally hundreds of bullet holes in both cars. Miraculously, because by sheer luck of the drar my truck was between two pretty solid cars, my truck was almost completely unscathed. I moved the truck out of there post-haste. I hate vandals with a blinding purple passion.

I don't recommend even trying to bend the original hard lines. There's a good chance you'll break at least one of them. Just use a longer flex hose. I think the ones I used for a 4" lift were from a '95 YJ Wrangler.

I don't know what it was made of but from my years working as a roofing consultant/inspector, I'd say it seems very similar to what the roofers call modified bitumen roofing membrane. It's roll roofing, basically, but the "roll roofing" you buy at Lowe's or Home Despot uses conventional asphalt. The MBR uses chemically-modified asphalt to make it more rubbery and more durable. If you have any commercial roofers near you, or doing a job near you, you might be able to score a couple of cut-off ends of rolls and try making one from that.

What's the wheelbase? Shortbed is 113 inches, longbed is 119.9 (call it 120) inches. Should be easy to check that way.

The bench seat works with the manual transmissions and the mini console. The XJ floor shifter is no different in how much space it occupies -- it fits the same mini console.

For the '87, I believe the fuel gauge sender has the same resistance range as the other gauge senders, 0 -88 ohms. 0 ohms indicates empty and 88 ohms equals full. A short circuit would result in zero (or nearly zero) ohms and would indicate empty. A broken wire would indicate full. You probably have a broken wire or a bad ground.

But an XJ donor vehicle will have all the cables and parts you need. Get a column shift steering column out of an S-10, and you get the other parts for an S-10 with a GM engine and tranny, not for a Jeep MJ. The manual tranny steering column has the steering wheel lock built into the column. It doesn't need any connection to the transmission or to the floor shifter. Just don't use the Park interlock. Possibly, but I don't think so.

The steering column is the same -- GM Saginaw -- but the cable connection to the transmission might be different. And you won't have the instrument cluster with the PRNDL window. Don (Hornbrod) had his set up with an aftermarket PRNDL in a tombstone mounted directly onto the steering column, so there are ways to do it. My opinion only -- it's a LOT less work to just get an XJ floor shirter and use that. No need to change the steering column, no cables to run, no PRNDL to worry about.

Well, actually that's exactly what I did say ... You have an '89. That's in the series we call "Renix." You should look for an 87 - 90 XJ Cherokee.

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AW4 You will need the transmission computer (TCU), wiring harness, kickdown cable, and possibly one or two other things I'm drawing a blank on at the moment. Oh -- and you'll need a shifter. The MJ would have had a column shifter. IMHO, it's much easier to get the floor shifter out of a Cherokee.

Sounds too easy, but I tried it and it seems to work. Thanks, Gents.

As a newbie to MJs, you may not know what Jeep Driver is referring to. In the Renix years (1986-1990 for the MJ, 1984-1990 for the XJ), there's a bank of three or four relays on the passenger side of the engine bay, near the shock tower and directly behind the battery. That's supposed to have a sort of oval(-ish) or kidney-shaped cover over it, which is retained by two plastic twist retainers. Over the years, those covers get lost or discarded. If you find any in a boneyard -- GRAB IT, with the retainers if possible.

The brake warning light switch goes in the front distribution block, not the proportioning valve. What did you buy? Are you referring to the plastic-bodied switch that fits into the top of the brake distribution block, near the master cylinder? Did you buy an MJ distribution block, or did you buy an XJ/ZJ proportioning valve? [Edit to add] That switch shouldn't leak, because there should never be brake fluid at that switch. If brake fluid is leaking out at the system warning switch, the proportioning valve or distribution block is faulty, not the switch.

If you get back to that (or those) scrap yard(s), please make note of the VIN numbers and report them.

I have looked at Imgur. Technically (IIRC), their terms of service prohibit using them as third-party host for images displayed on external sites. (Which, of course, is just what most of us want to use it for.) ... Yeah, it's in their terms of service: So the terms of service prohibit doing what we want to do. That means if you use Imgur that way -- they have the option of cutting you off at any time and, if/when they do so, you have no recourse because they warned you not to do what you did.

As most of us probably already know, Photobucket has ceased to be a viable site for hosting photos, unless you have deep pockets and want to sign up for one of their pay-to-play plans. (And, even then, the Photobucket site may go down for extended periods with no warning and no explanation.) I've looked at several alternates, and until today I hadn't found anything worth even considering. I stumbled across a site called Shutterfy. https://support.shutterfly.com/s/article/The-Shutterfly-Guarantee-1 It looks promising ... I think. Unlimited storage, for free. But the page in that link doesn't tell us if the free accounts allow hotlinking to images for use on web forums such as the Comanche Club. I just wasted a quarter of an hour in a chat session with a customer support drone, who finally admitted that he/she doesn't know where the terms of service are to be found. He/she said he/she will get the information and send it to me. I'm not holding my breath. Has anyone used Shutterfly? If so, how satisfied are you? Is it a viable alternative for us?

For an '88 you need the speedo head with the white nylon clip attaching the cable to the head.

Yes. It's a lot of work, it's a very tight fit, and they almost always have cooling problems. IMHO you're far better off getting the Jeep engine to run. As OldSchl88 asked -- what kind of problems are you having?

"80s" doesn't help too much. The "80s" XJs and MJs all had mechanical speedometers, but there were two different types, and each type had a completely different method of attaching the speedo cable to the speedo head in the cluster. That cluster is from a base model with idiot lights instead of gauges. About the only thing anyone might want or need out of it is the speedoemter head, but without knowing which type of cable connection is has it's impossible to know what year vehicles it fits.

Definitely the rear flares (with the backing plates, even if you break the studs). They aren't available new, and they are NOT the same as 2door Cherokee rear flares.

I don't think those are intended for use with straps. I think they were to be used as attachment points for a tow bar, for those who wanted to hook up an XJ and tow it behind a camper.

I'm pretty ce4rtain those are not Jeep mirrors.

What front proportioning valve? The MJ never had a front proportioning valve, and neither did the CJ. I drove my '88 MJ for years with no proportioning valve. It was only a problem once, when I hit the brakes for a stop sign at the bottom of a steep hill and the road was wet and slippery. The rear locked up and I fishtailed a bit.

Bollywood. Gotta luv it. I wish it had subtitles ...