87manche

Exactly! It's a perfect time! It's a good time to go SOA if you're thinking about it, but without near as much work you can stay SUA and have yourself a bomb-proof axle, instead of a bomb for an axle my 8.8 is staying SUA. and it's a giant compared to the D35.

\ so you used synth and then went back to conv??? yeah. It's not a problem.

My old Nissan Patrol had the battery under the driver's seat (though technically not "in" the cab, as there was an access panel as a cover. Whenever the voltage regulator took a crap (frequently), I would be bathed in off-gases. Not very pleasant. old VW beetles had them under the rear seat. they frequently dropped through the steel pan and to the pavement because the battery trays would rust out.

apparently I just have a cool insurance agent then. the Mj is insured with state farm, for more than it's worth blue book (lockers/new axles/lift and such are covered) and she told me that state farm would cover it, as long as I wasn't competing in anything. so me taking it to a park and bashing out the windshield on a tree branch=me paying the $50 comp deductible and getting a new windshield.

well, my day job is computers. At the time I was young, had too much money and liked to play video games. It was also a challenge. engineering a water cooling system to dissipate the kind of thermal energy I was developing was pretty cool. I'm going to type some stuff now, your eyes will likely roll into your skull. A duron 600 thunderbird core dissipates about 80W of heat from a die smaller than a dime. After I upped the core voltage and the clock speed I figured mine was putting out about 170W of heat. In order to keep the transistors stable at that kind of core voltage you have to keep it running real cool. the chips were specced to run at 85* C, but that was the top of the thermal limits. Mine ran nominally at about 55C. but this was after quite a bit of engineering, and a 300 GPH pump feeding into a large heatercore. The thermal load was sufficient to heat my room. Just think of it like rockcrawling for nerds, there's no NEED for you to truggy a perfectly good MJ, you just got there because it was an end to a means.

if you go the BMW route, ceck the rear subframes for damage. the aluminum arms like to pull out of the body, if it was repaired properly it's not such a big deal, but when my friend was 3 series shopping we found 3 out of 5 that had this damage, one fixed proerly, two hacked together.

change the freeze plugs. it's easy to do and cheap, but it's a substantial PITA if you have to do it in the vehicle, especially that one on the back of the block ;)

start looking for a new one :) seriously though, these things have a limited shelf life. Mine exploded on a paved road in 2nd gear maintaining speed. As to the spiders, I'd imagine that housing/carrier flex was a contributing factor. They're both weak. I've seen two dana 35's puke spiders, I destroyed the ring and pinion in mine. So that's three I've personally witenessed going bye bye in a year.

I can't subscribe to changing the filter every other oil change. I'd rather leave the synth in the crankcase and change the filter at 3K miles. Anyway. I run mobil 1 full synth in the wife's camry, I change it at 5K. Of course, that's what the factory recommends for dino oil. I don't run synth in the 4.0. Two reasons: It gets changed much more frequently than 3K miles because of the abuse it takes off road. the one time I put synth in it, before it became a trail truck, the lifters made noise. I wasn't comfortable with the amount of noise the motor was making. Of course, my junk had 240K mile son it at the time, so a fresh motor might take to the synth just fine.

honestly the submersion process is cool, but it's not the best way to cool. Mineral oil just isn't a very good conductor of heat. I eventually went to a custom copper waterjacket I built, so I could focus te cooling directly to the CPU die. that let me hit 1200 MHz stable with a 600 Mhz chip. that and the then brand new Geforce 2 GTS I had were pretty impressive.

because mineral oil doesn't conduct electricity. nothing new, I built one 7 years ago. mine was self enclosed, and had a seperate chamber for the drives. Mine also had a heat exchanger and pump to circulate the mineral oil. it allowed me to run a duron 600 at 1100 MHz, stable. that was faster than anything you could buy from AMD at the time.

the spee limit changes where the sign post is in the ground. Sight lines and even peoples vision can be different, so you can't argue that. Then add in the environmental factors, a clear day will allow greater sight distances than a foggy one. Yes, I wait until the sign before accelerating, and I've already slowed to within 5 MPH of the sign if it's a slower speed zone. I annoy people on the highway.

this may help: http://criminal.lawyers.com/traffic-vio ... icket.html lots of good things there. I especially like the part about requesting the radar guns maintenance records. Might get lucky, it may not have had it's scheduled maintenance done on time.

Can you just splice one in? My 87's fuel pump is crazy loud. It makes a constant whine/buzz ... it had be thinking that it is going to go up soon? But now after reading this I'm thinking it might be normal. Where exactly is this located on the MJ? My parts MJ is a '89 so I could rob it off that. there was a TSB about it. Dealers were supposed to put one on if the customer complained of the noise. My 87's pump is noisy, but I don't care, the ballast resistor is just one more failure point.

just an FYI, the 87 model year didn't have those. It's there for pump noise.

I was there when that tracbar broke. The previous day Kim had bent it, they went into town and had a local place bend it back. the next day it broke.

most glass places won't remove glass for reuse and make any guarantees. It usually get's broken trying to remove it.

some rust repair and some black paint up the the body line and that will look sharp.

in addition to those things, my comprehensive covers me hitting a deer, or glass breakages. so my insurance is liability and comprehensive. I do keep the bodily injury and property damage caps on my insurance higher than state mins. State mins in OH are 300K/100K You can eat through 100K of medical pretty quickly, and then you're on the hook financially for the other persons medical bills. So I carry 500K property damage and 1million medical liability. That ups my premium about $30 a half, but I find that it's worth it. In the unlikely situation that I do cause and accident, I don't want to pay the other person's medical bills for the rest of my life.

I carry comprehensive, just for the glass coverage. replacing glass sucks, and if you wheel, it's only a matter of time.

I know that TJ guys use stock xj coils and get lift. like 1.5"

Just curious how many times did you fill your tank up on this trip? I used 29 gallons of fuel to drive from Salem MO, to Ashland OH so a tank and a half. On the highway I average about 400 a tank. I fill it up when the low fuel light pops. It usually takes 18 gallons from that point, leaving me with a 5 gallon reserve in my tank.

don't use the TJ coils, they will be way short.

Am I missing something on JohnQ's original post? I thought all MJ's had an electric fans & a mech. fan regardless of years or engines. But all I've owned were HO models. But I have replaced all the slab straight bladed fans with the 1996+ XJ curved blade fans; they are quieter and seem to pass more air. if you have a manual trans and no AC you didn't get one from the factory.

that's what I did after my master leaked all over mine. There have been a few lingering issues from it, but overall it's been better than I expected for the last year.