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seriously. got the truck finished up, went wheeling in some local soup. aweseome. Of course I was te guy wheeling all seasons.

yes, that's a tj. frame mount is different, but other steering and axle side are identical to an MJ/XJ

If I were close I would buy it. 89 may have the ax-15 or the ba-10 so that's a crapshoot. but it looks like a 44 rear, worth the 50. part out the rest like tail lights and a good 4.0.

I had considered something similar to this using tube. Sort of a bed slider. Might be handy for when you gotta lean up against a tree.

well, a longbed s10 cap fit my junk, so I'd bet that's a good place to start, at least you know the length will be right.

hmmm, special tools: double jointed elbows. seriously, it's a PITA, but doable in an afternoon. nothing really special needed other than patience.

all the turbines in the pictures of my junk are not the bare aluminum anymore. They're painted metallic silver. FWIW new cars have painted rims, and if you wax them every once in a while mud and brake dust just comes off with a hose.

so, that last comment about not going over 31's wasn't true. that there's a 34" SS TSL shoehorned under my 3" lift, with about 2" of the fender cut away top and front, about 2.5 cut away from the rear.

the 2.1 was a POS engine. notorious for head problems. It was also used in some of the winnebago campers.

let's not also forget that the MJ frame isn't straight like an XJ's frame. It bends outwards just after the cab, so you'd have to cut the XJ rails mounts and then reweld them anyway. Might as well go cutoms. Mine are made out of some yota rails that were 78" long, just the mounting has been reworked. I'm a LWB though, and they're a bit short.

I think he may have mistaken the drag link for the track bar. The draglink has a sleeve and is adjustable.

no. MJ springs are longer, and they have much more arch because an MJ is SUA. try looking at S10 springs.

I know that JCR recently aquired an MJ to do measurements on.

they should work, I've looked at my neighbors TJ, the front axle is identical. JKS shows the same part numbers for tj/xj/mj, so I don't know why another manufacturer would be different.

looks like skyjacker to me. That's just what my coild up front look like.

Alex: I didnt realize you wanted another set of rims. I've got a set of five stock steelies that you can put tires on, two even have 30x9.5 buckshots on them, about half wore. I have the other two buckshots, one needs a pleg and one's chunked a litttle. They'd be OK for trail only use, but I wouldn't drive 75 on them. Yours for a headliner backer board :D and here's where I got the quote from http://www.google.com/maps?hl=en&hs=cDr ... =authority

yes, it's a ground problem. When checking don't just check the rears, amzingly enough it was my ground off of the front turn signals that cause mine to do that. don't ask me how, but electricity does odd things in the rats nest of old wires we've got.

thanks for the link, those are the exact tires. I think shipping would kill though, unless he came way down in price. You're right about the pizza cutters, these have very deep tread blocks.

if there's a cap mounted on the radiator then it's a 91 or later rad, of course assuming that it's for the 4.0 My advice, get a tape measure and start measuring. most all parts stores can give you the measurements of replacement rads.

likely the ECU is turning off the ignition. check the wires for the CPS, and the CPS itself. the wire harness seems to like meting on the exhaust.

I figured. street tires are likely to be 33x9.5's on my stock turbines. local tire place can get my "trailbuster" 33x9.5's for about $350 mounted. reaserch shows they're made by kelly, who is in turn part of goodyear. They're you're typical "AT" light truck tire.

man, so you've got 5+ inches up front to clear 33x10.5's? I think I'm screwed :D Looks like I'm loosing the flares and hacking up the fenders pretty badly. and probably adding another inch to my bumpstops.

the answer is yes go and get them both from the same vehicle, and bolt them up. The only snage you may run into is the external/internal slave issue. Early models are internal slave, later models are external. If you get an external slave trans you have two options. Get the bellhousing with it and everythig in there. You'll need the slave cylinder, the clutch fork and the bearings and such. Then you can switch to the external slave model, it's much easier to service. Or, you can get the trans, and use your current bellhouing, this should require nothing more than unbolting the bellhousing from yours and bolting it to the new one. You might want to verify that the pilot bearing is the same. I rmember some debate as to that.

A quick question how much lift and what sized tires you running? I know it's 33's, are you at 4" lift? I'm trying to stuff 34's on 3". MASSIVE fender trimming needs to happen, and I'm going to have to move my rock rails back 2 inches. I saw your pics on naxja in 53guy's thread. Figured I'd ask.

the firewall may be the same, but I'm pretty sure the radiator brackets and such were different. Perhaps they stuffed the 4.0 in and left the 2.5 rad stuff.