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Never mind. I found this picture in one of Pete's post. Looks like it's not going to work:

My truck had painted flares when I got it (still has 2 1/2 of them). When the po hit a deer at 55 mph, smashing up among other parts both front fenders, one flare got bent enough for some of the paint to flake off. I guess the flares can flex more than the paint does. The other 3 flares still looked fine. I'm pretty sure this truck had been repainted at least once in it's life, so I have no clue if that paint was original or not, or what kind of paint was used.

I have seen write-ups, where you fit the XJ seat part of the slider into the MJ bracket side of the slider. However, these are XJ power seats. The slider part is not anywhere near alike. If there's a write up somewhere on making XJ power seats fit in an MJ, my apologies.

Will the lower brackets (between the slider and the floor) of an MJ bucket fit on an XJ bucket?

Different people, different techniques. Multiple browsers (Firefox/Netscape, IE, Opera) under a single login, multiple different logins on a single computer (easy on Linux because you can hot-key between logins), or use multiple computers. I believe I heard #2 mention rolling his desk chair around between 7 computers. I just use multiple logins (and a second computer last night). Or as Wildman said, maybe it's better you don't know...

I have an 87 Comanche with bucket seats. Between the brackets under my seats and brackets under 84-96 Cherokee power seats, will I be able to make the latter fit without major modifications, or would I have to fabricate something to make them work?

Little sis has steadily been gaining, so I added a little over 100 votes over the past 30 minutes or so.

Aluminum tires for better gas mileage? I may have to try that. :D And since one is a 2.8 V6 fuel efficient? My buddy that had one in an S10 was always complaining about it being a gas guzzling (for it's size) underpowered dog.

It's been 3.699 here for a bit, then yesterday it dropped to $3.679. According to a guy that works at the drive-in, Canton, about 20 minutes north, is at $3.559. I may have to see for myself if I decide to go to the Jeep Jamboree in Canfield, as I'll come through there.

Quite a difference from when you just got it. Looks good! Have you ever thought about a taller lift up front (6.5" or so) and just doing a spring over axle flip on the rear? It would cost more for the parts on the front (longer or adjustable control arms and track bar), but you would not have to pay shipping on new leaf springs. And everything for the front is interchangeable with the XJ, which I assume would be available locally in Europe?

I'd tow it with my 1/2 ton Suburban (350), but it's pretty much the same suspension and drive train as a 3/4 ton pu truck. And that would be at the limit of what I'd tow with it. Anything over 6000 pounds I usually borrow a buddy's 1 ton with a 454. I agree that it'd be not a good idea to even contemplate towing it that distance with a Comanche. If it were 4 miles, maybe. 4 hours? No way! I believe a Comanche with the 4.0 is rated at 5000 pounds using an equalizing hitch in a class III receiver, but IMHO factory ratings are overly optimistic. I personally wouldn't tow more than 4000 pounds with it, and nothing over 2000 without trailer brakes.

There is supposed to be a line (part of it looks like brake line, part like vacuum hose I believe and part rubber hose) that goes from the gas tank vent(s) to the charcoal canister. I don't know if that's the pipe you found or not. There should be 5 hard lines running along the frame rail between the engine and gas tank. Main brake line, bypass brake line, fuel feed line, fuel return line and fuel tank vent. At least, that's how my 87 4.0 is set up. I imagine the 2.5 is similar.

And down to $3.749

I still have mine hooked up, and it works well. Why change something that works? When it quits working I'll replumb.

That's funny, as I got 4001 just now, 6:08 am Eastern time.

For mud RACING you want to stay on top of the mud, so small fat tires. For slow but keep going traction you'd want tall skinny tires to cut through the mud and get traction on the solid stuff underneath. At Badlands last weekend a few people were running Maxxis Bighorns, and they seemed to work well. I'm pretty sure 89eliminator ran something else that worked equally well, but can't remember what. I do know that the guy running Superswamper Boggers couldn't get anywhere on the rocks (which is probably why he's selling them...)

The handling characteristics of an EZLocker and Detroit (and most other lockers for that matter) are the same. In turns the inside wheel is driven while the outside wheel overruns. That can cause "weird" handling if you're not used to it, but is the same for almost any automatic locker, be it EZLock, Detroit or Aussie.

You suck... Dropped to $3.789 a few hours ago.

I've been thinking about this myself, and see no reason why it would not work. But then, I never looked deep into the cooling system (yet).

$3.819

That's my problem. To get the front to properly match the back with soa is more money than I can currently handle, so I'm planning to go up 3" for now, and worry about soa in a few years. Plus, I'd like to use up my current tires before buying new ones. The tires i have now would look funny with too much lift because of their (relatively) small size. Looking at all options, I think the Motion Offroad 3" packs are probably the way to go for the rear. And in your case, the front part of that XJ kit you have should fit on the MJ,

A somewhat related question: should an Aussie in a D44 last with 33s? Or would that still be too weak?

I can tell you how many times I've seen it fail on the trails: once, in my MJ, last weekend. But then, you were there. Yeah, I found the only way to get it filled again was through the upper radiator hose, but I didn't get the truck cooled down enough to be able to safely remove the hose until I was back at the camp ground. In theory it is a good design; in the real world not so much. I did eventually manage to keep the temp mostly below the red zone by hopping mud puddle to water hole to mud puddle to cool the oil in the oil pan by keeping it submerged as much as possible. That's why I suddenly left the pose for the group shot for a minute and came back again :D It's been good on the freeway on the way home. As long as I'm moving I have no issues. It's all that standing still in the woods followed by a minute of high throttle followed by standing still idling that did me in.

For that tire? 7" as Brent mentioned earlier. But anything from 6.5 to 7.5 is acceptable.

Damage? Wade, a flattened exhaust tip can not be considered damage compared to what some other people came away with. I also like the creativity of some people I won't mention, like happening to have a can of flat black spray paint with you to cover up a rub mark on the wife's ride so she won't find out :D Anyway, I found out my daughter doesn't like to be in a vehicle that's not horizontal, so for most of the ride she was either telling me not to go there, or chickened out and walked up whenever we got to a hill. Toward the very end she did stay in, mostly because I parked beside a tree at the bottom :D and didn't pull away until the hill was clear. As one GLXJ member mentioned, I should have brought a padlock for her seat belt. She did say she enjoyed it, and supposedly wants to come again next year if her big sis can't make it. Tires surprised me. Not only my own, which did a LOT better than i had even hoped: 235/75 snow tires aired down to 20 psi, but also a set of 31" AT radials on a 2 door XJ, that made some pretty tough stuff simply look easy. I also found out TSL Boggers are not the best choice for that property, although they did paint that particular XJ brown in no time flat when he found some mud. I will definitely be back next year, hopefully having the overheating issue fixed with an aux fan, and a 3" lift that I think will make that orange trail a little easier. And the drop off out of the pipes was a lot higher than the pics on the site, as well as Youtube videos show. Then again, according to the trail leader, even as recently as January is was not nearly as high.