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87 2.5. Rebuilt the engine. Possible to have the distributor 1 tooth off and the computer will compensate enough at idle and higher rpms when not under a load to show correct timing (10 degrees adv at idle and 22-25 at 3000 rpm), but when driving and going up hill it can't compensate enough and I have loss of power?

The length of an AMC V8; shorter or longer than a SB Chevy? I know the Ford SB is longer which makes it less of a desired swap. but the AMC?

Now that v8 badge will be kewl! :drool: Gonna go right under the Comanche Badge on the fender?

Tail lights not broken? There is 50-60 recooped.

From another thread, did a "pick and pull" unlimited miles inventory search for manches. If in your area, GET THERE!. Link supplied: http://www.picknpull.com/check_inventor ... ance=25000

I gotta give Doug the credit, but here is the website so that you can check inventory...... http://www.picknpull.com/check_inventory.aspx I have a distant memory of another yard on the other side of 435, but I can't quite recall. I'll send another member a PM to see if he remembers. There are a few more of us in the general area of KC plus a couple of transients that float in and out of town. :D WOW! You can now check inventory! What an upgrade! Course, they are only there for a week or so, then crushed.

the Front Clip, the interior dash area of all Cherokees, and the front doors of a 4 door Cherokee, will swap to a Comanche. The mounting brackets for bucket seats of a Cherokee are different than a Comanche. I think there is a couple of threads on here showing how to make them fit. Front suspension the same, but Cherokee Rear differential has spring perches in a different spot. Engine and tranny the same. I think interior console is different also. So, pick what will fit!!! I even think windshields are slightly different. Hey fellow CC'rs, correct me here if I am wrong.

Yea, welcome to the club! Used to live in Farley, so I know Smithville and Platte City well! You may know of it, but there is a yard on the east side of 435 a couple of miles north of I-70. It's at the East Truman Road exit, and google maps says it's name is "pick and pull". Last time I was there (couple of years ago) it cost a buck to get in. I live about half way between Columbia and Saint Louis now, and used to go there every time we visited my daughter until she moved to Indianapolis.

Got any weight specs for these engines in order to compare to the GM 350? Also, what standard transmissions bolt to them (4x2 application)? Editing my own post: Asked the weight question then found this: http://www.team.net/sol/tech/engine.html Ford small blocks are the best for weight in the "V-8's easy to find performance parts for" category. Buick 350's weigh about the same as the 289/302.

Yes, a blessed Christmas!

290 or 304? My read in wiki says the 290 was from 67-69 and then became the 304 70 to whenever. Is both of them what you mean by the 290 being mentioned in this thread? I ask because you have peeked my interest on what to do when my 2.5 leaves the engine bay. Interestingly, they say the 290/304, in the middle of the 1970's tree hugger cries of air pollution went as low as 125 hp (hey, 2.5 4 popper hp in the 1990's). No compression and really bad gas mileage meant dumping fuel on the ground instead of in the air. Air pollution solved! Everyone happy!!! That's what most manufacturers did. I remember a movie from the 1970's with a chase scene with a chevy nova or pontiac equivelant, I forget which, that had the 350 or equivelant in it, and you could hear the 4 barrel carb sucking air, and it took them forever to get from from 0 - 60!

You use it to make food eatable. We use it to make roads driveable . 'Course, you know that. What baffles me, though, is in central Oregon where they get lotsa snow, they use cinders and no salt. The roads do fine, and old cars rust free are everywhere. Yea, it would cost to ship it in, but when you see how the chemical they use around here eats even concrete and steel, which requires a lot of road work, I would think it would be more cost effective to get cinders.

Less salt used on the road down it your area, I bet. Here in northern missouri, they are chemically recycled! :roll:

In my area of miss-ouri from western St. Louis area to Columbia, half the state mostly on I-70, I see one, maybe two a year, maybe. Do have lotsa cherokee owners look, probably wondering "gooollliieeeee, clyde, how'd he make a pickmeup out of a cherokee?"

Yea, sure, youbetcha! Thought about a personalized license plate if I ever owned a road bike: "the rev". :cheers:

Good old George Carlin. He takes all mankind did in screwing up what God created, and blames it on God. By this he shows how screwed up we are. We blame what we do wrong on not just God, but others, trying to excuse ourselves, yet we know we are at fault. Thankfully God, knowing we are like this and can't fix it, did fix it by letting mankind do worse to Himself than Carlin did in this comedy (?) skit; kill Him on a Cross after becoming the One Man who would live the perfect life God created us to live, a life that would not have had any of the problems we now have, even skin cancer, and then take the wrath this "sin" deserves, so we don't have to be punished by Him. Interesting; it's certainly alright to punish our children for the wrong they do, but Carlin calls it wrong for God to punish? Kinda hypocritical, eh? Good thing is Jesus, God the Son, took the punishment in our place. So, the crud and crap that happens to us? Not God's punishment. It's what we do to ourselves because mankind turned away from God and all good. The forever punishment God should hand out to us on Judgment Day? Taken by Jesus and taken away! Yep, God is Love! That's why He sent Jesus. That's what Christmas is really all about.

Been gearing up to it all month, but tomorrow things get really busy with two Christmas Eve Church Services, a Christmas Day Service, and then a Sunday Service. Sooo ... wanted to say to all here a blessed Christmas, remembering "God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten son that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life!" John 3:16.

So, deezmaegd24, how goes the 4.3 swap? Got some pics!

I can make that trip next summer, but it's not a "challenging" feat when a miata can make it up to the top :rotf: My daughter has an early red miata black top also! She has had it for close to 15 years and just put a new top on it. Drive only during non winter weather. She named it "spike"!

Its that about 1 inch in diameter round sensor with two vacuum connections in the round cover that snaps on the top of the throttle body of the Renix 2.5, at least in 1987. Sorry, no pics. And, by none available, I meant new.

And as far as I can find, they are not available anywhere.

Using an 83 Chevy Malibu with 3.8, found one for 45 plus shipping. Part number is REPH313201 and found it at https://www.autopartswarehouse.com Thanks for all the help/suggestions, guys! BTW, search that same website for that part using 87 Jeep Comanche 2.5, and it comes up with no idle motor. Guess they think no one has any of those vehicles any more.

Thanks!

Autozone has them for about the same, but not listed for jeep. Had to look for it under one of the other applications. The website like you sent? I contacted them and they say they are temporarily out of stock. The listing came up with that part number for a 1982 Cavalier! That's the application I used at Autozone, and the picture looks right.

This is true. But with all those vehicles and part numbers to play with, it should not be difficult to find an economical replacement. :cheers: Local store? List over $200, $116 my cost!