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Way back when I first got my MJ, it was a 2.5, AX5, 2WD. Stock everything, with 205/75/15's on it. I regularly got 23-25 mpg in it. Eventually I started modding it....bigger tires, lift, bumpers, etc. and mileage started to decline, but was still decent. I won't compare mine to when I 4.0 swapped it, because by that point it wasn't stock configuration at that point (33's, then 35's.....SOA, 4.56's, yadda yadda). I will say I had a TJ with a 2.5 after that, and it absolutely sucked. It got decent mileage putting around town, but any highway/interstate driving (which was the majority of what I did since it was my DD) and I had to have my foot to the floor just to keep up with traffic. Worse if it was windy. It did great wheeling though. I guess it all depends on the kind of driving you plan to do with it. The 2.5 is a rock solid power plant, no question there (my old 2.5 got pulled for the swap at around 190K and was subsequently swapped into another buddies MJ where it ran for several thousand miles after). But, it ain't no powerhouse....that's for sure.

Modding the internal vents works. Seeing as how the OP already has a semi-modified cover, keep on keepin' on Another option, which I did, was swap in a later model stamped steel cover. That style replaced the vents with a baffle tray at the top inside of the cover. I had a thread on here with some pics, but they met their demise courtesy of Photobucket. You need to grab the new style cover, the bolts that hold it to the head along with the grommets, and the vaccuum nipple from the intake manifold on the donor vehicle and the CCV hoses. It also takes a different gasket than the older aluminum cover (which should come with new bolt grommets as well).

So they could drop it from a high enough level to break it.......LOL. If you/they just swap rear case halves, there's no messing around with the speed sensor on the TJ case.

^^^how true The "hallmark" of cars when I was coming up was the 100K mark. It was a real achievement to make it there, especially living in southwest PA in the snow and rust belt LOL. Every vehicle I've ever bought has been used, and I usually run them to about 200K before trading them in now.

I can't believe my 02 KJ actually has Homelink built in, LOL. 3 different buttons even. My wife's '17 Subaru doesn't even have it.

Eagle, I think they are either a #60 or 62. Wade, does HP monitor your page counts somehow? Thanks.

Yeah, it looks good on paper, but there's got to be some kind of angle going on. And from what I've read online, yes HP monitors your printing remotely. I need to adjust my tin foil hat a bit, or add some more foil, but I'm not a fan of anyone monitoring anything we do. It's bad enough we bought one of those Google "home" things that just sits here and records everything we say. The only thing I use it for is a jukebox. Yep, inkjet. The ink refills are NOT cheap, and it defaults to color print by nature so every time you send a print job you have to change the setting to b/w, if you remember...... Some things she does need to print in color (educational/instructional stuff) but not everything. Pisses me off to no end. We (she) doesn't do photo anything, so a laser jet might be a good solution. I'll look into that Do you have to select that for every print job you send, or is that a global, "set it and forget it" setting? If we could make that a default setting, that would be great.

Here's the same method, using a pickle fork: https://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f12/separating-gear-shifter-513891/

I know there's alot of tech savvy guys on here....I am not. We have an HP something or other printer/copier/faxer/scanner all-in-one thing for our home PC. I rarely use it, but my wife has a side job that she uses it for, ALOT. Both color and b/w printing/copying. I'm sick of buying ink cartridges for it every time we go shopping, and stumbled across this from HP: https://instantink.hpconnected.com/us/en/l/ Anybody here use this, or know anyone that does? Pros or cons of it? I think it might be a good Christmas gift to get her, but I don't know enough about it other than what I read on the site and don't want to get scammed into something. Thoughts? edit: she used to save receipts for ink/paper/supplies when she was a 1099 employee for this job, but has since been put on payroll and just bills them hourly flat fees and gets a payroll check issued with taxes deducted. We are not itemizing our taxes any longer, so we're just eating the cost of printing supplies now. Chaps my butt.....

Yeah, the Genie came with 2 remote openers that were programmed right out of the box, which was nice. The keypad was pre-programmed as well, with a default PIN that I had to change (piece of cake). All I have to do now is try to get the Homelink button(s) in my KJ programmed to it. I'll probably need to enroll in a night class at the local community college to try to figure out how to do that

I've got an el cheapo one I bought at Lowe's or somewhere a couple three years ago....it works reasonably well. To be sure/confirm, I use a small finishing nail through the drywall to test. If I miss a stud, it's a barely noticeable hole in the drywall to fix.

Here's the new unit installed. I need to clean all the wiring up and modify the power head bracketry this weekend. I'm moving the safety beam sensors up to the center of the header above the door, about 6" away from each other, to get them away from the track bottoms. We have no kids or pets to worry about getting squashed by the door (which has a reversing sensor on it anyway). I've absolutely mangled the old ones from running crap into them......ill leave the wiring in place for those locations though so I can remount them properly if/when we sell the house. I'll just wire them together out of the way and run a single pair of wires to the head unit for a much cleaner look. New unit on top, old, cranky POS on bottom. I'm going to give the old one to my neighbor, who doesn't have an opener at all, if he wants it.

I'm still waiting for one of those OEM bars to show up in the junkyard one day. There was one KJ that had one, but it was snatched before I got to it. That said, I prefer the look of the aftermarket LED one pictured on the silver one. Alot. Can also double as a mini sun visor during the daytime, lol.

I read the suggestion somewhere (maybe here on on NAXJA) several years ago of slipping a piece of hacksaw blade into the flat part where the 2 pieces join and hammering it in to release the two. I remember trying it once, and wasn't very successful. The best way I found was to apply liberal amounts of PB blaster or similar and let it sit for a day or 10, then clamp the lower part in a bench vise. Slide a crescent wrench up to the connector and then wail on the end of the wrench head like it owes you money. I wouldn't use my best crescent for this.

If you're just replacing the powerhead, I'd urge you to keep it the same brand (and model preferably) as what you have now. In my case, I went from a Wayne Dalton to a Genie, and nothing was compatible. The only thing I was able to reuse was the wiring pairs for the door sensors and the wiring to the wall switch. Just the wiring itself, not the sensors or the WD wall switch. I tried both, and neither made comms with the powerhead I did have to reuse the WD door bracket also, even though the new directions mention the certain death to me and every member of my immediate family if I didn't use the new bracket supplied with the new opener. It works just fine.

Well, I installed the new opener after work/gym today. I budgeted 2 hours, it took me almost 4. It would have helped if I wasn't working alone, an extra set of hands to hold things/move ladders/grab fallen fasteners when I dropped them while on said ladder or to grab me the right tool I needed. It couldn't have been a more PITA to swap out, and the directions that came with were abysmal. Its all in, including the new keypad remote outside, but I have to spend more time on it this weekend prettying it all up some. My OCD won't let me leave it the way it is for too long, lol. It is WHISPER quiet though, which is what I wanted

Nice job We had a 10x14 prebuilt delivered and installed in our back yard several years ago. My back yard is not level at all, and drops off into a ravine sharply at the back. I paid the installer to build a deck of sorts for it to sit on. Delivery day was major pucker factor, they drove it around the back with a "mule" motorized thingy and it was severely off camber. I thought for sure that thing was gonna tip off and tumble down the hill. Fun times. Did you plan to match the siding/finish on the shed with your house or did it just work out that way? It looks like it's always been there

Ohio took Michigan to school today. I'm not a big college football fan, but my FIL is. That is, when he is awake while watching tv. I've watched more college football in the last 2 days than I think I've watched in my whole life combined. Some of it he was awake for even

Not too many, but I'm done for the day. I had to feed the inlaws lunch today and was sick of cooking so I ordered a pizza from the local place down the road. I took MIL's car, drove it about 400 feet and promptly put it back in the driveway because the right front wheel bearing was so loud it was scary. Mind you, they drove down here from PA on Tuesday, and are driving back tomorrow. I told her her bearing was SHOT, and she said "yeah, I know". Her mechanic said not to worry about it until it starts squealing I'm heading down to the parts store early AM to get a new bearing and will fix it before they try driving 300 miles home. She'd rather go out shopping today with my wife (in my wife's car) and spend a couple hundred $$$ on some useless clothing instead of fixing her car.

First, Arby's releases a Miller High Life beer can chicken sammich. The the Tide rolls over Auburn. How much betterer can your day get?

Well, that's one way to look at it I was up at 0530 this morning. While my wife went to work (and abandoned me yet again with her 'rents, I did all the laundry, changed out all the outside decoration thingies to "winter" stuff, dug up a dying Leyland Cypress tree (cut a bunch of boughs off to make Christmas decorations....), spread 275 lbs of Milwaulkee's best fertilizer (milorganite) on the lawn, grabbed a pizza for everyone for lunch and got dinner going. All the while the inlaws slept/laid on the couch/watched TV. Now, my wife and her mother are out shopping, FIL is passed out on the couch, and I'm drinking my 37th beer of the day. I have no desire to rig up the new opener at this point, lol.

You can go with a Novac shifter or similar aftermarket solution, which are actually functionally better than the craptastick stock setup.....they don't tie the shift mechanism together between the body and the driveline in such stupid fashion. But they're not as cheap as the factory setup (so long as you have all the correct little pieces/parts.

I loathe shopping, especially on Black Friday. But, Home Depot has/had a 3/4 hp Genie belt drive garage door opener on sale for $98 (regular price $197 or something). I dragged my butt out of bed yesterday morning at 0430 so I could be there when they opened. Long story short, it took me, a manager and two floor guys to find the only 2 they had in the store but I walked out of there with one. It will be replacing the builder-grade, chain drive Wayne Dalton opener that came with the house when built in 2009. It still works fine, but is so loud that small animals fall out of trees nearby when operated. We have a bonus room above the garage which we use as a home office....if you're sitting there using the computer and someone opens the garage door you almost have a heart attack from the sudden noise, lol. The inlaws are leaving for home early tomorrow morning, so installation is my project-of-the-day Anybody else brave enough to venture out yesterday and grab a bargain?

The AX15 has very specific parts, unlike all the other trannies behind the 2.5/4.0. You our need the crossmember, which is divoted in the center. You also need the bracket that attaches to the trans/transfer case, along with the bracket that bolts to the trans tunnel. The swivel/heim in the bracket is offset towards the rear for the AX15, while all the others are centered. You also need the rod that connects the shifter linkage to the TC range bracket, it's a specific length. The Ax4/5, BA10/5 rod is too short, and the AW4 rod is too long.

^^^lol Frankenturkey (breast) is stuffed and in the oven. It should be done anywhere between 1:00 and Saturday. Alices Restaurant is cued up, ready to go at noon. I've already started drinking beer. Happy Thanksgiving CC