Pete M

There are no minimums for posting photos. :thumbsup: This thread might be able to help you out: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11077

Nope. They are different. XJ leafs are mounted outside their uniframe, MJs are directly below.

Fumes actually come out of my little hoodscoop on the freeway (and the oilly smell comes into the cab :ack: ). But mine isn't a full-on scoop, as the front is fully open and the back is partially open, so it's possible the venturi effect is in, uh, effect.

Is your t-case for sure shifting out of 4wd? How's the fluid level in it? Fluid in the axles?

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There's a thread in the DIY forum about replacing the Peugeot BA-10/5. For auto there's the AW-4, for a stick, the choices are the AX-15 and the NV3500 (newer than the AX-15 and more expensive to acquire). This is a good place to start reading up an AX-15 swap: http://www.jeeptech.com/convtrans/ax15swap.html :thumbsup:

People with the right tools have still failed at removing them in one piece. I'm not saying it's totally impossible, but many, many have cursed whoever glued those dang things down in the first place. :(

I don't think ive owned a vehicle with more nooks and crannies for stuff to collect then my MJ. The good news is, once it rots, everything falls out the holes. :D Brilliant! It's a built in self-preservation feature to slow the tide. That (combined with all the oil that our trucks leak) must have been Jeep's plan all along. :yes:

Maybe we'd believe that all was yours if you had changed the address of the picture. :D That's a pretty complex system JT. :eek: The best my plants ever get is I scoop in some Miracle Grow potting soil when I first drop them in. I've always meant to dig out all the crappy clay-based soil (my area was a swamp a hundred years ago) and replace it with real dirt. :doh: Although the tomatoes don't seem to mind all that much, especially the cherries. :dunno: As long as the cherries get water, they will easily overgrow their supports. Which is why I built the auto-waterer. Last year I left for a while and put a couple of the neighborhood girls in charge of everything. My dogs and cat were fine, but I came back to a decimated garden. I learned my lesson. Apparently my garden isn't cuddly enough to garner any attention from kids. :fs1:

The only sure defense against salt is to never let your truck touch it. :( Make sure you wash the area boxed in right above the rear wheelwells. Stuff gets trapped up there and rots the fenders from the inside out. Same with the front to a lesser degree.

Yes they are the same, but good luck removing one without cracking it. :( It's one of the few things that I would gladly pay a pro to handle. On a side note, I've read that the later model XJ window gaskets are an improvement for our older trucks, so look into that either way.

How much variation is there between the different crops? I've never really taken much of a scientific angle on watering amounts. Just as long as it's "enough". :D I figure the extra water will just go away on its own.

She just wants to get up and go regardless of what's being pulled behind. Makes me want to enter a tractor-pull competition. :D

The big reason they changed the fluid required in the AX-15 is that the old fluid would eat the yellow metals (aka the synchros) inside the transmission (other transmission don't have this issue). Chrysler certainly won't acknowledge that and so they say it's for "improved shifting".

We're real suckers for MJ build photos. :D It doesn't really matter how big or small the project.

The 231 gets ATF. The AX-15 gets 10w-30 engine oil (Chrysler changed it from the old stuff that would eat the synchros). There are other aftermarket choices, but I'll let the others chime in with those since I probably won't get them straight..

It used to look like a real garden, many years ago. But the raspberries took over the back half and I gave up fighting the rabbits, so you'll see raspberries galore, 6 kinds of cherry and regular tomato plants (rabbits hate tomato) and a few beans climbing the middle fencing. The biggest addition this year is the automatic watering device I whipped up just before I left for 2 weeks in Georgia. I bought a water timer and a couple cheap sprinklers, strung it all up above the garden hanging it from the top of the clothesline pole, and now my garden gets water at 5am and 5pm each day. I can't ever forget. And I planted a few beans and tomatoes in the planters box in the deck (note the small sprinkler for them too)

The 2.8 and 3.4L are the same block externally (except for the fuel pump boss which is missing in the 3.4 and you'll need to get an electric pump). The only other big difference is the flywheels are balanced differently and you'll need to get your old flywheel neutrally balanced. This page should help you out: http://jeep.off-road.com/jeep/article/a ... ?id=277008