Pete M

It's not so much an "upgrade" as it is a fix for bad engineering. :D That much wattage should really be routed though a relay.

Bad uni-bearing? Have you jacked up a tire and checked for slop?

As far as I know, the YJs roughly mirrored the MJs with inline 6 manual transmissions year to year (even though the YJs never got the 4.0 renix).

Yesterday the message said that the phone had been disconnected. Today it's back in service apparently :hmm: and I left a new message.

Quality and customer service issues aside, it's still not a "kit" until they include the drop brackets or longer control arms into the package. It's only part of a kit. Stock lower arms should not be used above 2" of lift and stock uppers should not be used above about 4". The arms won't be long enough to center the tire or correct caster.

If it was me, I'd probably also change the belts and antifreeze if they were older. Maybe the radiator hoses too.

Are you bleeding the slave with the engine running?

Did you get the truck aligned? There's more to a lift than springs and shocks. Control arms, sway bar drops/links, track bar, brake lines, etc. are all very important

You're very welcome. :thumbsup:

The engine is supposed to be sucking the fumes out through that hole with the breather filter.

My brain is telling me that the early years had a different diameter input shaft (took a different pilot bearing). :hmm:

Finally made it home. :banana: The libby pulled like a champ, but that huge enclosed trailer is just a gigantic sail and the mpgs were pretty pathetic. :shake: Oh well. I'm going to bed now. Tomorrow is a long day of unpacking. :doh:

Yeah, but he was trying. :yes: Waaaay different than "accidentals".

Once upon a time I tabulated a lot of random data I've gathered on swapping a 3.4 for a 2.5. It's in a word document located here: http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/jeepcomanche/files/ If you aren't a member at our old yahoo site, you may have to wait a day since I'll be on the road all of today and can't approve you until I get back home. but I'll get on it asap. :thumbsup:

Check and check. :thumbsup: And I dumped in some of that gray bottle diesel additive. :D

31"t tires will fit the best. 32s, 33s, 34s will bring increasing amounts of effort to make them function properly but are doable. What are you planning to do with the truck once it's built?

Well, looks like tomorrow I'm heading back north to Michigan. I wanted to stay through the weekend but it just wasn't in the cards. Should be a fun day of driving though. 12+ hours of just me and the dogs in the Liberty pulling a big trailer. Fun stuff. :shake: To the guys in GA that I didn't get to hang out with this trip, I should be back in August. :thumbsup: on the plus side, this Saturday, when it's 96* here in Atlanta, I'll be chillin' in Mich with its brisk 82* :D

'84-~'95 two door with the straight (not curved) slider under them are the most direct swap into an MJ using the MJ's floor pedestals. 4-door seats don't tilt forward and the curved slider will sit you up a couple inches higher than stock.

I remember reading somewhere that excessive blowby can be an indicator of a sloppy timing chain/belt. It's on my to-do list for my 88 before I resort to swapping the block out.

I've used the big band clamp ones too and either will work fine, even 10 years later. :D I believe I mail-ordered mine, probably from jcw.com The dang things outlived the pipe. :thumbsup:

Whatever I have, it's at home on that computer. :doh: gonna be a couple more days before I'm back there.

Well, I'm about to give up all hope. Last Friday I finally talked with him he gave me an address and a time to meet him after work that day. I could not find the place for anything (had a GPS with me) and left a couple messages saying so. I've not been able to talk with him since. I've got no idea if he's ignoring me, lost his phone or what, but I've got like 2300 minutes available this month and I'm going to keep calling every day until he either picks up or I get a message saying the phone has been disconnected. sigh.... :(

Stainless steel clamps are your fiends. :D

While the chances are definitely much greater that it's an AX-4/5, it's possible that some 86s got the t-4/5, possibly because they had some left over or maybe the AX series were in short supply. The T-4/5 did come in a bunch of the 84/85 XJs (with no clear rhyme or reason).

Had a similar vibration in our liberty that turned out to be a rear U-joint (a factory non-grease-able that ran out of grease). Is the vibration consistent with just speed? Or can you alter it by applying gas or turning, etc?