Pete M

At one point in time the mounting of the master changed. Like from bolts to studs, or something like that. I remember reading about it in the peugeot to AX-15 swap page. I'll let you find it. :D http://www.jeeptech.com/convtrans/ax15swap.html

Best I can do. :thumbsup:

You guys and your complicated bumpers. :D (as if mine was a simple execution) :roll:

Tell ya what, I'll sticky it in the DIY section. :D

New U-joints are recommended no matter what you do. I had my 2wd shaft cut down locally for pretty cheap.

Cool. :D I want 5.5 acres. :(

Depends on what you want. A lot of stuff is shared with the Cherokee XJ.

I had a 2wd shaft cut down to length for pretty cheap.

78 big Bronco. Rotating the coil buckets did help a small bit, but what you see is what I got after doing it. For truck coils are too stiff for little trucks. I used 3" lift MJ/XJ coils. (using the ford radius arms setup gives about 2" of lift because the coil buckets are higher than the Dana 30 stuff). I have no idea how much travel I had before. The truck was 2wd. :D Heck, I've never owned a "normal" lifted MJ. All I know is that I have plenty of travel for what I need. :brows: Just remember that the poly bushings suck.

naw it ain't. if we set the date now you can book it for then I'm just saying that at this point in time I have no opinion on which weekend you pick. You guys pick one and I'll do my darndest to get there. :D

I encourage you to ask any ol' question that comes to mind. :D That's what we're here for. :cheers: Also, if that truck is as clean as the poor picture makes it look, I'd buy that one up in a heartbeat.

:agree:

If you swap the front fenders, then your front flares won't match the rear flares. It's not a simple task to swap on rears since MJ rear flares are bigger than XJ rear flares. Although one of our members was patching together a couple sets of 97+ XJ flares to create his own MJ rear flares. Personally, I'd keep the stock front fenders and do my best to blend them into the 97+ header assembly.

waaaaaaaaaay too far in the future for me to pick a specific day. :(

I'm saying that at 3" or more, I'd be getting longer-than-stock LCAs to correct my caster and re-center my tire. Also, I'm not likely to do any lift less than 3".

Ford radius arms. :D I designed my own radius arm crossmember and kept the stock Ford rubber C-bushings (the poly ones kill all hope of flex). The coil seats on the axle don't line up with an MJ's towers. Here you can see some of the adaptations around the coils. I made wedges to tilt the base back a few degrees and stop the bowing of the coils and angled the bumpstop towers out to line up with the base. Shocks lined up beautifully though. In the rear I went SOA (with an extra MJ main leaf) and stuck the shock mount between the leaf and axle and had it welded there. Those are stock MJ shocks in the photo. They cost me about an inch of up travel and an inch of down. Better ones are on the way.

WJ front LCA arms aren't any longer than stock MJ/XJ. They may not be long enough for for 3.5" of lift.

Hi, my name is Pete, and I'm an 'manch-aholic. :D

Looks like she's delayed in Ohio 'til Tuesday. :wall:

It's a sticky. :D

I bought a couple little donut gaskets at the auto parts store. :thumbsup:

I wish. So far I'm doing it on the hat person's time schedule. :( (which honestly wouldn't be so bad if only I knew what that schedule was.)

If nothing else, I highly recommend isolating the aluminum from the steel. Their interaction can be minimized if they don't touch and the proper material is used in the bolts (stainless maybe?). :thumbsup:

My guess (and this is just a guess) is that the Toy engine has a different bolt pattern and so their version of the AW-4 would have a different torque-converter housing (meaning there's a slim chance you could use a Toy AW-4 if you use a Jeep torque-converter housing). If this is the case, then you're probably not going to find a bellhousing that will match both the Jeep engine pattern and the toy manual trans pattern. :(

true. all I'm saying is do it once and do it right. Absolutely. :thumbsup: