Pete M

I attached plywood to my 88's rear wall and put speakerbox carpeting over it. Makes a secure place to attach items like the fire extinguisher. :D

All of the 4.0L transmissions have different bellhousings. The innards I'm not entirely sure about.

Pretty much everything under the hood to be sure. Probably the majority of stuff under the dash too. Probably easiest to swap over everything.

Water is currently not a great source of energy because it takes a lot of electricity to get the H2 and O atoms to split up and is not very cost effective and is very very inefficient. We don't even get our current sources of H2 and O from water. We get it from other chemical reactions. From Wiki: About four percent of hydrogen gas produced worldwide is created by electrolysis, Please don't let this topic fall into the "big oil" stuff. Like politics and religion, it's another of the no-win topics on the internet. :(

Not the same. :( A Cherokee pan will take some considerable massaging to fit in a Comanche. The trans tunnel areas are very different.

No mention of any coolers with the big ton package. :dunno:

Heavy duty leafs (the whole pack is different than regular MJ leafs rather than just an AAL stuck in), heavy duty coils, heavy duty shocks, 15x7 steel rims and 225 tires.

Myself, I prefer to pick and choose the parts. That way I get the best of the best, rather than simply what Jeep used back in the day. This is what I have in my 90 (which technically was 4wd to begin with, but I've replaced everything but the engine and trans): --97+ Cherokee Dana30 (because it has the bigger 297 joints on no CAD and is new enough that a complete overhaul wasn't necessary) --MJ/XJ Dana 44 --95+ bellhousing for the AX-15 (external slave) --NP-242 t-case (for fulltime capability)

No he didn't. He said he did, which is completely different. Like big foot and those pesky space aliens, I'd need to se it with my own eyes. You can't break the laws of physics. No one can. They are the laws that govern the entire universe. That's why we call them the laws. From wiki: They are all listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laws_in_science The problem with the "water car" concept is that it takes the same amount of energy to convert the water into Hydrogen and Oxygen as you get back when you burn the Hydrogen and get water vapor and heat. You can't get extra anywhere. And if you can't get extra, the car can't move. But if you can split the water up at a factory, and then transfer the Hydrogen to the car, the car can run on that hydrogen. That's been proven. Fuel cells that produce Hydrogen in useful amounts use the stored up energy in gasoline, not water. Oh, and those compressed-air vehicles are in use in India I believe. But the concept works within the laws of physics because the compressor pump at the filling station uses electricity to run the compressor motor, which compresses the air. This compressed air now has stored up energy (like gasoline does) and is transfered to the car's tank. The car can then make use of this stored up energy to run the motor inside. By the way, these cars are made of plastic and glue. Don't expect to see them anytime soon in the US due to safety reasons. Compressed air simply doesn't have much stored up energy inside (at least not at safe pressures) and the vehicles are insanely light. But this is an area where technology can make advances and we might see some here eventually. Maybe new storage containers will be developed that can hold the air at higher pressures? Dunno. Technology moves ever forward. :D

Yes there are extras. :D

Yup, it's compatible with the 2.5L and 2.8L only.

Your foglights should be on their own relay or you're likely to blow the fuse or burn out something. But you can can certainly splice that relay's activation wire into the hi-beams if you so desire. Relays take very little power to switch. Although most cars today have fogs that turn off if you turn on the hi-beams.

- 4wd transmission that matches your engine's bolt pattern - t-case that matches your transmission's spline count - Dana 30 front axle that matches the rear axle's gear ratio (not necessarily what you have now, but they have to match) - front driveshaft of the correct length - rear driveshaft of the correct length - all the t-case shifter assembly stuff (don't forget the little linkage pivoting bracket that attaches to the underside of the body) Cost is entirely dependent on you. Some guys have purchased whole vehicles for $200, other's can spend thousands building up the individual parts.

You have that a bit backwards. We are limited by physics. We are always learning of new ways to use physics, but there are certain rules that we call laws, one being the law of conservation of energy. Gasoline has energy stored inside it. Nature put it there and we've figured out how to release it and get usable power. We get the benefit from it because we didn't put the work into getting it in the first place. Think of it as free money you found on the sidewalk. Water has energy inside of it, but it takes energy (electricity in this case) to break the atomic bonds in the water molecules. What is producing this energy? The car aparently. Where is the car getting this energy? From the H and O atoms it's bringing together from the water it split. Even in a perfect world this is a perpetual loop which is like getting change for a dollar and then asking the quarters to be exchanged for a dollar again, etc. There isn't any extra energy there to be converted into motion of the car (let alone that the real world always has parasitic drag on any system that will never allow 100% recovery). Free energy is great and all, but it's not going to come from that guy's designs. Sorry. :( It's a case of too good to be true.

Yeah, I'd say breaking the laws of physics would make me pretty skeptical. :D

I won't have my hands on them for 2-3 weeks, but I'll jot you down for one. :cheers:

I'd use car-part.com to locate a junkyard near me. Then I'd research each junkyard's warranty and determine which is best. Or, I'd hunt down a whole car that had a running engine (maybe a rear end collision or the like) which would allow me to determine the shape of the engine before buying and swapping.

I'd never had hi-beams on the 88 until one day I read about someone else having difficulty with theirs and it was pointed out that the lever you pull on the column is connected by a long bar to a switch located at the base of the column. In my truck that bar had become dislodged from its proper location and I had to loosen the switch and realign the parts. Took a minute to figure out how but it was pretty simple and now I have hi-beams. :D

The YJ t-case will be clocked up slightly higher than MJ/XJs and you'll still need all the clutch stuff, pedals, and trans mount from an MJ/XJ.

Sweeeeeeet!

How? :eek:

My 99 TJ AX-15 has a small breather cap on the top right behind the shifter. It's the kind of breather cap that prevents splashing from entering the hole. Likely not very effective if you submerge the whole truck, but I left it as is since it's so high up on the trans. I ran hoses from my t-case and axles up to the engine compartment and into a small valve cover filter assembly.

My vote is for bad spider gears. :D But definitely shake and check the driveshaft for slop before popping open the diff cover.

Which rims are too be used is very important here. 235s on stock steel or stock aluminum rims probably won't touch anywhere 30s on stock 6" steel rims might touch the control arms, but not too bad if they do 30s on stock 7" aluminum rims probably won't touch anywhere 31s on stock 7" aluminum rims will probably touch the control arms 31s on stock steel rims will likely touch the control arms, possibly pretty bad 30s or 31s on aftermarket rims with less-than-stock backspacing (or the stock TJ 8" rims) and you probably won't touch the control arms anymore, but the tire will probably start rubbing on the flares, possibly very badly. And this doesn't even take into account the differences in tire sizes across the various manufacturers. :roll:

:eek: Great, now I have to up-armor my floorboards too?