Pete M

Is it already out of said Cherokee?

If it's not too personal... how much did ya pay? :oops: A cool grand. :cry: Plus shipping. :cry: :cry: That was back in the days when I had a decent job but no bills and so I had too much money and not enough brains. Also, since my only source of non-borrowed transportation was currently stuck at a shop not anywhere near my house with a totally busted Dana 35, I needed it up and running asap and just forked over my credit card number and sucked it up. In their defense, it was as advertised; a beautiful low mileage unit that needed absolutely nothing. In my defense, well, at least I was smart enough not to consider rebuilding the Dana 35. :D I'll just keep it the rest of my life, swapping it from one truck to another as needed.

Or the nails that held mine up for a while. :roll: Where might I find these pins? Furniture shop? Specialty store? Walmart?

Junkyards. Try car-part.com

bummer.

I wonder what it would look like with the waggy lights and the MJ grille? :hmm:

Currently? 2 have fire/theft (in "storage" at the moment) and the third has nothing (technically I haven't even registered it yet.) But when they are drivable, I go with the bare necessities. But then my trucks are rusty piles of crap and barely worth their weight in steel. :D

I use the tach in my 88. :D

http://gojeep.willyshotrod.com/HowtoSpeedoGears.htm

One drop a minute? That's nothing for a Jeep. :D It's not all that hard to replace the rear main, just a pain in the butt and very messy.

Kudos for thinking outside the box. :cheers:

In my opinion windshields should be installed by a pro. They are a major pain to remove/install and leaks can go unnoticed until they've soaked the floor under the carpet.

You live in Georgia. I'd go with white. :D I hate how the dark colors absorb the sunlight. :( Someday I'm going to paint my 88 in a light tan scheme, maybe camo. :brows:

I cannot recommend using the complete Explorer leaf pack, as it will push the axle 1/2" forward in the wheelwell. :( While it's a great idea to want to clean up the underside of the axle tube, going SOA while trying to keep it at 3" has a lot of drawbacks. I'd personally go with new shock mounts and then maybe try to adapt the U-bolt flip kits I've seen out there for YJs. :brows:

Yup, a closed/pressurized system allows the coolant to maintain a higher temperature and the engine burns more efficiently at higher temperatures.

6 pts and 12 pts both have their uses. That's why I have a set of both. :D For sockets, I made sure my set was a 6 pt. Years later when I bought my dad a set, I got him a 12 pt.

Only one of my MJs is red. :D Oh, and there's no such thing as a spool for a Dana 35, and probably for good reason. :roll: Don't forget that any change in suspension height in the front should warrant an alignment. But if yours was saggin', it might be ok. Just keep an eye on the wear on those front tires.

Not exactly a huge flaw there seeing as spacers are pretty worthless on an MPI engine anyways. :D IF there's some data out there that shows otherwise, I'd love to see it. (and no, data from the spacer's manufacturer doesn't count). But I digress... The Renix engines are awesome. The 4.0L in my 88 is pushing 200k and has been through more crap than I can recall. This includes a couple different oil starvation problems and a couple overheating situations (pegging the temp as far over as it would go). The 4.0 in my 90 has 210k miles and still purrs. :D I bought a 110k mile 89 4.0L to drop in the 88 because it was such a low mileage block I couldn't pass it up and I figured the 88 would eventually die. That was a couple years ago and that new block is still just sitting on the engine stand in the garage. She just keeps going and going and going and...

If anyone is bored, try using that site to translate something into another language, then translate that translation back into english. :D

Sweet. A bit off, but I'm betting it's close enough. :D

Did the idle start doing that out of the blue? I think the idle should be at 750 so if it's high all the time I'd look for a vacuum leak first.

The timing is set by the computer and so there are no factory adjustment procedures. What is happening that gives the impression of bad timing?

"Hola a todos, soy de San José, Costa Rica y en dias proximos estaré adquiriendo si Dios lo permite un Jeep Comanche 1989 4.0 6L, manual, 4 x 4" I took French back in High school. About all I can say is "where is the library?" :D

It's a combination of Renault and Bendix, the 2 companies that got together to develop the first gen fuel injection system in MJs and XJs (86-90).

Since I'm usually the one holding the camera, pics of me with the truck are few and far between.