Pete M

personally I'd go with the whole KJ 8.25 axle. it's a couple inches wider and would better accommodate the MJ's wide butt.

I see that one. are you going to recover the visors to match?

all depends on what I was building for. A daily driver on 31s has different needs than a v8 rock climber.

neither seem to be correct as 315/70 r17 tires are 34.4" x 12.4" in size. https://tiresize.com/tiresizes/315-70R17.htm

she does look good after a hard day's play

back passenger corner of the bed.

he was lucky to get back to the shop!

I like your thinking

you should be able to just drag the pics right into your text box. that's not working?

payload is king!

click on the link i my sig. near the top should be a link to cruiser's renix tips. there might even be a more direct route further down in the engine category.

The addiction is real take it slow and bring lots of water, both to drink and as emergency if your cooling system needs it. I feel your pain. I once pulled a travel trailer from detroit to atlanta using the KJ in 99* weather in the afternoon with the heater on full blast because the motor's e-fan was broken (I knew it but the diesel always ran cool so I had never bothered to replace it). that was a muggy, hot drive. the first 6 and the last 2 hours weren't so bad and I could even run the AC, but the middle 5 in Tennessee and north Georgia just suuuuuucked. soon after that journey I replaced the fan.

the liberty is still an excellent choice. 03-07 have disks and are a couple inches wider than a stock MJ axle so as to help accommodate the MJ's wide butt. (that's why the tires look pulled-in) Plus I can buy a whole Liberty for the price of an MJ dana 44.

there's a couple threads with a ton of AW4 info in the link in my sig.

car-part.com can help with junkyard searches. any year MJ/XJ dana 30 front axle will work but the website only searches with part numbers and that changed over the years so you'll want to look for various years. ZJ and TJ axles will also go in but are low pinion if it matters (the last couple years of XJ were also low pinion). another option is to search your local craigslist for a whole XJ that has the correct trans/t-case you need and buy the whole thing. then you would have both axles, the trans/t-case, front driveshaft and the shifter parts. everything but the rear driveshaft (XJs have a shorter wheelbase and thus a too-short rear driveshaft).

dana 35

such a gorgeous truck

take a picture for us.

I recently watched a PT Cruiser tooling down the freeway with the rear tires bouncing up and down like basketballs and the rear of the car bobbing up and down like a boat so yeah, people can apparently be quite oblivious.