Pete M

I would just bend that line a little closer. plenty of room there, just need a smaller radius on the bend. or you could throw some split wire loom over it as a sacrificial entity.

happen to have a photo?

I've done it both entirely of pre-made lines and entirely with home-fabbed lines. Going with pre-made lines was pretty darn simple, you just have to plan well (and buy a couple of the shortest lines for the inevitable "juuuuust too-short" moments). and I didn't even bother trying to perfectly follow the factory lines. heck, I didn't even completely remove them. Just be sure that it's all secured well. vibrations and rubbing are the enemy. the big reason I went with home-fab the second time was because I was installing a newer double booster and it made it easier to adapt old to new fittings.

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trade ya for a pair of rusted out ones? :brows:

I think your title was a bit misleading. I moved it to Tech for you and expanded on the question. :thumbsup: should get more responses now. and almost all 4x4 MJs were command trac. only a handful of 86s were offered with selec trac (though rumor has it a few late models were made with selec trac).

just cause it's a good deal, doesn't mean it's necessarily a good idea.

I've tried fixing it and failed. now it's more or less a wait til I can find time to figure out while the change didn't take. :(

inspections? testing? :dunno: yay michigan. :clapping: we learned our lessen about that stuff years ago. just an unfair tax on the poor.

car-part.com might be of help finding junkyard axles. :thumbsup:

I vaguely remember being told that the bolt hole positions were different on 2 of the styles.

:clapping: very nice

when I ordered my highoutput alt, they needed to know which case I had. there are at least 2 different styles and the mounting is different between to 2.

I'm no help with the various gizmos, but that should be an AX-5 trans. :thumbsup: the AX-15 is the bigger brother found behind the 4.0L. Unless the previous owner did the dakota bellhousing swap too (which adapts the ax15 pattern to the 2.5 pattern).

it was in fourwheeler's top truck challenge back in 1998. man was it ever impressive! didn't win, but they ran out of time in the tank trap (lost a lot of time in the canyon being a big truck) and decided to finish the course anyway, just for fun. :D

be prepared. nothing you're contemplating is cheap or easy.

:drool:

it's been done. :thumbsup: to varying degrees of success/failure. be prepared to spend tons of money, and then fight to keep the beast cool even after spending tons of money (mjs and xjs suffer from a small radiator opening and a tiny engine bay).

2wd is 462074A I think www.transtar1.com/catDownload.asp?ID=604

easiest way is to send the fullsize image to me. :thumbsup: the forum software doesn't always work the way it's supposed to. :( petermontie@hotmail.com be sure to include your screen name in the email

4spd manual? 5 spd manual? auto? more importantly, you'll need to find out what ratio you have. -jack up one rear tire and put the trans into neutral. then rotate the tire around exactly twice while counting the number of times the driveshaft rotates around. -if the axle has a posi, then jack up both tires and rotate one of them just once. if the driveshaft rotates a bit over 3 and a half times, then it's a 3.55. if it's a hair over 4, then it's a 4.10, etc. if you've only got 3.55s, then you might want to scale back on the tire size a bit because that little 2.5 is really going to struggle. :(

which engine/trans do you have? which gear ratio in the axles?

Ya and not the rest of the other team is even more pissed off and has an icon to rally behind....... still kinda weird to me that they would rally behind someone that's been hiding like a coward in caves and back rooms for 10 years. :dunno:

just an fyi, but when you go to any forum out there and bash that which the members hold dear, be prepared for some flak.

not a clue. :dunno: I'm in suburbia. the nearest hotels I know of are out by the freeway, airport or in detroit.