FrankTheDog

You can avoid a lot of fuel problems if you run startron in your fuel. A little 2 stroke oil wouldn’t hurt either but not at full 50-1 mix though. Cut it to 100-1 or even 125 to 1. That’s what I do with all my small engines and equipment and I don’t have any fuel problems in anything. My 1980 Stihl 045 Super hasn’t had a carburetor adjustment sincs the 80’s and it still runs great. It also has been running Husqvarna 2 stroke oil since then too. Same batch, my father bought a few cases for his logging business and then had a stroke a year later so it never got used up.

I put these crown leaf springs in my wife’s XJ in 2015, she put 100k on it in 4 years and the sag was negligible. We towed campers and utility trailers with it and I load all kinds of crap in it. We have put them in 3 jeeps so far and all had the same result. The current owners of two of them love the little bit of extra height and the slightly firmer ride. They handle very well with these springs. 4886186AA leaf assembly on Amazon. $88.98

AMC didn’t have any problem dropping the GM 2.8 into the XJ and MJ. The odd fire V6 is a good compact engine that will give you room to put a 5 speed in and keep your driveshaft length decent.

How about a Buick V6 with a SM 420 and swapping out the 4.27’s for 3.73’s? 1st and 2nd will be lower than your T14’s first gear and with going to 3.73’s it would be like adding an overdrive. Plus with the 7-1 first gear it will still crawl.

Rode hard, put away wet.

In my 98 XJ I ran mostly white bottle and green bottle castrol, 10/40 summer and 10/30 winter. Oil change intervals were anywhere between 5-15,000 miles. Ran the big ford style filter in either wix or fram. I got the jeep with 209k on it and it has 453k on it now. Never been apart, never used more than a quart in 5,000 miles, mostly leaking. I would still be driving it if it wasn’t totally rotted out. I probably will throw the engine in a wrangler just to see how many more miles I can put on it. It’s on its third clutch in need of its fourth. Clutch was put in at 214k. I hate to toss that motor just because it has been so faithful.

Never stopped working, most everybody in the shop has stayed. There have been a couple furloughs here and there mostly because of slow down in work coming in. Had one guy in our shop catch it but I work a different shift and different machines so no close contact with him.

I have a set of Armstrong ratcheting wrenches. They’re a long pattern wrench with a good box on the other end. My daughters boyfriend busted the ratcheting end of my 21mm by trying to bust loose the shackle bolts on his XJ. can't find a new one so I replaced it with a long pattern gear wrench. I wasn’t impressed with it.

I think it runs and drives, it just needs a new transmission that will accept a transfer case, a transfer case, transfer case shifter and some driveshafts. Not just a transfer case and driveshafts.

6.2 diesel, not enough power to pull skin off of pudding. It must of wrecked the handling too.

Like Eagle’s house mine was built in 1950 also. The bathroom is one of the few doors that we haven’t switched out since we moved here in 1998. It has the same door knob setup also. Brass in the hallway like most of the door knobs when we moved in and chrome inside.

All that work and you don’t get to keep it?! You’re a good man Pete. Pretty ingenious too.

Is there going to be any car left once you remove all the rust and bondo?

Good to hear.

In the past I have seen several ZJ Grands “still in the crate” across southern New England.

Yeah, that one baffled me on my daughters first car. Where did they put that damn thing!?!! I had never seen anything like it before.

My 2018 Hyundai Accent has everything where it belongs. Also has 3 pedals and six speeds.

Eagle got a pair of these from me probably more than 15 years ago.

Stupidity is a constant, it’s always been there. Also probably being broke and that was the only possible way for them to move it.

Was the car originally white or was that white painted on the brown?

The 79 won’t be worth as much as the 77 but it’ll be worth way more than scrap.

That XJ spent way to much time on the beach.

Pete has it right. If you can’t change a thing or its outcome, why worry about it?

Also will be lucky to get better than 10-12 mpg’s with that truck.

All good advice, I would add any late 80’s through 1999 Honda or Toyota sedan or Ford, Chevy or Toyota mini trucks. Again with a stick, he can beat on it without remorse and hone his driving skills. They are also easy enough to work on with decent parts availability.