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Lotsa blue collar workers on here. I like it.

Eh that's a bit much. When I was living in Nj I was paying roughly $40/month for 25down/15up on FiOS

Did you replace the valve stem seals when it was all apart getting milled? Does it still smoke if you remove the breather hose from the valve cover? Is the air filter soaked in oil?

That's wonderful. Jeep also began to price the MJ out of its own market. Although I suppose they needed to as one more MJ built meant one less XJ (and accompanying profit margin).

Mechanical Engineer for Miltec Corporation in Stevensville, MD. http://www.miltec.com/

Fix the dented bed and repair the bad bondo. Park the truck in the garage and buy another and make it into a wheeler/beater. Your truck is too nice to be beaten up on the trails :D

My '01XJ hit 190K last week and should hit 191K this week. I'll have the camera ready for the big 200K!

I could live without the stuff, but my dog loves it...so I can't move too far south.

Last October when I drove my '91YJ out to Ohio to trade it straight up for a '92MJ. Didn't care much for that vehicle. I prefer a smoother ride with some creature comforts.

When you first mentioned that the noise was around the 5-6K RPM mark, I thought, "that's a little bit on the high side for a diesel!" But then I saw the video (and LOL'ed). As for the hum, I'm no diesel XJ/MJ owner, but that sounds like it may be the turbo spooling up. Speaking of, what condition is the turbo in? Does it blow oil (is there lots of oil in the intake line going to the throttle body? Some is normal, but a lot is not)? Is there any shaft play on the turbo?

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Sounds like a good plan. I know that the ZJ dash is a bit wider than the MJ/XJ, but I'm not sure by how much. I have seen at least two ZJ dashboards swapped into XJs in the past, so I know that it can be done, I'm just not sure how clean it will look in the end. If you're not doing any major wiring modifications, then I think you should be able to get the whole swap done in much less time than the idjits like myself who are still hacking up harnesses.

I'd like to see some of the things that others have come up with as I feel like my JY attack kit is lacking. I don't currently have any pictures of it, but I just have a 5-gallon bucket with a variety of commonly used hand tools. Sometimes I will use ratchet straps to attach the bucket to a wheeled dolly, but most of the time I just carry it. I've used the dolly to haul out a Ford 8.8 rear axle so it's pretty versatile.

Yep, started mine and got about 75% of the way done with the engine bay wiring, but then got a new job in a new state and left my shop and everything else back in NJ. When I finally get my own place, I'll bring everything down to MD and start back up on it. Anyway - most of it has been said already by shelbyluv. The wiring can be a fun or it can be a real PITA, depending on if you enjoy doing that sort of thing. I found it very enjoyable mapping out the wiring details, splicing harnesses together and watching all of the gadgets come to life. If you've got some time, give this thread a read: http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1059679 Not too much in the way of how-to's, but that thread did teach me a few things - that the OBDII Chrysler CCD Bus is universal across all of their vehicles. Meaning that the PCM from an OBDII 5.2L Dodge Dakota or Ram will talk to the gauges in a OBDII Cherokee. That was my biggest concern with the swap - I didn't want to have to keep the original XJ PCM just to run the gauges while the other PCM (be it from a Dodge Dakota or Ram or Jeep Grand Cherokee) ran the engine. Like shelby said, you need to pick what era you want to go with. I went with 97+ because I wanted to update my MJ with the newer style XJ interior AND I knew that Chryco's CCD Bus communication system was more standardized throughout their product line on the OBDII vehicles.

Walbro's are notoriously noisy pumps. With the fuel tank situated right behind the driver in the MJ, I'd be a little hesitant to install one if the truck were my DD.

Love the 4.7L H.O. WJ's. Keeping my eye out for one that needs some engine/trans work.

It's easier to get laid in the backseat of a WK than a Wrangler.

A natural gas XJ was high up on my future projects list. Unfortunately, it had to be bumped way down as the place I moved to does not have any natural gas with no plans of installation in the foreseeable future. As such, my diesel XJ project got a massive bump up the list.

Hey Pete...it's going OK right now. We found a house that we really like, FINALLY, so we will be signing the offer on it today and see what happens. Congrats on finding a house! I actually found one on Friday and will be signing the offer today after work. One of those houses that I've had my eye on for a while, but wasn't quite satisfied with the asking price, so I never really bothered to look at it. Then on Friday, I filtered nearby homes for sale by the ones that have had price drops in the last few days and this one popped up - and it was a massive drop in price. My first inclination was that something is majorly wrong with the place so they're just trying to unload it cheap, but after an inspection by myself and my GF's father (carpenter), we couldn't find anything majorly wrong. Lots of little stuff here and there, but no deal breakers. I did find out that it's a short sale, so that could potentially take a while, but my agent thinks that they're dropping the price to unload the house before winter because it was not yet winterized.

Investing on a good pair of shoes is never a bad thing, especially if you're doing that much walking. If you add up the number of hours per year that you're in your work shoes, it's an unbelievable number. That's why I don't mind shelling out some serious coin for a good pair of shoes. Oh, and congrats on the promo. And happy bday.

Thanks for the pics. Always liked the matching tweed door panels.

Yes - and it's a longbed.

I think any username will get you in as long as the password is 'admin'.

Usually, yes. I think the first time you fire up the Linksys router, it will take you through a setup wizard where you'll setup your wireless network SSID (the name of the network) and the password. When you first get the router, hook up an ethernet cable from your laptop to any one of the ports on the back. The router will automatically assign your PC an IP address. Open your internet browser window and type in 192.168.1.1 in the spot where you'd type a website address. That should take you to the summary page of the router. If it asks you for a password to get in, the default is username: root password: admin

As I was browsing through the endless pictures, I was thinking to myself, would he stop buying memorabilia and start tearing into the damn thing already? :D Definitely looks like some cool stuff to have in the collection. Since that one manual is a re-po, you shouldn't be to upset getting grease smudges all over it when you start working on the truck. Gotta get a hold of a clean original so you can put it in the collection.