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That would be so fun. Want to run idiots off the road all the time.

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I would return the Dual unit no matter what your problem is. Spend the little extra money and get a better unit. Like stated before the am/fm fades and overall the parts are just not good internally. It's worth spending the little extra.

Can you post the measurements of the rear door/window assembly? It will make finding a replacement easier. And like gogmorgo said, we don't want to pull apart a good one.

Holy cow! How'd the t-case blow up like that? I've never seen anything like that.the front driveshaft blew apart going highway speeds and blew the transfer case apart I'm guessing.That's just insane. A lot of force to do that. Sent from my HTC6525LVW using Tapatalk

Holy cow! How'd the t-case blow up like that? I've never seen anything like that.

I'd like to know too. The 23 gallon Dodge Dakota tank fits in a SWB but just barely so I could see this working if it was designed in a similar way. If it's an exact copy of the factory 23 for the LWB it for sure won't fit as it uses 3 tank straps and there is only spots for 2 under the SWB. The third would sit right above the axle. Unless you want to drive a giant molotov I wouldn't recommend it. Are there any pictures of this tank?

I don't have a power/comfort switch. This is actually in a 98 XJ SE so no fancy stuff. I will have to lube the cable button yet to see if it moves freely again but I was able to adjust it when I tried. I also did inspect the linkage and cables while I was under it changing the fluid and everything looked fine. Thanks for the links they are helpful. I did end up finding the aw4 manual and it has a lot of useful info. Like I said it's no longer slipping at least hasn't for 3 days. I can't even get it to slip while trying so it seems to me the tps fixed it.

Okay that makes sense. Stupid electronics. I was very worried I'd have to do another trans install.

Well it continued slipping and seemed to do it more often. I decided to try a fluid change but it still slipped, then tried a spare Throttle position sensor that I had and it hasn't slipped for 2 days even with me trying to get it to slip. I just don't understand how a tps could cause it to slip. It wasn't like the Trans was just disengaging or anything, it was actually slipping. Can anyone explain this to me?

Thanks. This is probably what I'll do. I figured this would work but I wanted to make sure.

I will see about using a small welder, my problem is the wiring throughout the house and sheds is super old and I'm worried about using a welder on it. We had to swap a breaker in the power pole in place of fuses just to run a dryer and we have to cut all power to the sheds to run the grain bin fans... And yes I plan on 4.5" of lift but that will come at a later date so I was planning on setting the pinion angle pretty much where it was and shimming later if need be. It is also a 97+ swap so the drivetrain is different, does the 97+ trans/t case sit at a different angle than a 90 drivetrain? I don't see why it would but thought I'd ask. I will have to get the driveshaft shortened no matter what so that isn't a problem and I need new e-brake cables since the ones in it where cut off at some point. Could I just use the rear sections (after it splits to two) from an XJ or is it a different length? As for the height sensing valve it'll be easier to remove it since the entire brake system needs replaced.

So I came across a cheap C8.25 out of a 97 XJ with 3.55 gears. Exactly what I need. I'm looking to put it in my MJ but want to stay SUA. All I can really find is information on the 8.25 going SOA. What I'm wondering is what it takes to swap it SUA. The info on everything else is easy enough to find like brakes and such but the perches are what I'm wondering about. What is the difference between SOA and SUA perches and is it as simple as welding on the new perches? It just seems too simple to me. The biggest issue will be setting the pinion angle. I need to take the axle elsewhere to be welded so how can I set the angle without having the truck where it will be welded? My thought is take the D35 with and use that for measurements for the perches. Is this a viable option? I have no experience swapping axles in this way so any advice would be appreciated. Obviously measuring and tacking it with it in the truck would be ideal but that's just not an option.

That's exactly how it goes. I'm guessing you are trying to recreate a factory rollbar? Unless you are trying to copy a design it is gonna be easier just to mock something custom up and see how you like it. Cheap way to do it is use PVC pipe, mock something up, if you don't like it you can change it or completely start over and only be out a few bucks. Good luck on your search.

A few things came in today. Felt a little like Christmas again. I got the early 90s XJ fuse box with the mount for my extra relays and fuses, 2 LED 6" aluminum lights I will use for fog lights on my bumper, a factory style fog light rocker switch, 300 ft of split loom in sizes 1/4", 3/8", and 1/2" IIRC, and of course the XJ LUND Moonvisor! Cutting right to the chase, the XJ LUND visor kind of sorta fits the MJ. Below are some pictures of it on the MJ. Sorry for the darkness and the crap on the roof but its cold and I didn't feel like moving it all. Keep in mind, the back of the MJ is raised about 6 inches on jackstands and the front drivers tire is completely flat so it is sitting at an angle forward. I tried to compensate by tilting my phone to be level with the truck. As you can see it doesn't sit properly on the gutter but does sit flush against the roof on the upper part. (Passenger side sits flat if I push it down, my tape was coming up a little) It does sit nicely across the middle section as well. This is from the interior. The lighter colored line across the top is the edge of the windshield and the black line is the visor. For someone like me, 6'4", its a little obstructive. Now for how it sits on the XJ (don't mind the sectional endcap in the yard, haven't gotten it to the burn pile yet). It obviously sits much nicer on the XJ. I really like the black on white, I don't think I would like it to match the body color. However the middle doesn't sit flush. The front and center mounting holes contact the roof and cause it to sit off the center. I couldn't seem to get this to sit flush without pushing the sides forward to the point they didn't sit right. I didn't try for too long because I started getting cold. And from the interior. Gray line is the top of the windshield and black the bottom of the visor. Less view obstructive in the XJ. Overall I like it better on the XJ but I think it is okay on the MJ and can work. I will try it again when I get the MJ pulled out of the shed and can see it better, which may change my mind. I would mount it to the XJ for now but the transmission started to slip so I am holding off on doing anything to it. I think I have decided to buy a 4 door XJ to be my new DD. I really don't have the time to mess with the trans right now nor do I want to do it in the cold. I already put a trans in the MJ in the cold and I don't want to do it again. After it warms up I'll probably finish the MJ then work on my XJ or may just sell it. Haven't really decided on that yet. I don't want to sell it just because it has has some sentimental value being in the family so long and has been such a dependable vehicle and has mostly new parts all around but in hopes of starting a family soon I need 4 doors and don't think I'll have use for 3 vehicles, 2 of which being 2 door. Decisions decisions. EDIT: Sorry for the pictures being so large, imgur hasn't been behaving lately.

Well after adjusting the cable it only slipped once on my way home but it also didn't get up to temp until I was almost home. At this point I think I'm going to buy another XJ to be a DD and then pull this trans and replace it.

After reading this thread this morning my aw4 has slipped 3 times today. Never done it before.. And I know my tps didn't get wet... I think this thread is cursed, everyone stay away!! Nobody suggested that guy check the fluid level. LOL. Do this to keep the fluid pressure where it should be. Do you think this will help slipping though? Mine has done it 7 times now at 48, 52, and 55 mph Efit: well I adjusted just to see what would happen but it was almost a disaster. The button wouldn't come back up. Luckily after beating on it a little bit it came back up and locked. After work well see if it still slips. Sent from my HTC6525LVW using Tapatalk

After reading this thread this morning my aw4 has slipped 3 times today. Never done it before.. And I know my tps didn't get wet... I think this thread is cursed, everyone stay away!!

Thanks. It definitely is a ton of work but will be well worth it in the end.

There is a trick to stopping these calls. Record your voicemail message as the old dialup sound. Ya know that annoying changing tones buzzing sound. If the telemarketing companies hear this sound, their software automatically puts you on the do not call list because it thinks your number is a fax machine. It only takes a little while to basically stop the calls because most of the caller databases are shared between companies. The only problem is that you then have to tell all your contacts to wait through the dialup sound before they can leave a message. There are videos on YouTube how to do this.

It's been very cold here lately halting almost all progress on my truck. This has gotten me anxious to do something related to the truck so I figured I would start a build thread to document my progress and share the restoration of this truck with you guys. I'm going to jump into this build thread with some of the main work already done and not much as far as progress pictures to show because I didn't initially intend to do a build thread and I SUCK at taking pictures. So bare with me for this first bit as the few pictures I do have are not the greatest and progress will be slow until it warms up. Without further ado, here it is as I first saw it on Craigslist in early September of 2016. I had been searching Craigslist a lot looking for an MJ, to do a 97+ swap, that wasn't an absolute rust bucket, this is VERY hard to do in central Iowa. I had wanted an MJ to do this swap since I first started driving my dads and formerly grandpas XJ when I was 14, which I eventually bought from my dad (its in the background of some of the pictures). For the last year or two I had been actively looking for an MJ as I was finally able to afford it. Luckily one morning, while on Craigslist before work, I saw the ad for this 90 Eliminator pop up. I immediately texted the guy and was on my way to see the truck not 12 hours after he posted it. This was the first MJ I had ever seen up close and to my surprise it was in pretty decent shape with VERY minimal rust for Iowa. He had swapped the 97+ doors, fenders, and front clip on the truck and drove it for awhile before deciding to do the full 97+ swap. He told me that after getting the truck torn apart he didn't really have the time to finish it and it sat in his parents garage for over a year before deciding to sell it. After looking it over we agreed on $1000 and he would include most of the parts necessary to get it running and would deliver to my house. A couple days later it showed up and here is where I started. For awhile I was doing all my work outside and was storing the parts inside the cab and in the bed under a tarp. This became a pain quickly but I had to do it as storage space was limited for a time. Of course the floors had rust, mostly due to the accident it suffered at some point, but the body was actually fairly rust free. A little bit around the drivers cab corner and the rear wheel wells were really the only spots. You will see in the pictures that I have gone through and ground out all the rust and sloppily patched these spots on the body to get through the winter without the rust getting worse (I will be fixing this later). The rocker panels are absolutely solid with no rust at all and they are the originals as I can tell the factory welds on them are untouched. I was blown away by that as even my well maintained XJ even has some rust holes in the rockers. You can see in this picture the floor is buckled in front of the hole from the accident. The dash and steering column are just set in place here. The 4.0L was already installed in the truck when I got it with roughly over 120K miles and it ran great when he pulled it from the donor XJ is what I was told. The AW4 and transfer case was delivered a couple weeks later with a still good, or at least not seized, engine block attached (I will probably be selling this). I was pretty excited when I saw the vehicle being used to deliver it was a retired military Humvee. His friend had bought it from Govplanet and got it registered to drive it legally. The thing was super sweet. It was also the perfect height to slide the engine, trans, and t-case directly into the back of the MJ. Sorry no pics as it was dark and I didn't want to be “that guy” taking pictures of his Humvee. In early November I got super lucky and one of my friends had his 98 XJ finally kick the bucket. It had many problems and really just wasn't worth the time and money to fix so he said for $100 I could take anything I wanted. I took pretty much everything I could get off of it. The most notable would be the front end parts because they were in better shape than what came with the truck, the front part of the headliner to go in the truck, and some miscellaneous engine and interior bits for both the truck and for my XJ. The only things I wish I would have been able to get but couldn't were the factory skids, tow points, front driveshaft, and trans dipstick tube (the one in the truck now is bent very bad), and the axles. I tried for quite some time to get these off (minus the axles) but it was cold, windy, and in the middle of a Best Buy parking lot so I ended up having to leave them to be hauled to the scrap yard. After about 2 months of owning the truck I finally had the interior almost completely done. The dash finally went in for the last time, only put that in and out a thousand times, and the carpet and plastics finally went back on and the seats were bolted in. The interior is very dirty and needs a good cleaning still. As for the rust on the floors it was mostly surface rust with the exception of the hole on the drivers side, but like I mentioned before, the hole was mostly due to the accident the truck suffered, which from what I can tell bent the inner fender a bit and shoved the wheel into the floor pan and it broke a lot of the old metal away, so in turn it was really not as bad as it looked because it sat in a garage for a while after that. I was able to salvage most of the floor around the hole and used a desktop computer side panel as the floor patch, which is actually thicker than the factory floor pans. As for the interior now the only parts left to install are the B-pillar lights, speakers, and mount the cable properly for the hand brake. In mid November I was able to get some space cleared out in the shed to pull the MJ in so it wasn't outside and I would have room to lay parts out. Since then it got very cold and I have only been able to get my new Brown Dog rubber engine mounts in and the bell-housing bolted to the engine so I could put the cross-member in and support the drive-train. I have recently been doing what I can inside. I have made a wire harness for the rear taillights by cutting the 98 XJ taillight harness in half and soldering in lengths of wire to reach to the back. I had to trim the XJ plugs down a bit to fit in the sockets in the MJ taillights but everything worked out perfectly and all the lights work. (When I pull the taillights out to replace the bulbs I will add pictures of the modifications I did) I have also been working on my fuel tank setup. I am using a 99 Dakota tank with a 99 Dakota pump assembly and adapting the wires to fit the XJ fuel pump plug. I used a torch, a 2x4, and hammer to push in the corner section of the tank to fit around the frame brace in the truck. It isn't pretty but its got another 1/4 - 3/8 inch of room now. I will also be tilting the tank just slightly to give more clearance for the filler tube on the frame rail. This shouldn't affect the fuel pickup that much and I fill up at 1/2 a tank anyway so the fuel won't ever be low enough to be a problem. Here is some other pictures of the truck as it is sitting right now. I do have a set of 5 Eliminator wheels to go on it but they are currently on my XJ (also pictured). If you notice in the window of the last picture there is a ComancheClub sticker. It was on the truck when I bought it. Anyone recognize this truck? it was black originally but spray painted white. Its been in the Des Moines, Iowa area it's whole life from what I can tell. What is left to do on the truck that I can think of, in roughly the order I plan on Finish the fuel tank and mount it. Replace fuel lines and install fuel rail. Install the EVAP system Finish bolting in the transmission and tighten engine mounts Install alternator and starter Start the truck Do full service on it once I know the engine runs Replace brakes and brake lines Install Hell Creek 4.5” lift Install driveshafts Install DIY Dirtbound Prerunner bumper (currently being welded up) Drive the truck for the first time Paint the truck Orange Finish buttoning up some smaller things I am sure this list will change and probably get longer but as of now I think it is a good summary. I will also be hopefully installing a Lund Moonvisor I just bought off of Ebay. It is however for an XJ but as most of you have probably seen, there have been many people say the XJ one does or doesn't fit on the MJ so I will be putting that to rest when the visor arrives. If it doesn't fit the MJ, I will either put it on my XJ or sell it. I am also waiting on some waterproof wiring plugs and an early 90s XJ fuse box to arrive to use for the extra relays and fuses so I can keep the truck rat nest free. Sorry for such a long post but I had to catch everyone up on where I am at with the truck. It is starting to get a little warmer out (usually only when I am at work, then gets cold and windy when I get off) so hopefully progress will start to pick up again. I will try to take more pictures and go into more detail as I make progress now that I am committed to this build thread.

I don't think it's going to be easy to give you a definitive answer on how much lift you'll need. It may vary between one MJ/XJ to another. Usually I hear that at 3" you can fit 33s but may need to do some trimming yet and how much will vary again between trucks. Usually people will go 4.5" and then they SHOULD fit fine with no cutting or rubbing on the fender. With the tires being that wide you may also need to run spacers to keep them from rubbing anything on the axle as well. As for the axles bolting right up, my first instinct is to say maybe with some minor modification but then again I don't have experience with that axle. If you have access to the new axle you want to use, take measurements on your current axle and compare that to the 03 Grand and see if everything matches up. Especially the location of the front differential as your driveline needs to remain the same. I can't imagine it would be too terribly different given its an 03 but like I said, I don't have experience with this axle. You'll also want to keep in mind that the gear ratio probably won't match the rear so you'll want to find out what the ratio is so you can get it regeared to match if it is different. As for other advice, let us know what axle the 03 Grand is. There was different versions of axle used, I'm sure, so knowing which one you want to use will make a difference. Also do a Google search to see if there is any writeups on this already. You are more likely to come across this swap done on an XJ but it will be the same on the MJ since the front ends are exactly the same. If you can upload pictures of the new axle it may make helping easier for us. There is a few ways to upload pictures. Easiest to do if you use a smart phone is the app Tapatalk otherwise there is a thread in the forum problems section here on how to post them using photo sharing sites. It's titled Picture Hosting. I'm sure others will chime in that may have more experience on a swap like this and give you more information.

I saw this too! Matt took the visor, tailgate, and lights for sure. I'm wondering why someone junked it. The damage doesnt look too awful bad. Yeah, someone could've definitely saved that. Looks like before it was hit it was pretty clean. I've seen so many good project trucks in the JY, it makes me wonder what goes through some people's heads. They're probably just tired of looking at them and don't feel like selling them. I saw an '88 Eliminator late last year that was straight and looked pretty much perfect except for a horrible orange paint job. Completely rust free, even on the floors. In retrospect, I probably should've cut the floors out of it and used them to fix my trucks. It probably could've sold for at least $1000 no matter what was wrong with it under the skin. Yeah it really pains me to see these trucks end up like this. Even worse the more rare versions like this 92. I think the problem is that people don't realize what they are and just see them as an old pickup that isn't worth fixing if anything goes wrong. I've seen 2 MJs scraped around here because of this. I always thought about knocking on the peoples doors and asking about then but unfortunately didn't take that chance before they got rid of them. I learned that lesson. What are the laws in other states/countries around jys selling vehicles out of the yard? Every yard I've talked to says they can't sell them because of some law against it. I wouldn't mind buying some of the nicer MJs out of the yard to save them. Sent from my HTC6525LVW using Tapatalk

I saw this too! Matt took the visor, tailgate, and lights for sure. I'm wondering why someone junked it. The damage doesnt look too awful bad.

If they sold these I would definitely buy one. These cab-over trucks are just so awesome. I had a friend in high school that had an old cab-over truck just like this and it was the coolest thing ever. There is so much room is these cabs too.