Neat info! I had a feeling it was a very early thing that Chrysler offered but wasn’t sure if someone went through the effort to be different and painted the interior. I’d pull what I could but wouldn’t be sure if there’s a market for ZJ interior.
Ok that could be the problem why the calipers aren’t lining up correctly. Kinda the reason why the 84-89 knuckles are sought after because they can hold better calipers.
I used a broken leaf spring and a jack and jammed the leaf in a spot where it wouldn’t come loose but would help angle the axle back towards the cab with the jack. That’s usually how I get my control arms to go back and line up correctly. The passenger side is trickier to do that too.
Well you also don’t have power steering. 87 for the 2.5L is a weird year for it much like the 87 is for the 4.0. But the harness came ready to add other things from the factory like PS and AC.
Yeah the 4.0 and 2.5L have different trans and the 15 doesn’t line up to the 5’s bell house unless you had the Dakota house. But you can swap the entire drive train over to the 2.5L vehicle from the doner.
Get an extremely base model so you can deck it out how you want. Like a base MJ just absolutely nothing but the basic barrel, receiver, mag, and stock.
That is indeed the same exact book. The 87-90 YJ uses the same Renix TBI set up for the 2.5L. As far as the stepper motor, it could either be jammed inside or it could be not receiving power.