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Honestly, I bought chunk for $3k...sometimes I feel I paid too much but its one of those when will you see an 84 model again. Other than being an XJ with quad headlights and rear red lights and power everything and being a low price SJ, its the same as anything else in the Renix era.

That radio just screams the 80’s. That’s a good find. Congrats!

Maybe but mine rolled off the line in November sometime after the buy out, but as far as I know the history, nothin bad happened.

If you look up under the dash below the switch for the headlights, youll see a ground wire mounted there. Now that spot is notorious for looking rust colored and not being the best chassis to ground hook up. So thats why its recommended to take a better gauge wire and ground it out to the stud that holds the ebrake lever in place.

Mine was made in 87 and has a Chrysler pentastar on the passenger window

AMC loved to source their parts to U.S. and Canadian manufacturers. Despite AMC having VAM down in Mexico, you won't find a lot of the parts on any AMC vehicle have something made in Mexico. Chrysler on the other hand sourced to both countries for parts. Which is why that module was made down in Mexico. Also the 89 in front of the 5600 denotes an AMC part number. As for the last one, there may not be a country of origin but simply a 5 digit manufacturer code on there. You can not look up those codes, they are a very internal thing with Chrysler and are only referenced when returning damaged, improper manufactured or defective parts. As for the change over, that happened in 1988. But Chrysler had all of AMC's parts inventory to liquidate before sending out Mopar packaged Jeep parts. But as soon as the buyout was done and set, Chrysler went to AMC's part manufactures and said we would like our labels on these parts. But youll still find a lot of the interior or even some engine parts will have an AMC number on them probably due to that it was cheaper to leave the number on the part and in the mold than make a new mold with Chryslers new part number.

Because most folks when getting a Jeep naturally expect it to be 4 wheel drive. So if they get a two wheel drive they will have to put in more work and effort to make it the truck they want vs the truck they can buy with 4 wheel drive. Don’t fret about that too much. The MJ is rising in value regardless of which wheel drive it is. I have a two wheel drive and I restored it and I love it. It’ll go just about anywhere it was designed to minus the situations where you would absolutely need 4 wheel drive.

Indeed it does. This route opens up new ideas to switches and quite possibly @JMO413's idea with the REM. Course I don't know what other switches I would need really. Unless someone we all know and love with their mad fabbing skills can get someone on the ball about a hidden winch kit lol.

Only been half a month. Well I have been hard at work and sourcing parts, doing cutting, inhaling melting plastic fumes. The works. Anyways I made it this far: I know I cut it a smidge too short, I don't mind, Ill just make a block off to make the cup hold stuff. Otherwise I like it and will be happy to have factory cupholders on the side, even if they can't hold much to begin with, might do something about that. Maybe Ill do something rubber related to seat inside the holder so stuff doesn't fly.

I think you need the Mopar Performance ECU from 1990. Course sourcing those will be next to near impossible.

Could've hit me up. I am sure AMC salvage has a few laying around that I could've snagged one for ya. But I'll voice my concern and just say I wouldn't trust repaired aluminum, especially after something that looks like the San Andreas fault. But that's me, if you have complete faith in their craft then that is perfect by all means.

I wouldve sourced a new bell, honestly. When my trans blew it ripped the bell clean into pieces. Who knows if that bell once fixed will be able to handle the torque of the 4.0L.

Garden bed. Pun intended.

Without pulling the cluster and stuff apart, its the ground that's bolted to the dash in cruisers tips is the cluster ground and everything else. If your truck has AC, youll benefit greatly if you do the blower ground mod as well. I know I saw an improvement in the volt gauge reading on my cluster.

The electrical manual for 88 is on here. I do have an 86 manual that I can look over and provide assistance with. Sometimes that ground doesn't always help, but it may not help if the other grounds are dirty/bad. One ground from the battery to the block, on from the block to the firewall and then that's pretty much the grounds for everything else is that strap from the block to the firewall. Not sure where that strap is though on a 2.8L.

Definitely start with the grounds. Check and clean them all and go from there. The early 84-86 clusters use old style connection for the gauges so taking the cluster out and looking at the contact prongs on the backs of the gauges and give them a good cleaning. The older clusters are notorious to have decently reliable gauges. Especially the tach. The tach likes to have a mind of its own.

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There’s a universal throttle body rebuild kit that I used that has a new pressure regulator diaphragm in it. It’s made by standard and I believe it’s just called a TBI rebuild kit.

Garnet SEM equivalent found!

Thats a mighty big Jeep sign. Needs a big AMC logo next to it lol.

D44. Someone has a good picture of the known popular rear axles. I see that on the passenger side of the pumpkin is a data tag for that diff. See if you can clean it off and get your gear ratio from it and a date code.

OEM if possible. Otherwise its a crap shoot at your local parts store. Some brands like Napa are usually pretty good but autozone is usually avoided. Depending on what you need I can look up parts and tell you whats available and whats not.

Have not heard anything on the status of these other than they will happen. Coastchief is in the middle of life and will be replacing his head gasket on his truck.

Actually the Fuel pressure regulator is the same concept as to what you would find on a carb regulator. No special tools are needed to rebuild the TBI's but special care is to be heavily noted with the injector retainer screws. So the regulator consists of the diaphragm, a spring, the housing and an adjustment bolt that is either plugged off or exposed. But hopefully you won't have to do a rebuild of the TBI but its still easy to rebuild. All you need for our Renix system is a good multimeter, some torx bits for the TPS, some books and the passion to fix the problem at hand. We are all here to help you out.

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