eaglescout526

For the most part, all clusters will swap. 84-86 have a early speedo connection type 87-90 use a later type. these two clusters will interchange with each other. 91-96 HO can work but you will not have a speedometer due to it being electrical and not mechanical.

I tried to get where that bottom piston is apart, I could not so just leave it alone. as Ωhm above posted, just the inside needs to be good clean and rust free. Thats how I have been rebuilding them and selling them.

Yes. It’s incredibly easy to do. All you really can take apart and service is the little spring valve inside the top portion of the assembly. I’ve tried to take apart where the piston is and it don’t budge. But the spring is where you want to clean and service as that can get either stuck open or closed. No precautions really. Might need an impact to break the seal between the body and the housing of the spring valve.

I did it without pulling the entire b-pillar trim. Just the a-pillar and visors and top screws of the B-pillar need to come out and basically you can slide the headliner forward to where it can come up and out of the b-pillar groove. Might need to remove the rear view mirror too for extra room.

The light test would be with the regulator(yellow AMC box) unplugged and the connector still plugged in.

Oh pffff don’t be scared at all. You honestly can’t do any damage. What you’re looking for is if any of the buttons trigger a complete circuit to illuminate the light.

I found it can be done with a test light but it’s a bit tricky.

Come to AZ, let the whole thing bake for about 8 hours and the nameplates should be pliable haha

There’s a tab that locks onto the connector for the stalk that needs to be pried up to remove the stalk from the connector.

That time of the year! If you have any Jeep other than an MJ feel free to bring it on out too! Be nice to have a slight MJ take over!

Also some specs about your MJ will help better, if your username is true and you have a 91, its gonna be different than most the 86-90's on here.

Have you cleaned your grounds? The interior lights are on the dome lamp circuit, those are controlled by switches in the door that are known to corrode. the instrument panel lamps are on a different circuit than the front marker and tail lights. The parking lamps fuse however is your tails and front marker lights.

Crown has them? I’ve been using a later Chrysler part number for more.

Yup. Only 87-90 are the internal years 84-86 make a great upgrade direct swap for later 2.5L's and the HO years are perfect swap for both engines. Though Ive never seen anyone swap an HO bell house to an earlier 2.5L.

84-86 2.8L V6 and 2.5Ls have external slaves. Which is what you have. That set up is superior vs the internal. 87-90 are internal and 91-01 are external. Oh and I wouldn’t be replacing parts due to age. These days the older genuine parts are much better than new ones. See if you can rebuild the master and slave. I remember on my external slave, the seal got too wet(yeah i dont know) and let fluid pass. So I replaced the seal with a new one and all is good and leak free.

I’ve daisy chained one once just to get it to charge. Take a good battery and then have it be charged by the charger and hook another set of jumpers to the bad from the good and it works.

Double fail safe?

I have thoughts on doing this to my XJ. Wiring in the heated relay timer for the rear defrosters so the seats dont get hot and theyre wired to the same rocker switch.

Only when the XJ was introduced. The 84-90 XJ, 86-90 MJ and 87-90 YJ got the rivet buttons. CJ and SJ got the standard dome buttons that the HO years ended up getting.

Hell you can paint the center section of that wagon wheel to match your interior. AMC did that to early XJs and SJs with that steering wheel.

Yes. They were with the Sport steering wheel package. You could also get the ones that are wrapped to the spokes.

No I don’t. I bought it years ago based on a Google search. I think Hellas website had a kit and just looked up the part number. Hell come to think of it, I think I bought the kit off of quadratec

There’s not an OEM harness. If you want it to be seamless, I bought a hella fog lamp harness kit, used a old headlight harness and salvaged a connector pin from it to put it into my harness to hook it up to the factory switch and get a factory set up.

My father finally found the pics he took of me working on little red back in '16 As we can see I am working on painting the rims. On a tight budget it was what I could do with the trailer rims. Note the back window is still the OEM rear window. I still regret changing it out. I changed it out due to missing the latch that I ultimately ended up finding later on...not sure where it went. Yes grill is upside down, I fixed it later. There I go cleaning and prepping the wheels for the new paint. They looked good honestly. But going down the rabbit hole of OEM, I wanted Jeep rims. Heres me replacing the bushings on the original leafs. I dont recall what I was doing there but probably cleaning up any and all rust.

Someone payed a pretty penny for such and I love it when an investment gets tossed to the side.