89 MJ

Looks to me like 3rd gen Camaro wheels. I believe they came on the Z/28 cars. They will require adapters to go on our Jeeps as the bolt pattern is 5x4.75.

And now it comes back apart. Time to get ready for paint.

My mother makes steaks in the sous vide. Its a pretty nice piece of equipment

Anybody cooking anything fun?

There are a few on here that have done new springs from GS. Seems the consensus is that it lifts about 3” I believe @watchamakalit is one of the people that has new springs.

Looking forward to you getting it home!

I doubt it would’ve sold well, but it sure would’ve been cool if they produced the ThunderChief.

If they don’t think it’ll work, you should probably disregard what I said . That said might be worth a shot if it’s not much more work.

Is it just the stalk that is screwed up with yours? Could always make a new post about it if that’s not the issue and I’m sure @eaglescout526 will have a solution.

I would guess that it will be sufficient. My truck had AC and 4wd with the little vacuum reservoir.

That is weird. At the very least, that means it’s not a year difference being that your Eagle is older than mine.

I will also say that the AMC 15/Dana 35 cover on the Eagle does not seem as thick as the D30 front. It seemed in line with the Chrysler 8.25 and Ford 8.8 diff cover (both of which I’ve bent) in terms of thickness.

The diff covers on my Eagle D30s seemed noticeably thicker than my D30 in my MJ. Which I find odd because they were all a similar vintage. 81-84 Eagle D30 (2.72 gears) cover was as thick as my 86 Eagle D30 (2.35 gears) cover. Both of those seemed thicker than the cover on the 86 XJ D30 (4.10 gears) in my truck and thicker than the 92 and 95 YJ D30s (both 4.10 gears) that we had. I never actually measured the thickness and never had the covers off at the same time, but both my dad and I came to the same conclusion separately. The two Eagle ones I had removed at the same time, so I can confidently say that those were the same thickness, but I can’t say with 100% certainty about the other D30 covers. Leads me to believe that either Eagles had a thicker cover, which I doubt because the front crossmember protects most of it or that higher geared vehicles had a thicker cover and lower geared vehicles had a thinner cover, maybe for clearance because the ring gear would be a different width. I don’t necessarily know if I believe either of those theories though.

Now that sounds interesting. I’m familiar with ceramic coating the exhaust and intake, but this is the first I’ve heard of that for the internals. I get why you’d want to do it though.

Probably. Knowing all of this, if I were to change anything, it would be a ceramic coating on the HO manifold on my truck.

Got a hat to go along with the tractor. This will probably replace my American Motors hat as my day to day hat. The AMC hat is nice, but after 2.5 years, it’s showing its age.

True. I should’ve said it, but I was talking about all headers in general there, not just for Jeeps. They always seem to leak, but I’m sure that’s a quality of the product issue too.

Good to know. Part of the reason I’m hesitant to use aftermarket stuff is because headers are known to leak and crack and cause problems.

Good point about the ceramic coating, I had forgotten about that. I don’t think that the wrap is worth it for the rust, like you said. On a race car, maybe, but not on a Jeep.

And you can still see the 0.0 Litre badge over it still. Nicely done.

In an effort to help keep under hood temperatures down, has anyone considered swapping to a cast iron exhaust manifold like the 2000 and 2001 XJs have? Walker makes a pipe that way the two cats right on the manifold don’t have to be used. I would think that the cast manifold should absorb the heat of the exhaust instead of radiating it like the tubing exhaust manifold that our trucks came with. This should help with heat soak and keep engine bay temps down, I’d think. Has anyone tried something similar?

Interesting. For what it’s worth, my pattern ended up fine after testing a few times in a few places.

Interesting, thanks!

I think I’d definitely steer clear of Dorman for gears just because they’re probably the cheapest thing they can get.