One of the guys that works for me sold one for $9000. It was rust free and had just over 100k on it. The only thing done to it was a 3" lift and some cheap mud tires and black wheels. That's Iowa for you.
Replaced my resistor today an now I finally have all speeds! The Mopar resistor is even made in the USA!! Did the additional ground also and my high is definitely improved.
Just read through your build. Mine sounds very similar to yours at this point. I had no idea how much could be wrong with a truck I drive 90 miles home. I still believe it was fate. I wanted a black truck with buckets and a stick. That's exactly what I got. It just came with a truck load of problems. Everything is fixable work enough time and effort!!
Thank you everyone for the input. I will order the centric aluminum slave cylinder. Aluminum has to be better than plastic. Not sure what master cylinder to go with is my last hang up.
Yeah external would be nice. The truck only has 109057 miles on it. I'm hoping the peugeot can last a little while. It looks like I can get the clutch set and master cylinder in Luks from Rock Auto pretty cheap.
I also understand I should upgrade to the AX-15 but I would like to drive the truck to collect those parts. It doesn't seem like many manual transmission Jeeps made it to Iowa.