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I thought that the Nitro's, at least the 4.0's, were single speed AWD but didn't know for sure.

It is like the guy asking $27,000 for a '92 Wrangler because he has $20,000 "in receipts." No you have a $5,000 Wrangler and a pile of paper.

Dude, 99% of us have no idea what that is and 0% interest in finding out,to be blunt. All I am picturing is a giant ricer wing stolen off of a civic and mounted on the roof while a fart can the size of a 2-liter bottle hangs under the rear bumper. There is like zero flat-biller interest here. Just say in'.

Nice

Do wut? :)

if you can find one of the old Dana Power-lok LSD's for the D30 they are a good unit. But I don't now if these carriers will work with a high pinion axle?

A large diet would have woke the Liberty up.... :rotf:

Put it in an envelope and send it to me :brows:

Silly question: as high pinion D30's are about $75 here and many other places I have seen would it not be money well-spent to swap over to one?

I am pretty sure that we cooters say this about every succeeding generation, though. I don't think that new-fangled internet thing will ever take off, either. :thumbsup:

After building and using my rig it seems that your "3 link" idea would not do much if you still used the stock mounts and locations. I do not believr that your max droop and contraction would increase much as the arms will still max out at the same point.

I am writing this on a device that I carry in my pocket and that enables me to access the majority of all knowledge accumulated by humanity. And what do I do with it? Talk about jeeps and watch cat videos.... :)

It is true: The KJ Liberty was the direct descendant of the XJ Cherokee. They were re-named Liberty for the home market to cash in on the patriotic fervor of the time. They remained the Cherokee everywhere but N. America. You could order factory Euro or Aussie-spec name-plates that replace " Liberty" with "Cherokee" . A stock KJ Liberty would do anything a stock XJ would do. I have wheeled stock and modded liberties and XJ's. If someone else with personal experience can refute that have at it. If you haven't had the experience well.... I have no personal experience but I understand the KKLiberty/Nitro twins are harder to lift and have other issues. Without a SFA swap 31-32" is about the max. tire the aluminum front diff housing can handle. There is a company or two that makes a replacement steel diff housing. The problem is the same with all IFS: suspension travel and joint angles. To go much more than 3" of lift you have to lower the front diff cradle which kind of defeats the purpose of the lift to some degree. Look at those obnoxiously lifted IFS pick-ups and notice how low the suspension/front drivetrain remains despite the ridiculous lifts. I sold my '05 in '12. It had 120,000 miles on it. I replaced a radiator as far as the only repair I had to do. it was lifted 2.5" and I had 31" MT/R's on it. It was the 3.7 V6, a six-speed NSG370, and a ( yes, you are reading this right) a NP241J transfer case. Only the 6-speeds got this transfer case. With the 5.0 1st gear of the Dodge P.Up/Liberty version of the NSG370 ( the TJ was 4.0) my liberty had a crawl ratio of 48:1 even with 3.55 gears. That is the same as an automatic TJ Rubicon. A 5-speed XJ has a 31:1 crawl ratio on 31's. It was also 4-wheel disc and I had an Aussie in the 8.25 rear. I 'wheeled it in many different parks including badlands. There were 4 of us that took our KJ's many places. The best had a 4" lift and 32" tires with a locker in the back and a truetrac in the front. The pics are all taken on the same rocks in Badlands. The green XJ has 4.5" of lift and 32's. I do not have the front or side angle pics for my KJ so I am including the XJ shots to show the rest of it. Steepest hill at badlands. Not everyone who tries it makes it... Baddest jeep ever? Nope. But it could be used as a jeep. Maybe the biggest improvement to the KJ ( and the reason it weighed 700#'s more than an XJ) was the much more sturdy structure. We have all seen pics of rolled XJ's. The fold like paper. Here is a friends KJ after rolling sideways 2.5 times down a 25' or so embankment. It landed upside down in a small river/large creek . The integrity of the KJ saved his life. The roof remained up and that kept his head above the water until we could get to him and cut him out of the seat belt. Having personally seen an XJ roll and having seen pics of others I think he would have been at least severely hurt if he did not drown had he been in an XJ. As it was he suffered only bruising from the seat belt. The manner in which this jeep held up to the rolls is amazing to me. It didn't even pop out the windows. I used to laugh at how the "jeep people" hailed the then new Patriot as the 2nd coming of the XJ because it was boxy. It took awhile for the news that it was a re-bodied Caliber to get out.... :rotf:

SUV was a marketing term not an official designation for "type." For sure through 2006 there was no registration designation for "SUV" nationally in the NCIC. How would the SUV designation differ from SW definition posted above? It doesn't as far as I can see. Most people consider the 1963 Wagoneer as the first SUV. Why they ignore the earlier Willys Station Wagon is strange.

That is what I would suspect.

Subscribed. Can't wait.

If an XJ isn't a SW what is it? It is a SW by any definition even if 4wd. In 1984 when it came out Renault/AMC had ads comparing it to a Volvo 240 wagon. Definition of STATION WAGON: an automobile that has a passenger compartment which extends to the back of the vehicle, that has no trunk, that has one or more rear seats which can be folded down to make space for light cargo, and that has a tailgate or liftgate http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/station%20wagon If they listed it as truck you would pay more in registration fees most if not all places. I pay $56 more a year for my Comanche "truck" than my "station wagon."

Those titles are weird as the make for a jeep is "jeep" and never was AMC or Chrysler. Just as Chevy is a make even though its parent is GM. When it comes to jeeps AMC or Chrysler may be the manufacturer but are not the make. My '91 title correctly lists the make as JEEP, the model as Comanche, and the style as truck

Many think the stock brakes suck. If many did not then the topic of making them better would not be one of the most recurrent in the tech section. If someone likes them fine stock good for them. They get to keep some money in their pocket. :)

Oh the wj may be just as good or even better. I just haven't done it

I did the 96 XJ booster upgrade. Easy as pie. I have no experience with the WJ.

In the words of Bob Dylan: "It makes me ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game". If he or anyone else is ashamed the exit door is open. Make sure they write back after they have found and lived under that utopian system for for awhile. ;)

They sell chrome by the roll in the duct tape aisle :)

It is like saggy pants and a flatbiller cap turned backwards: it doesn't need to make sense as long as it is cool. Killing the output of aux. lights designed to provide more light just to look hip? I may have lived too long :)

Just my opinion based on my research & experience with Lokka: Gear to Goannawhere/Lokka made the original Aussie in Australia using Australian steel and under license for a U.S. company called TorqMasters. It developed a good rep. Lokka then changed to Chinese steel and the failure rate increased. They then sent production to China and the failure rate sky-rocketed. TorqMasters ended the contract with Lokka and moved production to the US and now uses US sourced steel. They also refined some of the designs. Lokka now sells the early Aussie design as a Lokka. But they are very misleading. They tout "Australian design" and other crap and make it hard to discover that they are made in China with Chinese metal. Maybe it is just me that thinks they are being deceptive but note what they actually say and do not say in their ad: All development and manufacturing design of the key components has always been performed in Australia. Although I understand that their most popular Toyota locker is still made in Australia ( but of Chinese steel) the majority are made in China despite the impression the ad wants to leave you with. I had an Aussie made by Lokka but made after the switch to Chinese manufacture. One of the side pieces cracked in half. In speaking to TorqMasters a couple of times on the phone I discovered this info about Lokka straight from TorqMasters. Although disappointed I understood that TorqMasters would not warranty my locker (even though they were in the processing of firing Lokka) because although I bought the locker NIB I bought it from the original purchaser and I was not the original purchaser as required for the warranty. Hearing that TorqMasters had made the above referenced move to the US I tried them again. I could not be happier. The new American made locker & refined design is noticeably smoother then the what amounts to the locker now being sold as a Lokka ever was and it works perfectly. It was $50 more than the Chinalokka. Getting stranded with a busted locker bought while knowing it was a china thing + paying to fix it + dealing with the down time < $50. I think of it as a cheap insurance policy. Others can reach whatever conclusion that they want.