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Not this one but I put a Curt on my Patriot. It is a decent product and I would buy it again. BTW: that is a front hitch and fits all MJ's and XJ's as the fronts are the same. Wheelbase doesn't matter in this application. You can save yourself a few bucks by shopping Amazon and such. If nothing else maybe Summit will price match? http://www.amazon.com/Curt-Manufacturing-31084-Front-Receiver/dp/B002ES21EE If you are looking for a rear receiver last I heard no one made one anymore

That is just the way it is for getting Jeep stuff. People get months behind and you hope the stuff eventually shows up. Hopefully they don't skip town with peoples' money (cough cough rocklizard cough) like way too many fabricators, even bigger ones, have done in the past. I ordered decals, just decals, from a reputable dealer pixeldecals. It took about a month (ordered 7/7 shipped 8/10 arrived 8/14) to get them! I was fine with the quality but sheesh.... Nates's looks pretty generic but at least it is a bumper. As always JCR's *kit*, at $50 more than Nate's completed bumper, is over-priced IMHO. Then add the cost of wire & electricity to weld it even if your time for such meticulous work means nothing. IF you have the ability to weld it well enough. Their tag line of "We provide a high quality product that won’t break the bank. As wheelers, we know you want to spent your extra money getting out on the trails and with our product line, we aim to help keep as much of your hard earned cash lining your own pocket!" doesn't seem to be anything but advertising puffery.

The Dana 44 far precedes AMC. Looking around there are at least as many axle assemblies with uneven shafts as not.

Sadly, I don't have to imagine. That's the reason I don't have an MJ anymore. I take it needed a lot more than an axle assembly to fix?

FSJ springs aren't hard to find new and you can get them from several sources. Rancho's 44044 FSJ springs are a very commonly used spring in SAS for IFS fronts and SOA on Wranglers, etc... if you start to look there may be more used versions out there anyway. Heck I scrapped four used FSJ springs last fall because I could not give them away. One thing I would do for a short SOA is use the smallest, cheapest spring perch I can find. Those Mopar one's look pretty short. You could cut your own out of rectangular tubing and possibly go lower. I went with Barnes4x4 stuff on my SOA for the extreme beef and larger u-bolts/spring plates but they do sit higher off of the axle. For reference with well-worn 2wd leafs I got 5" of lift with my SOA.

THE cheapest high power motor of the era :brows: If I had to swap out the AMC I6 that would be the one I chose of the ones he had to offer.Certainly not no chebby. :banana:

The style of those cars was far superior but as to the cars themselves? Maybe not. 100,000 miles used to be a major milestone. Now your cheapest econocar better best that handily. Tires? Sucked. Heck flat tires are almost unheard of nowadays. Brakes? Not much better. Handling? On the average car a turn at any speed left all four tires on the ground and the door handle dragging. Reliability? Overheating issues. Points sucked. Period. You used to spend a lot of time keeping a car in tune and now you spend basically none. Performance? A dime a dozen 2014 Honda Accord V6 would beat a '58 vette at the drag strip and maybe a road course while hauling 5 people and getting great mileage for 200,000 miles. No, the heyday of cars is probably right now...accept that gawd they were pretty back then. I spent about 100 miles in a 1956 Dodge Custom Royal Sedan yesterday: 315 V8, push button automatic, power windows and brakes, loaded. 56,000 original miles. Smiled all day.

I know jeep chose to call them "H.O.'s" despite only a modest power increase but they should have called them "GFEN's" for Goodbye French Engineering Nightmares. My '91 OBD ( see? no H.O. reference) is infinitely easier to diagnose and deal with then my '88 RENIX was... And I daresay that every dollar spent upgrading a RENIX would provide a gain on the OBD as well. The 99-up manifold, bigger throttle body, improved exhaust, etc..., are all things that would improve a 91/92 and probably as much as they do a RENIX. If you wanna feel the difference switch from an '88 to a '91 like I did...the increase in HP from '90-'91 was greater than the '88-89 difference :brows:

The knob on the column shift auto's do this too. Grrrr

Thanks. That is some good work

I have always welded the crack-prone areas of the head pipe when I had them off whether they showed cracks or not. It seems to work. I know that info doesn't address the flex pipe topic but maybe someone reading this will find this helpful.

Gawd tracing wiring faults is tedious. Good luck.

In two wheel drive with an open differential either rear tire could get full power depending on the friction of the driving surface. However due to geometry and what I assume is unexplained magic the right ( passenger side) tire will be the one most often powered/spinning if both rear wheels are on surfaces that will cause to tires to slip when overpowered. If for some odd reason you had only 1 tire with better tread that is where I would put it.

Just noticed that I could do that, never looked at the settings. Shout box is gone. Mine too...thanks for the tip Alexia

Did you fan those corners? They look good

I was thinking of something like those xj armor boxes so i could Switch back if I ever retired it.

My tail lights are almost perfect. It seems like a shame to run them on a trail beater. I am wondering what others have done to mount off-road tail lights on the MJ bed?

I was curious as to how others felt about it. I also think it takes up prime real estate where it is. I can understand whey especially new people think that it is the place to go as it is so centrally located. Eh. Maybe someone who can do some of these things will look into it.

More and more I see people, particularly new people, post tech questions and other things directly in the shoutbox. It generally gets ignored. (An example that went straight into shoutbox today: I have a 1991 Jeep Comanche and am trying to solve the braking issue. We have replaced the MC, brake booster, calipers on the front and still has not solve the problem. the problem is that you have to really stand on the brakes to stop quickly. i have been told to replace the proportioning valve under the MC, but the replacements only have one line running to the rear. Is it okay to by pass the rear valve? We plan on installing a lift in the near future. Any thoughts on this...) I understand traditional format sites are falling out of favor for facebook-style ones, often on facebook, and the shoutbox looks like the facebook format. Except it doesn't seem to get used or reviewed. Would it be less confusing for people if it just did not exist? I don't know that many would honestly miss it. As is typical the same 3 or 4 guys are responsible for the 3 or 4 posts it gets a day.

If you are coming across I-70 X2 on the Air Force Museum At Wright-Patterson AFB. You will be within 5 miles of it. As a bonus it is home to the infamous Hanger 18 and houses the little green men recovered at Roswell. And it is free admission If you are taking the northern route across 80/90 and you have the time and cash...Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky. It has been named as the finest roller coaster park in the world for several years straight and as often selected as the best all around amusement park in the country.

I think it has popped up and is rubbing the drum. Yeah one side at a time to keep the other as a reference is how I do them, too

The jeep in the pics is not the one being sold if the colors and other details are correct. Don't go crazy over that FIAT/VM Motori 2.8. It had numerous problems when they tried it in the KJ. There was a laundry list of mods it required to make it reliable and for it to have any longevity. FIAT originally folded in this country due to very poor quality. I see no reason to suspect that has changed. If you visit a KJ site they list the required mods and most the posts are about its problems. Fanboi's will sing that engines praises but that is true of any niche vehicle. That is the way of fans of quirky vehicles and people who must justify paying a premium for a turd. I have seen webpages devoted to the Yugo and calling it under-appreciated. Same deal.

So you bought Zack's?

Yeah, the shoes for each side have a "front" and a "rear" for lack of a better term. That would cause your issues as would a problem with an e-brake cable or the adjuster hanging up. I would also be concerned about how much trouble you had getting the shoe to seat. It has perhaps popped out and will not return, thereby pressing against the drum. Where a sticking caliper would cause these symptoms on the front I have never heard of a wheel cyl causing this.

Sound. A split manifold with true duals sounds neat to those that like it. I ran a piece of 2.5" pipe off of the cat flange. That runs into a thrush welded turbo muffler and then I used a 2.5" 45* turn down right before the rear axle. I get compliments on it regularly and more than one person has asked if I swapped in a V8 after hearing it at idle. I have less than $50 in it.