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Just got a bad mental image of a grumpy old man sitting outside in 'just a shirt'. Ha!, just ribbin' ya, now where's the pics!?

Well, head is out to be decked, gasket set won't be here until late next week. Going to go pull the old drivetrain out today, so I guess I'll update my project thread later tonite.

Oooh, almost forgot...I assume renix and HO head bolts are the same? Snapped one on the HO pulling the head. Not sure what the general opinion here is on reusing head bolts, however I'm quite sure the HO head has never been off until now. I'll just steal one off the renix if it will work.

HO vs renix.....I really couldn't care less. I just need this thing back up and running. Probably won't even bother to port match the intake (we'll see once I have the renix intake next to it). And now that I'm throwing my HO engine in this thing, my other truck will be getting a drivetrain that's in a whole other dimension of blasphemous. That's a story for another time and thread :) Tore down the HO tonight to make sure I wasn't wasting my time. All bearings and pistons look pretty mint. Surprising, b/c the rest of the motor was black as tar inside. So should I be ordering a renix full gasket set tomorrow due to using the renix intake? Or do i need to order an HO gasket set, plus a renix intake gasket? :dunno:

Thanks for all the tips! I think for ease of getting it back together, I'll run the renix intake. Couldn't I just port match the renix intake using the HO intake gasket? I was going to pick up a full gasket kit and reseal the engine before I put it in. Would the intake gasket be the only thing different between a renix and HO gasket kit?

Fuel lines...forgot about that one.

Yeah yeah, I've searched. I think I have it covered. just wanted some of you OG's to chime in if I missed something. Here goes. Truck is a 89 4.0l ba10 2wd. Blew head gasket this morning. Truck already has 4wd front axle with matching 4.10 rear. Was about to put a 96 XJ AX15 in when this happened :( The engine had a knock anyway, so this is what I'm going to put in: -91 HO engine/intake manifold/HO APN header. I know I need to adapt the TPS and weld an O2 bung into the header. Then will use all other Renix stuff. I'll just make my own intake past the TB. -96 XJ ax15. I already have the proper pilot bushing and the clutch hydraulics. Will use original renix clutch and flywheel. -91 XJ np242 OR 98 dakota np231. I think I'd rather put the 242 in. I have the linkages for both. -I have a variety of front and rear driveshafts. If none of them work, I'll modify something to work. -I have the 2wd ba10 crossmember and an XJ 4.0 4wd AW4 xmember. Will one work? If not I'll make my own. Any surprises I'll run into? Basic stuff is okay...it's the stuff i didn't think of that I'll need to order parts for that I'm concerned about.

Same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. Clutch pedal broke. I pulled it back and welded it back on in the truck. Only started a bit of the carpet on fire!

I made some out of some old honda wheel bearings and some steel plate. Really easy and free, have had them in my beater for awhile now with no problems or noises.

snow is flying here!! Nobody has one of these kicking around?

Here's how the truck is sitting now. Hopefully I can convert the trans to 4wd before the snow flies.

Here's the coil spacers I made. Gutted some old honda wheel bearings, cut out some plate and welded it on. Powercoated them up (nevermind the green....it was one color I hadn't tried yet and needed something to test it on). Super easy to make and free! Been on for half a year, no rattles. The springs were from a 4cyl 4x4, and the spacers got the height just right.

Well, time to bring this back up. This truck has been my beater for the last year. Drive it every day to work, and it's made a lot of trips to the dump. My other Comanche (Mr. Boobs II) has been shelved while I've been collecting parts for it, but at least driving this one every day keeps my wanting to get back at it. I'll update that one one in a few weeks when I have some stuff sorted out with it. Anyway, here's some stuff I've done, mainly just to keep it on the road. -all the ball joints and wheels bearings were shot on the truck. The d30 from the 86 was all good, so I swapped that in. -both front springs were broken. Again I robbed the 86 for those, and made some spacers to get the front up a bit. -the 3.07 ratio sucked, so back to the 86 to steal it's d35 (4.10's). Much better now. -took some bfg A/T's off a parts waggy I bought, threw those on with my Canyons. -ditched the load sensing valve. Ran new lines to the back and swapped in a 91 XJ prop valve. WAAAYY better. So now it seems I'm a trans and some drivshafts away from this thing being 4wd. I have an AX-15 I was going to put in it, but I've found a new home for that. Now looking for a 4wd ba10 tailhousing to convert my trans (check classifieds, I put a wanted ad up!!!) I'll try and upload some pics this weekend. That's all you guys want anyway!

Anybody have a ba10 4wd tailhousing kicking around? Let me know a price shipped to 56735. Or if you're in Canada, price shipped to R5G 1G8. -Thanks

Toyota Supra R154. Aisin trans very similar to the ax-15. Jeep ax-15 bellhousing will bolt right up to it, and the ratios would be better suited to what you're after.