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And do yourself a favor and get a 94+ donor with the external slave.........the internal yours has is a total POS in my opinion.

I swapped my in 2 weekends. Tranny and all related in one weekend including a new rear drive shaft. The front axle with all new suspension and steering in another. Use a complete donor. And yes it's a lot of work especially when you are alone with no help. And yeah you better know what you're doing particularly if it is your only driver.

You can pick up a relay at any auto store for $5. I have my driving lights/fog lights wired from the parking/brights circuit. The relay will have 5 pins, power in, power out, ground in/ground out, trigger. Attach the relay to your fender wall near the battery. Power and ground in direct from the battery. Power and ground out direct to lights, 14ga. Trigger from light circuit or ignition circuit, or direct power circuit from dash switch or preexisting fog/driving lamp circuit. This is not complicated at all, fast, easy, safe, and will supply sufficient amps to power your lamps. My electric fan circuit is run the same way. Use simple protected female spade connectors and make up your own harness. You can also run your trigger through a dash switch so the you can manually disrupt the trigger at anytime.

Yeah and seller told me he'd call after he got off work for me to pick up......then sold it out from under me. Liars. I've dealt with more liars.............

They are on my Comanche now. :)

2.5 with 4.11 and 30s and I get better in town that on the interstate..........I'm estimating about 24 in town and 20 at 70-75.

yeah those sucker ain't go'n nowheres......LOL Nice :)

Summit Racing has them, not sure if they carry your size. You can also find Summit on ebay.

Exactly what in entailed in shorting the 'rod' and why?

Well...........I have a 98 sitting here and I took a look at it a couple of days ago and thinking about swapping. The MJ brakes do seem a little dead compared to the 98XJ, I assume this is the reason for the swap?

Can you elaborate? I have the 2.5 and someone swapped the cluster and I think the tack is off. What to look for?

Really? Here's a link that would indicate how much I would appreciate that- http://www.akfiles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=93819 I'm looking for a decent replacement for the 98 that my wife totaled last week. I'll email her and find out what corner its on. Thanks.

http://charlotte.craigslist.org/cto/2618177088.html Before I drive 200 miles to pick this up....... I talked to the mother of the kid selling and she says that because of the lift it is difficult to put it in 4x4. What could be the cause of this? I have yet to speak to the father and maybe he'll be more definitive but......... Thanks

I've got 4.10 in front and 4.11 in rear, no issues.

I used the entire assembly, including the gear that went with the cable style unit. I used the 88 cable unit and the 88 gear.

Yeah and new it ain't cheap either...........like about $60.

General differential question for you guys- As I posted elsewhere I now have a parts Jeep. The rear is a Chrysler and the front is a D30, 3.55s and typical I suppose of 4.0s with auto trans. In the past I had not been able to break one wheel lose under power, front or rear. In fact when say turning around on gravel at low speed the Jeep would buck as all four wheels were grabbing. So I assumed that both axles have Trac-lock difs that actually work, untill now I've had no reason to open them up but I will in the next couple of weeks depending on what I decide to do with them. My Comanche has open difs and does not buck as the Cherokee did. I also had a 92 Cherokee years ago that must have had open difs because it too did not buck. Is what I'm describing the characteristics of Trac-lock? Would some Cherokees have come special order with posi difs? Common? I'm looking for another Cherokee for the wife and it will likely not be another 98 but an earlier one, cash thin, so I'll likely swap these over. Worth hanging on to? Thanks

Near Knoxville TN. Yeah it's getting parted out.

I have about 5-6K miles on my rebuilt 2.5 and I reallllllllllly enjoy the 24mpg round town. AX5 with 4.11s and it gets round fine.

Yes it's true, I just did it. I used the cable style unit that was originally in my 88 in the newer 94 in place the electronic unit of the 94.

Wife totaled the Cherokee yesterday. Her and the son are fine. So off to another project for me.

Mine is a daily driver. It's all I got.

We can go around in circles arguing that engineers over think and over complicate design scenarios while fabricators and craftsman don't think about it enough. It's an annoying argument and one I grow very tired of. In my opinion, the best solution is to have the two work together to come up with something that benefits everyone. I don't really see how this is in any way connected to the statement that you made before that all engineer's in their 20's and 30's are unimaginative because of their reliance on a computer program to do the work for them. All you've done is create another stereotypical scenario that I don't agree with considering 2 of my 3 Comanche's are non-lifted and ARE the $#!&. Well, if we're going to do a show and tell of our imaginative projects, then here is the most current picture of my 1988 Jeep Comanche that is getting the best that Jeep had to offer - a 5.9L V8 Magnum engine, the 97+XJ interior and front clip and Rubicon Moab wheels. The engine bay harness from the '98ZJ donor will be spliced together with the '97XJ donor interior harness which will be spliced together to the '88MJ rear lighting harness. I can only name a handful of other people that have done this sort of project. I remember the first computer my parents bought (a Tandy) and their first cell phone (the gray Motorola brick). I also remember when we had to adjust the rabbit ear antenna on top of our only TV to get channels 3, 6, 10, 17, and 29. Yeah I can appreciate your Comanche build and I'd like to do something along that line but it's a matter of cash thin. And I chose the 2.5 route for the fuel economy.......I love this 24mpg around town. My wife's 4.0 Cherokee gets about 14 if we coast and pray a lot.

I'm having a hard time understanding why you are so opposed to me putting in a little bit more effort than the next guy in determining a safe and effective design for a trailer hitch. I'm not charging anyone for my time - I just wanted to use my IMAGINATION and not do a straight copy of an existing design. Plus, I wanted to have the peace of mind in knowing that it would perform as it was intended. Again, it was my name and reputation on the line and I want to protect that even if, by your standards, it means making it out to be more "complicated or engineered" than it actually is. Seesh. Sorry. I'm sure any Joe Blow that is good with a torch and a welder can come up with a perfectly acceptable trailer hitch design that fits on our trucks and works just fine. That's fantastic. Through my over complication and engineering, I was also looking for ways to reduce material costs, that I could pass down to the consumer. When it comes to sheet steel, weight = money. And finally, your generalization is somewhat insulting. Since I'm 26 and fall directly into your blanket statement of unimaginative engineers, I take offense. Computers, CAD, FEA, CFD etc. are all tools that aid engineers and are, by no means, a replacement for imagination. It was no different for the engineer's of days past that used a pencil and paper to come up with designs and perform calculations. The ideas have to come from somewhere and that's usually up in your noggin'. You bring up a couple of good points. At 45 I had the blessing of working with and learning from what may be the last generation of craftsmen. Oh sure, for some a craft has been handed down to them but for the most part.......craftsmanship is lost. To the point of being offended- it wasn't personal just an accurate observation of a generation at large. I've had numerous hobbies over the years and my Comanche is the latest and that what brings me here. I will not have a lift on my truck because I work out of it, the only folks here in E TN that drive lifted trucks are the toothless hillbillies that come down off the mountains and I cannot have that kind of appearance when I pull up to someone's home. Having read quite a bit here I get the impression that if your Comanche isn't lifted you aint $#!&.......shall I be offended? No I'm past that nonsense. I used to build Ak47s and I used to handcraft stocks for them, gripsnstocks.com now defunct. The trick is to move directly from your imagination to your hands.......that's where craftsmanship lies. The last project was- This Cub does not exist (only one that I know of), standard tranny with full hydraulics (less rear hitch). It's what you don't see that matters. Built from a compilation of the best that Cub Cadet had to offer, complete build from lose parts and my custom hydraulic system. No I did not grow up in the computer age. We have only had a computer in the house for the last 5 years. I bet you don't remember a time before cell phones and computers and only 4 channels on the one TV in the house?

To answer the question why would Uhaul build one for free? I'm sure it's a long standing policy that if they don't stock it or have a particular one available that their R&D will design one. It's rarely taken advantage of so it stands as policy.