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Where are you running in to fit problems with a stock rollbar?

I'm with Sam on this one. I think there is way too much damage to it, especially since the parts you want are some of the damaged/ missing ones. And that is just what you can see from the pics. A hit that hard could mean driveline damage as well.

Gotta love them Yanks! :D

Anyone try a Ranger split bench? I like the seats in my Dads 2000 Ranger, but they seem a bit narrower than the MJ

It wasn't the Nigerian lottery, was it? :D

I'm just kidding. She drives my truck more than I do. I loaned it to my Dad last summer for a month and she wouldn't talk to me for days.

Looks like that flywheel needs a good machining :eek: . PS, where do you get the energy to do all of this stuff? I get tired just reading your posts.

Going to look at another truck saturday. Southern, supposedly rust free. non running 96 4.0 5spd conversion with harness installed. 2wd and missing header panel, seat and fenders. The price is firm at $250. Maybe I can tell my wife I'm just storing it for someone :brows:

Hey Pete, check your paypal acct. Can't have you eating PB and honey the whole week! :D All the rest of you hounds who live here. Send the boss a couple of bucks for the trip :cheers:

Found the sticker for the 88 I used to have. It was $7114 base price with a final sticker of $8289. 2WD, 2.5 with a 4spd. Did have full guages though.

It is common for a dealer doll up department to spray the exposed frame and wheel well areas black to make the vehicle look better.

Definitly sounds like a ring issue. Redo the compression test but add a few squirts of oil to the number one cylinder through the spark plug hole. See if the compression jumps up to about what the others are. This would be a good indicator of rings.

Older looser motors will actually last longer than newer tighter design stuff. We did the old "kill the slant six" in HS. That thing ran forever with no coolant or oil until it siezed from heat expansion. Cooled down and fired up again.

I have rebuilt sooo many Dana axles I could do it in my sleep. I think that there was a combination of poor quality parts with a very poor and inconsistant set up from the factory. I have seen carriers in 30's, 35's and 44A's that would literally fall out when the caps were removed, to ones where it wouldn't come out with the spreader stretched to the max and using a 6 foot bar to pry with. Have also seen where there is RUST present beneath carrier and pinion bearings. Pretty sad statement on the American workforce that stuff like that happens.

Why is it hitting the floor?

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This is not my first rodeo... Just seeing if anyone had any tricks, I know how to change shift firmness on a TH trans with a drill bit, seeing if there is anything similar on the TF trannies I meant no insult there. You give no indication on your mechanical ability. You can mess with VB springs, accumulator springs, line pressure and gov pressure if you want to to improve shift firmness and make it a bit more snappy. Is this bolted up to a 2.8? If so, then there is little to be gained by messing with the trans.

I guess it depends on your level of mechanical ability, but you may want to find someone who has experience with auto's to help you with it. There are parts under spring pressure where you will need special compressors to safely remove and install snap rings. Various seals need special care to ensure that they are not damaged during installation and depending on mileage, you may have wear in bushings and planetary sets that need to be checked. The last thing you want to do is spend a couple of days on this and have the trans in worse shape than when you started. At the very least find a quality manual for doing an overhaul, not just some Chiltons guide.

If he is well enough to buy parts, then that is no excuse..........

I'm guessing it is originally Canadian so the 2.8 is 2.6 with the exchange :D .

Which case is it, a 231 or a 242? (Commandtrac vs selectrac). If it is a 242, often mismatched tires or even one tire low on air can make the fork bind when coming out of 4wd because of driveline loading. Did you look underneath to make sure everything is still hooked up with the linkage?

I am well aware of gowesty, they rebuilt the transmission on my dads 99 eurovan(POS, never want to deal with a eurovan again). gowesty is where we will get the new canvas for the pop top. I think a subaru engine is in our future as well. Knew a guy who put a 911 engine in an old style micro bus when I was in HS. One of my uncles also had an old micro with a corvair engine in it. He was going to give it to me when he moved, but I was in college and had no place to store it. No idea where it went when he died.

The bong or the van? :chillin:

Cost wise, you could piece together add a leafs, 3" coils, or some GC up country stock coils and 2" poly spacers, shocks and an alignment. You might find that your 31's will hit your stock LCA's at full lock, so you could add WJ lower arms (modified) or shim out your steering stops. The 3" lift will end up shifting your front axle a bit without an adjustable track bar but I don't think it is a deal breaker. I drove my 93 ZJ with 3 1/2 lift for 3 years with a stock track bar with no issues. I have seen some kits out there for 3" budget lift with just these components (not the WJ arms of course) for just a few hundred bucks. I guess it depends on how much of a hurry you are in.

:agree: Check this out. Was actually a fairly commom problem when I was working on the Renix stuff on a daily basis. I actually used to bring a bottle with water in it to cool off the coil/module assy to see if it would restart after it died.