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If the cam and lifters are new (as in engine not yet run) then it doesn't matter as there is no wear pattern yet.

Well quit teasing me, how you do dat?

A friend of mines german shepard used to do this as well, but it was any vehicle with disc brakes. He actually popped a few tires. Possibly the meanest dog I ever met. Knew him for 6 years and I still wouldn't get out of the car unless someone came out of the house first. We always assumed that the dics brakes were emitting some sound frequency that he did not like.

Hey, what's that green stuff in the background??

While looking for a VC bolt for wolfpack I found these: (How come my pics are always just small linked images? I just paste the url in to the message. What gives?)

Well, I've never gone 70 in my truck. Not sure it would do that :D .

I ran a set of 31x10.5 off brand on my lifted ZJ for about 25,000 miles. They were Starfire A/T's made by Cooper I think. With my discount through the dealership I paid about 80.00 each for them. That was in 2001. I had always run name brand tires before that. Like them alot more than the GS/A's they replaced.

Looked like a nice set of Turbines on that 86 as well.

A little up and down in a Dana is fine. They are trying to screw you.

What they need to do is put the Libby Renegade front end on it.

A few months ago Daimler declared that their Chrysler stock had zero value and walked away.

Pete, I wish I could gift it to you. We have THREE of them. The 8.3 pictured, a 8.3 SRT10 truck engine and a new 8.4 with variable cam timing. I saw a picture someone took out in Detroit of a pile of Viper engines that were going in to the crusher after R&D work. Enough to make you cry.

I work for Chrysler too. They can't sell what they are already making. Nice idea, but I believe they call it pissing in the wind. :D

My 87 only has the 13.5 gal tank. As did my 88. Larger would be SWEET!!

Very cool

How is that frame? Every CJ around NY has severe frame rot because of the salt.

There is no "easy" way to effectively clean out a sludged up engine. All that crap you loosen up with seafoam, diesel fuel or tranny fluid will end up in the oil sump and oil filter. Once the filter is successfully plugged, it will go into bypass mode, and then all that crap will end up in the bearings. If it is running OK, leave it alone and just keep up on the oil changes, knowing that you should look for a different engine to swap in.

Everyone realizes I'm kidding about putting one of those in my truck, right? Hence the PUB posting. If I were to swap it would definitly be a 4.0L. No need for anything else. I would actually prefer to keep the 2.5 but convert it to multiport injection and get rid of the TBI. If I want to go fast I'll take a car from work or drive my Hornet. As for brands, c'mon. Anything can be made to go fast with the right amount of cash. Chevy's are cheaper to build than most. Each manufacturer has had stretches of time where they dominated the street with their stock offerings. The mid eighties Mustangs and the Buick huffers cleaned Chevy's clock. As for the AMC dig. Jeep used some Buick engines in the sixties/ early seventies, and that piece of crap Chevy Iron Duke in some CJ's, but other than that it was pretty much all AMC engines. But utilization of other manufactureres technology and parts is just another example of how the little car company was ahead of it's time. Show me a U.S. car that has even half of it's components designed and built in house. AMC's vehicle and system designs were much bolder than the staid big three. Unfortunately manufacturing technology wasn't able to effectively produce what the engineers wanted. Vehicles with large greenhouses, no drip rails, all wheel drive passenger cars, smaller SUV's, overdrive units etc etc. The list goes on and on. The way the economy is going, there may be another AMC, but it will be GM, Ford and Chrysler all rolled in to one.

Those VM pieces wouldn't make it any further than, oh, ME! Most of the engines we have are engineering pieces that were stressed pretty hard during testing or were found to have a defect of some sort. Or they have been apart so many times, often by hacks, that I would never trust them to put in a vehicle. Same with the axles. Except for a pure wheeling vehicle. I look around the shop and see all the engines, tranny's, t-cases and axles, I could put together one hell of a trail rig :D

Selec-trac is the 242. If it has warn hubs then someone did some sort of conversion on it, unless it is a FSJ Cherokee, then it wouldn't have the 2.5. :dunno: So, how much were you drinking? :D

? you asked for a suggestion on motor. A nice LSx platform would be a good place to start. I say Iron block 4.0in bore with a good set of heads, make it a 6.0 with a nice bottom end so you can put some boost in it. 600hp Comanche sounds nice. Didn't you know, bowties are for little boys :D

If they are black solid steel rods with almost 90 degree bends on one end, then they go to the left side steering column mounting stud. One goes from the column to the e-brake area, the other from the column to the firewall area near the fuse box. They really have nothing to do with the e-brake mechanism.

Bad gas will make it have no power. Take a sample. You didn't put in e-85 by mistake, did you?

I've seen better rattle can paint jobs

Sure. What in particular do you want pics of? I'm going to be teaching class on it in the next couple of months. Want any pics of it torn down? Those axles will probably end up getting cut in to pieces and scrapped. We also have a brand new VM on a stand. Never been apart. And a AMG SRT6 engine, with supercharger, from a Crossfire.