rockhardzj

Tell ya what, seeing how I can use money right now, Give me 1750, along with a plane ticket to go get your truck, We'll load up that HEMI you've got your eyes on, I'll bring it back, and swap it all for you, happily pissing my neighbor off even more, and You can get a HEMI powered MJ. Make sure to have cash avail for any misc parts that may be needed. Or set me up with $1000 bucks, warm dinner every night, and a place to stay, and we can do the swap there in Texas. :D

Pinion angle is I think 1-2* more/less (I gotta look it up) than what your driveshaft will be sitting at. Really, you can set everything up, bolt it all down, eyeball where the pinion is a hair out of directly straight with the driveshaft, and then tighten the axle ubolts so you don't loose the angle, and burn the perches on, and be set. If you want professional help with your options, call my buddy, Matt at United Four Wheel Drive during the 9-4pm EST time frame at (716) 759-7420. He will be more than happy to help you out, and has done over a thousand axles in his career for setting them up with custom suspensions (this includes pinion angles), as well as doing gear swaps.

If oakville is just past Toronto like I think it is, I'm right in Niagara falls, well ok, 3 mins south. I can get an 8.8 cheap for you, if you don't mind hopping the boarder. I'll get you a receipt and everything to try to minimize duty fees, if any. This would have disks, and I can probably find a disc booster as well. Hell, could probably play customs games and tell them you bought the axle from a buddy in Canada, and came to visit a buddy south of the boarder on the same trip, and might be able to get away duty free. By dropping the axle, if it's sprung under, it may be easier, but not completely necessary to drop the leafs as well. If your already sprung over out back (your not if your stock) then the leafs are best left attached. If you end up dropping the leafs, make certain they go back on the same way they came off, a simple sharpie with an arrow marking "front" will suffice, otherwise you'll be clueless when theres an extra 8 inches or so between the driveshaft and the axle. I had to laugh at a guy before when he did that, and didn't listen...

I have half that into just one! Ive seen them before, between about 2 months ago, and now, they did a pretty nice site redesign, wasn't bad before. I'm kind of thinking about going the custom bed route, and this would make for a wicked concept to go by... especially if it could double as a regular box as well!

Correction -- '89 was the transition year. I have an '89 2WD 4.0L MJ that has an AX-15 in it, and since the floor cutout is different from that in an '88 with the Peugeot, I'm 99.9 percent certain it's factory. why did everything seem to match between my 98xj and the 88mj? Well, besides utilizing a few new screw holes, the shifter panel fit right in with no hesitation.

I guess you shouldn't hang out near my mutt of a Comanche then... RE stuff, 98 xj stuff, 96 xj stuff, rustys's, some custom work, some 01 xj stuff, etc. :D

Tip:If you don't use a press, put the nut about3/4 back on. Get out BFH, and give her a few good smacks in the face, and see how she likes it. The gal will be looser than Paris Hilton by the 3rd hit. :D

Now your getting the clue. :cheers:

So let's see, to swap out the entire rear axle, with correct gears, there are 8 nuts to undo from the leaf ubolts, another 4 at the ujoint straps, and undoing brake lines.and the 5 lugs on each side to swap the wheels to the new axle. Doing gears requires ripping the entire axle apart, which is much more difficult in the truck, and more involved. Less room to work makes for a much more pissed off person working on it. I know from experience. When doing gears, you have to play with backlash, and pinion preload, and make sure the gears are making the correct contact so they don't wear out. It's time consuming. I can drop a leaf sprung axle in 15-20 minutes, roll it out of the way, put the new one under, and bolt it all up. If you need to set your pinion angle, your best bet is to set it, tack the perches in place, drop the axle to be more accessible, and burn the rest of the way on, reinstall axle, maybe about a day for a noob for a leaf sprung axle. I suggest new ubolts for the axle, as well as new ujoint straps and bolts. About $30 total, IIRC. Setting up gears, again, it takes time, and you have to be precise. It's easier outside the vehicle with more room to work, not cracking your head on stuff, and not as much nasty gear oil smell. also, when setting up outside the vehicle, your environment is more well lit, and its easier to check your work, because redoing gears sucks. Also, you have to either find a used, but great condition gearset, or buy new, and new will run about 150-175 for a D35 Then you will also want to buy a master ring and pinion install kit, and that runs about another $100 bucks, although, usually, you can resell this and get some cash back. I suggest the new axle route. As Pete said, a D35 can be had cheap to free, and cutting brackets off is about the most time consuming thing to do, if you can't find a MJ axle. An 8.8 is fairly cheap, maybe $250 at your local scrap yard. They are everywhere, and have tons of aftermarket support, and chances are likely, you'll find one in the gearing you'll need. Bonus is 96+ usually has discs if it came off an Exploder.

I couldn't agree more. Or you can modify the MJ to a 4 link setup... :D But that's a little more involved. 'tis the reason I'm going with a 8.25 in the rear. This is the easiest part. But if you pick up the discs, make sure to grab a booster/master cyl as well, the old booster/mc won't handle the bigger wheel cylinders as well, and braking will become worse with the upgrade without a matching disc booster/mc. I'm going with discs.

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=557715

I was going to ask something, but never mind. So how much for a .50 cal pen?

I like the cage design. It's ugly. It's gray. It's lifted. It's completely missing fender skins up front. And it appears to still be street legal. I like it!

I want one, I'll take it through airport security next time I go through... :D Man, the attention I would get... along with "OK sir, where is the weapon?"

I just so happen to have a D35 gear set for sale, and possibly a 30 set as well for 3.55's.

they left the insides bare metal?

Why fudge around with a shop? Get those hands dirty and do it yourself!

That explains it.

Brand new fenders should be primed and ready for paint. I don't know where they sell bare steel fenders. POR15 will only work on the bare metal, it's not something you apply over paint, you usually paint over the POR15.

I wouldn't say yes for all injectors. I got a 98 XJ for parts that I'm installing just about everything into my MJ with, and found out I have a crap 98 injector harness. I went out searching for a new injector harness, luckily a dude on Naxja had one for 20 bucks with the injectors, and I was heading his way that weekend. I didn't think I'd need the injectors, but I grabbed them anyways for the whole $20 for everything, and when I got home, I compared to see if I could just swap the harness in. Nope. The connectors are slightly different and I didnt feel like making a hybrid harness. I still have the old injectors and harness, but I figure I'm probably better off with the 01 stuff then the 98. It plugged right into the ECU, so it *SHOULD* work.

I never said their parts were bad, but in the 3 different times I've spoken with them for any Customer Service, The service continually became worse. When I'm talking to a lift kit company that can't count all 6 sides on a Jam nut, then they just lost any future service from me. I wouldn't say their products are as crappy as they once were, but their customer service is absolutely crap. I'd rather talk to one of those Indians at an overseas call center that you can't understand with all their broken english for my internet provider then do any more service with Rusty's.

It's held on by the upper and lower control arm bolts, along with the 2 bolts that hold the caster adjustment plates in. It's strong for all highway, and light offroad use, IMHO, but if your looking into much offroad, Then yes, then you should be looking at control arms. I would say they are more for show than anything. They are held in alot stronger than you think though, and it would take more then a 6" deep pot hole in the road to rip one out. They have been engineered quite well, if you ask me.

Looks pretty lethal to me. I want one!

3.142 Standard Jeeps. :D I count 22 slots, and a standard jeep would have 7...

OK, now the project has a name. I have made localized (to continents mainly) OMPL RSS XML files. The files are: zerohour_Africa.xml zerohour_Americas.xml zerohour_Asia_MiddleEast.xml zerohour_Australia_NewZealand.xml zerohour_Canada.xml zerohour_Europe.xml zerohour_UK_Ireland.xml zerohour_United%20States.xml What you will need: An RSS/News Feed Aggregater which supports uploading of an OMPL format XML file. (See below for confirmed readers) One, or more of the files listed above. A list of supporting RSS Feed Readers is as follows: Google Reader I will update the list as I find more, so hang on tight!