Hey guys hopefully you can help me on this one in tracing my issues wig my jeep back to the ecm it is a 1996 Cherokee country 4.0 automatic with federal emissions ( its not from California) I need an ecm but they are expensive I'm going to the junkyard today to pick one up... My question is... What year cherokees are compatible with my 96??

 

may have to look at partnumber on computer and need some sort of match, not sure which letters tho

 

any other 1996 cherokee with a 4.0 and an automatic. probably 91-96.

 

match the numbers on ecm

 

whats the difference? why wouldnt another ecu from the same (4.0, auto) work?

 

if its the same ecm will have same numbers ...no...

 

I looked online and the way they bunched them was 95- back and then 96-2001... But if I'm not mistaken they didn't make major changes to the emissions and whatnot of the l6 until 97 I don't see why they wouldn't be compatible

 

ive searched also i would at the least make sure its from a automatic

 

According to my book, 93-95 ECM had a single 60-pin connector,
96 started with the three 32-pin connectors. So pre-96 will not even hope to plug in.
'97 has some differences, especially the Torque Converter Lockup solenoid is different.
So I think you are stuck with only '96 being compatible with your '96.

 

97 didn't have that torque converter solenoid but I got a 98 off ebay for $100 and it worked fine in my 97. 96 is an oddball year and is probably only compatible with another 96