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my engine is stuck

Old Jul 12, 2009 | 09:48 AM
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Year: 1992
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im workin on my 92 cherokee puttin in my rebuild motor and im down to the last to bolts. i did a serch and found out that the are internal torx and e12 but i still cant reach them. im thinkin about lowering the tranny a little to get there if i take the crossmember loose can i just lower it a few inches with out having to take anything else loose. i dont wanna hurt the shift linkage or anything.
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Old Jul 12, 2009 | 10:50 AM
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yes you can lower it some
the 4wd linkage will star to bind at some point just go slow with it
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Old Jul 12, 2009 | 12:20 PM
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Here is what I did..I put a floow jack under the crossmember where it bolts to the tranny mount..unbolted the corssmember from the side rails and slowly lowered it to it tilted and then used a ton of extensions until I could reach it and had a buddy help guide me in. Fromt there it was simple.
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Old Jul 12, 2009 | 05:02 PM
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yea thats excatally what i did it work fairly well thanks
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