Yep and yep. They look much better without it anyway.

 

That and they can cause rust

 

Thanks guys they will be coming off this weekend

 

Up to you. I like the look with them on, some don't like the look at all. The door moldings don't do much for rust, but the rear bumper caps trap a LOT of crud against the lower quarter panel.

 

I'll have to take those off as well then. What about the front ones? Do they hold crap to?

 

Will an EverStart Maxx 24F battery fit in an XJ?

 

Yeah I would probably need a timer of some sort to do that because I would imagine the controller being on all the time would kill your battery, I could be wrong though, I do plan to install hood louvers though

 

Hey guys i'm not much of a newbie been apart of the forum for a few years i had to make a new profile due to my email being retarded. But any ways I'm going buy me another XJ next weekend the seller is telling me that the trans over heated on him one time. He said he changed his trans fluid and filter and it never did it again. My concern is i'm driving it about 3 and half hours back home from its main location and i don't want it to over heat on me or even worse blow out out on me on the way home since its a 3 hour drive and its happen before. My question is how hard is it to install a Aftermarket Trans Cooler??

 

It took me 30mins to install mine not including pulling the grill and headlight bezels out. I cut the rubber lines coming off the aftermarket cooler the length I needed, removed the factory hookups from the radiator, pushed the hose over the stock trans lines, installed a hose clamp on each one, filled the cooler with fluid, hooked the hoses to it then mounted the cooler. Easy peasy.

 

I put mine in line with the factory cooler.

I cut the top line, cleaned up the ends and slid the hose over the ends of both sides of the OEM line and added hose clamps. Done.

 

Okay so its something that i can do after i buy it before i head out, Don't want to sound like a noob iv worked on countless cars i just haven't done before on the Xj so i don't want to run into something and be stuck or screw it up. Also where is a good place to get a good Trans cooler?

 

Okay you kinda lost me for a sec, So you have two trans coolers?

 

Welcome back! I put a aux trans cooler on my xj I put it in front of the condensor I used zip ties to mount it to the center brace behind the grille. Its fed by the pressure line that normally goes to the radiator and the output of the aux cooler goes to the input of the radiator I think I left the factory lines on the radiator and spliced the aux cooler in line adding hose as needed it wasnt too bad but I removed the grille to install it, I can't tell a difference since I added it but I have no way of measuring the transmission temperature. I have pulled a trailer all day one Saturday hauling displays for a pawn shop and it did great

 

Trans fluid runs through the radiator, intertwined with coolant. There is an inlet and outlet for each fluid on the rad. In most cases, adding the auxiliary trans cooler in line with the radiator is recommended for added cooling.

 

Okay guys thanks for the advice ill do all that, hopefully it will make the trip.