He's always clowning around.............

 

Thanks cruiser. Is the limiter piece the metal bar that retracts? I tried to spray it down with liquid wrench.

 

Yes.

It can be removed pretty easily. Gotta knock the roll pin out at the body side and then unbolt it from outside the door, and remove the limiter from inside the door.

 

And all that, with the door half open

 

Cruiser you right on the money again! I popped the pin out and noticed that one of the bolts/nuts is missing. Using a zip tie for the moment. I have a replacement door for a different issue.

 

I have the leather and didn't change the back seat. Its cloth. Really doesn't look bad because the colors match up.

You need to swap the XJ seat brackets to the WJ/ZJ seats then they bolt in.

 

Would a radiator from a 96 fit on a 99?

 

It should.

 

I need a new muffler because the Jeep sounds like everything past the manifold fell off. (Okay, I needed a new muffler a year ago when the Jeep only sounded like a motorboat.) I figured I'd do it myself but when I recently had my car aligned the mechanic said my muffler needed to be WELDED in place. That didn't sound right to me so I went under the Jeep and saw two U-bolts at either end of the muffler which looked simple enough to remove but then I saw weld marks further down the exhaust pipe.

Am I going to have to deal with any welding or just undo the U-blots, slip off the old muffler and replace?

Also, anything wrong with going with a low-cost muffler? Don't care about the exhaust note, just want to stop turning heads a 1/4 mile away...

If no welding is required and I can do it myself, any tricks to making the job easier?

Thanks in advance.

CJ

 

It is an absolute pain in the *** to try to remove clamped sections of exhaust. If you can get it off, sure clamp it. but welding the peices together is always the best option.
For example, when I had little mechanical experience, I took off all the exhaust from the cat back. It took a come along strapped to the rear bumper along with hooked to the old muffler to get it off, it was clamped previously. In all that, it bend my downpipe about 3" back the way I was pulling

 

Just clamp it.

Nothing wrong with a cheap-o

Anti-Seize all the things.

 

Found a powertrax locker for my d30 on Craigslist and may be buying it. Question, I'm on 3.55 gears now but will be going to 4.56 or 4.88 within the next month or two. With the new carrier can I still use the same locker?

 

Yes, 3.55:1 and up is the carrier break. It's only below that ratio that you need to be concerned (us guys with 3.07:1).

 

Howdy folks!

The little elbow on the front of the valve cover of my '88 XJ 4.0 is all jacked up, and had been glued in with gasket maker goo. I want to replace it but I can't find an appropriate part at Autozone... Since I have seen some other 4.0 Jeep motors with a tiny cone filter there instead of the hose from the airobox, I thought I might just do that because it is like 10 bucks and a bit of elbow grease, har har...

What are the downsides of doing this, if any?

I am aware of older motors having an oil blow-by issue, but the motor in mine had been rebuilt perhaps 20k ago and such blow-by shouldn't be a huge issue.... (hopefully)

Thanks for the insight you have!

 

Does anybody have any clue as to what would make the Jeep idle/lope like this?