XJCrawler96

Okay so. my XJ wont shift into 4lo from inside the cab, I can get under it and put in manually and it works fine. I ran into a guy the other day and he said that he got a "drop bracket" for the linkage to make it work? I have searched EVERYWHERE! including the rancho website and have found nothing... I found the NOVAK linkage but its a little pricey so I was wondering if anyone has any idea of the bracket he is talking about or if there is something else I could. My buddy and I cut his linkage in half and welded a spacer in it and it worked fine, but I would rather find a right way to do it rather than something like that.



thanks in advance

jbsjunk

They normally come with TJ body lift kits and some t-case drops. I have seen them for XJ's but can't find a link.

You could make your own, to put the pivot under the body mount instead of thru it.

clayton3854

would the tj kit work in an xj?

jbsjunk

I found a Skyjacker kit that is supposed to be for XJ, the pics give you an idea what's going on.
http://www.greatlakesxj.com/tech/SJ-TC8493.pdf

If you can find a TJ bracket, that will be fine, same design.

It would suck to buy a kit for one bracket.

XJCrawler96

thanks guys for the info! Also a friend of mine said you could cut a slit back in the floor so theres room for the shifter to move back. I don't know if it would but it sounds like it might

jbsjunk

Cutting the floor for shifter clearance makes zero sense. The shifter mounts to the floor and the working parts are under. What the drop does is move one end of the linkage down to even out the linkage after dropping the t-case.

I did find another way, this eliminates the body mount entirely and mounts to the t-case.
http://www.quadratec.com/products/12521_901.htm

Veeb0rg

Or you can get rid of that crappy stock linkage all together..

http://www.bsfab.net/?p=26

XJCrawler96

Yea it didnt make a lot of sense to me either, but sometimes things dont make sense to me but they actually work haha. but with that bracket you showed the link to, im guessing it will fit a cherokee even though it says it wont?

jbsjunk

Didn't see anything about not fitting a XJ but don't see why it wouldn't. Might be part of the floor gets in the way or the factory shift bracket that's welded to the floor.

XJCrawler96

Yea I know with my buddies wrangler all it was was the linkage was to short, I haven't gotten underneath mine and ACTUALLY looked at it to see but hopefully thats all thats wrong with our linkage