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02-28-2019, 04:59 PM

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00t444e

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Year: 1997

Model: Cherokee(XJ)

Engine: 4.0

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Originally Posted by Battle

Lol. You AW4 people have it nice. Both my rear Aussie and Spartan were borderline miserable on the street with an AX15. The only time they weren't was when I would say "screw it" and gave it a bootful of throttle. You can't be miserable when you're sideways.

I have a Spartans in my auto XJ and in the rear of my AX15 Dakota that I daily drive and it does fine on the street, I wouldn't want an open differential in the rear of a street driven vehicle.

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03-01-2019, 01:00 AM

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awg

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Year: 96

Model: Cherokee (XJ)

Engine: 4.0

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Originally Posted by Rlmx

Check the tag against a Mopar parts catalog.

Learned that the D44 in my XJ came out of an 87’ Cherokee.

got excited enough to get up off my lazy ***, and check..tag isnt with the housing or cover...parts in literally 10 boxes, cant remember if there is a tag

the PO said he was just started putting it back together, and his Mrs called him for dinner...12mths later...he sold his XJ and bought an earlier model

got to make some space in my workshop to do the job properly, its present workench is an abandoned shopping trolley, modded with an angle grinder

and build a case spreader, absolutely needed with ARB centre, got the stuff, just got to weld and drill, probably would have been better to buy one

this one was running under an XJ for 10yrs of hard wheeling, according to the PO, he stripped it down to replace Pinion Bearing