From owner-xj-digest-at-digest.net Tue Aug 2 14:11:36 2005 From: xj-digest xj-digest Tuesday, August 2 2005 Volume 01 : Number 2143 Forum for Discussion of XJ cherokees and wagoneers Brian Colucci Digest Coordinator Contents: xj: Japanese 4x4s Re: xj: For sale 94 sport (h.o.) Re: xj: terrible time (the real one) plust a question XJ Digest Home Page: http://www.digest.net/jeep/xj/ Send submissions to xj-digest-at-digest.net Send administrative requests to xj-digest-request-at-digest.net To unsubscribe, include the word unsubscribe by itself in the body of the message, unless you are sending the request from a different address than the one that appears on the list. Include the word help in a message to xj-digest-request to get a list of other majordomo commands. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 12:18:37 -0700 (PDT) From: john Subject: xj: Japanese 4x4s I'm hoping to get over to the Off-Road Center, it's supposed to be 30 minutes from Shinjuku... looks like Friday if I can get the servers packed up Thursday night. :) john On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Nick Eckert wrote: >-->John, >--> >--> You could look at putting it into a real off-roader ;-) I know >-->of several people who have put the engines into older Land Rovers. >--> >--> I lived in Japan for several years, you have to get out of the >-->sprawling megapolis of Tokyo to see the real fun vehicles. Mitsubishi >-->makes a road legal vehicle that is a spitting image of a 1940's era >-->Willy's. No plastic whatsoever, gauges in the center, all steel. With a >-->nice turbo diesel engine. I have magazine articles about all in >-->Japanese, of course. >--> >-->Cheers, >--> >-->Nick >-->+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >-->You wrote: >--> >--> >-->Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:14:51 -0700 (PDT) >-->From: john >-->Subject: [db] rescue this 240D... before it becomes a 620D... :) >--> >-->location - Seattle... >--> >-->http://JohnMeister.com/DieselBenz/CARS/1980-240D/ >--> >-->I'll probably fix the transmission... the insanity of putting >-->this on the Jimmy chassis has little support from my trusted >-->consultants. :) >--> ---- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** http://JohnMeister.com **** http://wagoneers.com ** Snohomish, Washington USA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold ** http://freegift.net *** http://greatcom.org/laws/languages.html ** - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 23:26:49 -0700 From: "Jim Blair" Subject: Re: xj: For sale 94 sport (h.o.) A: I have a buildable bottom end for $25 (In S Seattle) From: "C.D. \(Dale\) Watkins" Subject: xj: For sale 94 sport (h.o.) I have got a 94 xj, with 157,000 miles on it. It's the 4.0 H.O. (sport). We are presuming that the motor is dead, but it is possible that it is not. Anyway, we are selling it. It is red, 4 door, cloth interior, the thing is in excellent shape, other than the motor and the front end got banged up when it was parked Anyway, my buddy was driving it up here from Kansas about a year and a half ago, and he said that the motor started making some weird noise. Wasn't sure if it was knocking, pinging, or an exhaust leak for that matter. But he pulled it over, put it on a trailer and towed it up here, put it in his yard, and there it has sat for the last year and a half. He had to move, so towed it here to my house, and told me to sell it. So, here it is, I am selling it. I was going to try to start it up and see what was wrong with it, so I jumped it, and the battery was so dead that it would barely even click. So I pulled it out, and that is as far as I have gotten with it. He wants 750 bucks for it, just come and get it out of the front of my house. Let me know if anyone is interested, will post pics if you want. Dale ninjaplumber-at-msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 13:02:42 -0400 From: "Jesse Barbieri" Subject: Re: xj: terrible time (the real one) plust a question Good news! My terrible time turned into a real terrible time, and then into a great time! It all started when my sister came over here, and we looked at the jeep for a while. We tried and eventually succeeded at removing the four bolts out of the old rear yoke. Too bad the old yoke did not work when I realized again that one of the u-joint cap ears has broken off. So, I took my new U-bolt style yoke and tapped it onto the pinion and then used the nut to push it down further. Awesome, it went on! The last time I really used the '87, the rear driveshaft fell out and broke. So I went to the junk yard and got a new one. The new one is longer, but new I find that is a good thing. The old driveshaft had about 2.5" of yoke sticking out of the transfer case. This new driveshaft is long enough to have almost .5" of yoke sticking out of the transfer case. I noticed there are zero rear end vibrations now. I used to think that there weren't any before with my old driveshaft, but wow what a difference. Now my question is why is that driveshaft longer? It came out of an xj, pretty sure it was an '88. I even kept the slipyoke on the old drieshaft. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "john" To: Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 12:38 AM Subject: Re: xj: terrible time (the real one) > On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Jesse Barbieri wrote: > > >-->Sorry about that. My keyboard is really messing up these days. > > I'll tell ya what, I thought I had messed up my server again... :) > trying to figure out how it would cut off part of the email... :) > > john > > >--> > >-->I am having a terrible time here with my '87 xj. I have tried a couple pinion > >-->yokes on my rear dana44, and nothing has worked. I even purchased this item: > >--> > >-->http://www.discountjeepparts.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/23 901 > >--> > >-->Brian, the Sales - Tech of Off-Road MotorSports, Inc., told me it would work > >-->since it is 26 spline. > >--> > >-->This yoke goes on about .5" and stops. My original yoke goes on, but one of > >-->the tabs is broken and three bolts are broken inside it. Even if I drilled > >-->the yoke I still would not trust not having the tab to center the ujoint. Can > >-->anybody help me find a ubolt yoke that will definitely fit my axle? It is a > >-->26 spline dana44 from my '87 4.0 4wd xj. I have no cars that work (and on the > >-->road) right now. The water pump in the ix just seized. > >--> > >-->Jesse. > >--> > > ---- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ** http://JohnMeister.com **** http://wagoneers.com ** > Snohomish, Washington USA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold > ** http://freegift.net *** http://greatcom.org/laws/languages.html ** > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of xj-digest V1 #2143 *************************