minerjeepguy
NAXJA Forum User
I know this sounds like a dumb question, but will a MJ hood fit on a XJ? The MJ I think is a 85 and the xj is a 95. They are 10 years apart but I am not sure if the body lines changed that much?
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MJ Hood on XJ
- Thread starter minerjeepguy
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old_man
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Loveland, Colorado
If I'm not mistaken, the 85 MJ hood is the same as an 85XJ. they are the same shape but the 85 has a single hood latch in the middle whereas the 87+ XJ's have the dual hood latches at the front corners to accomodate the longer 4.0L.
I never looked to see if you could retrofit the newer latches to the earlier hood, I had a newer donor sitting there, so why bother.
I never looked to see if you could retrofit the newer latches to the earlier hood, I had a newer donor sitting there, so why bother.
minerjeepguy
NAXJA Forum User
I'll have to check that when I head out to the junkyard again, thanks! btw the MJ does have a 4 banger.
- Location
- Terra Firma
Tom is essentially correct, except that I don't think the length of the 4.0L was the reason for the change. Don't recall where I read it, but what I recall is that the original design allowed the front corners of the hood to flutter at highway speeds, and the change to locating the primary latches at the outer corners was to prevent that.
old_man
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Loveland, Colorado
Eagle, it was probably for a couple of reasons, but the location of the radiator on the 4.0L, due to the longer engine put it right in the middle of the latching mechanism.
- Location
- Terra Firma
True, but the secondary latch is still there, and it has always appeared to me that there's enough space there for the old style primary latch as well.old_man said:
Dunno. The key point is that physically the new hood will fit the old chassis and vice versa, but the latching needs to be addressed.
minerjeepguy
NAXJA Forum User
Sweet, thats what I wanted to hear. B/C I want to do hood vents on my XJ but I don't want ot screw up my nice green hood quite yet. Plus, if I get the MJ hood I can paint it black to make the local ricers think I have a carbon fiber hood!
Matthew Currie
NAXJA Member #760
- Location
- Vermont, land of big clay
If you're doing a custom hood, you can always sidestep the latch issue by using those stock-car style pins instead, and really impress the ricers.
Darky
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- 29 Palms, CA
how hard is itm to do the pins anyways, I've thought that would be good especially if you could do longer pins and leave the hood unlatched with worrying bout it flying up. Seems it should be a cheap easy way to vent the hood w/o any cutting (except for the pins...)
