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The largest tire you can fit without cutting up the fender is a 31x10.5 on the stock 5.25" backspace rims. Without taller bump stops a tire at full jounce (compression) may rub the plastic fender lip liners, but not contact the metal fenders. . With a 30 year old XJ, it's expected that...

You need a vented cap or other method to expel the bubbles in the reservoir (drill and tap a nipple for a vent hose). The increased pressure in the system is expansion of the normal bubbles in the fluid as it heats up, causing the cavitation as the fluid drops pressure in the gear box...

You have been given good advice to fix the stock engine & mounts and suspension, to address the head and vibration concerns. With upgrades the vendors change, but the basics of what to change, and why, seldom change. Buy a service manual and get to know your XJ as you repair the current...

The lower back space will move the tire out to be closer to fender contact (typically not what you want off road, except possibly for a look that appears like a wider tire and track width). Stock rims are 15x7 rims with 5.25 inch backspace. A stock height 84-95 XJ will fit 31x10.5 tires on...

Testing the difficulty of posting my old web page help series as a series of posts on NAXJA. (Comments are welcome) A little help: Improving the XJ trail performance, #1 I notice a great deal of discussion regarding lifts and what is, and is not, a good lift. Most of what is stated is...

I am still out here, although not as active as I used to be. My son however will be pulling my 88 XJ out of it's desert hibernation over the summer and wants to make it his daily driver. He has been driving it and beating it off-road on desert trails accessed out of my parent's ranch for years...

If you want to rough it in the trailer with water and electricity hook ups for a few nights, or a few weeks if Lois likes you (until you get settled), this place is less than 20 miles from the airport. https://www.boondockerswelcome.com/hosts/1248/

The archived info is old (~2005), but still helps those starting out with budget lifts. https://web.archive.org/web/20050406151415/http://members.aol.com:80/Stvns/XJhelp1.html

That is the one. I am still in LB. I am seldom downtown LA. Practicing retirement takes up my free time. I still have an old number for you & will call.

Thank you. I have been lurking, and still have my 88 two door. Its been hiding in the desert, used for driver training and shuttling to and from the remote shooting range on dirt trails. My son is 15, and is preparing it for street use. New bushings, brakes, a lot of cleaning, and fixing the...

R12 system. I have spare R12 and R134a, either works. I converted the system to use R134a years ago. R134a works almost as well, but the POE oil can absorb more moisture and cause other issues. I have enough R12 to run mineral oil and cool for another decade. The front (head) gasket on my...

Been awhile, and working on my '88. I need an AC Compressor and liquid receiver. Spare or whatever. In Long Beach. I can pick up as needed.

I was years into the XJ experience by 2003, so the years all run together... One of these Guy's is still fairly active in NAXJA (photo from a much earlier XJ trip than Sequoia's). In 2003 I owned two XJ's and was driving both in the desert, Big Bear, Baja Mexico, and hanging around NAXJA's...

BRC's page... if you have time to read & make a call a day, as the resolution is only likely to benefit OHV Recreation with political pressure and Congressional support. It's an election year for Senator Feinstein. A call a day to her office, to ask for her support and to remind her Staff of...

If you plan to build a fully manual shift method, Search helps... http://naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=3301 Good luck, my electric 1/2 hold switch still works.

Are you sure it was not 66.5cc's? All of the 4.0L heads start with nominal 66 cc chambers.

Before you spend $$$$ and not know where you are going with the build, buy Performance Trends EA3.4 (or the older EA3.2) to model and research the relative output gained from the various combination of parts you are thinking about. If you are not familiar with SCR, DCR, overlap, BSFC, valve...

The center of the thermostatic spring fits into a stud with a slot that is part of the fan clutch. The spring twists this stud as the air temperature gets warm, advancing the lockup of the fan clutch. These are typically set for ~200 dF from the manufacturer. The adjustment is to pull the...

In any research there you find trends, and the current deficit trend, the trend since a Democrat controller Congress in 2006 has been to the negative. Unfortunately the deficit trend was not great before 2006, but it has seriously degraded since 2008. Politicians, "they all do it," they all...

http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/669/8956/Motorcycle-Article/Federal-Defendant-Rule-Tossed-in-OHV-Case.aspx Federal Defendant Rule Tossed in OHV Case Courtesy of the Motorcycle Industry Council Monday, January 17, 2011 With the Federal Defendant rule overturned, groups like the MIC and SVIA will...