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I *totally* understand your situation... I was in the same boat recently. Good news is that I was able to get the bolt out but it took lots of time. Background: The previous owner had snapped the engine mount bolts and claimed to have fixed it. After reading a few articles about this I...

I bought a rough runner and it turned out to be a leaky intake valve. So x2 on pulling the spark plugs and at least doing a compression check.

I've read all the posts I can find and they all show pictures of a different connector than I have. http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/LV7KKdbNxOpityAazPhT7w?authkey=Gv1sRgCLrT19HJpbmktgE&feat=directlink I'm not sure of the orientation so I don't know which are pins A, B, and C, but the...

http://shop.oreillyauto.com/ProductDetail.aspx?MfrCode=BOR&MfrPartNumber=CSS716&PartType=762&PTSet=A They also have a few others by different manufacturers. The above is for my 97.

For the rear driveshaft you'll want to clean up the splines in the slip yoke and re-grease the whole thing. Not really any money for that, just time and a little bit of grease. For the front driveshaft you'll want to inspect the centering yoke like was already mentioned and replace it if it's...

The power steering pump has an integrated reservoir, so I think it's as simple as pulling two hoses (if my memory serves me right). Pulling the radiator makes things much easier. Biggest advice is to take it slow. After you have everything disconnected and the cherry picker hooked up, go...

This is just another perspective... Let's say your wife is in charge of all household expenditures (of which you are the source of revenue). She decides what percentage goes towards food, beer, utilities, gardeners, rent, health insurance, just about everything. You still pay things like car...

There should be zero wobble. And x3 what the other guys said :)

I was in the same position a few years back with a fully equipped donor vehicle that had a small problem - it had been rolled by the po ;) I used the vehicle as a learning experience and stripped it down to the unibody - every nut and bolt. I threw away the interior which was trashed and sold...

- Around 96ish I believe the internal ribbing on the engine was improved to make it more rigid - 99 got an improved intake manifold to improve performance, but also more emissions which took back some of that performance - 99 or 2000 got the coil packs - some bad castings for the heads, as...

I'm pretty sure my front tire rubs the sway bar at full lock, so you may want to double check your clearance before trying to build/find a wider one.

I'm posting this simply to add to all the answers already posted here. A few weeks back I rebuilt the front end of my 97 XJ: all new tie-rod ends, new unit bearings, turned the rotors, new brake pads, new u-joints in the half-shafts. I set the alignment to about 1/16" toe-in and everything ran...

Here's a trackback to another thread on the same: http://naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=983028 I'm posting this mostly in response to the parts guy who said to lube the bolt. From what I remember all the bolts (except the one with RTV) are supposed to go in dry - otherwise the torque...

I believe you should be able to disconnect your battery while the car is running as the alternator will be able to supply enough electricity to power everything - so the Kragen guy might actually know his stuff :) I like the idea of the check light above, except I'd use the negative terminal...

I'm pretty sure I've seen other posts on this so perhaps another search might help you. In theory it's pretty straight-forward: remove the ABS pump (or simply ignore it) and plumb the lines straight through. Starting from the brakes the pressure lines go to a proportioning valve, and then...

x2 on the Reid knuckles. I have the warn 5x5.5 on my TJ running 33's and lockers through the Rubicon, Fordyce, etc with no problems. But if I was to do it again I'd get the Reid knuckles and then hit a pick-n-pull for the rest of the dana 44 parts for cheap. Cool part about the Reids is that...

Offset ball joints. Its a good question that a lot of people don't think there's an answer to.

To determine if the wheel bearing is going out, you may have to really pull on the wheel (12 o-clock and 6 oclock hand positions) and check for a very small amount of play - sometimes it's not that obvious. I'm starting to get what sounds like wheel bearing noise in mine, and there's almost no...

I have a 97 and recently I've locked up the tires twice and there is no pulsing. The engine compartment does have the ABS unit with all the brake lines plumbed through it. I looked in the engine compartment fuse box, and the relay in the "ABS/Lights" position is missing. Is there supposed to...

Related question... how do fuel pumps die? slowly, all at once, etc? I have a 97 with 150K and sometimes when I'm accelerating the engine bogs. If I stay on the gas the engine continues to bog, but if I let off the gas and then press the pedal a few seconds later I have the "normal" really...