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I have a 1997 Sport and to make a long satory short I blew the head gasket at high speed on an expressway and melted a piston by the time I got off the highway. Or, in other words, I trashed the engine. But with help from a friend I scored a 100k engine from a local pull and pay junkyard for...

OK I did a search and came up blank. I am finishing my ghetto repower and I am down to installing the radiator. But something is either missing or broken at the drain plug. This is on a 97. The plastic drain plug looks OK but there is no way to close it. I went through my parts twice and know I...

I have never done an engine swap with an automatic transmission. Ever. I am a manual transmission guy. But this is my wife's old Cherokee getting the new engine. So I don't know whether it is better to install the engine with the torque converter bolted to the flexplate or with the torque...

My 97 4.0 had a head gasket go at 80mph and melted the no. 2 piston by the time I got off the expressway. It obviously overheated pretty badly. So I am almost done with a low buck motor swap using a donor 4.0 from 100k mile wrecked 97 GC. I just slapped on a new water pump, oil pump, rear main...

This one really has me confused. It is a 97 Sport with 115k miles and has started to cut out and backfire through the throttle body between 1500 and 2000 rpms. Then it throws codes 132, 135 and 138. But the strange thing (to me at least) is that once it throws the codes and the check engine...

While trying to track down the erratic sensor or electrical problem giving my '97 XJ fits, I found another potential source of trouble. The wiring harness that runs through the plastic tray across the intake manifold had chafed through the plastic tape and was working on the wires at both ends...