MJ foot brake in an XJ? (parking brake)

JeepFreak21

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Cameron Park, CA

• Jun 29, 2014

• #1

Has anybody put a pedal-operated parking brake assembly in their XJ? I see that Comanches used the pedal style setup... Did Cherokees ever come with it. How hard would it be to adapt the MJ setup to an XJ? Would there be a better donor? Finally, does anybody know if the MJ setup is the "push-again-to-release" or if it has one of those little pull handles like the hood release?
TIA!
Billy

 

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TheDude30425

NAXJA Forum User

Location

pittsburgh

• Jun 29, 2014

• #2

The MJ has a pull handle to release the brake.

 

JeepFreak21

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Location

Cameron Park, CA

• Jun 29, 2014

• #3

Re: Re: MJ foot brake in an XJ? (parking brake)

TheDude30425 said:

The MJ has a pull handle to release the brake.

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Thanks Dude. After reading that VERY few XJs came with foot brakes (those with bench seats), and that MJ brakes tend to wear out, I ended up ordering a brand new CJ/YJ foot brake assembly from fleaBay for $40. I'll just have to make it work.

Since I didn't find much of anything on the topic, I'll report back with my results. Oh, and if anybody has any input in the meantime, I would love to hear it.

Billy

 

Lurch

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Long Beach, CA

• Jun 29, 2014

• #4

Its been done, I saw a write up on here one time but I was not able to find it this morning.

 

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TheDude30425

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Location

pittsburgh

• Jun 29, 2014

• #5

The XJs that came with the foot Pedal were probably the police packaged ones.

 

NCCherokee

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Anderson, SC

• Jun 30, 2014

• #6

There was a guy who swapped an MJ bench seat into his XJ so he could carry his family of 6. Did the MJ foot brake thing. It was on naxja

 

GordoSmasho

Nevada Raisins

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Location

Virginia City, NV

• Jun 30, 2014

• #7

http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1093360

Foot brake mod in post #4

 

JeepFreak21

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Cameron Park, CA

• Jun 30, 2014

• #8

Awesome guys! Thanks for the help thus far...
Billy

 

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Alexia

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Huntsville, AL

• Jul 1, 2014

• #9

Note that if you want to swap it in on 1997-2001 and have it mounted in the relative stock position it will require a minor bit of grinding on steering column brace.

 

JeepFreak21

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Cameron Park, CA

• Jul 4, 2014

• #10

So, does anyone know if the XJs that had the foot brake or the MJs had a different fuse panel? If not, I'm guessing they mount a little different than this YJ one I got because it looks like it would be a pretty simple swap IF the fuse panel and wire harness weren't right in the way =/
Thanks,
Billy

 

Johnnie Walker

Piece of Fish!

NAXJA Member

Location

WA state

• Jul 4, 2014

• #11

When I get a chance to work on my MJ. I'll take a look, and get a couple pics. I would guess the panel is the same, just slightly different location maybe?