stephenspann27
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- College Station, Tx
After owning my '87 D44 AW4 NP231 4.0 for a year, I finally have it road worthy, it has brand new paint, perfectly straight body, and I've rebuilt the engine, save the pistons and rings. Since then I've logged about 600 miles, and much to my surprise I'm getting 20mpg. It runs awesome.. other than erratic idle.. which I haven't made much effort to track down yet.
I had planned on taking the 3'' (or so) lift off my parts jeep, and transferring it to my '87. Its a real lift.. no blocks or spacers. However.. now that I see I can get 20mpg.. I'm planning on making my XJ my DD. Because I don't want to risk hurting the mileage I don't want to go up on tire size much. I may stick with 235's.. and certainly not bigger than 30'' tires. So if I'm not going to run tires big enough to warrant a lift? Why install it? I know its probably slight.. but a lift could also hurt the MPG.. and also create complications with alignment.. death wobble ect. I realize all of these problems can be over come.. with adjustable track bars.. maybe make up the MPG with a gear ratio change.. but that's a lot of time and money..
I'm think about just installing lockers front and rear (or LSD in the rear) and some midly aggressive AT tires that are not too loud..
thoughts?
I had planned on taking the 3'' (or so) lift off my parts jeep, and transferring it to my '87. Its a real lift.. no blocks or spacers. However.. now that I see I can get 20mpg.. I'm planning on making my XJ my DD. Because I don't want to risk hurting the mileage I don't want to go up on tire size much. I may stick with 235's.. and certainly not bigger than 30'' tires. So if I'm not going to run tires big enough to warrant a lift? Why install it? I know its probably slight.. but a lift could also hurt the MPG.. and also create complications with alignment.. death wobble ect. I realize all of these problems can be over come.. with adjustable track bars.. maybe make up the MPG with a gear ratio change.. but that's a lot of time and money..
I'm think about just installing lockers front and rear (or LSD in the rear) and some midly aggressive AT tires that are not too loud..
thoughts?