Recent content by Jeepguy03

Last night I changed the calipers and front brake hoses. Bled the brakes and greased the slides. The brakes definitely feel a lot better. It is hard to tell if the pull is 100% gone mainly because there doesn't seem to be any straight roads where I live. It is definitely improved though. My...

Everything went together smoothly. I bled the brakes by having a family member press the pedal while cracking the valve and fluid came out fine. Should I try cracking it open to see if fluid drips out without pressure from the pedal applied? The hoses are only 2 years old and look fine...

2000 XJ - 174k miles Last night I changed the rotors and pads on the Jeep. They were working fine, but were grinding and near the end of their life. Upon inspection, the pad wear was even on both sides. 2 years ago, I had a pull to the driver side when heavy braking (down hill at higher...

I have the Cooper Discoverer AT3's. Great tire for the money. If you want to spend a bit more and have a need for something more aggressive you can't go wrong with the General AT2's or new BFG All-Terrain KO2's. My dad has the BFG KO2's on his WK2 Grand Cherokee and they are awesome in the...

Didn't you say he just changed it? Sounds like it had a pretty severe oil leak. I don't think a head gasket would leak out that much oil in a short period of time if there is nothing on the stick and he just changed it. You mentioned oil leaked into the engine bay... possible double gasket on...

Damn. Wonder if they switched suppliers to China.

Good to know you can still source the Mopar ones. I'll try to hunt some down.

I put 1" upcountry springs on my Jeep about 1 year ago from Quadratec. I used leaf spring bushings from Quadratec as well. This Jeep sees 99% pavement, with a little towing. After 1 year I started hearing a creak from the passenger side leaf spring. The bushings are already shot. Does...

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Make sure to buy a factory Mopar TPS sensor. The junk box store brand sensors last a year then fail. They are all made in China.

I've owned a 1990, and 2 2000 models. All three were 4.0 auto 4x4 with the same gear ratio. The 1990 and one of the 2000s had the NP242. They all felt very similar power-wise. I think the HO engines have the slight edge in top-end HP, but the renix engines have torque earlier on in the power...

Love the pic of the 88 XJ. My dad had an '87 Limited, same color. I learned to drive on it.

Nice! Yeah I'm curious how my friend's XJ will be with working rear brakes. It has never really had good brakes since he bought it. Mine stops like it has Brembos compared to his. :looney:

Yeah now that I know it is a potential problem I'll pay closer attention to that bracket.

Interesting. I read a thread on another forum about that cable bracket not seating correctly in the brake shoe causing the same problem. The cable fell off the bracket a few times when I was trying to install it, so it is very possible that the bracket wasn't seated correctly. Once my...