Recent content by kooters94yj

Just got home from the Badlands. Had a great time. The weather couldn't have been better. No rain until after we were on the road home too. Took my rockcrawler scorpion out in the quarry and was quite impressed with what it would do. Nice to meet you XJ4Life.

How about splicing into the sender wires on the t-stat housing? Could I do that instead of trying to get this broken piece out of the back of the head? Is there another suitable location to put the sender for the gauge?

If you dont have the disconnect, your seals should be on the tubes where they meet the diff. Heres a great write up on how to replace. http://www.stu-offroad.com/axle/d30seals/seal-1.htm

A group of Jeepers from Midwestjeepthing will be up there all weekend. We'll be camping at Carrol Summers. We should be pulling in late thursday night and wheeling Fri and Sat and maybe a few hours on sunday morning before heading back to MO. If any of you all are camping at Carrol Summers...

Luckily or unluckily depending on how you look at it, the sensor base that is still in the block is made of brass so its pretty soft. I doubt an easy will break in brass but I guess its possible. Thanks for the tip on a reverse drill bit. I might have to give that a shot.

Its been my experience that you should replace both the master and slave at the same time. Especially if you have an external slave. If you get them at the same time usually they will come with fluid in them and you won't have to worry about bleeding. It shouldn't take you more than 10 mins...

On a disconnect D30 you have two seals to prevent water or mud or any other foreign matter from getting into the diff. One seal will be where the diff meets the tube on the drivers side. The other will be just outside of the disconnect. Both are not the easiest to replace but can be done. I...

I did a search a found a few related threads but nothing that really addressed my specific problems. I'll start by saying I have a 96 XJ 2wd 2.5L that is my DD. I was at the junkyard today and found a new gauge cluster to replace the crappy one I have. Swapping out the clusters went very...