Recent content by lordoeuf

Evan03, thanks for your reply. I have 5.5" lift and 33" tyres with the stock steering (no high steer). Front suspension mods as follows: 1. Rubicon Express 4.5" front coil springs 2. JKS adjustable coil over spacers (ACOS) set at ~1" lift 3. JKS swaybar quick disconnects, cut and welded to...

I removed the FOX 2.0 stabiliser and drove the Jeep for a day without any damper. The stiffness in the steering disappeared immediately. It ran pretty darn good - perhaps a smidge more jerky when going thru a deep pothole, but not bad at all. However, as I already had another $30 Monroe...

Any idea of the OME is softer than a Monroe? The Monroe is half the price of the OME on Amazon Canada.

Anyone have a Bilstein part number that will fit an XJ with stock drag link? I saw a comment on another forum about part 24-174534, but looking at the collapsed length, I feel it doesn't collapse enough. Needs 1/2" more. The FOX IFS completely collapses to reach full right turn, and its CL is...

About a week ago I ditched my old Monroe $20 steering stabilizer for a Fox Racing 2.0 Performance Series Smooth Body IFP Stabilizer, part no. 985-24-072. I immediately noticed the steering was a bit stiffer, but not necessarily in a good way. Is this normal? Are these things pressurised...

About a week ago I put on some Bilstein B8 5100 front/rear for 5-6" lift. Front: 24-185943 (collapsed 17", extended 28.44") Rear: 33-151663 (collapsed 15.9", extended 25.93"). I have a '99 XJ with 5.5" lift and 33x12.50 BFG KO (original) tyres. I immediately noticed that the ride around...

I had written to PowerTrax about this a few days ago and finally received a reply.

THANK YOU!!! Saved me time and hassle. Back when I went to install the locker last summer, the carrier was so jammed in there that no amount of prying would get it out. I tried some elaborate setups but they all failed. Well something outside the box worked, but I am too embarrassed to tell...

It is not the ring/pinion backlash. I noted earlier that I can feel the ring/pinion backlash, which if I were to put it in terms of a 360 deg. rotation would be much less than 1/360 of a turn. axel spreader - I'm not pulling the cover to find an issue, just to put the cover back on and add more...

Looking head on to the pinion yoke, rotate the yoke fully clockwise until it stops. Now rotate the yoke fully counter-clockwise until it stops. That range of motion is half of a 90 degree turn, so 45 degrees out of 360 degrees total is how much free play there is. I remember the carrier is in...

That was the feeling I had as well. Anyone else with one of these lunchbox lockers who can comment on how much play there is in their front shaft while in 2WD? I don't want to pull it all apart only to find that there is nothing wrong.

I removed the front shaft. I can turn the pinion yoke about 1/8 of a turn before my hand can't turn it anymore. It is like there is this range of free spool. The 1/8 turn is not a ring/pinion backlash issue - I can hear that early on, just a soft thud when the pinion/ring gear engage, but then...

I was under the Jeep today and with the vehicle in neutral, I noticed that I can turn the front drive shaft about an 1/8 turn before I can feel front ring/pinion gears engaging. I have 4.10 gears with a PowerTrax No-Slip front locker. Is this normal, and if not, what could be causing so much...

When using the OBD-II meter, I don't see any codes stored. I've never seen any codes stored for the intermittent flashes of Check Engine and Check Gauges. Should there be? So does the Check Gauges issue a code so I can use it a trigger to start recording data on my meter? If not, I need to...

Does the Check Gauges light on a 1999 Jeep Cherokee sport issues OBD-II codes, or just the Check Engine Light? My wife says she was driving the kids to school in the Jeep yesterday and the Check Gauges light turned on and all the dash gauges went to zero, then back up, then to zero, etc...