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SLS-234 ended up being it, THANKS ALPHA

Can anyone help tracking down the white switch above? I need a plunger style switch with the wiring for a brake light. I've found a bunch of plunger style brake light switches, but they all have a way smaller diameter than the cruise control vacuum switch. All of the jeep part numbers I have...

I've found a little more info, if you dig around the dodge stuff, it will list it as "5 1/2 spread fork", meaning it is the larger version, but I haven't found what the smaller sized part numbers are to compare.

I've got a question about upgrading the range hub and sleeve of the np231 in my XJ. I've already got a wide chain and 6 pinion planetary, its going behind a turbo stroker, nothing too crazy, and swapping the Tcase isn't an option, so I'm looking to make the 231 as strong as possible, the 231...

I'm getting custom axles made for an 8.25". I know there are companies that make alloy shafts, but I need a different flange on the axle, and after a dozen phone calls to different companies, they all either said "No" or "Call Dutchman", and I can't get the stockers redrilled because the flange...

maybe I'm reading it wrong, but it seems like no one here has found a tupy head from before nov 01', and all the 2003's I've heard of had the tupy head, not sure of the month the production changed, but it was probably late summer/fall of 2002 at the latest, and I think april of 2002 for a...

okay, I found a 2002 built in october of 2001 with the bad head, so I think the changeover occured somewhere between october 2001 and april 2002. I had a theory that maybe the tupy head was started when they changed to the akebono brakes, the jeep I was pulling stuff off of today had the brakes...

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No, that thread doesn't answer my question at all, in fact I came here to ask it specifically because that thread doesn't. I'm not trying to be rude, but if you haven't actually read the thread, or if you read it but you don't understand it, don't link to it. Its misleading to people, and...

could you check the build date on the door tag? I'm trying to figure out what the cutoff is for the date they start using the TUPY heads, so far I've confirmed Dec-02 used them, not sure how much earlier into 2002 it might go though. Thanks

I would highly recommend the akebono caliper, even though some have said the teves has a tighter profile, the akebono was released partly because of so many problems with the teves, I have heard of a very few that got by okay with the teves, but there is a near universal consensus that the...

Before I reply on the insult issue, you really shouldn't be taking measurements like these with a tape measure and getting "1/4" it should be something your getting in thousandths which is how the bearings needed to be measured too, anyways, how on earth could you "account" for a 1/4...

Re: WJ Knuckle Swap... The CORRECT way! You would think that, but they were all CV axles after 99, you have to remember at the same time they were downgrading to low pinon d30s in the xj. Honestly, for a street driven, pavement bound WJ, if I had to pick between them as a manufacturer, a CV...

Re: WJ Knuckle Swap... The CORRECT way! I wouldn't have put it so strongly, but this thread keeps coming up, and the title is completely misleading. I love wrenching as much as anybody, but people forget that a car is thousands of pounds of metal and when steering and suspension breaks it can...

Re: WJ Knuckle Swap... The CORRECT way! FYI the spacer is not NOT for your brakes, you could just shim your caliper shackles and be fine. Think about it, most brakes are held by slide pins, so adding a set of spacers into the mix isn't as critical, the slide pins will bend off before the...