Recent content by ToubabouBob

I did the ZJ disc swap a couple of months ago on my 98 XJ and put these cables on. They fit fine and are good quality. http://www.jeep4x4center.com/rough-trail-disc-brake-cable-70-5-dbc-06.html http://www.jeep4x4center.com/rough-trail-disc-brake-cable-34-25-dbc-07.html

I appreciate the responses and the candor here. Maybe the next mod will be putting on rear discs.

Thanks for the responses and for wanting to help me get this right. I sure don't want my brakes to fail. I wrote a few minutes ago to a retired Chrysler mechanic and asked if he knew what kind of fittings my 98 mc would use and he replied "your brake lines should be metric at the...

Thanks for replying and expressing your concern. There are a few other things on this third-worldized Jeep that might scare people, too, but somehow it holds together. I was wondering, too, if the flares would line up and since the pedal is soft, I took it back in to the mechanic this...

Thanks for the kind regards. I tried to back away from the first two armed men 50 yards in front of me, but there were two others behind. One threw a machete at the Jeep and cut my forearm badly. The took money and cell phones and let us go. We got to one of our village churches where I...

Ivory Coast in West Africa. My XJ has a Toy 2.4liter diesel. We did the conversion in 2009 after the VM 2.5 gave up.

Well, I was going to wait a while until I could find a good used booster for an XJ or a better-looking WJ one than I found but a couple of things happened which made me see I need to get rid of the hard pedal now. Saturday I narrowly missed hitting two guys on a motorbike and Sunday i was...

Thanks for the quick reply. I'm not really a mechanic and brake lines are unfamiliar territory. Do I cut the flare end off the line, remove the XJ fitting, put on the WJ fitting, and then reflare the line? Is there a special tool to reflare it? I've got a shadetree (literal) mechanic here...

I've read your forum over the years but I think this is my first question here. The brake booster in my 98 XJ is shot. I live in West Africa (don't worry, you won't get Ebola from reading any further) and the junkyards in my area don't have anything for an XJ better than what I have. I can...