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I'm selling my 1987 Cherokee. It ain't what you'd call purty, but it's cool, solid and reliable. It has 215K miles on the 4.0 motor, which shows good, even compression, and the AW4 is working well. It's located in Lake Elizabeth, about 20 miles west of Palmdale or 20 miles north of Santa...

So yesterday afternoon we went out for a couple hours of this: Followed by a protracted period of this: It was really fun. Afterward we went to the store, and the Jeep sat in the parking lot for half an hour or so. Now the AW4 won't shift itself out of first. TPS checks out good, is...

My girlfriend got me a Lincoln Power Mig 180C for Xmas in all its 230v, constant voltage goodness. This is the same girl who in 4 years has never once complained about my buying tools, parts or indeed dragging home a ridiculous amount of wheeled projects of nearly infinite variety. The same...

In addition to the problems I've found help with here since I bought my XJ last year, I apparently have been learning an awful lot just from reading other people's posts. Although I am far from an expert, I was pleased the other day with my current level of knowledge. A nice looking red XJ on...

On my '87 beater, a couple of the places on the fusebox where fuses plug in are FUBAR, like someone squashed and destroyed the little brass connectors in there. We're talking the heater blower and the rear window wiper here. The rest of the fusebox is still good, and the Jeep's an auto so no...

So. In addition to my regular daily driver (an '08 Mazda3 hatch), I have a '74 Ford F350 Supercab 2WD monster that I love, and my '87 Renix XJ that I...well, I guess I'm more ambivalent about it than I thought I'd be. I live out in the country, so I use the truck for runs to the hardware store...

Forgive me, but the symptoms here seem to make an effective forum search quite difficult. '87 Renix machine, 4.0, AW4. Transmission totally healthy up til this point. The other day I was driving up a gradual hill, maintaining a constant speed, and all of a sudden it was like the AW4 was put...

Well OK, I've got an '87 beater I picked up a few months ago and am doing some work to/daily driving/getting trail ready. So we're looking at the closed cooling system everyone loves so much. But my problem isn't that the Jeep's running too hot! Couple months ago, I blew a water pump. So I...

...when I try to shift into "1-2." Just like there's a physical block there. I don't feel any binding, or rubbery feel, or anything - the shifter just won't move down at all. Shifting into all other gears is effortless and feels normal. Where's the best place to start looking here - do I have a...

Does anyone make aftermarket short arms that are short enough to work with a stock or BB-lifted XJ? Perhaps I was misinformed, but I was just told that virtually all of the available ones were for bigger lifts. I've got the stock arms out of my Jeep and I just can't believe what pieces of crap...

With the Torx head bolts on the CONTROL ARMS? That is all. OK, I lied. Is there ANY advantage to using a Torx or Allen anything, when a regular old bolt would do just fine? I mean, the bumper endcaps? Come on. As if using both SAE and metric wasn't enough...

All right, all you lifted folks, who's got a leftover set of good rubber that'll fit the stock wheels on my '87 (235/75-15 currently) and wants some $$$ in their pocket? I'm rebuilding the suspension on the XJ and would also like to give it four of the same kind of tire (crazy, I know - even...

So I've had my XJ a few months now, and it's finally smogged, registered, running, and leaking transmission fluid all over my driveway (this is par for the course for me, it seems). It's a beater '87 4.0 with all the stock goodies (NP231, D44 out back, tow package, stock diff and tank guards...

I've searched and found a lot of folks with the "no crank, no start" symptoms my '87 4.0 is exhibiting, but I have an additional wrench to throw in. I was waiting in line to get a smog test, just idling there. The idle suddenly dropped a little bit and stumbled, went back to normal, stumbled...

Well, my brand new (to me) XJ is stranded in Santa Clarita/Valencia. My girl was driving it when it developed a maniacal bird chirp in the front of the motor and promptly shot the temp gauge into the red. She had the wherewithal to shut it down and pull it over, but now it's stuck here with what...

Greetings all, I'm Chris and I live out in Lake Elizabeth in the high desert. Just picked up my first XJ - I've taken an interest in them lately and once all the gallons and gallons of information and trivia started soaking in, I had to have one. I come from late-80s BMW E30 3-series, so this is...