vozo112
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- long island
hey everyone i am going to be moving to puerto rico in october and i am shipping my cherokee down there as well. i will be there for about a year and then i am going to sell it and move back to ny. i am trying to figure out what preventative maintainance/upgrades i should do to it before i go so i will only have to do minor things while im down there. i probably will put about 30k miles on it before i leave there too so any ideas will be apprecated.
a little about the truck. its a 1997 XJ w/ 130k miles, 4.0l, 5speed manual, 4x4. i put a 3" RE lift about a year and a half ago w/ 31x10.5 maxxis bighorns. its got custom front and rear bumpers w/ front lights. it runs great. i do tune ups pretty regularly. everything seems pretty ok about it. the one problem i ever run into is it gets really hot going up hills and in traffic. and in PR its alot hotter then NY. so i just ordered a 3 core radiator from Dirk Sanders. oh and i just fixed the a/c so it works for the 1st time in years but now when you first turn on the a/c the compressor squeels like crazy for about a minute. any suggestions?
one thing that concerns me is there is alot of break ins and thefts to cars. so i wanna install some sort of hidden kill switch in the jeep that i can hit when i leave the car. and i also wanna hide the stereo somewhere in the car since its pretty nice. i dont need it to be accesible. i just play my ipod thru it. any ideas on that stuff would be great!
should i do anything else regarding cooling?
do you think i should preventively change the clutch because its original?
i am going to change all the fluids before i leave.
well i know thats alot but any help or ideas would be awesome! thanks
a little about the truck. its a 1997 XJ w/ 130k miles, 4.0l, 5speed manual, 4x4. i put a 3" RE lift about a year and a half ago w/ 31x10.5 maxxis bighorns. its got custom front and rear bumpers w/ front lights. it runs great. i do tune ups pretty regularly. everything seems pretty ok about it. the one problem i ever run into is it gets really hot going up hills and in traffic. and in PR its alot hotter then NY. so i just ordered a 3 core radiator from Dirk Sanders. oh and i just fixed the a/c so it works for the 1st time in years but now when you first turn on the a/c the compressor squeels like crazy for about a minute. any suggestions?
one thing that concerns me is there is alot of break ins and thefts to cars. so i wanna install some sort of hidden kill switch in the jeep that i can hit when i leave the car. and i also wanna hide the stereo somewhere in the car since its pretty nice. i dont need it to be accesible. i just play my ipod thru it. any ideas on that stuff would be great!
should i do anything else regarding cooling?
do you think i should preventively change the clutch because its original?
i am going to change all the fluids before i leave.
well i know thats alot but any help or ideas would be awesome! thanks