From owner-xj-digest-at-digest.net Sat Mar 29 10:46:03 2008 From: xj-digest xj-digest Saturday, March 29 2008 Volume 01 : Number 2764 Forum for Discussion of XJ cherokees and wagoneers Brian Colucci Digest Coordinator Contents: Re: xj: Weel berings Re: xj: Weel berings Re: xj: Weel berings xj: RE: R12 replacement? XJ Digest Home Page: http://www.digest.net/jeep/xj/ Send submissions to xj-digest-at-digest.net Send administrative requests to xj-digest-request-at-digest.net To unsubscribe, include the word unsubscribe by itself in the body of the message, unless you are sending the request from a different address than the one that appears on the list. Include the word help in a message to xj-digest-request to get a list of other majordomo commands. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:22:52 -0700 From: Jim Blair Subject: Re: xj: Weel berings You might want to find out if that head is covered under the "silent" recall. '91 till the end interchange with minimal differences. (mostly port size) From: Kevin Subject: Re: xj: Weel berings My younger brother's y2k gets 19.99999 on the highway, seems like about 14-15 around town. His is stock, with 3.55 gears, automatic, low pinion front, and (get this) 8.25 in the rear. Course, the last trip it was on, it made it about 600 miles burning no fuel. Blew a head gasket/cracked the head/something along those lines, so it's on my trailer behind the F250. If it is a cracked head, anyone got the skinny on the quadratec head that supposedly comes loaded ready to bolt on for $500? On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:20:29AM -0700, ernest breakfield wrote: > depending on where you drive, how you do it, what kind of gas you get > where you are, how your rig is set up and what kind of tune it's in, a > little over 14 isn't surprising. we figure 15MPG when estimating on > trips, and that's about what we average in mixed city/hwy driving. _________________________________________________________________ Watch ^SCause Effect,^T a show about real people making a real difference. Learn more. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/MTV/?source=text_watchcause ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:25:01 -0700 From: Jim Blair Subject: Re: xj: Weel berings Just make sure you use a longer bolt screwed in far enough you don't damage the threads! (unless you are tossing the hub anyways) From: Moontanman-at-aol.com Subject: Re: xj: Weel berings In a message dated 3/24/2008 11:43:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, carnuck-at-hotmail.com writes: Did you get the 3 hub bolts on the back? (IIRC, they are 1/2" or 13MM 12 point)Then get a couple with the same thread, but longer and screw them in a long ways, and pound them with a hammer to knock the hub unit loose. PS: Don't forget to loosen the axle shaft nut before pulling! So what you are saying is that they are not pressed into place? My Cherokee is a 91 if that makes a difference. I got the three bolts out (and the axle nut) but the hub didn't budge. My friend who was doing most of the work told me he thought they needed to be pressed out by a hydraulic press. Screw the longer bolts in and pound them with a hammer to loosen the hub? Cool idea, I never thought of that. Michael _________________________________________________________________ Test your Star IQ http://club.live.com/red_carpet_reveal.aspx?icid=redcarpet_HMTAGMAR ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:39:53 -0700 From: Kevin Subject: Re: xj: Weel berings Silent recall? Hm. Will have to look into that before I get too far into taking it apart. 91-99 interchange fine, problem with the coil on plug heads is that they have smaller exhaust ports so the coil on plug exhaust doesn't bolt up to the older HO head, and since the coil on plug's exhaust for CA had cats in the manifold, I'm kinda screwed. That aside, there are no bosses for the coil on plug to screw in - there are four bolts that go into the head. His jeep has under 100k on it, but being a 2000, it might be a tough sell if there is a recall. On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 07:22:52PM -0700, Jim Blair wrote: > You might want to find out if that head is covered under the "silent" recall. > '91 till the end interchange with minimal differences. (mostly port size) > > > From: Kevin > Subject: Re: xj: Weel berings > > My younger brother's y2k gets 19.99999 on the highway, seems like about 14-15 > around town. His is stock, with 3.55 gears, automatic, low pinion front, and > (get this) 8.25 in the rear. > > Course, the last trip it was on, it made it about 600 miles burning no fuel. > Blew a head gasket/cracked the head/something along those lines, so it's on > my trailer behind the F250. If it is a cracked head, anyone got the skinny on > the quadratec head that supposedly comes loaded ready to bolt on for $500? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:45:16 -0700 (PDT) From: john Subject: xj: RE: R12 replacement? anyone else read up on it? R414B as a direct replacement for R12? On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Jim Blair wrote: # > # http://www.r-414b.net/ # R414B is supposed to be drop in repalcement (haven't read everything about it yet) ----- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Snohomish, Washington -o|||||o- where Jeeps don't rust, they mold http://freegift.com ** http://wagoneers.com ** - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of xj-digest V1 #2764 *************************