Recent content by Alemonkey

Two days ago, but took my daughter to a snow covered parking lot and taught her how to spin cookies. :p

Mine likes to eat blend door actuator levers. Omix makes replacements, but I don't think you can get OEM ones anymore. I'm stocking up on them in case they get discontinued some day. I also need to get some spare O2 sensors since it's so sensitive to having the correct factory ones.

Just a quick follow up, I found a used switch for cheap on deadjeep.com. Popped off the dash bezel and the switch housing for the rear wiper / rear defrost came out with 4 screws. The plug for the rear defrost switch was already in place, so I popped out the filler plate, snapped in the...

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Gotcha. So, since my Jeep already had the wiring harness for the hard top, in theory should there be an unused plug behind the dash that I will connect to the new switch?

I have a later hardtop (I think it's from an 04 or 05) on my 97 Jeep. I found a guy on ebay who makes wiring adapters so I bought one and the wiper & washer are working fine. The question is, my rear window has a defroster but there's no rear defrost switch on my dash. Is that a separate...

Worst case, if you rule everything else out, replacing the oil pump isn't a horrible job. I replaced the one in my '97 4.0 a few weeks ago with a standard (non high pressure) Melling pump. It used to get down close to zero at idle with a hot engine and occasionally sound the alarm, now it...

That looks great. Nice work.

Great so far. Much quieter, you can actually hear the radio at highway speeds. I sure wouldn't want to have one without AC around here, though. One weird thing I ran across was the spacing for the bolts. IIRC the top was from an 03, and my jeep is a 97. The front 4 bolts lined up perfectly...

I bought a hard top and installed it today. Yeah, I know, it's still summer. But school is starting soon and my daughter will be driving it, so I feel better with her having doors and a hard top. She'll be keeping school stuff like a laptop and band instruments in there, so I also added a...

I used Monstaliner on mine. Worked great, no regrets. Very easy to apply, just make sure you follow the directions. My 97 had a problem with the drain for the AC evaporator leaking back into the passenger compartment, causing puddles on the passenger side floor. The problem is that the drain...

Just a standard Melling. I didn't want to mess around with clearancing the pan for a high volume pump.

Last week I replaced the oil pump in my 4.0. Went from around 10 PSI at idle with the oil hot to a hair over 20. Two days ago, new cap/rotor/plugs/wires. The old plugs were probably the most worn I've seen on any engine. Guessing they had never been changed by the previous owner. Today I...

I have a fair amount of play in the distributor on my 1997 Sport with a 4.0. All of the guides I see say that I need to find TDC on the compression stroke on cylinder #1 when replacing the distributor, and when I replace the distributor end up with the rotor pointing at the #1 position. The AC...

Charged my A/C. I installed a Jeep Air retrofit kit a couple weeks ago, but today it finally got warm enough outside to fill it. Replaced the heater core while I was at it, and it's a good thing I ordered one. The old one was starting to seep a little and probably would have let go eventually.