Recent content by Yoda

Final Update: Stupid won this round. But I had fun and made some upgrades in the process. I put the front driveshaft back in and the noise was gone for a few days and then it came back with a vengeance! My initial thought was that while taking it out I exercised the CV joints quite a bit and...

UPDATE #2: I feel kind of dumb lol. I took the front driveshaft out and surprise surprise....quiet!!!! So I made a 30 minute job into an all day affair. Well I got some new tools in the process and now have a better transfer case for my type of driving....but moral of the story is...I should...

UPDATE!! I ended up getting a NP242 from the junkyard instead of another NP231. It's a street Jeep and the full-time 4WD will come in handy in the winters in New England. But bad news! I was noise free for a day and it came back. I'm actually leaning towards the front driveshaft now. Most...

A junkyard close by has an NP231 with 70k miles for $175. I'm going to pick it up and swap it in this weekend. The one in there now can be my spare and I'll fix it up. This is my family hauler and commuter so I can't have too much downtime, otherwise yeah I'd take it apart and fix it.

Driveshaft u-joints are good. No play at all. Because the noise is coming from the area where the t-case and trans meet I'm leaning towards t-case, especially because I can change the tune when I move the t-case shifter. It could be on the output side of the transmission but I'm hoping that's...

Hmmmm. I'll check the u-joint tonight, easy enough. When I was under there a few days ago I gave the driveshaft a good wiggle and nothing felt weird. I'll pry on the u-joints and see if there is any play. I'll post back in a bit. Just one bit more of maybe useless information. When the...

Ouch. So I posted a month or so ago about what I thought was chain noise in my NP231. When I took right turns I'd get a slight rubbing/grinding sound, kind of like something spinning was rubbing against something that wasn't. It was very subtle and only happened when accelerating on highway...

Got what I think is an interesting question. I just picked up a 2000 XJ in great shape but the leaf springs are shot. It is in stock form but I want to make it sit like an Up-Country which is 1-1.5" above stock height. Plenty of room for 30" tires. For the next couple years it will be a...

Old thread but I've been thinking of something similar. As a GM guy I've had some appreciation for the turbo four cylinders they've put out lately. Specifically the 2.0l LTG turbo engine. They put that in the Camaro, base Cadillac's and a few others. Bone stock it makes 272hp and 295lb-ft...

That looks pretty damn good at least from what I can see in the picture. In the northeast they have more rust than that when they leave the dealers lot brand new!

@06lj Good point on the engine mounts. If I jerk the wheel right hard I get a little clunk up front. Same clunk if I hit some potholes a certain way. I've gone over the suspension and steering and everything is tight, I'll take a look this weekend. Same goes for the transfer case linkage...

I'm in MA and literally everything is off limits to passenger vehicles. There are some legal single track and ATV trails around but everything else is private property or owned by the state and "No Offroad Vehicles Allowed". Not to say people don't go wheeling but you'll be paying bigtime if...

2003 TJ, NP231, auto trans. 175k miles and all stock. Been a commuter its whole life, not much offroad. Got a new problem, and I'm pretty sure its my transfer case. When I take off from a stop or when I take right turns of any radius I hear a ratcheting sound near the transfer case lever...

Wanted to add....that this is probably not just JL specific. If I were swapping in JK or any number of other axles I would still have a problem with the ABS tone rings not being correct. So you either buy custom tone rings if they even exist, or install the ABS module of the donor...

Generally I hate older ABS systems from the 90's and 2000's. They are too slow and you'll need a half a mile to stop in the snow once the ABS kicks in. I've pulled the fuse in my TJ and feel as though I have better control in slippery conditions than the stock ABS controller can provide. That...