k9sar

Mine are mud colored

I think your tranny shop screwed you. Obviously, they had the tranny apart and now it's toast. I would certainly get all over them about it. As for where to go now... there are a couple trannies listed on the boards here. May be worth investigating. One is in NC which you could probably retrieve over a weekend (if I remember that you're near Philly)

1 CHECK EXHAUST SYSTEM Visually check exhaust tubes and muffler for dent. 2 CHECK EXHAUST AIR LEAK 1. Start engine and run it at idle. 2. Listen for an exhaust air leak before the warm-up three way catalyst. 3 CHECK INTAKE AIR LEAK Listen for an intake air leak after the mass air flow sensor. 4 CHECK IGNITION TIMING then comes checking the injector voltages, spark, leaky injectors, etc. Probably nothing this bad on a pathy that's only 5 yrs old.

basically... there are 2 O2 sensors, one before and one after the cat conv. If the difference between the 2 is out of whack, it says your TWC system is failing (basically, your cat). However, there are a couple of things that could cause the reading without your cat actually being bad. Exhaust leaks, timing problems, plugs, vacuum leaks etc. If I recall correctly, there is an O2 test you can run from the ECU.

DTC P0420 (RIGHT BANK, -B1), P0430 (LEFT BANK, -B2) THREE WAY CATALYST FUNCTION The ECM monitors the switching frequency ratio of heated oxygen sensors 1 (front) and 2 (rear). A warm-up three way catalyst with high oxygen storage capacity will indicate a low switching frequency of rear heated oxygen sensor. As oxygen storage capacity decreases, the rear heated oxygen sensor switching frequency will increase. When the frequency ratio of front and rear heated oxygen sensors approaches a specified limit value, the warm-up three way catalyst malfunction is diagnosed. Malfunction is detected when warm-up three way catalyst does not operate properly, warm-up three way catalyst does not have enough oxygen storage capacity.

Scout the heighborhoods to find a similar pathy. I found someone with a 94 in my parents neighborhood and I have frequently stopped over to take a look at his truck (to make sure I had things hooked back up correctly). Live is always ebtter than pictures and definately better than the FSM

If I recall correctly, he came onto the board with a project where he was rebuilding his pathy. Seemed to think it was a big deal and we should all be real interested and help him finance it. Then he began to ask lots and lots and lots of questions that could be answered by using the search button. Seemed to take offense to the fact that people had better things to do than spoon feed him the answers. Personally, I love helping people on the boards but I prefer to help those who at least try for themselves first. of course, I could be wrong but that's the way I remember it and prefer to stay out of it. Jay... good luck buddy. Hope you are able to build one kick-ass pathy. Try a little harder not to piss people off though, it's probably in your best interest.

NOOOO!!! say it ain't so!

napthalene and food coloring. ie. green mothballs. proven not to work and they lie when they say it's non-toxic.

this is my local dealer too. Prices online are cheaper than walking into the parts dept. I asked them and they told me to order online then just add a note that I'd pick up the order at the shop. Discount price and no shipping charge.

I can even get them for yours Dan link

I can get them at my local dealer link

next time.

*bump* Anyone have good/bad experiences with Warn Manual hubs? post here or if Lunartic starts a new thread.

if you're looking for skids and/or sliders, Marcel (Runnerman) is in Canadia BlackPanther Armor

They're not done yet. I need to pull them and build a spacer to fit up in the crossmember on the transfer case skid (just have stacked bolts for now). Also, I only had them primered. Need to give them a nice dark paintjob and the lettering yet (though the flash of white as I popped over the rocks was kinda neat until they got so muddy that they looked black)

ok... now for the story. As many of you know, I visited a local U-pull-it to find a pair of heavy duty jeep springs. There were a lot of the FJ springs (.520) and I only found one FN spring (.560). I bought 3 springs that day thinking tha tmaybe the .520's would work and that I could get a .560 from a dealer or used part place. Continuing my investigation into exactly what I had found, I gained a much better understandign of the whole spring thing and added the info to Aaron's thread about lift options. Now, I hit multiple junkyards looking for a spring to match the heavy duty one I had pulled from my local yard. No luck but much more information about available springs and sizes. Finally, I found a U-pull-it that had a satellite location fairly close to me. I picked up a set of Pittsburgh coil spring compressors for 9 bucks (harbor freight item # 3980) grabbed my spring clips and headed for the yard. When I got there, I looked at their price list and a coil spring was about 8 bucks and a dollar core charge. cool! Got any jeeps? "Sure," he replied, "got a bunch of them up over that hill". I paid my $2 to get in and as I went through the gate, there was this 98 JGC limited V8 with the front wheels off. I went over and looked... FN springs. SCORE!... well... maybe not. They guy told me that if I wanted anything off that jeep, I need to ask for a price since... well.. I have no idea why it was different. Anyway... I walked the entire yard. No pathfinders at all. Lots of Jeeps but they've been picked over fairly well. Then, there it was... a JGC V8 laredo with FN springs. Problem was that it was near the back of the yard and was quite a ways to carry my tools and then the springs. I went back to the office and asked how much for the springs out of the jeep sitting right up front. He said $40 each. BWAAAAHAAAAA! I couldn't help but laugh at him. So, I went out, grabbed my tools, and headed deep into the yard for my springs. "No jacks allowed since everything is accessable" was the rule. They had taken rims and laid one flat then welded one on edge in the middle of it then used them top sit the cars on so you had access to the suspension etc. Good idea but then I had to rely on the spring compressors to pull the coils. Dropped the shocks and other suspension components and got in there witht he compressors. Worked great and before too long, I was hauling my ass out fo the yard with a pair of FN springs. Now... recall that I had already pulled a pair of FJ springs that I decided were useless. 8 bucks each for the new springs, 1 each core charge but I got that waived cause I simply tossed them my FJ springs for scrap. Totalled $16 plus change for the pair of FN's. Ok, step one, pull one of the old springs in the pathy so I can see what I'm up against. Slap on the compressors, hit it with my air tools and compressed the spring. I had to fight to get it out since I never unbolted anything in the rear suspension. Once I had it out, I measured the length so I knew how much I needed to compress the JGC spring to get it in. Took out my new 4" grinder ($28 from Sears). Perfect size for grinding inside a 4.5" coil spring. I made my cut and grinds on the first spring and threw on the compressors. Grabbed the air tools and... Let me take a moment to tell you that the compressors were bolt/nut driven (see harbor freights web site). The bolts and nuts do not like to compress bigass springs without lubrication and I proceeded to shread one of the compressors and ripped the threads off the bolt. Among this, the thing slipped and I nearly lost my thigh as the spring decided to release it's compressed energy. It was late at night and there was no place to get a new one so I had to dance with clips and a single compressor just to get the thing ready to install. I finally got it shoved in place (lining up the end of the coil into the seat properly) and jacked up the rear axle to release the clips. No way to continue without a compressor so I had to wait till the morning to continue. First thing... drag the busted compressor back to harbor freight. It was under warrenty but it would cost about $20 in shipping to get the compressor replaced by Pittsburgh. I pleaded my case with harbor freight and they looked at my receipt. "Sir, these are over 30 days old and are outside of our return policy". Ok, not on sale anymore so I guess I'll buy a new set for $12. "...so I'll just change this date and swap them out even-steven for you" she said. Cool! This time, I'll oil the damned things and drive a piece of metal into the thing to hold the bolts in place (design flaw). Drivers side... Jacked up the axle and threw on my spring clips. Lowered the axle and the spring just dropped out. Used the copmpressors to release the clips and it was on to grinding the second spring. Threw on the compressors and cranked it down to the size I needed to get it in (14 -15 inches). I couldn't get it to fit and I couldn't compress the spring anymore or I'd never get it compressed enough in the vehicle to release my clips. As I looked at the suspension, I noticed these 2 nice opposing flat surfaces just next to the coil springs. I took my bottle jack and stressed the suspension a little by forcing a greater seperation to accomodate the spring. Slipped it in. Removed the bottle jack and jacked the truck up by the axle. With a little prying, I was able to remove the spring clips and the job was done.

nope. I put the JGC springs in the rear and reindexed 1 spline and cranked 'em up. Stock shocks and UCA's. Still rides nice but we'll see how long the joints last. I'll fix it when it breaks. With my luck, I'd put in new ball joints, UCA's, etc and get in an accident on the way to work the next morning.

yea, I thought about that. The only problem is that you lose some of the 'spring' in that part. I was looking to reshape it to sit flat like the stock ones rather than sit on the point of the JGC coil. Much easier to bust out the grinder than to heat and bend. maybe I'll go pickup another set of springs and experiment. I found a good source of jeeps about an hour from my house (and it's even legal)

Got my JGC's on and did the T-bars. horror stories to follow linky of install

not completely done but they were on in time for my trip Linky

here ya go!

the speakers in the doors have a rim of foam on them to help seal the grills from 'venting'. Likely that foam has disintegrated. Pop the door panel and take a look.

of you can get her up on 4 stands and put it in gear, you can see if the hubs are trying to lock or locking while in 2wd.

I've drilled out extractors using a small TC bit and basically burned my way through it. Must be sure there is no oil on it cause you want it to heat up and anneal (sp?) the extractor, making it softer such that you can get through it with the TC bit. Then use a normal drill, at low speed, to cut a new hole. Option then is to try to get the exact size and centering so you can pick out the stud threads from the head (not likely) or retap the thing.