Wish me luck! I might have found my Jeep!

Oh yeah, but I have to say I love the sound of the combination of the first two words of your last sentence above. *grin*

-- Travis

Just adjust it until you have 1/2" of free play up top and see where it grabs.

You 'don't' want the pedal running out of travel either at the top or bottom. 2 or 3" up from the floor for the 'grab' point is how the manual says to set it with that 1/2" up top.

If it differs from this, then you might have to have a closer look at it.

Mike

travis wrote:

One thing you are going to get tired of real quick is that 3spd tranny. 1st gear is too high for many kinds of trail work, and 3rd is a straight 1:1. I was getting ready to suggest that this is a little low, but then I remembered that my 4spd trans has a 1:1 top gear. I have a 6.69:1 1st gear, so I go very slow when going slow is important. You will have trouble with going slow because your 1st is roughly equivelent to my 2nd, which is

It is very hard to explain in words why this is an important consideration, but it is.

Your Transxfer Case should be the Dana 300. This unit is gear driven, the YJ and TJ get chain driven tcases. The gear driven units are substantially stronger, with the cast iron and gears and such. You can install a Currie TwinStick that lets you select 2WD LO Range, and 2WD LO Gange, FWD, along with the standard selections. You can get 2WD RWD by simply climbing out and unlocking the hubs, but who wants to be climbing in and out to lock and unlock the hubs all day long?

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 16:34:29 -0700, "Jeff Strickland" shared the following:

I've read differently: (the Jeep I'm looking at is a '78 CJ-7) "The Dana 300 was used only in CJs from 1980 until 1986. " source:

-- Travis

consideration,

You could be right on that. I was thinking the D300 was used from '76 when the CJ7 first came out. That said, the D20 is also a gear driven, cast iron tcase instead of the aluminum case chain driven unit that is used with the YJ and later. :-)