I have a 98 4cyl with 4inch skyjacker suspension 3 inch body, safari
snorkel, rebuilt axles with 4.88 gears and 33x 12.5 mickey thompson baja
claw tires. It rides like a dream with the 4.88, the original 4.10 made it
impossible to use 5th gear unless I was on a 9 degree downward slope with a
semi truck directly in front of me so i could draft off of haha... no lie
there. I have had my jeep sunk up to mid windshield and me riding on the
roll bar using my feet to steer while in 4w low 2nd gear.Nice vid
Do the intake and exhaust, so build an intake out of the universal spectre
parts and get either a straight through muffler (magnaflow or dynomax), a
glass pack, or one of the Flowmaster "super" mufflers with 2.5 inch pipe.
That's what I have on mine. Also if your cat is clogged buy some cat
cleaner or get an aftermarket one, they're like 80 bucks. DO NOT GET RID OF
THE CAT, your life will suck, your rig will be illegal, smell bad, and
you'll lose an ass-ton of performance.
Nope, he has the stock Dana 35 rear axle, with a Detroit Truetrac. The
Truetrac is a gear-driven limited slip, not a true locker. I wouldn't put a
full locker in a Dana 35 with big tires. I have a very similar set-up on my
Jeep. And even so, we need to be careful not to break the axles. It's all
about finesse.
@mhkmjh 4cyl gets terrible gas mileage though. Its too much vehicle for a 4
cyl. Ive had two jeep wrangler tj's with 4 cyl and both got bad gas
mileage. The first had stock everything and got around 14 mpg city and the
new one i have get 10-12 because it has a 3 inch body lift and 33" all
terrain tires.
@MattRT91 Damn! That's waaaaay more than this one would do.And for what
it's worth, it was my cousins jeep.She was too scared to drive it home
after she bought it for some reason. Mine is a 4.0, and it wont do 100.....
course it has a long arm lift and 35s..
I wish I had thought of that at the time (or at least thought to change the
tranny fluid right after). Eventually, when I did change my fluid, it came
out looking much like that muddy water... oops. I'm paying for it now...
the tranny is on it's way out.
@gomofast a Buddie of mine had one of these and for some reason his friend
turned the snorkel down, we went out wheelin hit the first puddle like 1.5
feet deep and sucked water in and threw a rod XD long story short make sure
its aimed up.
Would you recommend buying a 02 Wrangler 2.5L with 25k miles, good deal, or
wait for a good deal on like a 04+ 4.0L. I kind of want the straight 6, but
this wrangler I am looking at has everything I want except that it is not a
4.0L.
Im getting my dads 99 jeep wrangler here soon and he still had a four
cylinder in it. I would like to put a 6" lift with 33's on it but I don't
want to change out the engine. Will a four cylinder be able to handle that?
@prettysheddy thats what most of the older jeeps were 4 cylinders. the
reason there 4 is because they were just ment for getting from place to
place. buy hey a straight i6 will never hurt
@jcaled24 haha yeah I have a chip, intake, 2.5 inch exhaust (replaced the
crushed one) and an ass ton of other power mods and I'm only riding on 30
inch tires (for now muahahaha)
@ramo1050 I've blown up my Dana 35 rear twice, but never on the trail. Once
my foot just slipped off the clutch when leaving a stoplight, and that was
it. Now I'm real careful.
@prettysheddy hell yeah man my 4 banger goes like a son of a bitch off
road! mine i literally identical to this one but mine has half doors and i
wheel at Rausch Creek also!
@MattRT91 See I went for tires before the mods. Which one seemed to help
the most? I really need to get some more power out of it, and don't have
the cash for a hemi swap.
He knew exactly how deep it was because I had gone through it first with my
jeep. But only after entering very slowly and carefully to see how deep it
was. Stupid fuck.
Nice Jeep. I've got a 4cyl as well, mine has three and a quarter suspension
spacers, 31s, air raid intake... Of course I have other stuff to tow, Jack,
dig and winch.