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Mine is 50 anything higher is scary but 80 was fun to experience.I got mine up to 60mph for a few minutes. The speed limit was 70mph. My Jeep feels like 58 is just about as fast as it likes to go on the highway.
If I ever get her back up and running again with the new 4.56 gears I will take a pic. That speedo thingie *can* be pushed up pretty close to that little "100" mark.Show off... pic or it didnt happen.
Same here. I feel lucky sometimes, but might be that I've put 98k of the 103k miles on my rig. First owner only put 5k on it. He bought it new back in 03, I bought it in 04. I drive it down the highway couple times a week and maintain 75-80mph (even on the many steep grades) with zero issues. RPM's only shoot up when fighting headwinds on the uphill. And I still have room to push the pedal...Mine drives at the top of the governor's limit: 96. No problems, handles fine, too.
That's awesome man. Stay determined. Stay humble. My story is ditto.Not to the TJ, but for it. I am one step closed to doing my regear. I have finished reading all the stuff on Pirate and am on my second time through Randy's excellent Differentials: Identification, Restoration & Repair 2nd Ed.
I'm diggin' on my new tools, too, man. Brown Santa came today and left me two boxes of Jeep Joy.
These are like the nicest things I have yet purchased for working on my TJ. I have some other stuff to buy for the re-gear, but these were the two that I researched the most. After the TJ I have three more axles to either re-gear or simply rebuild. These will get used enough to justify the expense to me. I hate-hate-hate crappy tools.
I need to thank several machine shop guys who strongly recommended these over the course of my researching what to look for as well as what to expect from several top brands and some of the dogs.
I cannot afford as near as much as some folks here, but more than others. I have been trying to appease my addiction through meaningful upgrades using the best parts and tools I can possibly afford so that I do not have to do a job twice and so that my tools will be there for me whenever I need them to be.
This has dragged me up from a set of AutoZone wrenches, Craftsman sockets, and Home Depot screwdrivers and hammers to a fairly nice set of tools that improves a bit each season. Of course, that means that it is growing, too, since I never toss a tool that works. So my tool box has grown into one of those rolling carts the size of a dishwasher but about chin high to me. I used to keep it all in a green, plastic tackle box from Walmart.
The TJ is forcing me to become a better mechanic and also a bit of a tool junkie.
If not Jeep parts, tools. The costs never seem to end, man. They never seem to end. HAHAHA!!!
I can do at least 75, highway downhill on accident. 4.11 on 35's. I have a rule of never going over 70 with mud terrains. too much rubber rotating around..Wanted to see how fast I could get her.
4 in lift 33in tires (from 99) 4.0 3.73 gear auto and 110k miles
Down hill foot to the floor. Little shaky. .. a lot but still got this pic.
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I guess I really lucked out with my Jeep then, 146k 373 on 31s and I can easily top out the rev limiter at 96 on flat ground or even slight incline. I've done 2-3 hour drives between 85-90 (Albany to NYC) with 0 issues, and as stable as any other vehicle I've ever been in... Is this not the average experience?Mine drives at the top of the governor's limit: 96. No problems, handles fine, too. (I have read several times that the engine has a speed governor that is set for 96 and mine has never gone above that and tops out at it on a slight downslope with a tail wind. Handles just like when I am going about 75 on the Interstate, but I have only done this twice, and then only for a few moments. I mean, I am not *completely* crazy...)
Why the 9? you a cop, criminal or just going through a certain town in Missouri
Mine won't top 70, BUT with the engine I got I can pull a H2 out of the 6 foot deep mud covered ditch on Damn Neck Road without going into 4wd, and a F350 Super Duty out of the mud on Ballahack Road in ChesapeakeMine drives at the top of the governor's limit: 96. No problems, handles fine, too. (I have read several times that the engine has a speed governor that is set for 96 and mine has never gone above that and tops out at it on a slight downslope with a tail wind. Handles just like when I am going about 75 on the Interstate, but I have only done this twice, and then only for a few moments. I mean, I am not *completely* crazy...)
That's about where mine last Tj was when I had to replace the engineI wish I could say the same, mine threw a rod at 110k...
Hmm. I have the same setup except 5 speed and it will roll at 75 no problem.Wanted to see how fast I could get her.
4 in lift 33in tires (from 99) 4.0 3.73 gear auto and 110k miles
Down hill foot to the floor. Little shaky. .. a lot but still got this pic.
I cut my extentions with a chop sawTried to extend the spare tire bump stops today but mine is only missing by about 1/4 to 1/2 of an inch and it is hard to cut PVC that small. Thinking on getting the bump stops from Quadratech, any advice out there?
I just did mine 1/4" no problem. Place the PVC in a vice with 1/4" sticking up then use a hack saw blade and cut across the top of the vice. Nice even cut.Tried to extend the spare tire bump stops today but mine is only missing by about 1/4 to 1/2 of an inch and it is hard to cut PVC that small. Thinking on getting the bump stops from Quadratech, any advice out there?