90 Cherokee XJ rebuilding

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rocker arms and cam shifters before cleaning and after 2 rounds of 15 min with ultrasonic cleaner. now left them de greaser for night to get all dirt out.

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pics here.

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needed something to keep the engine hanging and adjust... wanted to do it before putting it back.

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was fighting with this bolt on top gearbox for 2 hrs to get it out. had to lower transfer case and engine.

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Is this going to be a total rebuild, to atoms and back together? Looking like so... And looking good too.

Do you have pdf links for engine diagrams?

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Alkuperäinen kirjoittaja temmi_hoo

Is this going to be a total rebuild, to atoms and back together? Looking like so... And looking good too.

Do you have pdf links for engine diagrams?

Yes It is going to be a full rebuild. Probably will be the slowest one ever, coz I am doing everything myself.
I have only the part catalogs from morris jeep downloaded. checking them when needed.

http://www.jeep4x4center.com/knowledge-base/index.htm

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finally took out engine, transmission and transfer case. couldn't take them out one piece since I don't have anything that high to hang roller.

engine needs a lot of new parts and seals that I know well. been spitting out a lot of oil from every single place. before removing was hardly making 80km/h and puking oil into air-filter. long list of problems.

transmission is still in good condition I will replace only its oil filter and do some cleaning outside to make it breath more.

transfer case had some switching problems not always. I will replace shift fork pads for now. chain seems ok. not so bad.

[Mase]

Alkuperäinen kirjoittaja sms1878

rocker arms and cam shifters before cleaning and after 2lrounds of 15 min with ultrasonic cleaner. now left them de greaser for night to get all dirt out.

Maybe you should open hydraulic lifters to get dirt out from them. There is small snapring in top of lifter, after that piston and valve will come out and you can clean lifter from inside and check inner bore condition also. Dont mix pistons and valves to other lifters, and becarefull snaprings will fly cross the room when you twist it avay with skrewdriver!

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Alkuperäinen kirjoittaja ford59

Maybe you should open hydraulic lifters to get dirt out from them. There is small snapring in top of lifter, after that piston and valve will come out and you can clean lifter from inside and check inner bore condition also. Dont mix pistons and valves to other lifters, and becarefull snaprings will fly cross the room when you twist it avay with skrewdriver!

thanks, I guess I will open them too. those passages didn't seem so clean at all. I don't have every right tool so I need to figure out something to open them.

[Mase]

Alkuperäinen kirjoittaja sms1878

thanks, I guess I will open them too. those passages didn't seem so clean at all. I don't have every right tool so I need to figure out something to open them.

You need just 2 skrewdriver. With bigger one you press piston down 1mm and with smaler one you take snapring out. Little magnet will help you to take piston and valve out from lifter.

After you have assembled lifters back together sink them to motor oil and pump few times piston to fill it with oil. You can feel when piston wont compress anymore, then its full.

[sms1878]

Alkuperäinen kirjoittaja ford59

You need just 2 skrewdriver. With bigger one you press piston down 1mm and with smaler one you take snapring out. Little magnet will help you to take piston and valve out from lifter.

After you have assembled lifters back together sink them to motor oil and pump few times piston to fill it with oil. You can feel when piston wont compress anymore, then its full.

sure, thanks for the tip, will do that. for now they have wait since I can do that as very last step before closing the valve cover

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finally got the shift fork rail out. have been fighting to take out that pin (in picture). took it somewhere too but the guy there didn't have any idea and said it has nothing to do with that pin. so came back home, checked the diagrams for np242, the pin was the only way to get the forks out and kept fighting till I find the right screw.

there is slight damage on side where the front output fork sits on the rail. can it be my shifting problem? it was getting stuck when switching from 4x2 to 4x4 high/low.

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managed to clean up the cover. it wasn't that easy though. did a bit sanding inside and outside to get smoother surface and painted.