Girls like Strokin too :P

[Tinga]

Thanks. I wonder if I have to put in another pulley for the AC or just get a belt that was made for a non AC rig??

[92tank]

mount all the acc. you plan on running and take a piece of string (non stretchy) and wrap around the pulleys the way you want to run the belt. then take a measurement and go get a belt that length. they make all sizes. just tell them thats the size you need.

PS make sure the tensioner is somewhere in the middle so you have some room for error

[SilverXJ]

Yes,. XJs have electric and mechanical fans. However the difference is that the XJ has a separate fan pulley where the TJ's fan is on the water pump. I would try to use as many TJ accessories as possible. If that is even possible given the block you chose.

Is the engine in the vehicle yet? I hope so or you might find some nasty surprises with the engine mount bracket bosses.

[Tinga]

Thanks guys. And we've gotten the engine bracket mount bosses on order from the pick n pull place, but the engine is still sitting on the stand. If we have to move the frame side motor mounts I swear I'm a gonna break this ass hats knee caps.

[IH 392]

Here's my '97 TJ withOUT AC, and the late intake showing the PS mounting (ALL TJ's are the same) and motor mounts and oil filter, only the exhaust is different on mine, it has a header where yours should? have the two piece cast iron

[SilverXJ]

All TJ engine blocks are not the same. In 2000 they went with the same engine block as the WJ which is completely different.

And by bosses I mean the spots on the block that the engine mounts bolt to, not the mounts themselves.

[Tinga]

You mean this correct? If so, we're in business.

[IH 392]

The photos with the exception of the late model intake are 100% factory for a '97 TJ, the water pump, radiator and header have been replaced but with stock replacement parts, the only other bolts that have been removed are th oil pan bolts when I replaced the oil pump and pickup tube, all others are as JEEP installed them.
There may be some discrepancy's as Silver noted? against the late blocks, but I hope none that will screw me?, the block I have for my stoker is from an '00 Cherokee of some sort? I was told.

[SilverXJ]

No, the that is the engine side bracket. I am talking about the holes in the block where the bolts for the mounts go.

[SilverXJ]

the block I have for my stoker is from an '00 Cherokee of some sort? I was told.

If the block you have is from a 00 XJ you will be fine.

Here is some reading on the differences between earlier blocks and the 99+ WJ/00+ TJ block.

http://www.jeepstrokers.com/forum/viewt ... =15&t=1047

http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1015349

[Tinga]

Ok the actual Holes... Gotcha. We're pulling the bolts AND brackets from a same year XJ so that it will bolt into the block. I'm hoping that they are located in the same place as the block so as to not move the engine too far forward or back. Brown Dog already said that even though I ordered their poly mounts for an 02 TJ, that they would indeed work for our year of block.

And to think I would have never know this douche was switching a block up on us had I Not ran the stamp on the side and looked at this site.

On an off tangent, anybody read the thread on JeepForum when a guy took a '93 Ford Explorer fan ( 10 blade) and used that to replace his OEM fan? Looks like a bolt on and seems, from what I could see, that it would clear all belts. I think he said the years where it would work were 2000-2006 clutch driven fans.

[SilverXJ]

Do you have a link to the Exploder fan install?

I was actually thinking of playing with a plastic fan today while at the machine shop working. I asked sometime ago on jeepsunlimited and was pretty much told I was an idiot for thinking such things as reduced weight. JU and JF fall in the same category with me. Fail.

[Tinga]

http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f9/tj-ra ... j-1237538/

Here ya go. Looks like another guy did the same mod and turned out alright..

[herbiehind]

Thanks guys. And we've gotten the engine bracket mount bosses on order from the pick n pull place, but the engine is still sitting on the stand. If we have to move the frame side motor mounts I swear I'm a gonna break this ass hats knee caps.

man i wish my wife talked like that . it's kinda hot !!!

[SilverXJ]

I think I will try the one from the mustang