Recent content by 88pioneerxj

Good advice here, thank you. Posting numbers below:

Edit: forgot the context for whoever is interested: Bought the car at 21 y.o, changing head gasket from overheating issues, discovered two pistons are cracked. Buddy sold me his donor engine for cheap- paid mechanic to do the Remove&Replace. Done plenty of repairs to it, followed fantastic...

This may be the thread to end all SMOG threads.. Hi everyone, I have an '88 RENIX 4.0L XJ Pioneer (230,000 miles) with a donor engine from a 1991 High Output 4.0L XJ, and I didn’t realize what a massive headache it would be to pass smog here in SoCal (I'm from out of state). So far, I’ve...