xj-grin
NAXJA Member #1096
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- Colorado Springs, Colorado
D44 w/alloys out back and Ford HP up front....yeah it'll be fine. Besides, I drive like an old woman.
its true. he does. :cheers:
D44 w/alloys out back and Ford HP up front....yeah it'll be fine. Besides, I drive like an old woman.
After screwing around with a wide variety of GM shifters, and being too damn cheap to buy a mega-dollar aftermarket shifter, I figured that there had to be a way to use the stock shifter to control the 4L60E.
Different gear position.
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It is a 2 row with 1" tubes I believe made for me by superior radiator http://www.superiorradiator.com/. The owner told me a guy with a beefed up 360 in an XJ used this radiator with success. I run the stock water pump with a 160 degree thermostat. I have 2 electric fans with shrouds that move a decent amount of air puller style. Top hose builds pressure and bottom hose is kink free. At highway speeds it still slooooowly builds temps and then when you slow down it really goes up. In the dead of winter, with 0 degree temps it would still overheat(220-240+) when crawling around, but not on the road. My 350 is esentually stock. It was the only thing I could find at the time, since an LS1 was out of my budget. I figured I could always swap one in later. the only thing blocking the radiator is a small trans cooler, and the grill of course. I have tried different jetting, timing. I have used multiple methods to make sure all the air is out of the system including a vaccum bleeder. The system held pressure and didnt drop off at all. I am open to any ideas. Thanks guys.
A few years back I had a stock 350 in a CJ-5. When I was putting it together I opted for a "fancy, big tube, aluminum, cool-anything on the planet radiator". I fought overheating for 2 years before one day I came across a stock S-10 radiator in the junk yard. Figuring I had nothing to lose I grabbed it and stuck it in there. I never had a overheating issue again. My problem turned out to be the big fancy radiator. Don't have a good reason for why it worked, but maybe you have a similar deal.
Any plans on what you're going to do with the shift indicator bezel?
Got a few ideas rolling around in my G2 Housing Group (That's "Brain" for all you Silly-villians...Although the gear position indicator doesn't line up with the new positions (I'll work on that later),
That big tube radiator might be allowing too much coolant to flow through. The coolant doesn't spend enough time in the radiator to be cooled down. Might wanna try those restricter (sp) disks they sell in Summit or Jegs.
See post #90
I used the GM mounting bracket at the tranny.
So the Blazer cable does an S somehow clearing all moving and hot parts to come from the pan back, 180 back to the front of the tranny and then 180 back through the firewall and into the modified XJ shifter? Jeff