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Old 06-15-2014, 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by XJwonders
i think there are supposed to be at least ONE upper link.
I believe he has the 3 link set up, iv read it has better articulation and is a better design but have no experience besides what iv read.
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Originally Posted by DESERTXJ206

I believe he has the 3 link set up, iv read it has better articulation and is a better design but have no experience besides what iv read.
Not exactly with a radius arm. It is technically a 3 link, but not as effective as a properly built 3 link, which is not radius armed.
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Not exactly with a radius arm. It is technically a 3 link, but not as effective as a properly built 3 link, which is not radius armed.
It is a properly built 3 link. It's from a company. Just can't find name brand yet.
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Rock krawler?
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A picture would help
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If you can get it to mount the 160 amp will work but you may need to upgrade your wireing.
Yup. Upgrade the main wires for sure just to be safe
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Originally Posted by JerrytheJeep
A picture would help
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This is the jeep.

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This is the passenger single arm. (Is this upside down?)

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This is the driver side lower (looks upside down) and upper arm.

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This is the mount of the the arm brackets bottom view.

This is the back of front diff view.
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Yep identical to my rock krawler 3 link I have on my jeep
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Originally Posted by XJwonders
Yep identical to my rock krawler 3 link I have on my jeep
Is the brand name rock krawler? How's does it do?
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Is the brand name rock krawler? How's does it do?
yeah it's the brand name.

It performed flawlessly when I wheeled it couple weekends ago. It surprised me. No complaints with it at all
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Hey All, my first Jeep owned for 1 week now. '92 XJ w/ AW4 Trans. After new shoes on it I took the steep twisty gravel road home. Coming down in "3", and Full 4 Hi, I let it run a little on the last straight stretch. (Gravity, no throttle.) It downshifted!


I honestly can't remember when I tapped the brakes in that sequence.


Question is, is this an AW4 feature, and/or is it related to the Lock-Up TC? (Confirmed I have it with Chrysler Build Report.)


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Originally Posted by XJwonders
yeah it's the brand name. It performed flawlessly when I wheeled it couple weekends ago. It surprised me. No complaints with it at all
Awesome. Thanx a million for the help y'all. Especially XJwonders.
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Hey All, my first Jeep owned for 1 week now. '92 XJ w/ AW4 Trans. After new shoes on it I took the steep twisty gravel road home. Coming down in "3", and Full 4 Hi, I let it run a little on the last straight stretch. (Gravity, no throttle.) It downshifted!


I honestly can't remember when I tapped the brakes in that sequence.


Question is, is this an AW4 feature, and/or is it related to the Lock-Up TC? (Confirmed I have it with Chrysler Build Report.)


Thanks, and I have learned a ton of stuff here this last week already. (Mostly that you can always stand one more upgrade...)


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Shouldn't downshift until it gets below a certain speed.... but if you're going down a grade, I couldn't imagine it getting slow enough to shift down. Only thing I can think of (which I have a problem with on my '92 as well) is that your linkage for the shifter to the trans is a little wore, so when you're in 3, it's really close to the 1-2 position on the trans even though it shows 3 in the jeep.... so you may have thought you shifted into 3, but you were really in 1-2... in which case, the TCM won't allow the transmission to shift into that low of a gear until you're below a certain RPM and ground speed.
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Is this upside down though?



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I was definitely not decelerating. I was picking up speed on no throttle under engine compression. I think I'll have to try that bit of road again and pay more attention to everything. thanks.


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