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Dear Marshals, I am looking for an expert opinion on changing from my 2002 V6 land cruiser to 1998/1999 Jeep XJ. I feel little powerless with my land cruiser at certain places. But as the opponent is Jeep, i have personal doubts on its reliability. As we say Jeep can take us anywhere but toyotas can bring us back safe and sound. I would like to know the pros and cons of jeep in terms of reliabilitY. Mainly from @Srikumar. It was used as offroader by an american later for some time by an Indian, so would like experts opinion on what to be looked prior making final decision.
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My off-road ride is a Cherokee XJ with NP231 transfer case. Recently I had got a 3" lift and since then I have been facing an issue that my transfer case lever within the car keeps getting loose, i.e., basically the linkage to the transfer case had come out. As a result I had to keep crawling below my car at the end of each drive to reconnect the linkage and shift from 4wd drive mode to 2wd drive. There are 5 rubber bushes which connect the transfer lever(from within the car) to the transfer case (Below the car). Picture of the transfer case linkage is shown below. I have circled 4 out of the 5 rubber bushes. The last rubber bush is hidden at the top. So now, I had got the entire set of rubber bushes changed with each costing me AED 45. However, in my next drives at the slightest of jerks the transfer connection would still pop out from the rubber bushes. To completely solve this problem I found 2 solutions 1. Change the entire transfer case linkage from the original to a simpler one available online at http://www.boostwerksengineering.com/231-HD-Shift-Linkage-Manual-Trans-_p_29.html This would cost approx USD 100 including delivery to UAE. 2. In the existing linkage we drilled a small 2 mm hole into the linkage connector end and put in a cotter pin. Photo is provided below. This costed me a total of AED 80. I will update this post after my next drive but this seems to be a permanent solution to the linkage issue. The above solutions would be applicable to anyone who has a Jeep XJ, TJ, YJ with the NP231 or NP242 transfer case.
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