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Originally Posted by Destroyer

Yep. Agree on the fuel injection ... reason I mentioned it is my neighbor has a Jeep Wrangler with the 4.0 and a carb, and every winter you can hear him grinding the starter trying to get the thing to start. Once it's started it's great, but it's a bear to coax when it's really cold. Mine, on the other hand, I put the key in and it starts in seconds. I love it.

As to the tranny comments, I know they have had some bad reps , but honestly, I've never had ANY trouble with my auto trans, transfer case, drivelines or differentials. I'll still say that as long as that Cherokee in that link I put up has a clean record I'd seriously consider buying it. That one looks like a winner..

They never made a 4.0L with a carb, he either has a 4.2L or put a carb on it. And if the carb is right, they start right up even carbed. I know the CARTER feedback carb is tough for most to repair, but when they're right they work great. And there is a HUGE difference between a CHEROKEE, and a GRAND CHEROKEE when it comes to the driveline. They share virtually nothing in common with each other except for the 4.0L engine, and even then the engines don't always interchange as the GRAND CHEROKEE uses it's own mounting points on the block in some years. The regular CHEROKEE had a pretty tough drivetrain except for later years with the crappy CHRYSLER 8.25" bearing eating rear axle. Some of them ran forever, but the 8.25" rear axles gave more grief I think than the DANA 35 that came in the GRAND CHEROKEE. But the DANA 35 that came in the regular CHEROKEE rarely gave trouble.

Originally Posted by spareparts

the 95 I had took more abuse than any vehicle I've every owned. I gave it to my sister and 6 months later, the transmission took a dump. It was two wheel drive and those transmissions are hard to find. 6 months later, I found a guy who sold me one for $20. I swapped it out and put it up for sale. I got $1500 for it. If i had a place to store it, I would have kept it just to have a spare vehicle. Ny daughter just turned 14, so I'm probably going to start looking for another one for her first vehicle. They are great vehicles, hard to kill(I tried).

I've got one of them 2WD AW4's sitting under a tarp outside. Have no use for it whatsoever.