Re: 999 auto (was Re: mail Digest for 25 Mar 2005 in hour 13:00)

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Jim Blair wrote:

> '93 and older Jeep trans except the AW4 are non-electronic. 2WD Wranglers
> came with 999, even in later TJs (but those are electronic) till '03.

Thanks for the summary!


About what I thought; a 10-yr-old automatic transmission is old,
might be OK, but at this point "might" is not good enough. I'm
breaking the bank and going with the utterly boring, utterly
reliable, perfectly-fitting-first-time, 904 rebuilt.

With a good cooler, proper maintenance etc I can leave the new
trans in the car for 10 - 20 years. That's $75/year worst case.
Good enough for me.

Thanks!!




> From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: mail Digest for 25 Mar 2005 in hour 13:00
> Message-ID: <20050325192055.L1175@localhost>
>
> On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Tom - go to www.car-parts.com and
> > find yourself a JEEP 999 from a late
> > model wrangler - stick that in and be
> > done with it.
>
> I've become wary of interchanges outside my area of personal
> experience; I just don't have the data nor experience to know what
> fits, nor the time or money to try-and-see with big parts like
> transmissions.
>
> I know I sound stupid, but I honestly don't know what "late model
> wrangler" means. Can you give an example year?  New enough to have
> "low" mileage, say 50,000 or less, means it's got to be < 10 years
> old. That's 1995. Aren't those riddled with computers and smog
> interlocks and lockup converters that want interface to other
> systems?  If it's old enough to be non-electronic, eg. 1980's,
>
> then it's likely got a lot of miles.

>