'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.
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.
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.