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At this point there were only two small
things left to do. First was to connect the kick down cable. There are
mounting points on the TJ already for this.
In fact, the bracket to mount and connect it to the throttle body are
already there. This doesn’t get any easier. Now is the time where I had to be
creative and this took some time to figure out. What am I taking about? How
about running the trans cooler lines and installing a cooler. The easiest way
to do this would be to install a radiator from an auto TJ. I wanted better
cooling than that, so I went with a good after market trans cooler. In order to install this , I had to
drain and remove the radiator. I also had to run the cooling lines. Removing
the radiator is straight forward labor. There really is nothing to it, just
time. If I would have thought about it, I would have installed an electric
fan at the same time I did this. Running the cooler lines however took
some time. I decided I wanted to run
as much hard line as possible. I bought two 5’ pieces of hard line and used
almost all of it. I also used the XJ cooler lines as much as possible. The XJ
uses a clip style connection and I didn’t want to have to find these at an
auto parts store. I ended up running these along the same route as the air
conditioner lines. It is a good path and worked out well and so far there
doesn’t seem to be any detriment to the air conditioning system. I will
however in the future insulate those lines better from each other. I was getting close to finishing now. I
still needed to install the trans mount and the skid plate. I used the trans mount from the XJ. I drilled in to
the cross member and made a temporary mount. I didn’t spend much time on this
because I will be installing an RE LA lift in a week or two following this
project and would redo it then. (
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New trans
cooler in place |
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Transcooler
lines from the XJ are ran on passenger side of TJ |
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Trans mount
from the XJ |