Greetings XJ talk,

So it seem the clunking noise I had thought was exhaust was not...
fro the last couple of months it had been starting to shift in to OD later and later but other then the noise was running well. Now on Sunday she will not shift in to gear and has a grinding thumping noise with sparks coming form the bell housing when the engine is running.

I'm hoping that it is just the torque converter and/or flex plate but that is to be seen. It was taken to one of the better transmission shop in the area to be checked out to see what is wrong with it.

But for now I'm with out my XJ and that makes me very sad. not to menchen the fact that the vehicle that I will be using in the mean time has strange idle problems.

So it seems the money i had for a lift will got to the transmission