SUA SPONTE
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To all the haters out there who said things like:
Quote:
Originally Posted by mudslinger4x4
with all the money you're going to be spending doing this, you'd be better off just buying a new jeep that has the 231. there's so much work involved and way too much $$. i helped my friend do it on his yota and he sunk over $3000 doing it. not worth it for that truck.
this is for you:
My 87 4 door was pretty beat up, the interior was the worst of it. After many soakings in and around the nisqually river, the carpet was the first to go. then the saggy headliner, then the moldy front door panels. the doors didn't want to shut right and the whole jeep was a list of "things to do" i went crazy and posted it up for sale and was planning on parting it all out before some good friends talked me out of it. so what started as a way to make a few extra bucks turned into a rebirth of my original jeep.
As a craigslist addict constantly searching for anything jeep I came across a clean 2x4 98 with a bad trans. I bought it for next to nothing, and a 4x4 Aw4 from an 00 with 40k on it for 320. more than half of what the whole jeep cost me!
The project begins by first swapping in the new aw4 for the old. I had never done this before. As always, at the end of the swap I washed my hands and realized i learn just as much about myself as I do about Jeeps when (attempting) these more complicated jobs. I will sweat and swear,
bust my knuckles and rack my mind for the right piece to the puzzle. Its always something and multiply your E.T.A. for completion by a week or two. One more thing i learned: If i didnt have something to work on in my life, something to fix or make better.......... i think i'd just shoot myself in the face. Enough sentiment and musing, on with the pictures!
Wasnt sure if the grime was holding the T.C. together so I just left it as it was.
spoiled with a good shop to use. What a clean looking xj!
A 2x4 jeep. Im glad i got to make at least one of them right. cant believe they even came that way.
those two little bastards gave me hell when i dropped my puke goat about a year ago to swap with an ax-15. someone told me "they"
put the odd sized bolts in to prevent the average joe from wrenching on his own stuff....i think it took me an hour laying on my back in a parking lot
just to get the two of them out.
Quote:
Originally Posted by mudslinger4x4
with all the money you're going to be spending doing this, you'd be better off just buying a new jeep that has the 231. there's so much work involved and way too much $$. i helped my friend do it on his yota and he sunk over $3000 doing it. not worth it for that truck.
this is for you:
My 87 4 door was pretty beat up, the interior was the worst of it. After many soakings in and around the nisqually river, the carpet was the first to go. then the saggy headliner, then the moldy front door panels. the doors didn't want to shut right and the whole jeep was a list of "things to do" i went crazy and posted it up for sale and was planning on parting it all out before some good friends talked me out of it. so what started as a way to make a few extra bucks turned into a rebirth of my original jeep.
As a craigslist addict constantly searching for anything jeep I came across a clean 2x4 98 with a bad trans. I bought it for next to nothing, and a 4x4 Aw4 from an 00 with 40k on it for 320. more than half of what the whole jeep cost me!
The project begins by first swapping in the new aw4 for the old. I had never done this before. As always, at the end of the swap I washed my hands and realized i learn just as much about myself as I do about Jeeps when (attempting) these more complicated jobs. I will sweat and swear,
bust my knuckles and rack my mind for the right piece to the puzzle. Its always something and multiply your E.T.A. for completion by a week or two. One more thing i learned: If i didnt have something to work on in my life, something to fix or make better.......... i think i'd just shoot myself in the face. Enough sentiment and musing, on with the pictures!
Wasnt sure if the grime was holding the T.C. together so I just left it as it was.
spoiled with a good shop to use. What a clean looking xj!
A 2x4 jeep. Im glad i got to make at least one of them right. cant believe they even came that way.
those two little bastards gave me hell when i dropped my puke goat about a year ago to swap with an ax-15. someone told me "they"
put the odd sized bolts in to prevent the average joe from wrenching on his own stuff....i think it took me an hour laying on my back in a parking lot
just to get the two of them out.
keep it updated, nice job so far. good luck, hope all goes smoothly for ya.
