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We recently had a guy on a motorcycle lose control on a corner and hit our 2001 XJ Sport head on.
Due to the frame rail buckling just behind the sway bar his insurance company replaced it, totaled it and quoted us a salvage fee of $900. While the body itself may be a loss everything else aside from the radiator/transmission cooler, tie rod, RH LCA, and sway bar seems to be salvageable (including the 2003 engine with a TUPY head!) After the accident reporting was done I even started it back up, drove it another mile to my parents' house, and left it there for the time being.
We've already replaced it with a pretty nice '99 but we've been kicking around the idea of finding another 00-01 Cherokee that has succumbed to the 0331 cylinder head crack and transplanting whatever's needed from our totaled vehicle to make another functional Jeep. We found this guy (2001 2wd SE) not too far away from us:
http://stlouis.craigslist.org/cto/2898291421.html
It says it needs a new head gasket but I'm currently operating under the worst-case assumption it actually probably has a cracked cylinder head because hey, 2001 Thanks to kastein's advice on another forum we know it shouldn't be hard to hybridize the two as we have all the parts needed from the donor vehicle.
So, is the old one worth $900 in parts? If we decided to buy the other Jeep, just get it running with an engine swap, and leave it 2wd for the time being could we still just leave the "dumb" front axle in place, install the transfer case, and simply omit the forward drive shaft until we evaluate/repair the Dana 30?
Due to the frame rail buckling just behind the sway bar his insurance company replaced it, totaled it and quoted us a salvage fee of $900. While the body itself may be a loss everything else aside from the radiator/transmission cooler, tie rod, RH LCA, and sway bar seems to be salvageable (including the 2003 engine with a TUPY head!) After the accident reporting was done I even started it back up, drove it another mile to my parents' house, and left it there for the time being.
We've already replaced it with a pretty nice '99 but we've been kicking around the idea of finding another 00-01 Cherokee that has succumbed to the 0331 cylinder head crack and transplanting whatever's needed from our totaled vehicle to make another functional Jeep. We found this guy (2001 2wd SE) not too far away from us:
http://stlouis.craigslist.org/cto/2898291421.html
It says it needs a new head gasket but I'm currently operating under the worst-case assumption it actually probably has a cracked cylinder head because hey, 2001 Thanks to kastein's advice on another forum we know it shouldn't be hard to hybridize the two as we have all the parts needed from the donor vehicle.
So, is the old one worth $900 in parts? If we decided to buy the other Jeep, just get it running with an engine swap, and leave it 2wd for the time being could we still just leave the "dumb" front axle in place, install the transfer case, and simply omit the forward drive shaft until we evaluate/repair the Dana 30?