Guess my weight - "empty" unibody

How much would a bare unibody weigh?

I'm pulling axles, engine, gearboxes, doors, fenders, hood and whatever else i find useful, leaving just the body and a few misc. parts.

Need to get as light as possible so i can throw it on a small trailer and get it to the scrapyard..

1500lbs? less?

less than 1000 lbs, probably 600-800 range

they are only 3500 lbs fully loaded

When I chopped one up and took it to the scrapper, it was in the 700# range:

Dang, the green cherokee you cut up had less rust than most I see in Indidana.

I shoulda took it to the woods and launched it to see how long these would last:

Id say in the 600-800 range

Sweet. Anything under 1000lbs is good. Thanks guys

I got 1660 lbs for mine

stripped off hood, front doors, rear hatch, all glass except windshield, engine/trans/tcase, axles, interiror (left dash).

I added bent leafs and coils, axle housing, one broken seat, random steel scraps.

It's somewhat disturbing tom to see the whole shell fit in the back of that small pickup!

Here is Big Red on her way to the recycler this week. My son got T-boned at 45mph by a Avalanche. He walked away so she did her job.



As some of you may remember it;



Back on topic, the shell of a XJ weighs about #750. This will be my third one to the recycler.

I took it in two trips(you can see the piece on it's side right behind).

Yeah im thinking 600-700 pounds

if youre taking it to the scrapper dont they pay more for the weight?

quite a bit, when i scrapped my 96 i kept the rear half sans roof to make into a trailer.
When that proved to be way to much work, we tried to load it into the work truck to go recycling, Nearly tipped over a little tracked Dingo my neighbor had rented from HD, had to get my two fat roommates to hang off the back of the machine as counterbalance, and ratchet strap it into the bed at the same time.

Got about $14 for that piece

This thread makes me sad. It's like taking your dog to the pound to be put down.

Hey guys! Totally only somewhat related, but....

I went to the dark side for a bit here, and started doing a new ground up build, starting with a 1st gen 4runner SFA frame. Was going to stick to a 1st gen runner body, but can't find one in decent condition. Considered 2nd gen but they're ugly, and the amount of work that would go into bobbing it to make it short enough to fit in the PNW trails we see, ends up being pretty massive. So I've been thinking about dumping a stock XJ body on top instead. My XJ is fully plated and braced, but it's just not enough for the abuse I put her through with the V8 and buggy trails. Short term, it's fine, but I'm looking for the longevity I can only get from a frame.

Sounds like most of you figure the XJ body is around 750 stripped. What about with the complete interior? Any good, well educated guesses? I figure if it's roughly the same as the runner body, putting the XJ on the frame is a no brainer. Stock XJ is around 3600, I'm at around 5000. That means around 1000lbs in plating/armor that could be mostly replaced with a 250-300lbs frame. I feel like I should be able to at least break even with an XJ on frame build, at around 5000lbs built. This sound about right?