budget86xj
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- WA
I’m only 17 and I just got a 86 Cherokee with a 2.8 and automatic trany, this is going to be my first build. I found it for 50 bucks and it wasn’t running, I put a battery, cap & rotor (it didn’t have a cap when I bought it), and plugs in it and it fired right up. The trany seems to work great and it just needs an alternator and should be ready. I have read a ton off the forums and was looking for some help with my project.
I want to do it for cheap since I only paid 50 bucks for it and it doesn’t have to be street legal since I’m going to be leaving it in the mountains at a friend’s cabin. I have some people that have built Cherokees in the past that are going to be helping me. The plan so far is to build blocks for the rear leafs and find some used coils to lift the front, hopefully about 3” of lift. Then we plan to cut the fenders as much as possible to fit some 33s or 35s underneath it.
The next thing is we are planning to build an interior cage for it and possibly an exocage as well, since I have read that it isn’t so good to have an exocage without and interior cage. We are also going to build front and rear bumpers for it.
Here is some pics, any help of problems and things we might run it to would be greatly appreciated. Also any ideas of next steps to take would be awesome.
I want to do it for cheap since I only paid 50 bucks for it and it doesn’t have to be street legal since I’m going to be leaving it in the mountains at a friend’s cabin. I have some people that have built Cherokees in the past that are going to be helping me. The plan so far is to build blocks for the rear leafs and find some used coils to lift the front, hopefully about 3” of lift. Then we plan to cut the fenders as much as possible to fit some 33s or 35s underneath it.
The next thing is we are planning to build an interior cage for it and possibly an exocage as well, since I have read that it isn’t so good to have an exocage without and interior cage. We are also going to build front and rear bumpers for it.
Here is some pics, any help of problems and things we might run it to would be greatly appreciated. Also any ideas of next steps to take would be awesome.