XJwonders

Decided to make a new headlight harness because I went ahead and replaced the header panel. I figured that since it's gonna be off, it ll be easier to do the measurements, etc.



Got some ceramic h4 female plugs (2), a male h4 plug, relays with sockets (2), inline fuse holders (2), and bunch of wiring.

This is how I set up the relays and fuses





(I added black split loom after this picture)

I decided to reuse the headlamps because they were only one year old. Even in the daytime it look brighter.

XJwonders

Finally put another header panel on. (It's too cold to paint it nicely so it ll have to do for temporarily.






I decided to do two tone on the jeep... Most of the body still will be black but there will be some deep gray accents. But that ll be much later.

HS00XJ

I like the colorchoice black/deep gray will look good

XJwonders

thanks.

Today was a nice day out so I decided to take the jeep to the car wash down the street to clean up the engine bay. There's oil and grease all over the block and on the trans. I thought it would be an good idea to clean the engine bay so I can see if there's any more leaks or anything. I forgot to take before and after pictures lol.

Speaking of clean, I decided to blast the spare intake manifold I had laying around. It came out better than I expected.

There's a crack on the exhaust headed, I figured it's easily repairable if I took off the intake manifold, that way I ll have plenty of room to re weld the crack. Then install the clean intake. Also perfect timing to install the 784 injectors too.





Looks almost brand new, doesn't it? Ha.

XJwonders

Yay. More leds arrived...

This is what I ordered. I had them on my crawler and loved how bright they were so I decided I ll do the same on this jeep too..

https://www.superbrightleds.com/more...ab/PhotoViewer

Direct plug and play. No modification necessary.

XJwonders

Whoohoo the leds for dash cluster arrived.

XJwonders

So I sent the jeep to be inspected last Saturday, and I really expected a long list of problems to be resolved before it can be passed.

Only thing it needed were new rotors and pads for the front. Awesome!

I ordered new rotors and pads from advance auto, installed them and went out for a test drive....






Both front wheels locked up. Apparently they changed hubs in mid 99 so there's two types or rotors for that year. I must have picked up wrong rotors. When bolting on the wheels back on the hub, it pushed the rotor so tight against the inner C's on the axle and caused it to lock up. I had to go back and exchange the rotors to right ones. (The wrong ones were for 99 or older, and the right ones were the newer style (99 and newer)

After all that's done, went back and got the inspection passed and stickers went on the windshield.
Now I can finally legally drive this jeep around! Yay.

HS00XJ

Yep they changed mid 99.I have a 00 with a 98 hp swapped in.

XJwonders

So on my lunch break, I decided, instead of sitting and doing nothing, I would get started on the cluster LEDs. Holy cow I have to say it came out good and it matched the 4wd indicator.

XJwonders

Here's a better pic of the cluster

XJwonders

Is there anywhere I could get aftermarket boots for the shifter? I was hoping to get a colored one.

torque062

I have a hard enough time finding an oem replacement boot

SatiricalHen

where did you get those green leds?! I've been looking for decently priced green ones for a while and just gave up

XJwonders

Here's another update, did the green courtesy lights this morning and finally it got dark enough for me to snap a picture..







Gotta love how it look. Maybe I ll add a couple under the seats.

XJwonders

I got them off ebay. The seller is in Australia so shipping took around 2 weeks. But totally worth it.

I ordered purple leds from him for my other xj a couple of years ago, and it's still working, so I trust his quality.






Let me find the link to the ebay listing