What did you do to your Cherokee today?
07-23-2016, 02:00 PM
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Year: 1993 YJ Wrangler
Engine: 4.0 I6
07-23-2016, 02:55 PM
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Year: 1998, 1999
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0 I6
removed my pitman arm using a crayon. welded 1/4" spacers on wj knuckles. painted the knuckles. removed old ball joints and installed new joints. cut the sway bar link brackets off the dana 30.
amazing how quick this job gets with the right tools.
amazing how quick this job gets with the right tools.
07-23-2016, 02:57 PM
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Year: 1996
Model: Cherokee (XJ)
Engine: 4.Slow
Busy morning today. Installed the headlights, new upper control arms, new poly bushings for arms, permanently mounted my Jerry can and Hi-Lift as well.
07-23-2016, 03:22 PM
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Year: 1999
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0L OBD-II
How's the crayon trick work?
07-23-2016, 03:24 PM
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Year: 1996
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07-23-2016, 03:38 PM
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Year: 1998, 1999
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0 I6
I used a couple more words to describe it in my build thread but that is the gist of it. Once the wax cools and hardens up a bit, wonderful things happen to stuck bolts.
07-23-2016, 06:52 PM
No, I don't lick fish.
07-23-2016, 11:16 PM
No, I don't lick fish.
07-24-2016, 08:06 AM
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Year: 1996
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0
After the nasty, weeks-doing rear bumper project on the '96 Sport, changed oil, oil filter, air filter replaced a marker bulb, added some fuel system cleaner, washed, waxed and headed out confidently with new rear bumper and passed IL emissions test.
Looking and running fantastic, with 102,500 on the clock.
Ya-freaking-hoo!
'Celebrated by buying a new $100+ 2016-2017 registration sticker for the license plate.
Now to ponder on those "droop bubbles" on the inside fabric head liner.
Is there an easy repair without taking the inside roof apart?
Jeep on.
Looking and running fantastic, with 102,500 on the clock.
Ya-freaking-hoo!
'Celebrated by buying a new $100+ 2016-2017 registration sticker for the license plate.
Now to ponder on those "droop bubbles" on the inside fabric head liner.
Is there an easy repair without taking the inside roof apart?
Jeep on.
07-24-2016, 03:28 PM
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I replaced my rear shocks. All 4 top bolts sheared right off.
I used the air hammer trick and it worked like a charm. Popped each right out, then fished new bolts in.
I used the air hammer trick and it worked like a charm. Popped each right out, then fished new bolts in.
07-24-2016, 04:44 PM
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Year: 1998
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0
Put the battery charger on it. Still trying to figure out the cause of the noise in the drive train since my TC overhaul. I crawled under it and to my eye it looks like when I put everything back together with the new TC drop that I( may have shifted everything over about 1/2" to the PS from center. Unless that is the way they are suppose to be, I never noticed before
07-24-2016, 04:51 PM
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Model: Cherokee
Picked up a 231 for $40 off Craigslist. Gonna crack it open and learn how this stuff works. Hopefully it's in good shape and I can put an SYE on it and swap it out for the stocker.