xjwanted

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Brad M.

Surface rust, as long as that's all it is, is just an eye sore. Won't hurt anything and sands right off. Pretty common to see it on older rigs like ours. As for the other stuff, all I can say is WOW, $7k into it? Didn't really come out ahead on the engine swap. You can buy a VERY nice low mileage XJ for less than that in a lot of places. So yeah, that makes it a tough call man. Good luck.

xjwanted

forgot to mention thats not only for the engien swap it includes tires shocks, oil changers and the other misc stuff. you know

xjwanted

alright now i reallllllly regret buying this jeep i was curious and my time wasting got the better of me and i pulled the carpet in the rear just to check out that rust hole its DAMP!!!!!!!! tommorow i might just remove all the carpet from the jeep and bedline the entire floor any suggestions on what to use to bedline it????? also im in psychology at where i go to highschool and we learned about this thing called hindsight bias, i wish i had been patient and waited for my dad to get me a jeep with all the dodads on it i just found a lifted cherokee for sale and its has everything i want on it!!!!!

xjwanted

alright tommorw i am taking care of this rust issue once and for all enough of this bull**** im getting jb dry weld a sheet of metal a grinder and some truck bed liner and im going to tackle this rust hole!!!!!!!!!! i want to keep this jeep looking good and running good i have been dealt a hand by god now i must work with it, whos with me!!!!!??? haha just getting pepped up for this long haul

Skreed

That is alot of money...I dont think I've paid that much all together for my last 3 XJ's

Does everything else work really good? If you have a new engine why not keep it after u sunk the money into it. The rust issues are not that huge of a deal they can be fixed in many diffrent ways. If you have the new engine and everything is all good that thing should run for another 20 years.

Also with all the cash for clunkers xj's in the bone yards you can get tons of nearly mint parts for xj's for next to nothing. I''ve seen XJ's that look nearly new in the yards just with a murderd 4.0l.

fishtaconc

http://wilmington.craigslist.org/ctd/1626497334.html check this out for around $7k and its lifted

xjwanted

Yeah the jeep runs perfect just small sufrace rust issues im dealing with, heres my plans of attack for the rust hole

1. use jb dry weld a sheet of metal and a grinder to clean up the hole and patch it shut then prime /bedline it

2. a cheaper alternative im thinking would be to use bondo to fill in the hole, my friend used it on a cj hes restoring, i think that body flex from offroading may cause the bondo to crack and break apart or just fall out of place though..

So which should i use????????

oh and my dad says that buying this jeep was okay otherwise the flipped over jeep would still be in my garage and i'de be harping on about it.