Hello! This is my 4th cherokee and I figured it was time to share some of the build info with others. I started with a bone stock xj bought from a guy in San deigo who was the original owner and didnt know how to put it into 4wd. He had never offroaded it so it was extremely clean. I bought it with roughly 150,000 miles for $1400.00. It has a 4.0 I6 HO with an NP231 auto trans 8.25 rear end.
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I'm just trying to figure out how to upload pictures for you guys

 

So here's what I started with.

 

I had to take it out and see what a stock xj felt like again!

 

The carpet was pretty thrashed from the previous owners shoe polish as you can see. He worked at in in out and must have tracked in a lot of grease after work.


After a couple minutes of scrubbing it came out looking amazing on both sides

 

If the title of this build didn't give it away, I bought this jeep mainly for getting to my favorite hunting spots. With that being said I'm still picky and I pay attention to detail. I will be posting pictures related to some hunting trips that the jeep is involved in. On that note we found a pretty big rattler first time out in the jeep!




And the finished product after I skinned and tanned it

 

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And this happened



And then these happened

 

A little bigger



I didn't take many pictures of the install of the lift. It took me about 2 afternoons to get the front completed. That's working by myself with a hand from my brother to get the control arms on the axle.



I had the rear done in about 4 hours.




The shackle would hit this bolt when cycled so I hit it with a flap wheel on an angle grander.

Before:



After:


New RE leaf pack


How it sat on stock wheels and tires.

The rear springs were harder that woodpecker lips

 

These happen to be my favorite tire. Iv had them on my last two jeeps and had them on my truck and they are a great tire. The best part is that my chick bought them for me for my birthday and surprised me with them




BFG 33 12.5 x15 on a 15x10 wheel.

 

And then I towed it to a great place called Banning Driveline so they could work their magic.



I had them throw in an Advanced Adapters SYE before making a new rear driveshaft.



They did an awesome job like usual.

Picked it up and it was ready for a fender trim and then start lookin for some quail


Naturally she was dying to drive

 

Awesome build man! love black on black xjs with the sport stripe! haha

 

The previous owner did this hack job wiring which didn't even work so I fixed it and got a cheap head unit


After:


Also had to redo the headliner

 

looks great man good work!!!

 

great lookin...jeep.
nice work