and if anyone knows the whereabouts of a grille or an entire header panel, i am looking for it

 

progress has been pretty slow so far on the wagoneer with the hours i work and having a 7 month old but i did some simple stuff like clean off the paint on the marker lamps that the previous owner had applied doing the ones that sit in the grille here in a little bit. got them currently soaking in some brake fluid

 

Got a little bit of work done today on the wagon. Got the rear end swapped out from the 99 so I can get the wagon out of the field down to the barn where the real building will start.



excuse all the bedliner and axle placement. once we roll the jeep into the barn they are getting pulled again and will be sold for some goodies i picked up.



previous owners did a real hack job with the liner on this poor waggy. eventually ill get around to fixing it

 

And so it begins. I originally planned on running my freshly built 8.8 and d30 for a while but I came across the deal of the century and just could not pass these up. So Im essentially back to square one on the build but I think itll all be worth it.



^ full floating 14 bolt with disc brakes




^ ford high pinion d60 king pin

 

got around to getting started on this junk

 

not too bad, was expecting worse really. only a few spots need to cut out.

 

cosmetically this waggy needs so much love

 

heres some goodies i picked up for it

 

Awesome project! Were those homemade flares on the xj?

 

yes they were. i cut my fenders one day at these more squared off angles and i thought it would look good but then i hated it so i threw togther the flares one weekend and i felt better about it lol i liked the look but next time around ill need to take a little more time on them