Bought not built...
 

I picked up a 97 sport the other day!!! It has the 4.0 w/ aw4 tranny...here are some specs...

7 in Rusty's Long Arm , Quigley custom driveshaft(this co. does the 4x4 Vans,there work is stout) , Advance Adapters SYE , Spartan locked D30 front with Alloy axle tube seals. Aussie locked Chr. 8.25 rear. 35x12.5x15 SSR's The tires show chunking from the rocks. Cragar soft 8's. TnT Trac-bar with TnT bracket. Rusty's steering box brace....Rear leafs are Rusty's 6.5 leaf packs. Front spring are RC 6.5 coils with 2" spacer. Shocks and s/stabilzer are RC 2.2(the bigger ones). Everything has been put on new within last 9 months except the long arms and tires. The long arms are used but in good condition. JKS quick disconnects.

As of now I still have to get it inspected. :icon_cry: Shouldn't be that hard, but we shall see. Flares WILL be coming off as soon as it does, well the TJ flares will. I may go get some stock ones and throw them on the front.

Plans are...
4.88 gears
Alloy shafts
Sliders
Bumpers front/rear
and more.

Now some pictures...
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r...picture-21.jpg
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r...picture-18.jpg
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r...picture-19.jpg
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r...icture_2-2.jpg
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r...picture-20.jpg
Uh oh!!!
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r...icture_2-1.jpg

I will add a bit of background here also...

I had an 89 YJ before this on a 3.5in BDS lift with 33x12.5 MT/R with Kevlar. It gave me nothing but trouble and it got old after a while.

So I put it up forsale and traded the YJ for the cherokee, which is in much better shape.

I normally would have gone with a stock jeep and built it up, but this is my dream jeep and I would have built it up pretty much the same, just a few different things.

1997_Sport - Nice start on a good looking Jeep!

Nice! I hope you know they guy who inspects your jeep. Im in MD too. Unibody lift laws suck. 20" bumper height max. For trucks i beleive it is 26" I could be mistaken though. I'm over, but thats now after some upgrades:)

20? :oooo I thought it was 28? lol

I am hoping this kid messages me back on facebook or I hear back from my other friend who can write it off. hahah

EDIT! I am getting it inspected on monday. lol

Btw, where in MD do you live?

I could be misstaken but i beleive thats what my old man told me. Im in college at frostburg, otherwise im in MoCo. I hope you pass inspection!

Oh okay I have no clue what it is, I was hoping the latter of the two. haha

I should pass it, my buddy is inspecting it and said he is very lenient and I will pay him extra. lol

I think I know the guy who you bought that XJ from. I picked up a bunch of parts off him a little while ago. He has a very nice XJ and I know it's capable. Did he live in Walkersville?

Yup, but he doesn't have a very nice XJ...I do. :D

Haven't posted in a while on here so lets see what has happened...

Not a whole lot. It did get totaled. :laugh: No big deal, should be getting a nice 2k check here real soon.

Going to be buying new tires for it.

I put some buchwackers on the front yesterday and realized just how much I hate idiots...

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r...picture-45.jpg

What it looks like now...

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r...picture-46.jpg

whoever cut them fenders originally musta been under the influence of something,it looks good with the new flares

:lol: yeah no kidding.

So it got totalled..as in couldnt pass inspection and now offroad only?

No got totaled when I got rear-ended. Though I still need to get it inspected, but I have to wait for the insurance check to fix the hatch and bumper.

looks like you need to get rid of the drop pitman arm. The trackbar to draglink angle looks all wrong. They should match.

I bought front and rear JCR bumpers last night, and will buy a winch once I get her on the road. Just so I know how much money I have left over from insurance. I am starting to work soon, so all money will go towards the jeep.

I need to adjust my longarms, get it aligned and weld on my trackbar mount. After all that I will check out the pitman arm and all that. As of now I am not to worried about it though.

cool ride. post pics of the bumpers you ordered. Any ad ons to the bumpers like a rear spare mount or anything?

Alright I will, no add-ons just yet. I will probably end up sticking the spare(when I get one) in the back anyway. Plus I couldn't spend over 700 on a rear bumper. :laugh:

http://www.jcroffroad.com/Merchant2/...hBumperNew.jpg

http://www.jcroffroad.com/Merchant2/...rearxjdesc.jpg

yeah nice bumpers. Basic and to the point. Clean looking too. great choice!!! Do you think you'll do lights like in the pic too?

I will add lights yes, but thats whenever I get them. haha I will probably get the hella driving lights though.

I had those on my last jeep and really liked them.

Just a quick update, I have not heard anything from JCR yet. They are off until Jan. 3rd, so I will email them sometime then to see the progress on them.

I recently installed a Rockford Fosgate p2 12" sub, alpine 500w amp, and will be getting four kicker speakers tomorrow to install as well.

Got a new hatch the the junkyard yesterday and installed it. I will have to paint it some time, but will probably wait until spring unless we get a warm spell soon.

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r...picture-48.jpg

Also got my insurance check of 2000. 1100 is already spent, so for now I will wait to see what I need for inspections and then spend it on some tires hopefully!

Mikey i think we need to do some body work on that front end...

What the hell happened there? Blindfolded with a case of beer? Wow.

I was checking your thread. JUST realized JCR is a 20 min drive from my house. How did I not know this. SCORE. Keep on keepin on! It'll be a great(er) rig when you get it buttoned up.

Yeah, just a little...I aint worried about it once I get on the trails it will be worse!
Well thats what I thought at first, but if you ever look on TJ flares; which were on the front, you will see a little lip on the back side of the flares. Well the previous owner just trimmed up where that lip was.

It sucks that he did it now that I changed the flares, but I got over it. :rofl:

:rofl: Thats awesome, now you dont need to pay shipping! But thats man, I cant wait to get it on the road still. But as you all know at times jeepin is slow!

Need some pics and updates here. Wanna see the new bumbers installed!!:thumbup:

Only have picture of the rear, since the front is not on yet but...

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r...picture-52.jpg
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r...picture-53.jpg

Nice bumper choice. Looks real nice man. But I see larger flares on the rear too. Bout some pics of those on there too. Are they just on the rear or you get them installed on the fronts too.

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r...nascar/250.jpg
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r...nascar/254.jpg
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r...r/100_3167.jpg

mike you get the paint straightened out?

Nope, I got all the bare metal covered up with etchi primer and then sprayed a little black on it and it did it again. Right now the metal is way to cold to paint it correctly. I am going to just put it on and then in the spring I will take it off strip the paint off and try again.

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r...picture-54.jpg

Dont mind the paint on it, it will be getting fixed I just needed to get it on for inspection tomorrow.

It is forsale if anyone maybe interested?

im in harford county, md too! where you at? im in bel air