haha thats funny what u said about ure signal light goin on when you turn ure lamps on, if i read it right i was in a rush to comment haha. My 89 cherokee does the same thing the left signal light turns on when u put the brights on. are your headlights stock or aftermarket?, those are some crazy air shocks man haha

 

"and it has a new air filter"

 

As far as I know... stock, but in my dissection (its getting a new body) I've found all sorts of entertaining wiring bundles - so no one knows.

Haven't updated in a bit, but soon will come the whole body swap (or drivetrain swap, pending how you like to look at it).

 

I had the same thing after hitting a guardrail (Stupid Ice), in my case the bulb was smashed, and shorted, maybe where you are missing the plastic, it's shorted out.

Nice Find, Good Luck!

 

A weak update, but I really haven't touched this truck much recently. I thought heavily about patching in new floors and such, but when my wife's uncle came across a '98 2WD XJ without rust, I bought it. In the next weekend or two I'm going to make the 4-5 hour round-trip to go and pick it up, then the swapping begins. Not sure about which parts are being kept from which year, but definitely the transfer case/front axle from the '92. It'll be an entertaining process to say the least. I'll keep taking shots as we go.

 

So yesterday I made the drive to south florida to trailer up the "new" jep. So now I've got a '92 black 4x4 - fine mechanically but hosed body/rust-wise, and a '99 white 4x2 - crashed in the front but fine otherwise.

Plan is to swap the front fender/radiator/running gear off of the '92 (as well as the damn hatchback shocks, as the '92s are peppy but the '99s sag and want to smack you in the head), and barter/sell off the remainders - keeping the good stuff for myself (spare tie-rod, etc).

The vehicle will be titled as '92, swapping the D/S door and whatever other markings need be, and potentially be run also by the '92s motor pending what I find in the '99s motor/transmission combo.

The '99 has a fantastic interior despite the airbags being blown, and it seems the impact was dead-center on the front such that the side horns are straight while the radiator got killed.

After sitting and not being able to do much (the black jeep is stripped except for the engine and suspension/axles), it was nice to be able to start working again. Tonight I got the fenders off of the '99, the front on jackstands, the bad radiator off, and starting to disassemble the front end.

Unless I run into problems with the engine swap (which is somewhat inevitable I'm presuming), I think that this should go interestingly straight-forward, especially since the 4x2 '99s suspension and steering in the front are pretty much exactly the same as the '92s, save for the dummy axle.

That said, the good:



The bad:


and the ugly:


Nice interior though:

 

im with this guy, hes was a little tilted

 

probaly a good plan considering the 92 is rusting it self to death but it might be better to sell the older one and just use the money to get the repair's done on the 99 you can get the fenders for about 100 to 150 each even less if you got to the junk yard and the rad support and grill and trim can be found for cheap as well. just an idea.

 

x2.

is there any laws about airbags down there?

another nice thing about the 99 is that it doesnt have purple tint haha.

 

Well, the thing is that the '92 wouldn't be worth selling whole at this point. If I did sell it whole, I'd have to buy a well-titled vehicle to use the title from, a front axle, transfer case, windshield, fenders, etc from. The '92 also has a brand-new (like week-old when received) radiator.

The '92 did not originally have airbags which is one reason to title it as a '92. AFAIK the only airbag policies apply to OEMs and perhaps vehicles being commercially resold.

 

thats what i thought about the airbags and thats why i thought you might be doing the sway like you were thinking.

 

so why not part out the older one and still use the tags for the new one. i prefer the front end from the 97 and up but that is just me i guess

 

That's exactly what I'm doing - taking what I need from the '92 and then getting rid of the rest of it.

I can't say I'll ever notice the different front end being on there.

 

cool just take lots of pics to show the change over

 

So yesterday I only got a little bit of sunlight to do some work. I pulled the swaybar and tierod off of the 2wd (slowly disassembling the entire front underneath).

The hardest part was getting the busted bumper off. Luckily a large 4' piece of steel fence piping makes a good prybar when slid over a wrench handle. Then on the passengerside it was a bit rough due to how the bumper was bent right in front of where the bolts are:


How we're sitting now:


Also started measuring out to see how I'm going to bolt in (and drop out) the transfer case. Pondering now whether I should also do a SYE at the same time, even if my end goal is some 29-31" on <3" lift.

Next will probably be engine teardown (with lots of pictures for reference) and unbolting the dummy axle to remove it.

Also, anyone have any ideas about adapting (or if its possible to do) a rear 2" receiver to the front? Both trucks have great 2" receivers, but would love to pull the 4x4's for the front of the 2wd.