cleaned up the chop alittle... bondo'd it all in to smooth it out... first coat anyway...rain was tryin to catch me in the act... i also grinded down all my welds for the C pillar handles and everything... bondo'd alittle to smooth it all out... some more to be done...

on the back i ran LED taillights and a truck net... yeah im not planning on spending abunch of time and money on a comanche tailgate or any of that mess... if i can get a hatch and more stock taillights i have an idea for them but time will tell... also almost finished with the rear bumper... gotta sandblast and paint it still... bout it...

rear bumper tube $3
rear hitch part... $20 from tractor supply
truck net... $3 from a clearance warehouse... was missing clips but i drilled out and reused the ones from the bed of the cherokee... free
LED taillights... $14 shipped from ebay...

when i got the jeep it had the 96 HO motor... well ding dong reused all the renix stuff... so i got a 01 intake and exhaust header (real header) from a buddy at LKQ and went to install it only to find out nothing was working right... thats when i found this out... i ended up going to the JY and pulling a fuel rail... throttle body (94)... fuel lines from frame to fuel rail... throttle cable... throttle cable bracket... and power steering bracket... this finally got me all back together... couldnt use any of the renix stuff i listed above... then i spent forever tracking down a belt to use with the renix stuff and then the new power steering pully and idler pully (idler pulleys attached to power steering brackets)... finally found it and was able to rout to make it all work perfect... as for the TB i used the 94 because the renix wire harness MAP sensor plugs right in... i cut off the TPS sensor and attached the 94 plug... thers only 3 wires... the middle to the middle... and then you just gotta figure out which outside wire goes to the other outside wire... and splice them in... JEEP RUNS GREAT WITH 94 TPS AND RENIX COMPUTER... that was the hardest part... the rest all just swapped out... even the power steering bracket just bolted right in... here are some pics of the swap... oh and also i stuck a cone filter right on top of the TB... im not finished yet but i plan to make a scoop on the hood that rotates around... open forward for "ram air" like intake and flip around when raining for a "cowl induction" style intake... also since renix the HO TB's are different this saves me from buying the whole intake setup...

Parts from the JY added up were like $65
intake and exhaust header from LKQ buddy... $40
Ford 5.0 injectors... free... from buddy who thought they were bad on his truck... was his computer...
cone filter $15
Belt... $15

oh and the fuel lines on thes XJ's differ from 2 door and 4 door and all this crap... i only ended up using the ends near the rail... and some high pressure line and clamps from autone... which is high dollar... forgot about that... paid like $32 for 6 foot of line... (only needed 4 foot)

pics of the power steering bracket...

my JY dana 44 i got out of a cherokee for only $150... guy on craigslist in atl was selling one for $150 and i found one at my local JY the same day... so i printed it off and told the JY id rather say local and buy from yall and that i would even pull it out since there a mile away... atls an hour... but his was already out... he said id rather have less money now then more money god knows when... so i got it for $150... but its got 3.54 gears... and my fronts 3.07's so without 4x4 for now... working on that... hehehe

my front cable conversion on the D30 i did after my vaccum crap failed on me and got me stuck... lol

98 chevy hood release cable... $2... JY
spring i found on a write up from ACE... less then a dollar
bicycle brake part from old bike... free
lawn mower handle... buddies lawn mower shop... free

this is a great thread, im lovin this

thanks man... it takes along time for these parts to show up on CL and what not and ive had it almost a year now and have gotten this far... not to bad...

tomorrow im starting the second coat of bondo and trying to smooth the chop out some more before i spray the whole truck satin black... the tan just doesnt have the "cool" effect i was hoping... oh yeah and

Bondo... $20... walmart christmas gift card... so free...

forgot about my exhaust and folding the quarters... because the exhaust header was from a 01 it existed different then my old 89 exhaust which there was nothing left of anyway... it was unbolted at the cat and gone from there... so i picked up a spun converter on ebay for $40 new and i had acouple single chamber mufflers laying around that i never used for my old impala... i think i paid $35 each for them on ebay like 2 years ago... they cost me but it was kinda free also since i already had them... and i took it up to the shop and had them run me 2.5in exhaust all the way back with these... which was hell cause i had mount everything like 1/2in from the floor and 2.5in pipe doesnt really fit around the front driveshaft to well... so it took many hours and cost me a cool $175... but there really was no getting around that... i should have done it when my buddy was runnin his little shop but i didnt think it would cost me that much so i didnt worry about it like a dum dum... could have costed me nothin... but hes the same guy that works at LKQ now so i cant decide which job i like him to have better... lol... he said he can get me a AX-15 and xfer case when the next one comes through for probly $80 or $90 for both... if he does that then ill like his new job better... lol... anyways here the pics of that and the quarter fold i did... free of course... i bumped a pine tree somewhere in the woods and it kinda dented my right side anyway... and i was doing the bumper so i went ahead and did this first...

and if i cant come up with the money soon to build the rest of my lift then ill be doing the gas tank mod and moving it up into the cargo area... it hangs to frickin low now... lol...

now that i kinda got a "theme" going im moving my build page here... so if your interested in keeping up then post on up something i should do to it or anything in the new thread... hope yall likes!

https://www.cherokeeforum.com/f46/pr...83/#post387920

man nice deal on those leafs....iam huntin a set for my 4 inch coils... btw cool jeep.

lol sorry man was not on in for ever but ya it was the 6.5 on 35's but i no longer have that one i got a stock 1990 2 door 5 spd with the ax-15 now in mint condition

lol... yeah ive got a whole nother build thread now... forgot i even had this one... lol... need to close it... talk to yas man!