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so after three years im finally back in a jeep last week i picked up a 1997 jeep grand cherokee 5.2 auto 133k two inch budget boost on 30's motor has some work done to it bored throttle body bigger injectors msd ignition ford taurus electric fan set up 3in exhaust dana 30 up front dana 44 in the rear with posi.....3.73's rust free drives perfect its a laredo so has leather interior and all the goodies this will be the start of a beautiful thread!

AirborneDeth

I really want another ZJ. Good starting platform.

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thanks i actually will hopefully be getting a 4in skyjacker lift here real quick friend of mine is has it and said he would trade the lift for some parts i have off my AR-15!

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guess what i picked up today i traded my ar-15 furniture and barrel i had for this

cleenrob

haha! never seen angry eys on a zj lol im diggin it!!

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lol thanks!

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picked this guy up today


swapping my 249 for a 242! should be doing this tomorrow or friday hopefully

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little bit of a update tried to do my t case swap and found that my rear shaft was too long so i had to go in search of a 242 rear shaft found one now just waiting on some free time to get the swap done in the mean time tho i installed a new cb in the jeep its just a cheap uniden radio i picked up for 50 bucks let me know what you guys think!








hmmm behind walmart i believe its calling my name

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added a spring to my cb whip



deleted the muffler so now its a 3" straight pipe from cat back



debadged the jeep today looks alot better now! my plans for it next are to paint the body cladding satin black and get rid of those ugly *** exploder wheels!

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well little update last thursday i drove the jeep through some high water and she spit and sputtered and then idle smoothed out drove her a little bit then got her home all seemed fine fired her back up after about 15 minutes and she started running like crap so i turned around and took her back home by the time i got her in the garage she died and wouldnt turn over anymore so i thought i might have hydro locked it so i pulled the plugs and tried to crank it over i was able to get a few cranks out of her then seemed like battery went dead so i put everything back together and again battery was dead put it on the charger and acid started boiling out of the top so i took it out and took the starter to get tested now i have a bad starter and battery cant find anything else out till i get those replaced this weekend. in the mean time i figured since she was already down i would go ahead and do my tcase swap and get the 242 put in so today i got the 249 out and tomorrow i will be putting the 242 in ill update with pictures soon

ok here is some pics of the tcase swap got it almost wrapped up just waiting on getting a new tranny mount since ive got the old one out right now but here is what i have so far
here is old case removed


here are the 249 and 242 side by side


here is the new case in

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and a few days ago i replaced my sway bar bushings on the front



old bushings


old vs new


new





the transfer case swap is done and working great the motor turned out to be not hydro locked and it just fried the starter and battery i picked up a new starter yesterday and pulled the battery out of the farm tractor and she fired right up i went ahead and did a oil change just to be safe got all the fluids topped off and she is running like a champ now! just need to make some custom tcase linkage to eliminate all the stock bull**** and should be good to go! ive missed driving her its good to have her back up and running