Well I can finally call myself a jeep member

I bought over the weekend in tampa, fl a 1988 cherokee, 5 speed, 4x4 with close to 160, 000 miles on it... what it came with is what grabbed my attention; a roof rack, fender flares, rear bumper with reciever and a tire carrier, a front bumper ( not sure what kind or how to explain it), 33 mickey thompsons as well as the spare is a 33... and rims... not sure if there steel or what brand but ill get back to you guys on it...

The drive was crazy... a friend of mine drove from miami to tampa... got it and I drove the cherokee back, used it for a couple days more and it drives awesome... it does have its problems but that's what a bulid is for its gonna be my zombie killer

Ill post some pics soon... as well as what will be worked on first....

 

Patiently awaiting pics.....

 

Got 2 pics from my buddy that went with me to tampa... fueling for the long trip

 

Looks like a half decent rig... I love that bumper. You've got a handicap though (dangly mirror syndrome)

 

Nice XJ. You gonna join the group?

You might as well upgrade to 97+ mirrors, they are a little bigger and are foldable. Plus they bolt right in.

 

Thanks guys... yea took off both side mirrors and sometime on the weekend gonna go to the junkyard for some mirrors... yea I wanna join the group... gotta get the sticker that says zombie reponse team or something like it... I bought two that give me zombie hunting permit

 

NICE!!

 

Nice!! You have now contracted the XJ syndrome. You will involuntarily dump tons of money into your XJ and you will not be able to stop. You will never have a completed project and about everything you do will involve your XJ in some way.

Looks like you have a good starting point, ready to see where it goes! Subbed

 

Nice rig

 

Very nice, how much?

 

Yea I already have some crazy ideas... and these forums other people wrote and have done doesn't help out...

I got it for $1900.. it was posted for $2200... but was able to talk him down... not much but I feel like it was an opportunity that I could not let fly by...

 

nice xj make sure to join and apply for your ID number

 

Subscribed

 

b-dub where do i go to apply? is this the zombie club that got started from zombie response jeep?

 

Well guys...

Today was a harder day of sweat and figuring out what is important or not... or at least what i thought was... i took the cherokee out for a spin to get somethings from my storage and i noticed the guages dont work at all -.- great!

So i started to try to figure it out... i noticed the previous owner had wires in the car that were sub woofer material, along with switches that were direct to the battery and to a make believe ground... i must have taken out like 2 or 3 pounds of wires....

Using the haynes manual book, i have the wires that im going to keep, now its the mission of seeing which ones are what and figure out why my tail lights or turn signals dont work either....