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Old 03-02-2019, 10:07 AM
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Although not new to CherokeeForum its Been Four years since i have been on and Owned a Cherokee
Right now station in Jacksonville Florida at NAS JAX.
First Jeep i had was a 1996 XJ with 3 in lift and junkyards 31's lasted for a little while until it blew up few month before i shipped out. Now i have a 2000 XJ 4.5in X-Arm rough country lift, 33x12.5r15 KM2, bought with 128,xxx miles. now has just shy of 150,xxx. plan on doing a few things minor things until i get enough money together to make it the ultimate exploration rig.
ill post again when i can get all the pictures together until then here are a few.

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Here is a couple picture of my first XJ
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Here is my new to me 2000 xj



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New LED Headlights



Like this look alot, thinking about monster liner it dark gray or something
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Does anybody know if you can use factory style control arm bushings on a Rough country control arm (non-greasable). ive done research to no results
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No idea, good lucking XJ though. Never used RC stuff.
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Yea I emailed them, they replied with there are no replacement bushing just buy these new updated ones. So I'm gonna look for a set of upper and lower control arms. Maybe just a whole new lift. Who knows. I see know why everybody steers away from RC
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So my hood flew up on me and get all bent to peices, so now I'm thinking of doing a cowl hood, and I got my CB installed. I wanna find a better way to mount my antenna, amd strobes installed.
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Ill be dropping some pictures of my CB set up, and LED Dash. Ive still been looking for new upper and lower control arms. Thinking about a 3 link
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i got bored so i painted my rims OD green
I don't have a picture of my dash, but tomorrow I getting my rear speakers fixed. Then its getting put on the back burner for a little while I have to fix my other 2 vehicles.
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Trying to upload pictures but its being a pain. Painted my grill OD Green, polished my head lights, and remounted my LED lights. Going to be investing in some CAVFAB control arms and steering. Mid next month. Hitting the junkyard this weekend for some interior peices. Slow progress, but gonna try and get it built for jeep beach 2020 seeming how I missed it this year.
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Order some CAVFAB stage 1 upper and lower control arms, and a amazon special DIY bumper. Im starting to build up some parts for it, then gonna drop about 2 weeks of leave to get it all mounted up. Maybe take it out wheeling a few times, then clean it up real nice and start prepping for phase 2 build ill see if i can upload some pictures of the CA and bumper i ordered.
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Good luck with the arms. I was looking at them until I found Core 4x4 Tier 3 arms for the same price but thicker tubing and Currie Johnny Joint ends and in any color you want. That bumper is a hot question on facebook, heard they look like a JCR DIY bumper.


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