Before I get started I'd like to say that when I say "work", I mean as in serving a utility in every day life. Wheeling DOES NOT COUNT in this respect, UNLESS you have to wheel to get to and from home every day.

As it gets more and more common for XJ's to be used as toys over an important part of someone's daily life, I find myself wondering more and more how many of us actually use our Cherokees as more than something to bash over rocks.

Time moves forward and these Jeeps get older, but they never want to stop. That's what's so amazing about these old girls.

My question to all of you reading is: What does your XJ do for you? Towing, moving, taking regular trips - long hours on the road up steep grades, anything.

How hard does YOUR XJ work?

Feel free to share pictures and/or stories!



Probably the most interesting part about my XJ is that it's a four-door, but a two-seater with what I always call a "truck bed" in the back.



It's hauled everything from engines, transmissions, transfer cases, toolboxes, to mulch, furniture, used oil barrels, and camping gear.

It served with distinction during my family's most recent move, piled from floor to ceiling with our belongings and pulling a trailer stuffed just as full, 6 hours a day for three weeks. Never batted an eye.



(You can't really tell because of the angle in this image, but there are actually TWO engines back there, the other one's just a stripped inline 6 laid on its side.)

It's taken me on weeklong road trips, backroads joyrides, to work, to family and friends. Sure, there have been problems - but, and I say this seriously - 90% of them have been due to my own meddling. This is the vehicle I learned how to wrench on, and even today I find some things that make me shake my head that 16 year old me did!



I really appreciate these old XJ's.

 

My 98 works as a daily driver. 30 miles round trip to work. It isnt my only vehicle but it is my only one that is capable of getting me to and from work in the deep snow that we sometimes get here in south central PA. We might hardly get any snow or we might get hammered several times in one winter. Either way I drive it all the time and enjoy it.

I have also carried alot of cargo in the back, packed it full for vacation trips, packed it full of people, groceries, you name it. They are excellent all round vehicles. Mine is lifted 3 inches on 31s and it is better on the highway then my Civic and definitely better than my C10. It is literally my go anywhere anytime vehicle that can haul the most people with the most cargo space.

 

Towed this with it a few years ago when my truck was down.