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Old Sep 15, 2010 | 10:28 AM
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Go to searchtempest.com, you can search more than just your area from craigslist and it will through in ebay.

My advice would be to look south because of rust, up north cherokee's are usually rust buckets, the rockers are usually the first place to rust
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Old Sep 15, 2010 | 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Dakota5605
Go to searchtempest.com, you can search more than just your area from craigslist and it will through in ebay.

My advice would be to look south because of rust, up north cherokee's are usually rust buckets, the rockers are usually the first place to rust
I don't mind rust too much, as long it's not in the floor panels.
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Old Sep 15, 2010 | 08:35 PM
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Craigslist. I found mine for $500.

Originally Posted by mooseinabox
Only problem with Craiglist is that I can't narrow it down and kick out the Grand's from my search. At least 75% are Grand Cherokees. But that's where I'm looking now.
PROTIP: Type Cherokee -grand in the search box. It will return all posts that have Cherokee in them, but none that have Grand.

Originally Posted by mooseinabox
http://jxn.craigslist.org/cto/1927476259.html

Another one. Again, how difficult is body work?
Depends on your skill level, and what results you want.

That one doesn't sound too bad. Here's what mine looked like when I brought it home:


It's all fixed now. I found another guy on craigslist who was parting out a 94 Sport identical to mine. He sold me the fender, flare, antenna, bumper, and loaded header panel, plus some odds and ends for $100. Same color, trim, and everything; I didn't have to paint a thing. Looks completely original now.

I did have to do some straightening underneath before I could bolt everything up. I had the benefit of a big hydraulic puller machine, where you just chain it to the part you want to pull out, and let 'er rip.

If you need to pull things straight and don't have access to one of those, you can find a stout tree and try to yank it out using reverse, then just bolt up your replacement parts.

Fair warning, if you're looking at a wrecked XJ, you want to look very carefully at the subframe to make sure it's not broken. Mine was. In the rear, from a rear-end collision that they seller said was minor, but really wasnt. That was much more of a pain to fix than the front, and involved a moderate amount of cutting and welding.

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