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Old Jan 24, 2017 | 10:56 AM
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Lets see... roughly $20 in change / small bills, $15 Taco Bell gift card (never used), white gold / emerald ring (real/ jeweler says about $500, wifey was pleased), rusted can of soup. enough other trash to fill a kitchen sized trash can, hole in drivers floor pan, various other small repairs were required. However she cleaned up real nice and is running / driving like a champ.
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Old Jan 29, 2017 | 09:37 AM
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Originally Posted by mudford
What kind of treats did you find working on your Cherokee that the previous owner cobbled together for you to deal with?

-example: Was looking into replacing shocks, looked at the upper rear shock mounts, WELDED! When they were putting the lift in they broke the upper bolts off in the rear. Instead of drilling and tapping the holes, it seemed like a good idea to them to just weld in the new shocks. I can hardly wait to change them now!
No treats for me, i ordered my xj from the factory back in late '99.
HOWEVER
When installing the lift, i needed longer shocks so i ordered a set of SkyJackers.

Went to install them and holy s**t to my horror the jack*** at CAR-X who changed my stock shocks way back when WELDED one of the rear shock pins to the frame.
Also a

Air chiseled and ground it off.
Then ordered a set of BPEs for the rears. No more broken rear shock bolts.
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Old Jan 29, 2017 | 02:09 PM
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This:
Attached Thumbnails "Presents" from previous owners-rotor-grind.jpg  
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Old Jan 29, 2017 | 02:18 PM
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instead of running the ignition on the steering column they ran new wires from the fuse box to a horn button switch on the dash.
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Old Jan 31, 2017 | 07:32 PM
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Originally Posted by cruiser54
This:
Umm
It looks like the PO lost a wheel, ground one of the discs (guessing front left?) flat... Then didn't replace the rotor

(or presumably anything else)

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Old Feb 5, 2017 | 10:43 AM
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All the door and other compartments were filled with tools. I didn't know originally that the doors had compartments - I thought something was loose and rattling inside the doors. Turned out to be loose tools. <g> Under the rear seats too - tools. <g>

And there were several Joker cards here and there and one Ace of Spades.
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Old Feb 5, 2017 | 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Poodle Head Mikey
All the door and other compartments were filled with tools. I didn't know originally that the doors had compartments - I thought something was loose and rattling inside the doors. Turned out to be loose tools. <g> Under the rear seats too - tools. <g>

And there were several Joker cards here and there and one Ace of Spades.
Any good tools found?
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Old Feb 5, 2017 | 02:30 PM
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"good"? Well; certainly not Great; I can say that. <g> Some were useable but many were dollar-store grade screwdrivers, cheap wrenches, and so forth. The Stanley and Craftsman stuff I kept. Oddly; there was a nice new T&B crimping plier laying under the seat. I have it in my tool pouch right now. <g>

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Originally Posted by CurrySoSpicy
Any good tools found?
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Old Feb 5, 2017 | 03:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Poodle Head Mikey
"good"? Well; certainly not Great; I can say that. <g> Some were useable but many were dollar-store grade screwdrivers, cheap wrenches, and so forth. The Stanley and Craftsman stuff I kept. Oddly; there was a nice new T&B crimping plier laying under the seat. I have it in my tool pouch right now. <g>

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nice, I use my T&B crimping pliers almost everyday at work. The one with orange and black handles? My co-worker used to say "pass me the Halloween pliers". LOL.
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Old Feb 5, 2017 | 09:59 PM
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Originally Posted by CurrySoSpicy
nice, I use my T&B crimping pliers almost everyday at work. The one with orange and black handles? My co-worker used to say "pass me the Halloween pliers". LOL.
I've had a set for over 35 years and use them frequently.
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Old Feb 5, 2017 | 10:04 PM
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Originally Posted by cruiser54
I've had a set for over 35 years and use them frequently.
they are invaluable, I have the whole T&B kit at work. The set that the comes in the blue metal partitioned box. Has just about every stakon they make. Cheers
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Old Feb 5, 2017 | 10:19 PM
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That's funny. I've never heard them called that. But yes; those are the ones. <g>

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Originally Posted by CurrySoSpicy
nice, I use my T&B crimping pliers almost everyday at work. The one with orange and black handles? My co-worker used to say "pass me the Halloween pliers". LOL.
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Old Feb 6, 2017 | 01:44 AM
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Screws all over the roof where the po had a bunch of kc lights grounded
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Old Feb 6, 2017 | 01:37 PM
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I found a lot of green in mine. Mostly under the drivers seat. And not the type of green that you can spend at a store...
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Old Mar 1, 2017 | 12:54 AM
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I received this cool antenna array.
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