Restoring A Totaled Jeep
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Restoring A Totaled Jeep
So, i plan on fixing my dads 1997 jeep cherokee sport... Well she has 125k miles on her and he hit a deer last year with it... He bought it new in 97-98 and since then has been taken care of very well. Now anyways i plan on fixing this car up as my first car but there are a few issues i need help with. Is it worth fixing? and how much would it cost to fix it if i buy the parts and do it myself? also she needs a little body work (dent in picture and rims are rusty but body seems to have no rust) so should i even attempt to restore her?
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Year: 1995
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Engine: 4.0L
first of all make sure the frame isnt tweeked in the front. if it is, it might not be worth fixing. if it isnt, then its a fairly simple fix. you would need fenders, bumper and caps, grill/header panel, maybe a hood (cant tell if its damaged in the pictures). theres probably other stuff im forgetting, i dont know a whole lot about XJs
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Good on you for taking this on . Takes a lot of work and guts to do a project like this. I did it differently by getting another xj and using the original jeep for parts. Save myself a a lot of time and money in the long run and ended up with a nice rig .
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yeah... the cheapest i can find a cherokee is around $700 so with parts and stuff its just cheaper to do it by getting parts i cant find an xj for under $500 and im looking at about $500 in parts at the most
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Assuming there isn't any frame damage (shouldn't be with a deer, but make sure to check the rails) it should be a relatively easy fix, bumper & caps (possibly mounts), grill, header panel, lights & signals, fender(s), and possibly a rad support and rad (hard to tell from the pics if they're damaged). should be $200-300 at a junk yard (maybe less, especially at a pick your part), less than $500 with new aftermarket parts (plus some dupli-color since they come in black primer or an additional $400-500 at a body shop if you want a perfect match).
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With a unibody the worse damage is always under the sheet metal you can't see.Check all the door gaps on the passenger side vs the drivers side,If they are a lot tighter or touching then you might have a bigger problem then you think.
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