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What did you use to shore up under the plywood when you removed the seat ? I just did the upgrade to ZJ seats, and am thinking about removing my back seat too, thanks.
What did you use to shore up under the plywood when you removed the seat ? I just did the upgrade to ZJ seats, and am thinking about removing my back seat too, thanks.
I removed the seat bottom and tilted seat back down forward. It gets almost flat. The quarter inch plywood is flexy enough to conform to the slight rise over the tilted down seat back. I did place some extra floor mats under the plywood right behind the seat. This shimmed up the plywood perfectly. The FRP is smooth enough to slide boxes and cargo in and out. We use this for work and bring about 600 pounds of dairy and other stuff from vendors to our shop three times a week. The load floor is perfect height. No bending down to load or unload.
And I bought a spare seat bottom. So I have one at work and one at home. Can convert to a back seat any time any where. The load floor just slides right out.
Last edited by HappyTrails; Oct 11, 2015 at 10:45 PM.
Looks good happy.
Why do you have 2 sets of headlights?
Old school. High beams and low beams. This was a Wagoneer XJ feature from 1986-1990. Not common to find these. This is a unique setup since there were no factory two door quad light XJ's. I added this to my 96 just for the looks and practicality of separate adjustment capability between high and low beams. I like to have the high beams aimed a bit higher and wider for the mountain driving I do.
Old school. High beams and low beams. This was a Wagoneer XJ feature from 1986-1990. Not common to find these. This is a unique setup since there were no factory two door quad light XJ's. I added this to my 96 just for the looks and practicality of separate adjustment capability between high and low beams. I like to have the high beams aimed a bit higher and wider for the mountain driving I do.
Installing the Wagoneer quad light front is very easy. But you need to get the entire header panel, not just the grill and light bezels. The header panel behind the lights is very different then the normal XJ header panels. And the orange corner marker lights are slightly different and not interchangeable. Be sure to retrieve those from the donor Wagoneer.
It is all attached only by a few nuts on top of the cross brace over the radiator and four behind the light bezels. Also there are three small screws accessible right over the top of the bumper under the grill. I recently sourced an entire spare assembly from a junk yard Wagoneer. It took me less than 10 minutes to remove it completely.
The wire harness will need some modification to adapt to the connector below the intake air box.
It takes H4703 Low beam lights and H4701 High beam lights. Common on 90's GMC and Chevy vans and trucks.
I bought NOS grill from a Collision Parts, and NOS light bezels from Quadratec. That was about a year go. Don't know if they have any left.
Installing the Wagoneer quad light grill was one of the easiest mods on my XJ. Go to Row52.com and search for 1986 to 1990 AMC and Jeep Wagoneer junk yard placements. (some are listed as Jeeps and some as AMC's) You can save the searches and get automatic alerts when these get placed. That is how I found both of mine. But they are very sought after parts, so you need to act fast when they come up. I wasn't half way back to the pay booth when another guy passed me looking for those same parts!
Have fun!
Last edited by HappyTrails; Oct 13, 2015 at 05:54 PM.
Can I ask what modifications you had to do to the harness? I just picked up a complete wagonner front end with harness still attached and was hoping to put it on this weekend.
Can I ask what modifications you had to do to the harness? I just picked up a complete wagonner front end with harness still attached and was hoping to put it on this weekend.
I used both sides of the connector in the receiving XJ cutting it from the harness. On the donor wagoneer harness I clipped off the connector and discarded it, and applied 12 v to the various wires to ID them and label them. Did the same on the removed harness. Then just spliced the connector wires to the Wagoneer wires. It's not hard. But there are some differences you need to figure out. Basically you use both sides of your XJ's connector and discard the Wagonneer connector but use the Wagoneer harness.
Solder and shrink wrap the splices, of course.
Last edited by HappyTrails; Oct 15, 2015 at 04:27 PM.
Under hood pix and nice interior mod..
