What did you do to your Cherokee today?
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Year: 1996
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0L
Further work on the 1996 Country I bought last week. Went to DMV and made it legal on Monday morning. Took it to a local tire/brake dealer who is very reliable and had them check out my brake warning light; rear brake cylinders were leaking; they thought possibly because previous owner had not driven it much. Now have new drums, shoes, hardware, cylinders and NO BRAKE WARNING light.
Replaced front marker lens a couple of days ago. Today, also installed new tail light to replace broken lens. Had my wife check the lights and now my back-up lights are working fine. Previous owner had indicated possible problem with NSS, but seems fine and I have BU lights.
Other than cracked windshield which I'll get to eventually, I'm $2100-$2200 into this 96 and everything that is significant is fixed. Combined with the 172K mileage, the Up Country package, and that everything works (windows, locks, AC, radio, etc) I'm a happy boy.
Replaced front marker lens a couple of days ago. Today, also installed new tail light to replace broken lens. Had my wife check the lights and now my back-up lights are working fine. Previous owner had indicated possible problem with NSS, but seems fine and I have BU lights.
Other than cracked windshield which I'll get to eventually, I'm $2100-$2200 into this 96 and everything that is significant is fixed. Combined with the 172K mileage, the Up Country package, and that everything works (windows, locks, AC, radio, etc) I'm a happy boy.
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Year: 1990
Model: Cherokee (XJ)
Engine: 4.0
Further work on the 1996 Country I bought last week. Went to DMV and made it legal on Monday morning. Took it to a local tire/brake dealer who is very reliable and had them check out my brake warning light; rear brake cylinders were leaking; they thought possibly because previous owner had not driven it much. Now have new drums, shoes, hardware, cylinders and NO BRAKE WARNING light.
Replaced front marker lens a couple of days ago. Today, also installed new tail light to replace broken lens. Had my wife check the lights and now my back-up lights are working fine. Previous owner had indicated possible problem with NSS, but seems fine and I have BU lights.
Other than cracked windshield which I'll get to eventually, I'm $2100-$2200 into this 96 and everything that is significant is fixed. Combined with the 172K mileage, the Up Country package, and that everything works (windows, locks, AC, radio, etc) I'm a happy boy.
Replaced front marker lens a couple of days ago. Today, also installed new tail light to replace broken lens. Had my wife check the lights and now my back-up lights are working fine. Previous owner had indicated possible problem with NSS, but seems fine and I have BU lights.
Other than cracked windshield which I'll get to eventually, I'm $2100-$2200 into this 96 and everything that is significant is fixed. Combined with the 172K mileage, the Up Country package, and that everything works (windows, locks, AC, radio, etc) I'm a happy boy.
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Year: 1999
Model: Cherokee
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Further work on the 1996 Country I bought last week. Went to DMV and made it legal on Monday morning. Took it to a local tire/brake dealer who is very reliable and had them check out my brake warning light; rear brake cylinders were leaking; they thought possibly because previous owner had not driven it much. Now have new drums, shoes, hardware, cylinders and NO BRAKE WARNING light.
Replaced front marker lens a couple of days ago. Today, also installed new tail light to replace broken lens. Had my wife check the lights and now my back-up lights are working fine. Previous owner had indicated possible problem with NSS, but seems fine and I have BU lights.
Other than cracked windshield which I'll get to eventually, I'm $2100-$2200 into this 96 and everything that is significant is fixed. Combined with the 172K mileage, the Up Country package, and that everything works (windows, locks, AC, radio, etc) I'm a happy boy.
Replaced front marker lens a couple of days ago. Today, also installed new tail light to replace broken lens. Had my wife check the lights and now my back-up lights are working fine. Previous owner had indicated possible problem with NSS, but seems fine and I have BU lights.
Other than cracked windshield which I'll get to eventually, I'm $2100-$2200 into this 96 and everything that is significant is fixed. Combined with the 172K mileage, the Up Country package, and that everything works (windows, locks, AC, radio, etc) I'm a happy boy.
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Year: 2001
Model: Cherokee
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Well after about 2 weeks of it sitting with a bad ac clutch finely got around to changing it with a new one I had off the old xj I missed driving it.
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I got the bolt that broke on the floor mount drilled out. I'm just going to drill it out slightly bigger and use a nut/bolt and some washers to tighten it down.
I just need to figure out how to wire it up. Just need power and ground. Don't know where I should tap into. I heard there's supposed to be an unused harness for air bag control module that got recalled. I'll be looking into it tomorrow.
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Had a new alternator installed, then tried to install new shocks and rear BPEs. Was halted to a painful stop from bugs and busted fingers when I struggled with reaching the nuts of the rear shock bolts through the body opening and finding out that the bpe should of been on the shock before bolting it back on
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Year: 1999
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Got my WJ seats installed and wired in! That power recline is awesome lol.
No pics of the seats themselves because it got too dark.
Driver side had a broken bolt to deal with, passenger did not. Swapped the manual XJ tracks over to the WJ seats, zip tied the wires back to the seat frame. Tapped into the cigarette lighter and ran wires under the console, grounded to seat bracket bolts. Easy as pie. Passenger side only took like 30 mins total because I knew what I was doing.
This was my solution for the broken bolt. Drilled through and used a 5/16ths bolt and lock nut, washers.
Highly recommend this upgrade. Much more comfortable even with the trashed suspension.
No pics of the seats themselves because it got too dark.
Driver side had a broken bolt to deal with, passenger did not. Swapped the manual XJ tracks over to the WJ seats, zip tied the wires back to the seat frame. Tapped into the cigarette lighter and ran wires under the console, grounded to seat bracket bolts. Easy as pie. Passenger side only took like 30 mins total because I knew what I was doing.
This was my solution for the broken bolt. Drilled through and used a 5/16ths bolt and lock nut, washers.
Highly recommend this upgrade. Much more comfortable even with the trashed suspension.
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Year: 1999
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0 I6
Didn't do crap but spend some money, everybody likes doing that! Ordered CRok Steering Box Reinforcing Kit, and ordered the flange spacers for the WJ swap
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Got the two other shocks installed with rear BPEs one more to go but I can't get any grip with the wrench so maybe to the shop I go.