Jeep liberty upgrade?

 

That's next on my to do list I have everything to do it just no time to start it right now. ....

 

did you do the proportioning valve too?

 

Wow, that looks great! In the spring I'm probably going to have to decide on whether to renew the rear drum setup or convert to discs. It'll probably depend on how much trouble I have tracking down the needed pieces in the locaal boneyards. I've seen guides for doing the upgrade using either Liberty or Grand Cherokee rear brake parts.

It looks like a great upgrade. I really hate working on drum brakes.

 

Today I didn't really do anything to my XJ but I did see another on the road the same color for the first time. It seems to be a fairly uncommon color, "Desert Sand Pearl" I think the factory called it (paint code TD), but it just looks like plain old gold to me.

Anyhow, although I see a lot of XJs on the road until now I had not seen another around here in this color. Duplicolor doesn't even make a match for it in their line of touchup paints.

 

Nope, it's the ZJ upgrade


Yeah, I did do the Prop Valve, I wouldn't want to take the chance


It really does, it's so much simpler. I suggest you convert to discs, well for me I just hated drums as it is they are such a pain! Grand Cherokees are abundant where I am (Nevada) they are like a dime a dozen, especially at pick and pull, there's about 3 in ever other row. lemme know if you need some backing plates of them for me there super easy to find

 

how did you route the brake lines?

 

I have seen more Solar Yellow XJs than that gold... And I already consider the yellow ones to be unicorns. Of the sand color I've seen exactly zero in my area, including the junkyards, which is odd because the sand and tan colors sold really well here back in the 90's... Brand new saddle-tan chevy pickups were everywhere at one point.

There's a bone-stock, all original '95 in Aqua tooling around here that I'd really like to get my hands on.

 

Diagnosed the pop in my front end when I turn the wheel left, driver side track bar joint, and of course it's the one joint with the undersized grease zerk.... which we don't have a head for and can't find the grease needle... looks like o relies it islol. Hoping a little grease will help....

 

Idk if these pictures help you, but I routed them like this for now until I can get a hold of some braided brake lines.

 

Replaced NSS on my 95. What a pain in the ***. Good news...my cruise works again

 

Did the plastidip yesterday to see if I really like it.

 

I did mine over the leaf springs, and now I have a problem with my bumpstops rubbing the lines, which isn't a problem yet but I could see it being one if I hit the bumpstops a lot on a wheeling trip. Never hit them on the road or with light wheeling though. I wish someone made a bracket designed for a jeep Cherokee disc brake swap.

 

If I can't find any locally that aren't rusted to death when the time comes I may well take you up on that!

 

I don't think I've ever seen a yellow XJ! I wanted to do some minor touchup on mine but like I said, Duplicolor doesn't make the "Desert Sand" gold color. It might be possible to get a local paint shop to make some up by the paint code and put it in a rattle can.