EZEARL I did the same thing to stop the control arm pinching tranny cooler lines. I also have 10 extra if anyone needs them xD

Got one side (2 door) of the half door project cut and welded up. Just needs bondo and some paint.

got some crappy mounts for the Comanche from a terrible seller. Hopefully they hold together for a couple weeks at least so I don't have to spend even more money on my truck. Can't get any quality these days.

^^^^This.

Any time man.

Good work on it, man! Looks great!

Sheesh.... yeah those suck. He sucks too!


"You go suck a wemon"

Those look like crap. I'll give you $4 for them
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Anyone want a halfway gutted Cherokee?

sheesh

Wednesday, finally got my alternator out, what a pita it was, took the battery tray out, wouldn't come out from the top, had to take the fan shroud off and the front alt. bracket off to wrestle it thru the bottom. rerouted the off road lights wire thru the firewall, they were going out thru the fender and thru the door, up into the dash. i put them thru the hood release cable hole and shrunk wrapped all the connections for the lights and the fan too. Thursday morning, ordered new alt. and belt from advance auto, with 25% off coupon. last week ordered windshield trim clips from partstrain.com, got them Wednesday.

The fun isnt over yet! Still got to crack open the case and get to the core.

Changed the transfer case fluid on my 1999 jeep cherokee. I have the NP231. Tried to make a video to help detail the process as well.

Wow!

Have you come across any short cuts? Things that could have been eliminated by the factory that could have made removal easier. Or have any in mind that will make installation easier.

No short cuts are possible except to leave part of the dash in place and swing it to the side out of the way. My plan is to clean out all the ducts while I am there so I needed to completely remove everything. I really hope whoever was in charge of designing this part of the XJ got fired and lived a horrible life haha.

I do have to say though, no one should be afraid to do this job. Its honestly not hard to do. There are just a ton of bolts that need to be removed and in the correct order. Helpful hint to anyone doing this, after you remove all the bolts to a panel and remove the panel, put all the bolts back in to where they came from. That way, you dont lose anything and you dont have to remember where each bolt goes.

I want to know what's worse, the XJ heater core or the 2nd gen S-10/Blazer heater core. I watched a roommate do that and told myself I'd never get one.

'79 F150 heater core

If you don't have A/C, or if you have dealer-added A/C, it's a 15 minute job

If you have factory in-dash A/C, it's a full weekend project behind the dash and under the hood

My son and me did our '96 S10 Blazer quite a few years back now. Having an extra set of hands helped. My son held the dash out of the way while I did the heater core. But basically it's the same as 5-speed describes below. GOOD IDEA of his to remove everything completely to clean out the duct work.

" I do have to say though, no one should be afraid to do this job. Its honestly not hard to do. There are just a ton of bolts that need to be removed and in the correct order. Helpful hint to anyone doing this, after you remove all the bolts to a panel and remove the panel, put all the bolts back in to where they came from. That way, you don't lose anything and you don't have to remember where each bolt goes."