Your first Jeep modifcations
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From: newberg
Year: 1988
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0L
Insurance!!! Found out you gotta have it! Then came the lift, wheels and swampers. Wife was not happy when she got home. Second mod was an air mattress for the back! Cherokees are a disease the affects are usually divorce. Especially when u bought i for her!
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Joined: May 2009
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From: Indiana
Model: Grand Cherokee
My first repair was the fan clutch. At the same time I replaced an oil hose that was cracked. (PO put in an aftermarket amsoil oil filter) hose leading to that was cracked and dripping oil everywhere.
First real mod was just me taking off the bumper end caps because I didn't feel like putting the one back on after having to take it off to get to the bottom bolt of the tail light housing. Then I ripped off the fender flares.
First real mod was just me taking off the bumper end caps because I didn't feel like putting the one back on after having to take it off to get to the bottom bolt of the tail light housing. Then I ripped off the fender flares.
blueXJ-OPSU=oil pressure sending unit, AKA oil pressure switch.
looks like more mods/repairs are on the way. some drunk dude hit me when it was parked in a parking lot wednesday night. had to talk the insurance guy out of totalling it. hopefully i'll get a check within the next week!
it wasn't even that bad of damage. I'm at work right now so i don't have pics, but passenger quarter panel from wheelwell to bumper is crushed in. give me a slide hammer, a mallet, and some bondo and i'll MAKE it work!
looks like more mods/repairs are on the way. some drunk dude hit me when it was parked in a parking lot wednesday night. had to talk the insurance guy out of totalling it. hopefully i'll get a check within the next week!
it wasn't even that bad of damage. I'm at work right now so i don't have pics, but passenger quarter panel from wheelwell to bumper is crushed in. give me a slide hammer, a mallet, and some bondo and i'll MAKE it work!
seeing as i just got my xj last saturday,i haven't had a chance to do to much to it.i did put on the clear headlights,park lights,and sidemarkers with chrome bulbs in them.also swapped out the black grille,headlight surrounds,and black fender flares for white ones i grabbed out of the local u pick and pull yard.
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Joined: Nov 2010
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From: Big Spring TX.
Year: 1998
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0
ffirst post here about to start a build thred. first off i got my 98 xj for dirt cheap. so i put a bds 3" lift kit on and maxxis 32.5x11.5 on stoke rims. left the shop hit a trail on the way home and cracked my radiator so new radiator and thermostate along with all new fluids plugs wires and cap. first homebrew will be moving my horn so as to open up some air flow till i can fab a snorkel or cai still haven't decided probably cai for now. then neon injectors.







