Hi,

Greetings and Salutations! Long story on my screen name, but it follows me wherever I go. Thought I would introduce myself. Hold on it might be long winded. And, I do have a question or two at the end.

Apparently I like dirt. I know I like dirty girls, so this must be an extension of that?

I had been thinking of picking up a smallish 4x4 strictly for fun. Will not be a daily driver and wanted to keep the price point below 5k so that when I get the Arizona pinstripe, etc I wouldn't really care. Not looking to crawl rocks of fjord stream, not looking to mud bog, not looking to do much more than be able to run trails. I get my primary off road fix from a highly modified Baja Bug that has about 20" of travel at all fours powered by a Honda 6 cyl. (Pictures below in case you are curious)

Decided a Cherokee might be a great fit. Wanted basically stock or stock with 3" lift and 31" tires. After a few months of hunting CL, found a Cherokee. Picked this up a while back. As clean as it looks in the pictures but not overly clean. Does that make sense? Everything works and not cut up / beat to heck. Not even any rock rash on the sill plates. So, new to me. Looking forward to the trail adventure with plenty of room for the oversize dog, a few guns and an ice chest for the day's adventures.

Planning on some tasteful / minor mods and keeping it a long time.

Now, the questions:

The goal of this is a trail rig. Keep repeating that. As mentioned above I have another ride for faster fun.

Base: 1996 Cherokee Classic w/ 31” and mild lift. Manual w/ 4.0. Currently has a minor leak at rear main seal, but at the end of 200k I am good with that and figure that will be tended to in a bit. Will also be replacing shocks.

My thought process:

1. Replace seats – I have a set of Corbeaus that I was going to use in my sand / desert car, but they did not work, and that was cool because I knew I could use them in a Jeep. So, will be installing Corbeau suspension seats.
2. Already talked to my fab guy, we will be making a minor interior roll bar / cage. Again, not real serious here, just in case of rut roh. The bar will have mount point for four point Crow belts – I am used to five points and just feel better with them when off road.

Beyond that I am open and would ask for suggestions on what to do next. I am thinking:

1. Front bumper with winch. Has a trailer hitch already @ the rear and I see no benefit on replacing rear bumper as hitch is drag spot anyways. Am I thinking straight?
2. Roof Rack
3. Rhino Line flares / rocker panels.

So what will get me the most bang for my buck and what order? What are some must haves? (Yes, I know, use the search feature you noob - trust me I will be reading a lot. Just wanted to introduce myself and figured now would be a fine time to ask.)

This will be kind of slow as the other ride is undergoing major upgrade$ right now.


Thanks in advance for the advice, and thanks for having me to your part of the web world.

 

Hi and welcome to the forum. If u mind me asking, what's an Arizona pinstripe?

 

And where did u get the seats from?

 

Thanks,

Just brush rash - some of the desert bushes are very nasty. Very spiny too. Love to scratch the side of the cars on narrow trails.




Edit:
Here is a video of how to get them, in the baja, not the jeep, - Caution - I cuss on intercom - NSFW

 

Bought them out of Colorado. Forget the place, would have to research some records. You can find them lots of places. Just search for Corbeau seats. Waiting on new brackets to come in then i can use em.

 

Ohh got it lol. So what would happen if I have same thing on my xj but I live in Pennsylvania? Lol

 

They would be PennStripes?

 

Welcome to Cherokee Forum man!

 

Thanks, so far I have just been poking around. Learned a lot so far.

For example, as a direct result of this thread:

https://www.cherokeeforum.com/f59/co...heeling-11829/ I have changed my build "plans."

Almost did not see it where it is. Glad I ran across it.

 

Glad you read that, it's one of very important threads to learn