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Old Jan 23, 2011 | 08:41 AM
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Ok. I bought a 97 black Cherokee. This thing was a dream. It had a 4.5" skyjacker lift, 31" tires. When I bought it it came with another set of 32's. Now I didn't have time to add more parts to it for I was fixing the engine. I had to replace the fuel filter, thermostat, and a bunch of little nic nacs which in the end ended up costing me about 1 grand. So the day after I got my baby up and running, I caught loose gravel and this is where it got me....



Now does my life really suck? Or maybe it's just me.
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Old Jan 23, 2011 | 08:44 AM
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WOWSERS are you ok ? That looks NASTY DUDE!
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Old Jan 23, 2011 | 08:49 AM
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Yea amazingly I only came out of that with 4 stitches in my leg!
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Old Jan 23, 2011 | 08:52 AM
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Good that your ok. Poor XJ. R.I.P. A moment of silence please...
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Old Jan 23, 2011 | 08:52 AM
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Sorry man.. Glad you are ok. That sucks bad but count your blessings...
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Old Jan 23, 2011 | 08:53 AM
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Man your very lucky guy to only get 4 stitches . Guess your looking for another XJ , sad to say?
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Old Jan 23, 2011 | 09:02 AM
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Yea this was over a year ago. I have a new xj now but since I'm new, I thought you guys might want to give your opinion. And see these pics. This was definitely not a good day. And yea I an extremely lucky. The doctors said if I didn't have my seatbelt on, I would be mush
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Old Jan 23, 2011 | 09:14 AM
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Holy s***! Im glad you're okay man! You are very blessed.
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Old Jan 23, 2011 | 09:59 AM
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Glad your ok man, that looks like something you'd be literally blessed to walk away from..Did you keep the jeep as at least a parts jeep? I know how you feel about your jeep man, I feel the same way for my Black 98 and my 99.
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Old Jan 23, 2011 | 10:04 AM
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Question? how fast? second question where you trying to dift on the road? this happened to my buddy looked similar actually how i got my lift... XD
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Old Jan 23, 2011 | 10:25 AM
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you can replace an XJ.....glad YOU are ok.
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Old Jan 23, 2011 | 10:29 AM
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WOW, awesome XJ and that seriously sucks! But hey, walking away with 4 stitches? Holy hell man, that's got to be the luckiest day! Now go get another XJ!
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Old Jan 23, 2011 | 10:33 AM
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Originally Posted by clockwise
Question? how fast? second question where you trying to dift on the road? this happened to my buddy looked similar actually how i got my lift... XD
I was only going 35. The impact wasn't fast enough to set off the airbags. And nope no drifting either. My county road just had the gravel redone. So I caught the soft edge of the gravel and nailed a bunch of trees. The trees are what flipped me. And most of the lift is salvageable. Hopefully I can use it
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Old Jan 23, 2011 | 10:35 AM
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Originally Posted by XxXJ99xX
Glad your ok man, that looks like something you'd be literally blessed to walk away from..Did you keep the jeep as at least a parts jeep? I know how you feel about your jeep man, I feel the same way for my Black 98 and my 99.
Did you roll yours too? And yea I am planning to take whatever I can from it. Funny thing is, when I got it back home the dam thing still started right up
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Old Jan 23, 2011 | 12:10 PM
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That story and the pics made me want to cry...!
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