I will start this thread off with an announcement, I changed positions within my company and now work from home. No more driving an hour to work and an hour home, I work 7-3:30 M-F and as soon as 3:30 comes I am off the clock and already home, giving me more time for builds and honey-do's, its the same pay plus its about a $500-600 a month pay raise in not paying for fuel.
So I will continue with the notification that the 93 father son beater jeep Father and Son beater jeep (93 XJ) is dead. After getting into it, the "frame" was just to bad and I couldn't justifiably put my kid behind the wheel of it. We also have the Samurai we are still building for more hardcore wheeling so the 93 XJ just kind of sat there for a few months while I looked for a possible donor or direction to go. One of my co-workers said he had an XJ that his buddy owed him money and he took it in trade, the motor mount was broken and the transfer case leaked, AND he didn't have the title. I told him I was interested ONLY if he could get the title from his friend, about 1.5 months later he had the title in hand, 2 weeks later I went and looked at it and brought it home for $300.
I aired up 2 of the tires, put a fresh battery in, some fresh gas, and it started up.
a beauty queen she is not right now
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but she is fairly straight minus the driver rear door
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story is someone got into it and stole the stereo and messed up some wiring, so I get to fix that
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Its dirty, and the seats to the side, but really its not horrible
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I was told the motor mount was broken and there was a piece of chain holding it together... uh ya...
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The PO drove it for 2 years with the chain holding the passenger side of the engine up!!! when it broke (as so many of these do) it broke the embossed bolt hole off the side of the block. I debated on getting the bigger brackets which grab more holes on the sides of the blocks (and I still might) but for now I am going to pull the engine from the red 93 with all its new parts.
Also we will be using all the saved up parts from the red one
new brakes
rear discs
lockers
gears (trying to decide if I will run the 4.88's I have or drop down to 4.56's)
steering from Barnes 4WD
control arm drop brackets
adjustable control arms
AZZY linkage
axle seals
SOLID diff covers
ext brake lines
RUFF STUFF front frame plates
RUFF STUFF u-bolts and spring plates
JCR steering box brace
new muffler
trans mount
dual batteries
winch (deciding between bumper mounted or removable mount)
Stinky Fab shackle relocation brackets
aluminum radiator
3 electric fan shroud
separate trans cooler
and various other parts
So I will continue with the notification that the 93 father son beater jeep Father and Son beater jeep (93 XJ) is dead. After getting into it, the "frame" was just to bad and I couldn't justifiably put my kid behind the wheel of it. We also have the Samurai we are still building for more hardcore wheeling so the 93 XJ just kind of sat there for a few months while I looked for a possible donor or direction to go. One of my co-workers said he had an XJ that his buddy owed him money and he took it in trade, the motor mount was broken and the transfer case leaked, AND he didn't have the title. I told him I was interested ONLY if he could get the title from his friend, about 1.5 months later he had the title in hand, 2 weeks later I went and looked at it and brought it home for $300.
I aired up 2 of the tires, put a fresh battery in, some fresh gas, and it started up.
a beauty queen she is not right now
but she is fairly straight minus the driver rear door
story is someone got into it and stole the stereo and messed up some wiring, so I get to fix that
Its dirty, and the seats to the side, but really its not horrible
I was told the motor mount was broken and there was a piece of chain holding it together... uh ya...
The PO drove it for 2 years with the chain holding the passenger side of the engine up!!! when it broke (as so many of these do) it broke the embossed bolt hole off the side of the block. I debated on getting the bigger brackets which grab more holes on the sides of the blocks (and I still might) but for now I am going to pull the engine from the red 93 with all its new parts.
Also we will be using all the saved up parts from the red one
new brakes
rear discs
lockers
gears (trying to decide if I will run the 4.88's I have or drop down to 4.56's)
steering from Barnes 4WD
control arm drop brackets
adjustable control arms
AZZY linkage
axle seals
SOLID diff covers
ext brake lines
RUFF STUFF front frame plates
RUFF STUFF u-bolts and spring plates
JCR steering box brace
new muffler
trans mount
dual batteries
winch (deciding between bumper mounted or removable mount)
Stinky Fab shackle relocation brackets
aluminum radiator
3 electric fan shroud
separate trans cooler
and various other parts
