Glad to hear the wife and new baby in the making are okay.

2000 XJ is a thousands times better than new Durangos. All kind of stupid crap in new cars that doesn't need to be there, just breaks for no reason at the most inconvenient times.

 

If my wife was in that crash with an XJ, I'd be burying her right about now. That Durango saved her life.

 

damn! Glad to hear everyone came out ok.

 

My daughter was broad sided in her JK, flipped it over and then landed on its side. she was 5 months pregnant and luckily both she and the baby were ok.

 

Some scary shit right there, good to here everyone is ok.


RBB

 

Glad she was not hurt. Just gonna dd the xj?

 

We're sharing my silverado, and I'm using the XJ as a DD until after the baby is born. I work largely remote, so it's working out just fine so far. We'll make that call on what route to go after that.

 

Congrats on baby number 2!

Glad momma is ok!

 

Wife's 21 Durango got totaled Tuesday. 100% not her fault, and her and the 30 week fetus all checked out. Glad the 3 year old wasn't with her.

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Brought home this today. Was looking for something pretty quick that I knew my way around to get us back to 2 running and driving vehicles.

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Going to copy what I did with Herman for the most part, in a different order. Couple different twists from what I didn't like about that buildup. More to come. Happy to have found a pretty clean one.

I always regretted selling my XJ, from the moment it drove away, I wanted it back.
I think I got bored with it because it never needed anything, just put gas in and go.
I doubt I could ever find as clean an XJ in Michigan.

 

couple better before pics after a quick bath.

 

Got it in the garage, makes it look tiny next to the other project.

Pulled in for some basic maintenance. Stupid previous owner got rid of the door check pins?
Evap solenoid was clicking like a mofo.
Blower motor resistor was shot

throwing a misfire on cyl 6, injector feels like its firing fine, keeping my eyes peeled for a better fuel rail to swap in with 4 hole injectors down the road.

gonna toss a set of plugs in it, PO put a new coilpack on it already.

hitting the yards saturday morning to look for a few things. Miss doing that. Already grabbed a fresh fan shroud but came up empty handed otherwise.
Well, grabbed another spare tire to move the 2wd Willys into the shed to clear some space.

 

Think i found the misfire code

think these are the originals? they put a new coil pack on it, which made me laugh too myself when i pulled a plug.

 

Dang. Plum wore out.

 

They go the life outta them there plugs. lol

 

Nice to see you working on another project!

I assume no updates on the Willys?

 

Nice to see you working on another project!

I assume no updates on the Willys?

Other than pushing it back in the shed? Not really. Found a hard spot in the engine i need to diagnose. Wife wants the blazer done so we can go get ice cream and stuff, but now getting this cherokee up to snuff to get back onto the blazer and the business… I’m never bored

 

Glad the wife and lousypirate jr are OK
Lol who puts a coil pack on before they at least check the plugs??
I'm surprised one didn't break off while pulling them.

 

Where'd you find that K5?

 

White cloud, 2020

 

Got a lot of the parts i wanted/needed today. I think there were some people making fun of me in their native tongues too.

Replacement: fuel rail for when i do injectors, tstat housing, e fan (discovered mine was seized), power steering pump (totally broke mine thursday night).

upgrades: overhead console, set of seats out of a classic model, heated mirrors, upgraded speakers, tweeter from the infiniy stereo model, and some misc stuff

 

That is a pretty serious “hell built for stout” front axle on your wheel barrow

 

Excellent! Those will be some nice upgrades!

 

F*@&

Looks like the headgasket is weeping after commuting to work there and back. Couldn't see if I also have a freeze plug going out in the back of the head or something too? There was a drip on the concrete from around the bell housing area, and when I was climbing around with a flashlight last night I saw the wetness around the head on the passenger side...

Hasn't overheated on me at all, comes up to 190 and just holds steady...

 

That sucks!

 

Small victories.
Took a half day and got pretty much the rest of the durango stuff taken care of.
Decided to walk another yard near me and found a hen’s tooth. Foglight switch. Never find them in pick n pulls, stupid things go for $40-60 online. Five dollah no hollah makes more sense.

 

Took advantage of today’s holiday to get some teardrop rims, upgraded LCAs, and a oem mopar hitch that needs a patch job

 

Wait, there was a Holiday?

Nice score!! I can't wait to see the transformation!

 

I couldnt see very well at night, decided to try out these chinesium headlights.

Also had a few instances where there was steering popping trying to turn left after turning right, so got that all tore down.

popped back in the junkyard to grab that extra teardrop rim, which ended up being bad, poked around for a few small parts, grabbed an ashtray for some redesign potential and found some not broken air cleaner bolts. No luck on the center console bracket to redesign.

Working on an upgraded tweeter pod in the meantime too, using a kicker 3/4” tweeter

also working on stainless console latches. Went a little too thick on the first batch.

 

wondered why the washer pump wouldn’t work. figured that out pretty quick.

Got the steering all replaced and back together, got it within 1/8” toe right off the bat. Decided to swap out the aluminum box spacer while i was having good luck. Broke two bolts with way less force than it should have taken. Got the box in a good spot and managed to get the bolts out with a bit of heat. The aluminum spacer Pretty much disintegrated when i went to take it off.

Replaced the lug nuts with 1pc nuts after having the stupid chrome pop off.

Tore into the door panels and got speakers swapped, heated mirrors swapped over, and prepped for tweeters. Need to make a few adjustments. Also figured out the drivers door speaker isn’t working, guessing a botched stereo install from PO.

keeping an eye on the head gasket for now. Trying to decide which route to go to fix that this spring, and how far down the rabbit hole i wanna get.