Recent content by Cottontail

I made a forest rig that can run a rock garden out of a 2001 Anniversary Edition XJ. Did it all on the cheap with junkyard parts and some aftermarket parts. I found a factory XJ 4.10 front axle and a Ford 8.8 rear axle out of the junk yard. Got a rear lunchbox locker from a guy on NAXJA, and...

I'd love to run Golden Mountain again.

I've got a Baofeng, but no charger. It's been dead since 2018. The SEC has (had) about 8 or 10 Baofeng's that we purchased that are loaner radios for these events. I assume they are still out there.

I'm arriving Thursday around dinner time. Staying at a motel in town, but probably leave the trailer and tow rig at the campground. I get back from Chicago on Wednesday at 7 pm and grab the trailer and load the XJ the next morning. Pulling it in a new tow rig. Sold the Commander and got a...

I'm in!

Member #176 here. Bought a 1996 ZJ in 1999, got a 1985 XJ later that year. Took the '85 to Tellico Fest (which became the Cherokee Crawl). In the 25 years since then, I've owned 14 Jeep. Currently have 3 in the driveway - a '22 WKII, an 06 XK, and an 01 XJ - that I rolled in Harlan in 2018...

Hey y'all...I'm still around and alive. Haven't done much with the XJ in a while. I get it out about once a year. I did pick up Jeep number 14 last August. By far the nicest truck I've ever owned. 2022 Sting Grey Grand Cherokee.

Hey all- I'm still around and kicking. At any given time I've got 4 or 5 Jeeps in the driveway. 4 at the moment: 2001 XJ, 2006 XK, 2006 WK, and a 1996 ZJ. I got the ZJ in 1999 with 45,000 miles on it. Owned it almost 24 years. Unfortunately in February a lady t-boned me so now it's just...

Hey all. Putting the '96 ZJ back on the road and the radio is no good. I am looking for an OEM replacement. The Jeep came originally with just a tape deck, so I'm ok with the tape deck version or the tape/CD version. Anyone have one laying around? I posted on Marketplace that I'm looking...

Are there going to be plans made for the "every 5 year" jaunt to Moab in October of 2023?

I did that years ago on my XJ, using a plexiglass and a piano hinge, with a lock mechanism. I didn't use it nearly as much as I thought I would. I ended up replacing it with fixed plexiglass.

Just did a water pump on the 5.7 Hemi. Filled the radiator with coolant, turned on the heat to the lowest setting and fired the truck up. Rather than the coolant getting sucked in to the system, it started overflowing the fill hole. I let it run for about 5 minutes and the temp guage on the...

Nah....got rid of them a while back. Always on the look out though!

Didn't mention - the cables attached to the battery are all new. And it would have taken more time to drive to the store to get a voltage meter than to swap out two batteries 5 feet apart in the garage. Still not sure why the XJ starter will start with one battery and not the other, and the...

Went to start my XJ the other day and it wouldn't start. Not surprising, as I haven't driven in a couple months. Jumped it off and let it run about 30 minutes with a couple runs around the neighborhood. Shut it off and when I went to start it again it wouldn't do anything - like there wasn't...