Dilemma of the Conscience...

[Beej]

My XJ is not really built for serious offroading. I have always used it as a daily driver and mild trailrunning, mostly to camping or fishing spots in the hills. As a result, its still quite pristine despite being a 97. There is only one tiny spot of rust on the whole vehicle and its inside the front passenger doorframe, and its been fixed. Otherwise, its in almost flawless shape with only a couple of dings. I regularly get comments from people on its condition and at least three times a year a stranger will come up and try to buy it from me.

My dilemma is this, I want a "serious" offroading rig, but I don't want to destroy my pristine example of DC's craftsmanship. I have available to me right now a 94 ZJ beater for $100. That's a hundred bucks Canadian.

I'm partial to the XJ (duh) but my dad had a 96 ZJ that was also fun to drive. Its got the V8 and is mechanically sound, but it looks like a Mexican taxicab on the outside and interior.

Will you guys hate me if I buy it and build it?

 

[Kejtar]

Will you guys hate me if I buy it and build it?

build both! for $50 you cant really pass it up.

 

[vegasrndll]

you're already a canadian,what do you have to lose!!

 

[ladywolf]

nah we wont hate you...merely berate and tease you unmercifully! i mean, c'mon, we cant do anything other

 

[riverfever]

I'll still talk to you on one condition:

You leave the tassles or pom pons in place in the interior. If they are not there...you must get some. :viking:

 

[johnlv6]

Buy it, build it, and beat it .

 

[WB9YZU]

Seems like a "No Brainer".

Sounds like the perfect trail rig!
You hit stuff with it and you won't even be tempted to pound out the dents

Now get off the computer, go buy it, and stop asking stupid questions !

 

[imma honky]

I will hate you.

 

[Matt S.]

I already hate you.

 

[Beej]

Jeez, I figured I'd get about twenty "I already hate you" 's...



:illegal flipoff smilie:

 

[Sniggs]

 

[WB9YZU]

http://i6.tinypic.com/1zgdt20.jpg

BRILLIANT !

 

[Ramsey]

Jeez, I figured I'd get about twenty "I already hate you" 's...



:illegal flipoff smilie:

Why say what is already known

Build it and trash it:thumbup:

 

[Roxtar]

Don't ZJs have a unibody?
I wouldn't wheel it, it'll fold like a taco.

 

[Beej]

Don't ZJs have a unibody?
I wouldn't wheel it, it'll fold like a taco.

I've heard that, but I think I'll be fine because I have a line on these excellent cage connectors from some model/bodybuilder/streetrunner dude in New York who recommended that I practice my pipe soldering techniques so that i can build a really solid cage out of a bunch of 3/4" copper tubing I have left over from when I ran water out to my garage to connect a toilet so that I could take a crap without having to walk back to the house and get more ideas from a website that helps out people that need it when they ask for it because you just never know when you will need help and its a good thing they are there too because once when I had a real problem connecting my rear disk kit since there were 2 bolts missing in the kit and when i phoned the supplier they said they had to ship them in from Ceylon which isn't even a country anymore and had the bright idea to buy some mild steel rods and borrow a tap and die set from my neighbor who raises llamas in the winter and chickens in the summer to use the die to cut threads and make my own bolts that will fit right in but he didn't have the set anymore and so i tried to carve my own threads with a triangular file even though it looked more like a rectangle but i got some great ideas from the site on how to cut threads with a sharpened stick and when they phoned back about the bolt supplier in Ceylon they said they had them in stock and hand delivered them to me before i even had a chance to finish my crap and everyone who helped deliver the bolts got an eyefull of my pink backside hiding behind the copper tubing that's all laid out on the floor of my garage that still slopes to the west because of the big earthquake we had in 1988 which is probably before some people can remember about. Can u help me?

 

[Lawn Cher']

:shocked: :confused1

 

[Root Moose]

I've heard that, but I think I'll be fine because I have a line on these excellent cage connectors from some model/bodybuilder/streetrunner dude in New York who recommended that I practice my pipe soldering techniques so that i can build a really solid cage out of a bunch of 3/4" copper tubing I have left over from when I ran water out to my garage to connect a toilet so that I could take a crap without having to walk back to the house and get more ideas from a website that helps out people that need it when they ask for it because you just never know when you will need help and its a good thing they are there too because once when I had a real problem connecting my rear disk kit since there were 2 bolts missing in the kit and when i phoned the supplier they said they had to ship them in from Ceylon which isn't even a country anymore and had the bright idea to buy some mild steel rods and borrow a tap and die set from my neighbor who raises llamas in the winter and chickens in the summer to use the die to cut threads and make my own bolts that will fit right in but he didn't have the set anymore and so i tried to carve my own threads with a triangular file even though it looked more like a rectangle but i got some great ideas from the site on how to cut threads with a sharpened stick and when they phoned back about the bolt supplier in Ceylon they said they had them in stock and hand delivered them to me before i even had a chance to finish my crap and everyone who helped deliver the bolts got an eyefull of my pink backside hiding behind the copper tubing that's all laid out on the floor of my garage that still slopes to the west because of the big earthquake we had in 1988 which is probably before some people can remember about. Can u help me?

Damn, how many weeks you've been waiting to make that post?

LOL

Seriously though, what kind of "real wheeling" do you want to do? Maybe flesh that out a little before picking a platform. You already have the LWB touring/expedition type vehicle. Maybe something swb, roofless, etc., etc makes sense instead of basically building the same thing again.

I'm hoping for me and the boys to be casting out lines from the back of the Scrambler (as an example of something different). Has potential to be a comfy bird/deer/whatever bluff too with the rear bench turned around.

Just throwing that out there. Sometimes buying cheap vehicles is a lot of false economy too. I still have problems with that one.

 

[Beej]

You're very right mr. moose. The 100 dolla price tag has my mind spinning. When I talked to him this morning, he said "come over with 75 cash and you can drive it away". Now I have to figure out how to sneak it into my garage without the wife noticing. I'm actually thinking of just getting it, scavenging what I need from it for my XJ and then throw it out with next week's trash...

 

[RichP]

You're very right mr. moose. The 100 dolla price tag has my mind spinning. When I talked to him this morning, he said "come over with 75 cash and you can drive it away". Now I have to figure out how to sneak it into my garage without the wife noticing. I'm actually thinking of just getting it, scavenging what I need from it for my XJ and then throw it out with next week's trash...

I've been thinking about how to 'sneak in' a 50" flat screen myself, Now if the ZJ is the same color as your XJ *maybe* or you could hit with a dozen or so rattle cans....then maybe she won't notice, just don't keep the garage door up and the XJ on the property at the same time..you might get by, depends on how observant she is... mine spotted the swap between the gamblers and canyons the first time she took the dog out, 20 min after I changed them..
Gonna have to be honest about the 50" flat, I figure 220 on that ckt that the 36" in crt should work

 

[Matthew Currie]

Don't ZJs have a unibody?
I wouldn't wheel it, it'll fold like a taco.

Rumor has it that Xj's have a unibody too. :jester: