My cheap jeep winter (400$)

[projectTK]

Hello all. I bought this jeep from my neighbor for 400$ It was his backyard beater and mudder. (i live out in the country) 89xj 5spd peugot 3.07 gear 29 muffet tires on 16inch rims. No exhaust, speedo gauge and front headlight are the only things that worked. Pictures say it all.

Next to my crossfire for a visual on the height (4.5 rancho lift)

Intake routed in cab, dash sawed in half, one broken seat, lots of mudd on floor, holes in floor

that mudd is on the inside of the window. lol!

The motor is somewhat clean. Egr and pollution shit blockoff, electric fan to a switch in the inter fender. No manual fan. overheats later to find out there was barely any coolant.

Junkyard finds.. New grille and headlights, seats, the hole dash and wires including fuse box and some more

Ripped seats out and look at all that dirt

So i powerwashed out the inside of my jeep

Sanded down. holes sheet metaled and pop riveted shut, painted with truck bedliner aerosal

New fender because the old one was so dented mud came in the cab

 

[funvtec]

i bet those really sling the mud!!!!!!

 

[projectTK]

lots of tools

New heater core, shut up the holes made to route intake in cab

Prepped for paint

1st coat

Had to swap all the wires out of the hacked harness into the new harness because of the manual speedo cable. Lots o wires.

After the 10cans of bedliner aerosal and alot of good fumes!!:woohoo:

All buttoned up, oil and temp gauge mounted in center console, blower motor runs off a toggle and so does the electric fan, everything else works

Looks awsome totally different

31inch wild spirit tires 15x10 inch black rim

i bought it for 400$ and i came close to about 2000$ spent alll in all in this project

Me stuck

Well it is still an on going project. It is my dd in bad weather. I runs and drives good. I also put a new track bar in, new clutch kit, new rad, coolant bottle, thermostant, all new fluids, to much to list. Later i ran into 2 owners ago and he told me when he had it he put a newer motor in it. He put a renix with 80000miles in it then. So the motor its self has probably under 100000miles because it was never street legal. Now it is. I plan to add 33inch tires, aw4 tranny with external slave, either a dana 44 or 8.25 with a rear locker and 456's. Any comments or questions feel free to ask.

 

[jeep4play2000]

Very cool! Nice work!!

 

[97XJ Jeeper]

whats the deal with that round metal pan thing?

 

[kunaji]

whats the deal with that round metal pan thing?

Unless I miss my guess, that would be the new air intake.

 

[projectTK]

if u look at the engine pic the previous owner routed a rv gutter hose and cut a hole in the firewall on passenger side and threw the second wall where the glove box is now and put a round airfilter with a pan style top on it with a wing nut. But i wanted a full dash. I now have it routed up out the top of the cowl grille on the passenger side. Il put pics up tommarow.

 

[POSJ]

I see three hammers in the tool pic, my kind of work. lol looks good.

Tyler

 

[projectTK]

i appreciate the comments guys keep them coming

 

[98XJeep]

you should have left the tractor tires on it, maybe you wouldn't have been stuck:twak:

























nah, just razzin ya some, great find nice jod on the rebuild

 

[projectTK]

yeah probably, but those "tractor tires" arent road legal cause i had to drive on the road to get to where i can go off road.

 

[87manche]

got a welder or a friend with a welder?
if so, put an 8.8 in it and regear that.
then you're ready for the larger tires and you got disc brakes.

the pumpkin will drag a lot with 31's though.

 

[lancey3]

15x10s is a little too much rim imo.

 

[IndyXJ]

Best mod you did was getting it square headlights.

 

[XJ Stryker]

I just pulled the carpet up in my jeep also and found a lot of rust and holes. Did you just fill in and paint or did you throw some rhino lining over it. Or did you put the carpet back in.

 

[Hammered]

Just scrape all those crumby stickers off Put the round lights back in and its bad ass.

 

[projectTK]

them rounds lights werent in a supported bucket they just dangled all over. The stickers dont bother me i just toke the redneck one off. As for the holes i patch them with sheet metal and pop riveted it to the floor and bed linered over. I dont have any carpet for the simple reason of getting water in the cab and having moldy carpet. Bedliner is durable enough.