DaveS98
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Chattanooga TN
Wonder if they would look dumb on a 2 door
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Love these seats
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That's a sweet daily driver. Very jealous. :viking:
Lokka locker showed up today
Installed new rear shocks on the Mother-In-Laws 1998 XJ. All the upper bolts came out just fine. I was worried since they looked like the original shocks. I think I need to go buy a lottery ticket.
Lucky man... 98s aren't bad even if they break though, the nuts are just spot welded in a few places so a punch and a few whacks with a BFH solves the problem neatly. Broke two of mine (only two! in the rust belt! with no heat!) and it still only took about 10 minutes per shock to change them out.
My 96 was a whole day ordeal because I had no idea what I was doing and bimmerjeeped it pretty badly. Burnt up a couple drill bits, the nuts were held in with a big fat 1/2" MIG bead down each side instead of a few spot welds so hammering on them did absolutely nothing.
well, im jealous. look up the youtube videos for 'black smoke racing' to see why....
I priced a set of tires for my xj today... Boy are they expensive! The tires I want will be worth more than twice what I paid for the jeep, but if i'm going to call myself 'building it' I guess that's part of it. I still haven't installed my 8.25" yet, but I will before I go wheelin on the meatier tires.
My 96 was a whole day ordeal because I had no idea what I was doing and bimmerjeeped it pretty badly. Burnt up a couple drill bits, the nuts were held in with a big fat 1/2" MIG bead down each side instead of a few spot welds so hammering on them did absolutely nothing.
First time I lifted mine, not knowing much about what I was doing nor having researched here...at all...I zipped mine off with an impact gun. All of them came right off no problem. Later on once I realized how easy they broke (after installing multiple other lifts on other XJ's), I thought to myself..."Damn I got lucky!"
Next time I lifted mine they all broke...
Flight left Charlotte at 6am and landed at 12:30 this morning.