What are you doing to your rig - the continuing saga

Try and convince my wife it's worth it. Second one with a crap motor in 6 months she is done with them. Happy wife is a happy life right? Just sucks another one bites the dust before it leaves the pavement. Man my luck is awesome.
 
A motor is like 100-200 used, and about 8-12 hours to install if you are in a lazy mood or things go wrong.
 
sheesh! I bet I could ship you my spare for less than that, that's nuts.

I forgot you guys don't really have rust up there. Around here the bodies rot out so fast that there are rows of good drivetrains sitting in the junkyard, engines are $139 at the you-pull...
 
kastein said:
A motor is like 100-200 used, and about 8-12 hours to install if you are in a lazy mood or things go wrong.
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Don't where you figure that, I just sold one for 500$

A reman is 1200$ so anything under half of that for a good running motor is a bargain.
 
Id go down bunker hill before i went up it - just a word to the wise.
Your rig can handle bunker hill - the top of indy is no problem at all up or down. Bunker hill up tho......that can get fun.

Ill likely be out by bv otherwise id come watch. Have fun.
 
DutchVDub said:
Don't where you figure that, I just sold one for 500$

A reman is 1200$ so anything under half of that for a good running motor is a bargain.
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hmmm... motors I have bought in the last 3 years:
picked up a '99 4.0/AW4/231 combo for $250 because I needed the AW4 out of it. 150k miles, from a rust free, well maintained DD that got t-boned
picked up a '95 4.0/AW4 from a CL junker jeep a friend was parting out because I needed another AW4 and he had already made his money back on it. Paid $120 for the pair
picked up a '94 4.0/AW4 from a friend for $150.
picked up a '98 ZJ 4.0 that was in my friend's 96 5spd XJ with the flywheel, clutch, and pressure plate still on it for $160.

I sold the '99 motor to my bud Tim (Jeepman401 on here) for 80 bucks when the OEM one in his DD blew up. AFAIK he's still running it.

The '95 motor ran when parked, sounded great, it's sitting in my storage unit as a known good emergency spare.

The '94 motor ran when parked, sounded great, in fact it drove to my yard to be parted out and I had to convince my friend to take money for it. It's going in my 98 when I get around to pulling the old motor.

The '98 ZJ motor has taken an incredible amount of abuse and is still running my MJ. I've hydrolocked it solidly once in Indiana, two or three times it's inhaled water and made a clunk but kept running, and the previous owner ran it on his DD driving 100 miles a day, in any weather, with a tube sock for an air filter.

I have no idea how people pay so much for 4.0s and no idea how people manage to blow them up.

Maybe I'm just lucky. I'm betting prices are different in CO... but you could easily pick up a non running XJ for a few hundred bucks, rip the motor out, part some out, scrap the rest, and end up with a motor for under 300 bucks.
 
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Jeeps and their parts aren't nearly as expensive on the east coast as they are around here. You can buy a nice TJ out east for what a ragged 4cyl YJ will cost you here.
 
in4aride said:
Id go down bunker hill before i went up it - just a word to the wise.
Your rig can handle bunker hill - the top of indy is no problem at all up or down. Bunker hill up tho......that can get fun.

Ill likely be out by bv otherwise id come watch. Have fun.
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But down is scary. I would rather go up patriot then down Bunker Hill... lol. I think we are just gunna play it by ear and see what happens. who knows, patriot??? lol probably not, but who knows.
Now that my cage is mostly done I am trying to talk my dad into letting me take the doors off for this trip so they don’t have the chance to get body damage and so we can see better from in the jeep. Anybody have any words of advice on how to get him to think its ok?
 
Wheeling with the doors off should be no big deal as long as your brain is committed to keeping your hands and legs inside should you have the misfortune to lay it over.

Street and highway driving to/from the trail without doors is where fatherly concern probably lies. Even with the typical XJ cage, the doors do provide fairly significant structural reinforcement for collision and roll over impact that the cage doesn't provide..... unless it's got NHRA or NASCAR type reinforcement built into it.
 
oh troy, it is a nascar type deal. I mean, the miata, its fast and all, but the xj is a true racecar and therefore the saftey is amazing. I actually wouldnt mind driving down there with the doors off, but I would rather drive dow, take off the doors, hide them in a tree, and go wheel and pick them up at the end of the day.

IDK how much the doors would actually help in an on road accident except for helping keeping me inside the car. I feel the sliders would be what helps in a side collision and my cage in a rollover.
 
If you happen to be passing a semi, and one of his tires throws it's tread, doors will keep that road gator out of your face.
 
I can tell you from first hand experience that an XJ w/o doors or a cage will flatten like a pancake when turned upside down.
 
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