So I started building an FJ40 I got about 25 years ago, but decided I was going to build a "budget" XJ because I figure I'm about $20K from finishing the cruiser. I explained my plan to my wife and she agreed to the budget build, so we bought a pretty nice 1996 Country for $2800...It turns out she didn't understand what a rock crawler was and she was adament that we weren't going to modify this Jeep.
Soooooooooo, with most of my wod spent on the '96 that I couldn't touch, I settled on a '90 I found that was in pretty decent shape. It had changed hands about 4 times in 6 months. Somebody had just replaced the radiator and water pump and wired the electric fan to run off a switch.... but it was still getting hot. It ran great, but would just die randomly. So I bought it for $500 guessing that the Renix radiator cap and the CPS were bad. The next day I replaced both, rewired the fan to come on when it was supposed to and it ran great.
Soooooooooo, with most of my wod spent on the '96 that I couldn't touch, I settled on a '90 I found that was in pretty decent shape. It had changed hands about 4 times in 6 months. Somebody had just replaced the radiator and water pump and wired the electric fan to run off a switch.... but it was still getting hot. It ran great, but would just die randomly. So I bought it for $500 guessing that the Renix radiator cap and the CPS were bad. The next day I replaced both, rewired the fan to come on when it was supposed to and it ran great.
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