Back in the dark ages when the forum software worked and I intentionally made awful car buying decisions.... Well, one of those things hasn't changed when you consider I paid cash money for a 1989 Dodge Aries last month. THAT adventure will be coming to some form of media near you one day. But this is not the story of that Dodge Aries. This is the story of something else entirely.
I decided I needed an offroader project. Mostly because I need something with 4WD to drag shit around the yard, and partially because I want to thumb my nose at the section of the offroad community which resemble mall crawlers more and more every passing day. But I had a shitload of other projects to do that were eating all my time and money.
You know, like I explained at the end of this thread:
https://forums.finalgear.com/forum/...a-big-red-box-1995-jeep-cherokee-sport/page48
Well, the time has come. Not because I finished any of those other projects, but because I DESPERATELY need something 4WD to drag broken shit bodily around the yard.
So I bought an XJ.
Look at it! So majestic!
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Look, it's even missing the same trim as Rick's was? Remember that shitbox? Who would ever have bought that thing?
This guy.
The rickhamilton620=>EyeMWing junk car flip has struck again.
It even runs, after a fashion. Look, here it is towing broken shit around the yard! Totally successfully!
Just after 45 seconds in that video, you get introduced to it's most endearing feature, and one it didn't have when I bought it:
The t-case is absolutely, totally stripped out. Attempting to move in 4WD results in nothing but 2WD with an additional horrifying grinding noise. The chain skipped on the sprocket if you applied too much torque when I first got it from Rick, but by the time I'd actually parked it at home, I'd completely buggered it.
It's been that way for 2 years now, so I guess I should probably fix it.
Went and got another t-case from a newer XJ ('99). Wrong tailshaft housing, maybe wrong tailshaft. Same t-case, though, so I can just take it all apart and swap crap around. Maybe I'll get fancy and install a slip yoke eliminator, but probably not.
I decided I needed an offroader project. Mostly because I need something with 4WD to drag shit around the yard, and partially because I want to thumb my nose at the section of the offroad community which resemble mall crawlers more and more every passing day. But I had a shitload of other projects to do that were eating all my time and money.
You know, like I explained at the end of this thread:
https://forums.finalgear.com/forum/...a-big-red-box-1995-jeep-cherokee-sport/page48
Well, the time has come. Not because I finished any of those other projects, but because I DESPERATELY need something 4WD to drag broken shit bodily around the yard.
So I bought an XJ.
Look at it! So majestic!
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Look, it's even missing the same trim as Rick's was? Remember that shitbox? Who would ever have bought that thing?
This guy.
The rickhamilton620=>EyeMWing junk car flip has struck again.
It even runs, after a fashion. Look, here it is towing broken shit around the yard! Totally successfully!
Just after 45 seconds in that video, you get introduced to it's most endearing feature, and one it didn't have when I bought it:
The t-case is absolutely, totally stripped out. Attempting to move in 4WD results in nothing but 2WD with an additional horrifying grinding noise. The chain skipped on the sprocket if you applied too much torque when I first got it from Rick, but by the time I'd actually parked it at home, I'd completely buggered it.
It's been that way for 2 years now, so I guess I should probably fix it.
Went and got another t-case from a newer XJ ('99). Wrong tailshaft housing, maybe wrong tailshaft. Same t-case, though, so I can just take it all apart and swap crap around. Maybe I'll get fancy and install a slip yoke eliminator, but probably not.