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Slowly getting closer to getting the engine and trans in

 

Made some progress in the engine compartment and interior

 

Pulled my dash since it was all cracked and decided to change the heater core

 

 

Alot of good write ups out there

 

 

 

Need to find the after pics still

 

Upgraded the booter to one from a 99 xj

New on the left and old one on the right

 

 

 

New sensor

 

 

And a few pictures of the booster installed, painted washer bottle, and some of the wiring buttoned up

 

 

 

 

My goal is to have the drive train all bolted in

 

Still waiting for my motor mounts, need trans bolts, And a few ther misc items for the engine and trans

 

stay tuned

 

Prevous total- $2387.23

Heater Core $30

Fuel pump resistor - $19.44

Cost to date- $2426.67

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Started working on my driveshafts tonight, Got all the u joints pulled, and all i needed was 2 4x4's a hammer, screw driver and a socket :D

 

Here are a few pictures, should have cleaned painted and the new joints installed shortly

 

 

 

 

 

 

Starting to get there lol

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Well i did not reach my goal this past weekend, Still need to get some trans bolts, and my current dd xj blew a front diff so i was swapping that all weekend

 

Did manage to clean/paint and install my drive shaft joints

 

Here are a few pictures

 

Fresh coat of paint

 

 

 

 

The goodies, I went with spicer 5-785x the non greaseable one

Needed a total of 5 to get the job done

 

 

 

Some pics of the finished product

 

 

 

 

Prevous total - $2426.67

5 spicer u joints Ebay special - $72.00

Cost to date - $2498.67

 

Started to paint my interior trim with some sem....Amazing product and will post pictures soon

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Looking great!!

What did you do to clean up drive shafts?  And what paint did you use?  I am currently replacing Slave cylinder and have mine out and want to do the same.

Thanks

Hey I used a brillow pad and some sand paper so scuff them down, rubbing alcohol to clean them off. I had some extra high heat temperature paint Laying around I used

 

I also did to coats

Thanks

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Man anyone know why photobucket keeps turning my pictures? Their at the correct angle when i upload them and copy the code, but turn when i upload the links on here they are sideways :hmm:

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What fuel issues are you having?

Haven't really had a chance to diagnose the problem, when I had everything all hooked up the pump was not kicking on and had no pressure at the fuel rail,

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Haven't really had a chance to diagnose the problem, when I had everything all hooked up the pump was not kicking on and had no pressure at the fuel rail,

 

 

 

Check Ground, then look for 12v at the fuel pump plug.

 

Fuel pump ground can be found behind the rear driver side tail light, common problem spot.

 

Also if you are not getting 12v to the pump check/replace/bypass the fuel pump ballast resistor.

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Haven't really had a chance to diagnose the problem, when I had everything all hooked up the pump was not kicking on and had no pressure at the fuel rail,

 

 

 

Check Ground, then look for 12v at the fuel pump plug.

 

Fuel pump ground can be found behind the rear driver side tail light, common problem spot.

 

Also if you are not getting 12v to the pump check/replace/bypass the fuel pump ballast resistor.

Think you solved my problem since I have no bed on currently , will see if it kicks on with a ground on the frame

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Minor progress made, Finally the nice weatherr comes, and so are all the b-days and family functions so the comanche keeps getting pushed off

 

Finally recieved my transmission line adapter

 

New transmission lines

 

Installed on the transmission

 

Installed on radiator

 

New ac condensor ( just for looks until i can find some replacement lines )

 

Half way installed ( when i did the open cooling upgrade my radiator won't line up with the upper support

 

Prevous total - $2977.85

Transmission adapters-$18.12

Trans line- $55 total for the 3

Condensor-$69.69

Cost to date - $3120.66

Lets see if i can keep the finished product under 5k.... and bets :group beer:

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Slight update, finished up the upper rad support, installed a refurbished battery, tossed the fenders on ( not lined up yet) and pulled and installed my tunnel plate

Here are a few pictures, sorry quality is not the best, the sun was beaming right onto the manche

 

Tunnel plate installed an modified 5.9 zj shifter mocked up

 

 

Pass Fender

 

Upper rad

 

Drivers side fender

 

 

And an overall shot

 

 

Starting to look like a jeep but man i still have a ways to go, my goal is to have it done buy the end of june

 

Prevous total - $3120.66

Tunnel Plate- Work Perk

5.9 Shifter- Left over part out

Both Fenders- $216.61

Refurbished Battery- $35

Cost to date - $3372.27

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Finally found a coolant bottle that works, somewhat,  had to heat it up with a heatgun to mold it some and fixed my po's splices and wired in my h4 headlight harness

 

Before

 

and after

 

H4 harness

 

relays mounted

 

Coolant bottle installed

 

 

 

Prevous total - $3372.27

Coolant Bottle-$14.99 Advanced auto

Putco 230004HW- $40.60

Cost to date - $3427.86

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Little more progress today and should have most of the dash all finished up by this weekend

 

Sorry i didnt take any before pictures

 

Dash has a few cracks and a hole on the drivers side, patched with some jb weld

 

 

Wasnt major, but figured while i had the jb weld out to touch it up

 

 

Painted the whole dash with black SEM

 

Finished and painted patch

 

 

 

 

Before

 

 

And after ( Finally cleaner looking and looks more put together )

 

 

 

Will update again tomorrow :)

 

Have all the trim and interior plastics painted, but need to dye my seatbelts

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Looking good! And what a steal on that XJ!!!

 

Where did you find your trans lines?

They have them at advanced auto, but i found them all on ebay cheaper, if you want i can pm you the links

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