MJ-90

Extended idle switch to the left of steering wheel.

you guys asked for some pictures and here are some more. I also have a new back window which is hopefully getting replaced saturday by a guy here in town for 100 bucks since i don't want to deal with all the problems of removing old and installing the new one. here is the new bed topper that i picked up from another member on here. some of the new bezels pieces since all of mine are broken. and my future tire size 35" this is my old spare from my other rig and I'm just using it as weight for the rear since we get a lot of snow here.

Monday i picked up a new back sliding window which is getting installed probably this weekend. also got a bed topper in pretty good shape, so I'm keeping that on to keep stuff dry when i move back to iowa in a week or so. i was going to get some new updated pictures of the outside today but i competetly forgot to when i found my old jeep that i just got rid of, for sale again. so i was trying to find out how much he wanted for it (i was having my girlfriend ask him) he wanted like 2500 for it and that would be the lowest as he doesnt want to take a big lose on it. i tried to change out the gauges but even with new senders they didnt work right, so i went back to the working ones. the new radio that i put in so that i could play my ipod and cds the usual mess that i have going on inside.

I know haha. I was going to have a lot of pictures but of coarse that didn't happen. My girlfriend was supposed to take some but I needed her help a few times and she couldn't take any pictures, plus I don't have a smartphone, so it kinda gets hard for me to take some. I will try tomorrow if I remember. I will be putting in new marine battery terminals since my others stripped and won't get tight anymore.

Did a little bit of work today in the 0* weather here in the Chicago area. At the start of the week my starter finally decided to give out. Well today has been the nicest day out in a few, even though it was 0* out it felt like 40* because its been in -20s all week and weekend. I think it took all of about 20 minutes to replace with a new one and wow, it starts so much faster than ever before.

just a little update. Took this on a long cruise from Iowa to Chicago mid December and I knew that my muffler was about to fall off, well it finally fell off when I hit a really bumpy intersection. I am still waiting to get some time to go get it fixed since I'm to damn lazy to do it myself. Also I fixed my broken shackle issue. I didn't want to spend the big bucks on nice shackles that wouldn't give me any lift in the rear, instead I went to get the parts store lift shackles and they worked great and gave it about an inch or 2. which is fine with me because I'm planning on lifting it soon anyways. When replacing the shackles I couldn't get the top bolt out because it was rusted to the bushing sleeve, so I got adventurous and pulled out the torch and made a great big fire and made it come out. One thing that I found when lifting the jeep onto some jack stands was that the front leaf spring hanger on the passenger side was starting to rust off, so I pulled out the welder and put 2 nice beads on the back and on the outside of the frame. That should last through the winter till i can fix it a little better.

Looks great. I have been back and forth on whether to build a race truck just like the archer trucks and actually racing it or just lifting mine. You should definitely go and have some molds made for those parts just incase.

If you are anywhere near the Iowa and Wisconsin border, there is an all jeep junkyard with everything you need. They mostly have xj's and mj's in the lot

Well I found another thing wrong with the truck, I was loading my motorcycle into the truck and heard some rubbing. When I got it into my driveway I started pushing down on all corners. On the passenger rear I heard it when pushing down, so I looked under and found that the rear leaf spring shackle is completely broke in half. I have been driving it for couple weeks now without issues and never noticed anything unusual. But I do have to drive it from Iowa to north Chicagoland tonight or tomorrow. I think it should be fine until I get back there and able to fix it.

I ran into a problem today. I went to start the jeep and I got nothing, I tried to jump the starter with a screw driver and didn't get anything but some sparks. So I finally did get it started by hitting the starter a few times with a hammer and than jumped it. Looks like next week ill be getting a new starter and solenoid just to be safe.

Just a small update today. A couple owners ago, they must have screwed up the ingintiion cylinder or something. So every time I wanted to start the jeep I would have to turn key to "ON" then open the hood and touch the green starter solenoid wire to the postivite terminal on the battery. Its only been a week and was starting to get old. So today I got a 20 amp push button start. I started by mounting the button next to the transmission mode switch. I ran a wire to an empty slot on the fuse panel, so that you can't crank it over without the key. After that I ran wiring from the other side of the button through a grommet in the firewall, along the firewall and to the green wire. I used an inline fuse right there since it was in an open spot. I tried it out with key off and doesn't crank and whenever you turn key either way it will crank up and works great. Also my exhaust is about to fall off from right behind the cat. Plus the exhaust ends right after the muffler and whenever I hit bump and what not, I can hear and feel the exhaust hitting something. I know its not the shocks because it rides great and I pushed the exhaust around a little bit and it made the same noise. Next week I will be taking the jeep on its first long voyage 180 miles and 3.5 hours from Iowa to north Chicagoland. I'm not feeling worried because I had ran my other jeep that far and it was in worse shape, but I will have a 500 pound motorcycle in the back so that could change haha.

Haha I did kind of word that weird, but I sold the xj and in return I got a bike and 1400. So I think I ended up with a great deal because that xj had a bunch of problems coming up. After the head gasket change we noticed a slight tick from the rear of the block but we were also thinking it could be some loose flywheel bolts. Just haven't had time to dig into it and check it out, probably this weekend.

Here is my new project. Its a 1990 Comanche Pioneer 4.0L 4x4 with 144K nearly rust free and very clean interior. I just picked her up about a week ago. I was building my Cherokee up but got bored of it and a buddy of mine said he had a really clean MJ sitting around he would sell. So after a week of trying to sell the XJ, I sold it for $1400 and a motorcycle. and bought the MJ for $1000. So far the first thing I did was replace the head gasket, thermostat and water pump. Finished it all in one night and had her fired up in the morning. We were kinda surprised that she was running before we tore it down and found a good amount of coolant in the cylinders. After some thinking, I am not really sure where I want to go with this build. I was thinking of going with a 6-8" lift and 35s with d44 and ford 9in. Or the other route would be to keep it at this height and swap in a 350, new axles, and wider tires and kinda make it a sleeper. The build is most likely going to be a little slow because I am a college student and on a limited fund. The summer of 2014 is probably when all the action will be happening on this. Well here are some photos. More will be added as I get around to it. 2005 Honda Shadow Spirit 750 with 9951 miles My old Cherokee that I got rid of.