Jaxso32

Sadly had to wrap the jeep up for the time being, finally decided it was time to get out of New York. So the jeep will be stuck sitting at home until I find a new place down in tennessee, or until I can fix enough of the girlfriends grandparents toys to earn a spot for it in their garage. At least for the time being I have another jeep to get running, a 94? Jeep yj w/ the renegade package. Its been sitting for the last few years after a "small" engine fire.

Managed to get most of the New-ish parts on, 80% of the dash is installed and secured. Still trying to find where everything goes, but getting there bit by bit. I still need a horn button/airbag, glove box, a rear harness and various other bits and pieces. 99+ intake seems to fit pretty well, but time will tell. The ps pump took some effort to fit on the new manifold, but it does fit with the newer bracket. Slowly getting the engine bay all plugged in and put back together and broke the rear alternator bracket somehow, but did get the fenders and radiator put back on. Just need to find my headlight harness and I can put the header panel and front bumper back on. The damage from the deer I clipped awhile back is definitely a problem with the new fenders and left a pretty big gap between the hood and fender that I'll have to fix later on.

Finally hung the drivetrain back in the jeep and got it all bolted back up. Got the dash mostly mounted in the cab, just need to figure out the lower dash mounts. Than comes the fun of wiring, lots and lots of wiring.

Central New York weather makes me really wish I had a garage, but still got the dash mocked up, the engine put back together and finally stuffed back in. Ever so slowly working away at my to do list. Still need to figure out the mount the trans and t-case back up before it can get shipped down to Tennessee in a few weeks. Hopefully the snow holds off until than

Lots of new holes in the jeep, steering brace mounted, Hvac box mounted, and passenger side J/B mounted and secured. Engine harness mocked up, still need to find a few brackets and secure everything. Does anyone have a picture of how the harness is supposed to go between the J/B and Hvac box? I don't remember how it was run on the Xj I pulled everything from

Engine bay is all cleaned and painted, amazing how much work it takes to get almost 30 years of grime off. Cans and cans of degreaser, rustoleum self-etching primer, and some rattle can hunter green. Also started on the interior work, so far have the new hole for the steering column cut and the new brace mocked up

I'm not talking about the steering box, when doing the 97 swap you remove the renix dash and Steering column mounts. The 97+ uses an actual bolt on brace, I need to find out if existing holes will work or if I have to drill new ones.

I'm guessing this has probably been covered, but with the photobucket BS it's hard to find a picture. When mounting the new steering column brace, do new holes need to be drilled in the kick panel area or can the existing holes be reused?

Slow progress, is better than no progress. Got the 9" built and installed New driveshaft Pulled the bed off Ran all new brake lines Built a temporary flat bed Fixed the floor I drove it for a few weeks the way it was, but gave up on fighting the electrical gremlins. I decided it was time to swap the wiring to obd2, the first plan was to swap in everything from a 96. That plan didn't last long, every JY Xj had the pcm connector cut so I settled on a 98 swap. So far the truck has been gutted, engine and engine bay cleaned degreased and painted, along with the steering column hole cut and brackets drilled out

Easy job to do, the small bearing 28 spline isn't terrible. Worst comes to worst, bring it to a speed/machine shop and have them weld torino or big bearing ends on.

If you don't mind the fab work, a ford 9 inch out of a bronco is relatively cheap and strong as hell. Lots of aftermarket support and not hard to convert to disk brakes

I would also recommend the external slave conversion, it's worth it knowing you don't have to drop the trans. If you have a failure

Using the older style dash should be easy just wire up the gauges to sensors, if converting to the new style dash is where I would expect there to be some issues. As far as the tach goes I think people tap into the injector wiring and use the injector pulses like ignition pulses to get a tach signal.