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Just for grins, after checking all of the wiring, I hooked a battery to the MJ. Image Not Found Image Not Found Image Not Found It looks more alive when the lights work!! For those that know, could the reason why the left turn on the dash is on be that I have a bulb out at the front turn signal? Been so long since I dealt with an issue like this. Thanks! Jerry

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The bed rail has some rust on it, but most of that was because of very bad bondo job trying to fill the holes from what I'm guessing was a shell at one time was over the bed. There are holes in the liner along the bed rails that line up perfectly with the bondo'ed areas. We'll address those soon, just need to get out the rest of the vinyl/insulation to see the rest of the cab floor. I think I revealed the worst of the rust so far, so I feel confident. Jerry

Thanks! I really hate those drop in bedliners, as they are notorious for trapping dirt between the liner and bed, scratching the paint off, and then rotting out the bed. I was shocked it was so clean! Tomorrow, I'm going to clean the bedliner and pit it back in, just to protect the bed while I'm getting the drive train finished. Jerry

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Tomorrow will be start of the cleaning; taking that bedliner out to see what's under it, pulling the vinyl floor to see the floor board situation, and a complete washing! Jerry

MuddFoot, funny you would say that! While I was waiting for my friend to get off from work and meet up at the PO's house to tow it to my place, I went to the local U-Pull-&-Pay. I got an AX15 shifter, boot, and shift floor plate from one 2-dr XJ, and a pair of tan bucket seats with no slop in the seat back, and they tilt forward from another 2 dr XJ! Here are more pics of the MJ after we got it out from under the PO's carport, and offloaded two really heavy old generators from the bed. Image Not Found Image Not Found Image Not Found Image Not Found Image Not Found All loaded and ready to go: Image Not Found On the way home: Image Not Found and finally HOME, with one of my daughters steering while my friend and I move the MJ to the back of the house: Image Not Found

Thanks, Gogmorgo! I was wondering where that was!! Well, getting ready to go to the JY to look at a '90's 2 door XJ for the body harness, engine harness, ECU (XJ is manual), and shifter/boot for the console, and THEN, it's off to bring the MJ home, finally!! Will post pics later. Jerry

Hornbrod, that emblem is freaking awesome!!! Should I stroke the 4.0 that's going into my MJ, I'll need this!!! Jerry

Hey, that almost looks like my '86 MJ: Image Not Found At least yours was drivable, mine doesn't have an engine or tranny!! I'm going to do what you're doing soon. Jerry

Is this a Metric Ton spring? Looks a little too wimpy to me. This is an '86 Long Bed, had the 2.8, auto, and still has the D44. Image Not Found Thanks Jerry

Thanks, looking forward to swapping ideas on here! Jerry

The funny thing is, the old guy thought it was an '89. I walked up to it, and saw the grille, and it looked older. My suspicions were right, as the tailgate had the 2.8 V6 badge. I specifically didn't want an '86, as I heard the firewall wasn't notched for the 4.0. After looking at mine, then reading about the late '86's that had the 4.0 notch, glad this one has it! Jerry

Where is that brake leveling valve that I hear about? I'm thinking of possibly doing the '97 front clip, but, as much as I would love to do the interior and dash swap, the dash would be too much for me. It's bad enough that I'm doing the total rewiring of the engine bay for the Mopar injection and computer. Jerry

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