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The foundation for a good paint job is the prep work, that is where MAACO will fall short. You can hide a multitude of sins under a nice paint job, one year later the prep will start showing through the new paint. If you have surface rust showing up now, there will be more hidden that you don't see yet.

I made this one out of a piece of cherry. One of those silly projects you spend about 20 hours on. But it keeps me out of the bars...

That looks like a huge turbo, big is not always better in some applications. Most turbos have oilers on the bottom of the pistons for additional cooling. Not sure how a stock 2.5 can handle all that boost? The last thing in the world I would want to do is invest $25k in a Cherokee and then sell if for $9500... I have done a few builds where you loose some money, but no to that extent.

I picked up those 6 quarts and have them packed and ready for shipment. They are factory sealed, cleaned up and look brand new. If somebody wants to pay the shipping I will drop them off at the Post Office. The package is 13.4 lbs shipping from 80514. I have a photo but photo bucket is not working tonight. Send me a PM if interested.

Is it just the angle of the photo or is the instrument cluster no aligned to the bezel properly? It may have had a cluster swap?

I have an 88 2.5L, 4spd, 4x4 and it is a good little rig. Even at the high altitude up here in Colorado I’m giving up about 20 horsepower, it still gets around good. The big advantage to the 2.5 is they get pretty good gas mileage. Gas is cheap right now but could be back up to $5 gal real quick… There are really no performance upgrades for the 2.5, down the road you could do a 4.0 swap if you are up to the challenge. The ticking sound could be a cracked or loose exhaust manifold?

1988 Factory brochure showing 4x4 emblem location. I can find the Larado with the fancy trim and pin stripping has it moved down I Image Not FoundImage Not Found

I'm not sure they will accept values outside or your region. Cherokee's in Colorado have a lot more value, check Denver Craigslist. http://denver.craigslist.org/ctd/5940044815.html http://denver.craigslist.org/ctd/5940008530.html http://denver.craigslist.org/cto/5934058513.html

The guy that works over there is always talking about my Comanche. He said he will hold them for me, I will pick them up next week.

I'm not sure what this stuff is, ATF or gear lube? It seems really thin when you shake the bottle...

Saw this over at the county hazardous drop area. They have a free shelf of useable chemicals and liquids. If somebody is interested I can pick these up and hold them. I’m not sure how good the lubricant is but maybe a collector/conversation piece? The date code is 1974. Image Not Found

Don't go to Sears...

You know your getting bored when you start cruising youtube. Some of these are pretty good. There is one piece of equipment that comes off of the pallet and rolls through the field at about 140 knots. I wonder what the differentials looked like after that roll?

I'm not sure how critical this is but on a factory hitch the 1/4" shims are mounted differently. Only the (2) most forward shims are welded to the side plates. The other (4) are loose and slipped into the frame indents during mounting. I'm not sure why they did this at the factory, maybe so you can hang the hitch on the (2) forward bolts then rotate the hitch up for final mounting? If the other (4) shims were mounted would they scratch the paint on the frame during assembly?

I realized the error after I installed them. I can pull the emblem off but that 3M VHB tape will not come off the new paint.