bheath
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lol nope
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Can you buy them new, or just JY them? I need some new seals. Junkyard as long as they are in good shape. or buy new, it's your wallet...
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creepin
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I'm not an expert by any means but I do have some experience in the jeep field. haha. thanks for watching! Since I got the XJ on the road, I'm gonna hold off on the door seals. I need to fix the back glass and get a oil pan on it to stop that leak. I'm still considering using lexan for the back glass.
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Well, fired up the XJ after the install. Have a misfire and it won't throw a code... Onlyinajeep has been ever so kind as to let me borrow a set of injectors to see if replacing them will solve the issue. I got pictures I'll post tonight. going to do another compression test as well to make sure the head work was done right. I have no reason to think that it wasn't. just want to check. MJ is still doing great. Heat is working flawlessly in this colder weather. It has a belt squeal after it's been sitting over night in the cold. I know the idler pulley is making noise, but that'll get replaced when the XJ is on the road. new belt wouldn't hurt.
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I'm gonna assume the rings are good. It looked like the valve wasn't seating correctly. The head will be back from the shop tomorrow I hope so I can get the engine back together. The valve actually looked fine. All my rockauto parts came in today so I'm ready as soon as the head is done. There is a red rag in that cylinder causing that redish look, lol. I knew someone would ask.
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WTF happened to that PIC?? Nevermind. I deleted it. Damn tinypic messing my stuff up.
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Now for the new XJ. This is how every inch of the floor looked... Clean ya rigs people! Working on removing the head... Eww... Nasty Can you say Carbon... How to clean your intake and valve cover step 1 Mating surface cleaned and ready
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That sexy MJ tho Crappy pic of the black interior
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Got another XJ. It's a 1998 Limited 2wd. Leather seats, roof console and all that jaz... I like it. I bought it from a girl about an hour away. She said her dad told her it had a burned valve. One owner. Brought it home and found 35lbs of compression in cylinder 1. suppose to be around 150 for those of ya'll that don't know. Every other cylinder had between 120-160. Not to shabby for a XJ with 253,000 miles. I'll post a pic later. Plans for now are to fix the valve and do a complete in depth maintenance of the thing then DD it forever. Once that is ready, the MJ restoration will continue. I've decided on a colored bedliner/body armor from Line-X for the paint job. It will be as close to the factory Red as possible. It'll just be matte.
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Well, no updates just yet. I'm actually in the works to buy another XJ. I want an XJ to DD so I can focus more on the restoration of the Comanche.
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The truly "custom" '86 MJ Custom.
bheath replied to onlyinajeep726's topic in Member Projects: Your Comanches
you should leave it like that. kind of the opposite of the squat guys... -
The truly "custom" '86 MJ Custom.
bheath replied to onlyinajeep726's topic in Member Projects: Your Comanches
Mainly so I'll be the only stock red MJ around!! lol :thumbsup: . :MJ 1: . -
The truly "custom" '86 MJ Custom.
bheath replied to onlyinajeep726's topic in Member Projects: Your Comanches
Yay!! Updates!! lol now lets get this thing lifted and straight into BEAST MODE!! -
yea i searched them for good stuff, nothing... figured the MJ reaper had been through... lmao
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So, the latest project was carpet. The PO removed the carpet because of a leak in the aftermarket rear window, that he installed. I assume he then had his 5 y/o nephew bedline the floor because that's who looked like put in the work. Heat from the exhaust and road noise was bugging me so off to the junkyard for crap! All the two MJ's in the yard had been worked over and were now pretty much useless so I found an early model XJ with horrible carpet for my donor. Unfortunately, it was the only carpet worth getting. And boy was it filthy!! Ignore the small pool in the background. My duck likes to play in it... Anyways, this gem cost $11. Forward with some elbow grease.. Crappy bedlined floor... Trimming the carpet to fit... Installing the now clean(er) carpet... And the final product... It's alot cleaner than the pictures make it seem, crappy phone camera... All in all, I'm overly excited with the outcome. The carpet didn't fit exact but it was very close, and considering the carpet doesn't have any backing to it ( I left it in the donor because it was soaking wet and smelled of elderberries...), I think it fit rather well. So, probably the best thing I've done to the MJ at this point. Now the only noise I hear is the engine/exhaust and wind noise from the less than perfect mostly non-existent window seals... On to the next project!
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Yay!! A follower!! haha
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And my G2 Karakoram 29er beside the mattress... incase any of you happen to spot it in the crappy pic...
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Putco Harnes ^^^^^ Putco Harness FAIL^^^^ damn crappy bolts O2 tubing from work (EMS) for vacuum lines... cheap and plentiful New vent seal... cost $4 from lowes for like 10' New tool box lift struts my brother gave me. Things are so strong I'm only using one because I almost couldn't close it with both on... New housings and H4 bulbs. and the foreman 450 and a mattress I'm storing for the inlaws...
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Thanks Minuit. I'll post pictures next time the dash is off. Forgot to hook up my radio antenna so i'll be needing to do that soon. Lately, I've continued cleaning and sealing this beast up. Pulled the cab vents off and cleaned and sealed the actual vents themselves with gorilla tape then sealed the plastic vent covers up with a 3/8" wide rubber foam strip like what seemed to be on since the factory. I thought maybe that would seal the water leak up but I was wrong. The leak appears to be coming from the rear window the PO replaced. What a damn hack job. I really want to slap that guy. As soon as I get the water leak fixed, how I don't know yet, I'll be ordering carpet to stick back in this thing. At that point, I'll be happy and ready for paint or a red tinted bedliner. not sure yet which way I want to go. Oh and I ordered and installed the putco headlight harness and my autopal housings and H4's came in yesterday so I'll be putting them in today. I'll post pictures of everything later. It's a small job loading pictures onto this site...
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Thanks Outlaw! So, I was right. Last night I put the MJ on the lift and found that the trans was indeed just sitting on the crossmember. Thanks again PO. Reason? all the bolt holes in the trans were stripped out... So I cleaned everything up and laid down a glob of JB Weld and stuck everything back up there.. I'm only joking. I actually ran a slightly smaller grade 8 bolt through the holes and managed to fit a nut on them. I did get one bolt slightly to large to thread in to one of the holes nice and tight. Other than that, I got a tool box put in. I want to find a auto to drop in the MJ...
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I saw a tag on one that said cargo light and one that said wiper... I don't think I'll add a wiper but a cargo light is highly possible. Although I'll probably add under bed rail lights instead... Some of the LED variety.
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Under dash stuff... All this came off the radio... Dear Jesus... Oh and I have like 11 harness plugs in and under my dash that aren't plugged into anything, they're just chillin... I have no idea if that's normal or not...
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I'm working on uploading pictures right now but I went out today and decided to work on the radio the PO installed. It's a nice JVC with bluetooth and a mic and all that jaz. Well, when I was leaving work the other day, the radio cut on as usual but a message ran across the screen that said "faulty wiring, check wiring then restart unit." So once I got home, I decided to do just that. Turns out, that is one smart radio... The PO's wiring job, if you can call it that, was high school auto class at best... The guy completely cut the plug off the stock wiring and shoved all of it into the dash... Then decides to run new wires down to the fuse panel... The guy wrapped the wires around fuses for the switched 12 and the constant 12 and shoved them back into their respective holes... One fuse was melted to the panel and one was corroded horribly... So, being the guy I am, I ripped all of that crap out... I spent the majority of today rewiring everything... I utilize as much factory wiring as possible which wasn't as much as I had hoped considering the wire that was suppose to have a constant 12 only had 8.5v... Anyways, after lots of patience and swearing, everything is like it should be in loom and heat shrink... Now my radio works as It should... except in my haste to finish, I failed to reconnect the antenna... damnit all.
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cleaned up vs original. (laugh all you want but those shoes are ridiculously comfy...) Well, I figured out why my reverse lights don't work. There is no plug or wires connected to the trans. Like, there is literally nothing there besides the switch itself. I looked for the wires but haven't found them. Now, I'll have to create my own harness for the lights. Joy. While I was underneath the MJ, I also noticed there are no bolts holding the trans to the mount... it's just sitting there... I suspected the PO lied to me when he said it was all original, now the truth is showing itself... I hate craigslist...