Rymanrph

Well, I have made some progress. The passenger side is pretty close to being ready for paint. Just a little more wire brushing and fill in the the small pin hole. The driver side has been a little more problematic. I've been trying to work around the firewall padding and its been rather annoying. I found the source of my leak. Its a leaky clutch master. The fluid dripped down and seeped in around the fuse panel. My floor boards have seam sealer everywhere. The whole firewall is covered in it. The fluid dripped down behind the seam sealer, so a lot of the rust was covered up. Passenger Side: Driver Side (I obviously have some more work to do, but at least all the fuzz is gone). I wiped down the passenger side, but not the driver side, so a lot of what you see is rust dust: Its made itself right at home, pushing my other vehicles into the driveway. I got started on my XJ bucket seats tonight, but while drilling out the studs on the old XJ mounts, my drill battery died, so no pictures of those till tomorrow.

Sounds like a good idea, but I still need to get the firewall padding off. Do I have to take the dash off to get it out? Also your idea about buying a whole Cherokee might be a great option. I found a same model year 5spd 4x4 locally asking $1300, so I should be able to talk him down and get a whole vehicle for roughly the same price. No word yet on if it has a dana 35 in the rear or not though.

My gauge cluster I bought is from the same year (1990), the tilt was out of a 92. What's the baby powder trick? Yeah, that's my SRT-4 and I'm selling it. I have a guy coming to pick it up this weekend. Its been a great car, even after it was totaled and rebuilt, but I'm really tired of fwd and I wanted to sell it while it was still worth something.

I got a quote yesterday on a transmission and transfer case out of a 92 Cherokee, front dana 30 and rear 8.25, drive shafts and all for $1k. Oh and free delivery. It seems like a good deal to me. Any thoughts? I might see if I can find a newer 95+ to get the external slave. Is that worth holding out for? I also took a trip to the pull a part. I got bucket seats out of a '92 cherokee, a full instrument cluster, front fender liners, digital clock, and tilt steering column out of an auto (not sure if I can make this work), a full front clip (mine is cracked at the top) and the ash tray just to fill the blank in the dash. Not a bad day's work for $127. Pictures coming soon. I got the bench seat out and the carpet pulled and got to working on the floor a little bit today. I got the broken e-brake cable out only to realize that the new one I bought is not the right one. The passenger floor board really isn't that bad, just some surface rust and a small pin hole. The driver side is worse than I thought. I found a small hole on the side near the rocker panel toward the back of the door and another hole on the left side under the parking brake pedal. There is surface rust all down the firewall on the inside. So I have to figure out what's leaking down. Passenger side: Driver side (most of the bright orange is the padding from the carpet that stuck to the floor): Back driver side: I obviously want to keep all this from happening again. What's the best way to find leaks? Also, does anyone know how to get the firewall padding off without taking everything off the firewall? I need to get behind it to address the surface rust on the driver side.

I've owned three wranglers, but decided to start another Jeep project. I call it a rebirth because if I hadn't decided to buy it and fix it, I'm sure it wouldn't have lasted long. The PO had no idea it had a hole in the floor, even after looking for holes. I haven't decided if this will be a fix to keep or fix to sell Jeep yet, but here's what I've got: Its a 1990 2wd 4.0 5 spd. It has 212k miles, but only about 50k on the rebuilt 4.0. It has some rust on the driver side floor board and the rear dana 35 is pretty much shot. The paint is pretty rough, but the body is in great shape overall. Here are some pictures of when I picked it up: (notice the mismatched mirrors) I don't know if that headliner can be saved, but we'll see.