Kickin’Chicken

Yes sir! It’s new but now mangled.

I’m ready when you are!!! Where are you located?

I reversed the black and grey wires and fastened the ground back on the frame to no avail. It burned the fusible link in two. So I’ve had problems with the ground to frame either way. Any advice would be appreciated. TIA

Ha ha ha!!! I agree. It was hard getting the wires to hold in place, hold the soldering iron and solder on my back while reaching up under the truck bed.

The lock and release clip are lined up and in place. You can see this in the other pic. I bought that at Oreilys. They said it was fit a Cherokee but was the same part for the mj

Agreed. Should have some 49” Irocs on it!

I agree. I disconnected that ground-to-frame jumper and the pump is buzzing like a carpenter bee. I’m thinking that black isn’t the ground after all (as I was told elsewhere.)

So the ground wire to the fuel pump harness isn’t the problem?

After installing a new fuel pump I noticed smoke coming from the starter relay while cranking the engine. Also I soldered a ground clamp to the pump’s pig-tail and fastened it to the frame. I found where the smoke was coming from (see pic.) Any advice would be appreciated.

Congrats. As long as you like it, who cares what others think, right? I'm gonna wait till they put either a diesel or a v8 in something like this:

Make sure you get a manual. The automatic transmissions in those are terrible.

WOW!!

Future plans for it include (but not limited to) some kind of aftermarket front fenders - since I’ve “rurn’t” these. I also want to modify the 4.0 and get it as close to the 4.0 H.O. as possible. It just doesn’t seem to have the low end grunt the older engines had and I keep comparing it to my ‘99 TJ that had whatever “it” is.

It’s got the nv3550 5 speed and, of course, 4.0 and nv241OR. It had 33” tires and a 2.5” lift (teraflex) when I got it and looked like the above. Since I had the 36” Irocs on rims in my barn I tried them on for the hell of it and decided to keep them on. The only place they rubbed (too much) was in the rear wheel wells so I put some of these on: and that fixed the rubbing problem.

Looks awesome. Only problem is when cruising the hood you might be mistaken for a cop. Might make it hard to score some crack.

Sorry. It’s been a while and just today wandered back over here. Here’s a flex pic.

Love that quarter panel armor. I need something like that for my FZJ80.

Love it! Especially the skylights!

Looked like 1,100 miles to me?

Great find! Every time I see one I wish I’d never chopped13” off my ‘81 Scrambler back in the ‘90s. It went from a CJ8 to a CJ7.5.

Trying to decide on several “fixes” for it. Thinking about High-Line fenders, Flat-Belly transfercase mounts and 7120 head change vs “porting” my existing head to fit this SS header.

Will do. Thanks!