The86manche

I have not as i do not live out in California but I just wanted to give you a heads up about the 2000-01 xj 4.0s. The heads have weak castings and tend to crack between cylinders 3 and 4 right below the oil cap.

I was going to ask about header panel parts until I read it was already going to be used. Also I agree sad to see it pulled apart

Those are aftermarket? They look like fiero valve covers to me. I have a set of real fiero valve covers I'd sell if you'd like. They do require specific bolts and unfortunately I lost them though. They have a collard washer on them.

If you cracked the valve cover you may have over torqued or they were the wrong bolts. That is quite unfortunate hopefully you still can use it

Key parts sells the full length floor pans for our trucks. Not firewall metal though. But easy enough to recreate. Or get from a cherokee because it's the same up until 96 I believe

Sure enough my spare engine has one. I'll pull if off and you can just pay shipping

I think the orange piece is a sort of vaccum switch. I may have one in can send you if you really want to replace it

I see 4 good relatively clean trucks that could be saved and though they are missing quite a bit what they share with the cherokees would make it easy to get back on the road

As I pinch pennies for some more sheet metal I figured I'd do some more work elsewhere. I went back to the d44 to do more work! Center chunk removed! It's an absolute mess! Spider gears are chewed, the pin is held in by hopes and dreams, the amount of glitter and chunks is astounding. Seals are shot too. It was just a list of discoveries that I didn't love. I also found out one side of the axle had new bearings installed.. and I could pull the race out by hand.. so someone may have spun a bearing? And I have to deal with that. But I'm going to make it work! In the meantime I scuffed and coated the whole axle in flat black rustoleum. That turned out nice at least! Next step is to take the pinion gear out, remove the rest of the races and pressure wash the chunks and glitter out of it so I can put it back together and put it under the truck.

It was tough, still a lot of texture on that wheel so scrubbing the grime out of it was painstaking, but the end result sure was satisfying

I ma aged to grab the wheel and for $20! Cleaned up so nice too!

I should have one. But also key parts makes new housings and lenses too

There should be two almost L shaped brackets one on each side of the axle by the coil springs with a stud going through the side. The link should secure to that and then to the sway bar

When I removed mine I did almost exactly what you did but I also applied a little heat on the top side. I used two nuts and was able to remove all of mine

Aftermarket parts will always have a stamp somewhere to indicate so. Might say "tyc" with a logo or something like that.

Most of the parts you need can be found out of a 84-96 cherokee. I think even cherokee seat belts can be made to work

My best friend who was with me is going back tomorrow to grab me that wheel haha no idea what I'll do with it but it's a cool piece to have! Sad the horn button is gone.

Yeah I can do that. Do you need a good one or a reference?

They got an 85 and an 88 cherokee in the yard, 88 was fairly picked clean but the 85 was almost untouched. Damn sad because both were very clean! Both had factory mud flaps! I grabbed both sets of the fronts! The 85 had a black spoke steering wheel!! I hate that I didn't have a way to remove it! I'll be back for it! Mint door cards and their respective arm rests, 3/4 cluster. And a few other odds and ends. An side mirror cap that's color matched without the hole. Tweeters and under dash lights.

88 cherokee Laredo. Loaded to the gills with options and chrome. Interior was pretty gutted. No seats, column, cluster. Someone knew what they were pulling. I got the front door cards that they decided to leave behind. And a few small odds and ends. Under dash lights and tweeters!

85 cherokee found at sams pull apart in wercester mass. Interesting options in this. 2.8 with ac, auto, 4x4 Porno red interior. Driver mirror was fixed, not even manual, passenger was manual. The UBER RARE black spoke steering wheel. And I'm kicking myself because I didn't have a puller to take it with me Managed to grab some good things though. And I plan to go back for that wheel.

Progress progress progress! Tackled the drivers floor braces. Not nearly as fun because I couldn't tell where some of the spot welds were and the brace turned out to be too thin and folded on me. Getting the brace off revealed some.. less than desirable results. I wish the driver side was as nice as the passenger side. The floor is toast a ways up. cleaning out the rail was fun too. Full of black beauty and rust flakes. And although not terrible, still not great to find a small portion of the unibody slightly compromised. Easy fix and small spot but not one I wanted to do.

Project Candace is underway again! Made some progress tonight! Passenger side floor braces were removed for floor patch. For an 86 the passenger floor is considerably clean! The braces are even reusable. The main brace does have pitting but it's not compromised. drilling out the spot welds sure took some time though and my back doesn't thank me for it. Haha

It was just shadows. It was the brushed metal look with the wheel wrap over it

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