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That's a beautiful 91. Plans for it?

"Canyon" fabric, which was the cloth fabric option on the lower trim models. 88-90 I think.

This fabric to my knowledge was only fitted on '87 and '88 Laredos. The door panels should match the seats.

This is correct. You'll never get it modern car tight (don't try), but it shouldn't have that much play in it either. Look underneath for any loose joints in the steering linkage too. It doesn't take much at all for the somewhat complicated steering linkages on these trucks to start feeling loose. As to the wipers, I don't think I've ever seen an early XJ or MJ that has very much difference between hi and low. On my '91, HI is maybe 25% faster. You should replace the bushings in the linkage, which should get them working much better.

That material is called Hunter's Plaid, if that helps (probably not). The color is called Cordovan. That was replaced with the tweed looking Luggage fabric in 1989, so 1987-1988 would be the years for that fabric. Hard to find in any condition these days. That kind of seat very frequently has a tear in that exact location, so it might be hard to find a replacement. I'm almost certain you can put a passenger side cover on, after you patch the holes for the seat tilt levers and add them on the correct side.

The only place I would ever put LEDs on my own vehicle is the dome/courtesy lights. I find all of the other stock lighting fine, and not being able to dim them would bug the hell out of me. The stock dome lights are barely sufficient even with the added courtesy lights under the dash.

If you still have any significant selection of older XJs in your junkyards, consider yourself lucky. Around here, they were either junked a few years ago or are still on the road One of the junkyards I go to pretty often (which serves a pretty large metropolitan area) has a 1994 and a 1996, and I can tell you that neither of them have any useful parts on them anymore. Another has a 1990 and a 1996. The 1996 last time I saw it was stripped basically down to the shell. There was a 5 speed 98 there though, which is kind of neat I guess. Full of Grand Cherokees of all flavors and PT Cruisers as far as the eye can see, though!

Thank you! I have seen a few white ones, I think two blue ones, and a couple more red ones. I've seen exactly one other silver one like mine. The Squiggly Club is a small one indeed

The heater control valve usually breaks the first time someone accidentally touches it, so don't feel too bad. I think I got about a year and a half in before I touched mine and broke it That white line is a vacuum line - plug it, or else you'll have a vacuum leak. Flushing the coolant is never a bad idea. Do know that you'll have to work with it to get air out of the system when you refill it. My "technique", such as it is, is to squeeze the upper radiator hose while I'm filling the radiator, and once that doesn't make any more room for more coolant, start the engine to allow coolant to circulate through the system. Keep squeezing the upper hose and filling until you can't add any more coolant to the radiator. Once you're confident you're done, then fill the overflow tank to the fill line. Doing it this way has never failed me on my own '91, but everyone has their own way. If you don't fill it completely, the system can replenish itself from the reservoir so don't worry too much. Removing the control valve will cause a slight increase in the cabin air temperature. The engineers did put it in for a reason, after all. I don't know if anyone has any before/after measurements to see just how much effect it has, but there will be some. Do make sure that your blend door (the thing that switches from hot to cold air) is working fully. Look under the center of the dash from the passenger side, and as you move the selector from cold air to hot air, you should see a little arm rotating. If I remember correctly it should have a little under 90 degrees of travel. They can get cranky sometimes, and this would cause you to have hot air all the time in the cab.

The "rocking" mechanism is part of the floor pedestal so it's independent of the seat.

Yeah. The curved track mechanism is part of the floor pedestal. He'll lose that feature when he swaps to the MJ floor pedestal.

The floor pedestal is what I call the thing that connects the seat to the floor pan. Those are XJ "rocking chair" floor pedestals. I can tell because the legs are very short and there is no "hump" on the front. He just needs to remove the butt cushions, and transfer his seats over to a set of MJ bucket seat pedestals, or converted bench pedestals.

Yes, but you'll have to swap the seats onto the MJ floor pedestals as you know. Are those the "rocking chair" style of seats? They kinda look like it.

I didn't see those pics It does look much better with matching paint.

They have a cut-out right where I happen to rest my left foot. I'm not selling them right now, but if I change my mind I'll definitely let you know!

Does the firewall flange at the base of the column look like a Jeep column? My guess would be that the Jeep engineers designed around the existing Saginaw column and didn't make many changes. The biggest difference I would expect would be the positions of the bracketry. For what it's worth, in my extremely unhumble opinion I like having a tilt wheel.

OD doors on a red body is never a good look. After all of that work, why wouldn't you paint the doors? I even see overspray on the doors like they wanted it to look like that. Other than that I think it's pretty neat. And unlike GM until the late 90s, they even managed to hide the hinges!

98.2 lbs

I really like the Morels. They're just "nice" all around. For a 5" speaker, they have an incredible amount of bass. I've had several passengers ask if I had a sub hidden somewhere.

You can get a tilt steering column that has a column shifter, but they are very rare. I converted my 91 MJ from bench/column shift to bucket/floor shift. My goal was an exact OEM appearance as if the truck came from the factory with bucket seats and a floor shifter. I used all OEM parts and did no fabrication. It's by far the most worthwhile thing I did on the truck. The bucket seats are the only hard part of this. The easy way is to find the floor brackets from an MJ with bucket seats. They show up every now and then, and will allow you to bolt on 1984-1994 manual Cherokee seats with absolutely no fab work. The seat and the floor mounting bracket are separate and can be unbolted with about 10 minutes of work. You can also modify bench seat brackets to fit bucket seats. There are a few articles in the DIY Project Index in my signature that explain how. You want a tilt column from an automatic Cherokee from 1994 or earlier. It will bolt in to your MJ with no other modifications. If you want to keep your old key, this becomes a little more complicated. If you don't care, just bolt the column in. All of the column shift stuff in your truck is attached to the column. You will need to remove the cable that goes from the base of the steering column to the transmission and add a plug where the column shift cable went through the firewall. The shifter assembly needs to also come from an automatic Cherokee 1994 or earlier. It can be the same XJ you get the column from. You need the two cables that come out of the shifter. There is one cable that goes from the shifter to the transmission, and one cable that goes from the shifter to the steering column. That cable prevents you from taking the key out when you aren't in park. No fab work is required, as your MJ will have a block-off plate where the shifter would be. You just have to install the shifter where the blockoff plate was. The floor shifter cable will be routed from the shifter, through a hole on the base of the transmission tunnel on the driver side, and then curved around to the transmission. Your MJ should have the hole this cable passes through already. This is a quick rundown, I can give you more details if you need them.

Her name is Peanut. She's a little bit of a nut

HAHA! Good freakin' luck with that! I haven't done $#!&! The truck has been mostly in a happy place, and hasn't done anything weird recently. Its lack of A/C has meant I've been mostly driving other vehicles (the low pressure cutoff switch decided that sticking closed and running the compressor at 100% duty cycle was a good idea, regardless of if there was actually any refrigerant to be compressed). Recently, I've been paying its older, somewhat more French brother more attention, adding novel features to it such as a functioning cooling system and a parking brake. This truck must have not liked that very much, so it protested by trying to lose a wheel on me: On the way back from the gym last Wednesday, I noticed that the front end felt very unsecured. There was also a very unsettling noise coming from up front, but I couldn't pinpoint exactly where it was coming from. The morning after, I decided to look at it to see what happened, and as you can probably see I didn't have to look too hard. By the time I got back home, the wheel was being held on by one, very loose, lugnut. Oops. Check your lug nuts every oil change, folks. As thanks for not actually killing me, I replaced the offending rotor, re-lubricated the pad mating surfaces, repacked the wheel bearing (which still looks almost brand new after about 25,000 miles), and rotated the tires. I took exactly 0 pics, since the old school tapered wheel bearings on these early 2WD axles are dirty business. I might repack the other side, or I may not. I don't plan on keeping this 2WD axle in service for much longer anyway, but I'm sure all 3 of you reading this know how that goes by now. I also noticed that the tailpipe (replaced in early 2002 per a receipt I found) has grown a few speed holes. By that, I actually mean it's pretty much rusted away. Look at that exhaust hanger that's sitting there acting like it's doing something! I guess it's time for the third exhaust on this otherwise almost rust free Southern truck. Kind of annoying, considering I just was under my 1996 Thunderbird with a completely original exhaust, even down to the mufflers and cats, and it's literally spotless. I'm not even sure I can blame the aftermarket here, since this piece of junk has actually been on the truck longer than the original was. In other news, meet the new Dash Bezel of the Month! I finally found the coveted brushed aluminum Laredo dash bezel. The woodgrain Briarwood bezel I had before was starting to grate on me - I'm not really a fake wood person, I just liked the rarity of it being a 1991 and 1992 only part. I'll probably sell it, if any woodgrain freaks out there are paying attention. This one actually has a shiny, brushed look to it, as opposed to the much more common painted version that briefly graced the '89: Bonus kitten picture!

Sad to see the first one go, but that's a very nice looking Pioneer there.

Don't you just love busybody neighbors that can't mind their own business? I'm sure they think they're doing the community a favor by bothering you. I'm lucky to have neighbors that mostly appreciate... at least one of my MJs... I think.

Not my style but this was someone's baby at some point. Lots of goodies there. Looks like they pretty much ran it through the whole Mopar accessory catalog. They even left the factory brown button AM-FM radio! Even I think those things suck.