Kj...limited Liberty Renegade On 32S

[JeepcoMJ]

LOL

 

Thanks for the support. But no thanks to a mini-van/liberty forum. This is ComancheClub. And I only posted it here because I don't want to associate with the sallys who usually own these things.

[jpnjim]

Damn!

Now where am I going to put my Pro-Street Caravan build thread?

 

 

;)

[JeepcoMJ]

I will lol if you fit those under there.

[JeepcoMJ]

Just picked up the parts necessary to instal the light bar. Getting that done, then installing the interior today. Want this thing done by tuesday or wednesday, registered, insured, ready to drive.

[JeepcoMJ]

Well, I know it's sunday but I've been up since 3am....fell asleep early last night and just couldn't stay asleep. Guess that's what eating a whole jar of jalapenos does to you lol.

 

Anyways, the lightbar is now installed, and functional. on to rust proofing the floors, then installing the headliner, door panels, and waiting for the paint to dry before I put the carpet in.

 

 

 

 

 

 

required tools;

 

drill

5/16" drill bit

1" hole saw

6 1/4x20 nut-serts and tool

small amount of windshield glue/adhesive

6 1/4x20 1" long bolts (stainless)

2 1/4x20 nuts (stainless)

6 1/4" washers

6 1/4" lock washers

tape measure to square it off to the factory location (outer front mounting bolts 3" in on center from outer forward roof edge)

 

I ran the rear two bolts up from underneath to help square it off and keep it from sliding forward once in position. I'd have liked to do that on all of them, but you cannot access behind the 4 forward mounting locations. I used the polyeurothane windshield adhesive upon install, after install, and on the bolts when running them in. I don't think that I will have any issues with leaks on it this way. Ideally, it would have been best to order riv-nuts with M8 coarse thread poppets, but that wasn't in the cards...couldn't wait until next friday to get them.

 

more to come yet today.

[JeepcoMJ]

headliner back in

 

 

A pillars installed. Also, dash complete

 

[JeepcoMJ]

Well, haven't updated this for a couple days.

 

As it stands, we have not got much left to do.

 

We finished the interior, just need to detail it. finished routing the roof light wire to it's proper location in a non-intrusive manor, picked up the other liberty, and got the rear axle and lift (OME) out of the old totalled Renegade.

 

Pulling the rear end took me 20 minutes start to finish. I got my 10mm impact socket on 3/8" cornwell gun, 21mm and 15mm impact sockets on 1/2" cornwell gun, air, 21mm wrench, 12mm brake line wrench, interior clip removal tool for the wiring on the upper link, and buzzed it all out. hardest part was lining up the jack, and disassembling the rear brakes to disconnect the e-brake cables.

 

What's left to do is remove the A pillar trim, sun visors, front and rear tow hooks, and brand spanking new front (drilled slotted rotors, nice pads) and rear (full drums, etc.) brakes off of the renegade we just picked up, and put them on the silver one.

 

I also removed the rear end and suspension from the silver one, so we need to put the "new" one with lift in the rear, re-bleed the brakes, drain trans, add drain plug to drain pan, do an all over fluid replacement/change, and then do a final detail on the silver one. Then it's driveable.

 

pics.

 

one has grown to three. FML

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carpet in

 

 

Seats in. I did try to do some restoration, and it does look better, but that is where my area of expertise ends.

 

 

 

 

 

cargo area cover as well

 

 

completed and installed door panels. Swapping the black handles and bezels out for the brushed ones really was very straight forward

 

[92tanMJ]

Nice dude youve really done work on this!

 

So how cracked is the other light bar?

[JeepcoMJ]

Thanks.

 

the other light bar is missing parts of the actual main cover itself. I do not have them, or I would plastic weld it together, sand it, and paint it. The farthest right (passenger) light has a crack on the outside at the mount, but does still work. I imagine it would fog up though in wet conditions.

[JeepcoMJ]

Today we;

 

installed the rear end and lift

 

swapped the yoke on the rear end out for one without a broken ear

 

pulled the brand new (flash rusted slightly from sitting) brakes from the tboned one and put them on the limited. drilled and slotted front rotors, premium rears. few hundred bucks worth of brake parts that I wasn't expecting to have. Old brakes were almost new as well, but I can't resist high quality.

 

bled rear brakes

 

pulled front bumper again, inner fender, fender flares so I can do the mods necessary to clear the tires without rubbing

 

oil change

 

installed driveshafts

 

confirmed detroit full carrier locker, 4.10 gears in the rear axle, new fluid in it

 

pics.

 

 

didn't bother scuffing or cleaning the light rust off the discs, they will wear in in under 10 miles

 

inner fender, fender flare removed

 

pinch weld beat in so it's out of the way. currently has new paint (color match of course) drying on it after i took the pic.

 

that's a bit more room

[JeepcoMJ]

I will post pics in the morning, but today we;

 

finished bolting up everything in the front suspension and front clip

 

finished modifying the pinch welds in the front wheel well. I did attempt to keep the inner fenders in one piece by folding and plastic welding the area where the pinch welds were. the 32" tires still rubbed while turning, so I ended up cleanly cutting that area out of the inner fender completely, but retaining most of it. Bedlined that area and called it good. Eventually I will do something nicer, but the fact that there was 1/4" too much material there made it more worth my time to go this route.

 

installed front tow hooks

 

installed gas tank skid plate

 

installed transfercase skid plate. couldn't get nutcerts big enough for the body side, so I made a nut strip to slide into the frame rail instead.

 

Tomorrow we just have to finish up fluid changes, then put the tboned renegade back together to move it outside so this one can see daylight for the first time in a couple weeks. and a bath.

[JeepcoMJ]

 

 

before filing the edge and color matching the cut edge.

 

[JeepcoMJ]

Went and bought another one today. Price too good to resist.

 

'02 limited 2wd from texas. No motor or trans. Leather, Sunroof, power everything, heated seats, cruise, etc. Good set of rims, crap tires. Going to convert it to 4x4, swap the motor and everything from the tboned renegade in, and sell it.

 

 

 

Class 3

 

nice leather

 

Front

 

Sunroof

 

empty engine bay

 

2x4 k-member

[JeepcoMJ]

Finished the silver one. will post pics of that and the stripped out green one later today.

[JeepcoMJ]

Stripped the rest of the first rolled renegade out today. pics before I pulled bumpstops and rear side glass. ready for scrap.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the complete wiring harness, front to back, 100% of it with the ends cut off. filled a 5 gal bucket. Stripping that down took about 2 hours. the rest of the jeep, 20 min./door to strip them down and remove them, about 2 hours into stripping the parts off the body etc.

 

 

Loading and scrapping it tomorrow.

[JeepcoMJ]

junk body loaded and heading out.

Here is how we loaded it.

Before strapping it down.

Limited #2 moved into it's place to be fixed. finishing up interior work (swapping in new pass. rear window motor, etc.) then on to the 4x4 conversion, new motor, new trans, etc.

And shop reorganized.

 

Getting a start on this blue one tomorrow while the silver one is at the dealership getting keys programmed and one more keyless entry remote added, then dropped off at a friend's shop to have A/C recharged and alignment checked and perfected.

[JeepcoMJ]

Scrapped, goodbye.

 

 

 

 

towed like a dream, as always.

[JeepcoMJ]

More work done today. Had errands in the A.M. then had to get a few more Meyer snowplow pumps ready, but got back at it.

 

Removal

 

 

out

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

cleared out

 

door off so we can walk around it easier. Hell of it is, both d/s door glass and regulators were still straight.

 

just having some fun...

 

 

[JeepcoMJ]

I have to say this is awesome. I know it's swapping stuff but you two (I assume your brother is in on it with you) are making a small livelihood out of swapping' date=' saving, and modding KJs. Love it.[/quote']

Lol. Well, it's a pain in the butt without a car lift, but My brother and I get it done.

The silver one is a keeper...not going to trail it, I'll build another xj for that. There is no sense wheeling a $7000+ vehicle, IMHO, when you can build an xj for $3k and total it, and not give a darn.

The blue one will not be a "livelihood" per se, but it will negate all costs of building the silver one, and set us back to zero when we sell it. (OK, maybe we'll make some profit off parts, and a bit off the blue one, but that will take some time)

Thanks for your appreciation!

Engine/trans/tcase/crossmember are IN, wiring layed back out, shift cables hooked up, now time to align it, and toss the front coils back in, then finish her up

and no, we didn't lift that in with a floor jack...we pushed it in with a pallet jack, then aligned the body over it with the engine hoist, set it down, bolted her up. floor jack is just so I could align it side to side.

Tomorrow we will;

align front crossmember

install trans crossmember

hook up exhaust

install front coils, brakes, upper a-arms, sway bar

hook up wiring

install battery box

install cruise motor

install computers

install radiator

swap a/c pumps out as we didn't want to discharge this one

change all fluids

test fire

tune up

 

We may get around to installing the front clip again tomorrow, but that's a long shot at the moment.

Also dropping off two rims for two new tires to match the 3 other new ones on it.

on the home stretch now!

[JeepcoMJ]

Didn't do much the past couple days. Just about finished it today.

 

Rotors and pads up front on one of the KJ's were just about new, but flash rusted from sitting. So I popped them in the bead blast cabinet and blasted the rotors, blasted the braking surface of the pads quick to scuff them, and the sliding surfaces of them. Also blasted the caliper brackets, all of the slides, and relubed and installed them after paint.

 

After blasting the rotors, I just used my fine pad on my gasket remover to polish them back up. Took the rear brakes apart, cleaned up in there, they were almost new but whoever installed them didn't put any anti-seize on them (presumably because this sucker is from texas), so I got that done.

 

aligned the K-member and installed the bolts for that, cleaned and painted the sway bar, lower a-arms, coilover bases, calipers, and k-member after we did the oil change.

 

Then picked up the two new tires for it, as I had a set of 2 new tires and one 70%, so now I've got a set of 4 new and one very good Nokian Vativa 235/70R16's on this beast.

 

Then reinstalled the engine wiring harness, hoses, cruise motor, computers, air box, battery box, throttle cable, radiator, trans crossmember and rear driveshaft, and header panel. That's where we called it a day.

 

Pics

 

 

 

tires on

 

front suspension done, tires on

 

Scuffed the bottom of the A arm with the jack stand, will repaint tomorrow.

 

 

[JeepcoMJ]

Pic fuzzed out, but the front end is all back together, tow hook brackets and non-liberty NOS stainless hooks and clips installed.

 

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all back together. Doing the windshield tomorrow, then letting that cure, and it's time to wash and detail her out.

[JeepcoMJ]

Well, not much of an update, but today on the blue one we;

 

Installed the front skid, tcase skid, gas tank skid, put coolant in it, did the trans fluid, and took it for a test drive.   Once that was done, we dropped it off to have the windshield done.   I got about halfway through pulling the windshield from the tboned renegade when it decided to let loose all the stress from having been tboned, and royally destroy itself.   Oh well.

 

Picking it up tomorrow p.m., washing and detailing it, inspecting it, marking all of the fluid changes and intervals in the owner's manual, and re-checking all of the bolts for proper torque.

 

Have a prospective buyer coming to look at it on saturday.

[knever3]

Nice work I like the detailed descriptions.

[JeepcoMJ]

thank you!

[SW86]

sell me the light bar off the silver one :D