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Haven't been on CC in a long while...lost interest in my 86 2.8 after the carb bit the dust in early may. Since then, I've been very, very slowly working on swapping a carb off of a 3.4l mercury outboard, that I got for free, onto the 2.hate. Fast forward to mid September, browsing craigslist for xjs and mjs like always, found a decent 96 5 spd xj for $1500. Looked at it, told the guy i'd be back Friday with cash for it. Couldn't get ahold of him, then suddenly that weekend I found a another 96 5spd for $100 in the same area...turns out his dad needed it for parts, stripped what he wanted, then decided he didn't want to bother scrapping the rest. So I picked it up with a good driveline and no doors or title. Was planning on putting the 4.0 in the mj...until this week, when I found ANOTHER 96 for $500 that needs lower end work in the motor. So now, I'm finally finishing the carb swap on the mj. Next, I'm putting the $100 engine into the $500 xj, rebuilding the $500 xjs engine once the xj is running enough to be my dd, then moving forward with a 4.0 swap in the mj. I think I have a jeep problem. Pics of my one-turned-into-three projects

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Maybe I should finally start some build threads to keep track of all this...

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haha one day you may end up buying jeeps back from the same guy you sold it too  :rotfl2:

Its definitely possible...but I'm still in the "buying as many as i can own" phase, havent started selling any yet 

In happy news, my MJ runs again, for the first time in months! . :MJ 1: .

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Welcome back! Like your truck in your profile picture.

Thanks. Probably the best picture thats ever been taken of the truck. can't see any pre-existing body damge, rust, blah blah. Its the same as in the first picture i posted, just put a better bumper on it and got rid of some chrome. The chrome and copper orange color just didnt look right together, imo

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