The Tale of 2 MJs

[MeanLemons]

Howdy everybody. Look like it's time to start a new build thread in the MJ section of the forum. That's something new for me. Ha.

 

Before I start the introduction, I need to explain how I came to this point...

In 2009 I started a money pit project; a BBQ smoker mounted on a trailer. After a couple of years, I lost motivation, (I didn't have time to constantly drive to my grandmother's house to work on the BBQ smoker, it was stowed in her garage). I already had my first jeep XJ which was lifted and all, I knew I needed another vehicle to daily drive, what's better than another XJ? That way I ll only need to keep stock of same parts instead of two different piles of parts.

 

So I put the smoker up for barter on Craigslist. About two days later, I got a hit. A guy had a 2001 XJ with warped head that he didn't want anymore. We went ahead with the trade.

 

This is the build thread for the silver 2001 XJ

http://www.cherokeeforum.com/f46/sil...roject-195354/

 

I replaced the head with a TUPY 0331, fixed few minor stuff and got it running, which was great because it had AC (it was summertime). By August I got bored of it, and wanted something different. So I sold it for $2,200.

 

I wanted a 5 speed XJ, just because... I looked for about a month and found this gem... 1999 XJ with 4.0 and AX-15. I bought it for $500 and drove it home.

 

Here's the build thread.

http://www.cherokeeforum.com/f46/jer...x-15-a-198800/

 

To recap what happened, I put in a 2.5 lift, slapped on some 31's, swapped the axles to get 3.55 ratio (HP30 and a XJ D44). Swapped the t case out to a NP242. Etc etc.

I made a mistake that I still regret to this day... selling it. I sold it for $3,800 (I put in only $2000-including the purchase price of $500). Still a decent profit but I regret it nonetheless.

 

I bought a purple 1998 XJ auto for $900. I thought I could flip it and sell it but that didn't happen unfortunately. It was a nightmare working on it. Lol. Eventually led to the diagnosis of bad piston rings in cylinder number 1 on the engine.

 

Here's the build thread.

http://www.cherokeeforum.com/f46/gri...e-haze-219593/

 

I wanted to get rid of it. I also wanted something completely different. I got really tired of XJs at that point. I'm about to move to a new house with a garage. I knew I would need a truck of some sorts but it should have a 4.0 so that way I can reduce the amount of parts to stockpile. And because I m used to working on it and I'm pretty familiar with it. I also usually haul stuff such as axles, and stuff. It's difficult to load the XJ lol.

 

Here is where a MJ comes in. I knew I can't afford to buy one and I couldn't sell the purple XJ for a decent price either. So a trade is the only way.

 

I keep asking various Craigslist postings to see if they were willing to trade. Some were willing, some weren't. One guy even tried to rip me off by jerking me around with vagueness and a$$hole-ness... anyway.

 

One day I saw a posting that asked for $3000 for both MJs (one good running one and a parts one). I thought it wouldn't hurt to ask.

 

He agreed to the trade, so I drove the jeep over and took both trucks home.

 

And that's how I ended up with TWO MJs! Who would have thought??

 

My bathroom poop break is over so I gotta go back to work. Ha.

 

I STILL need to figure out how to post pictures here from the phone.

[madog7200]

You need to download the Tapatalk app and use that, it's the easiest way to post pic's in my opinion

 

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[MeanLemons]

Oh that's unfortunate... I hate Tapatalk :(

[gogmorgo]

Just like an image on the desktop (non-mobile) site, you need to have the image hosted elsewhere, and then link to it. Only instead of having the luxury of a button that does it for you on the desktop site, you need to manually enter the tags yourself. Your code should have this format:

[img]http://www.webpage.com/image.jpg[/img]

As an example, this picture:

was posted using this code:

[img]https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/rlquw9jj3f8vr7uwb1xv.jpg[/img]

As an FYI I wrote most of my posts (including this one) on a mobile device, manually coding anything fancy I've wanted in the post. But then I've been using bbcode forums (such as this one) for a long time before they came up with fancy buttons that did everything for you. I haven't even tried tapatalk, seems like a waste to me, getting an app for something I can already do. The only advantage I can think of is that tapatalk hosts photos, which streamlines posting them to this site, but I've never been too bothered by that.

[MeanLemons]

Yeah I guess I'm so spoiled by CherokeeForum apps. Lol

[SatiricalHen]

I also like the Cherokee forum apps better, but Tapatalk works.


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