First MJ and form post ever.

[Lector Manche]

Well don't know if I'm posting in the right spot but here goes.

 

Two months ago I finally got an MJ its a 87 long bed. I had it shipped to NC from NJ. I'm new to most of the stuff I'm looking at but I'm really enjoying it. Here's a question though I just found an 94 XJ that had a fire under the hood, the guy wants $250 for it. The engine bay and dash were destroyed but the tranny and trans are still good and it has a 3in lift on it.

 

I know the rear lift won't match up on the manche as they are different. But I wondering if the buy is worth it just to have a trans and transfer and to use the front of the lift and maybe add a leaf in the rear.

 

Thought about taking the doors also.

 

 

[desbennett004]

You probably break even if you were able to sell a couple parts and then sell the rest for scrap metal. Unless you needed a Trans right away, I personally wouldn't bother. It's easy enough to pick up a transmission when/if you need one. And a 3" lift new is about as cheap a lift as you can do.

 

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[Lector Manche]

You probably break even if you were able to sell a couple parts and then sell the rest for scrap metal. Unless you needed a Trans right away, I personally wouldn't bother. It's easy enough to pick up a transmission when/if you need one. And a 3" lift new is about as cheap a lift as you can do.

 

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Yeah after looking around  I seen a couple lifts that weren't to bad in price. The trans in my mache slips so I'm sure it will come down the line some time. I looked it over there are something on it that are still salvageable so if I sell 13 items for 20 bucks ill break even then scrap it and have the trans at the house and a couple extra buck to throw toward a lift.  hell there are so many xj's around here on the base with out a lift I could sell that one for cheap too.  Who knows I just have to have something to work on all the time.

[R1.]

Who knows I just have to have something to work on all the time.

 

 

You fulfilled this as soon at you bought the 87.  

[jeeppapa]

 

Who knows I just have to have something to work on all the time.

 

You fulfilled this as soon at you bought the 87.

Buy it get what you can off of it if you have spar to store it then sell the rest. Especially if your going to Wheel it. That tranny alone is worth it. In my area I can't touch used automatic for under 450. How bad was the fire? Did it consume the engine bay or start at the fire wall and come it the compartment. Did it get hot enough to burn the font tires off. Did it start and was putout quickly or burn for some time increasing the temps and damage. Find out the mileage and what components were rebuilt. I'm getting a 92 free from friend but it got almost 500,000 on it but the tranny transfer case where rebuilt 2 years ago. Sence it was rebuilt it has sat for about that same amount of time. I'm going to put that tranny and put it in my keeper MJ. I burned up the tranny in my first MJ. The po said it was only started in the every 3 months ford the last few years and when it was seven it was only in the neighborhood. The first thing I should have done when I got it was put some seafoam in the tranny and I'm sure was from sticking ball valves in the tranny. Truck was an 87 long bed. Well I got lucky and found an AW4 tranny out of an 88 Cherokee with only 86,000 on it, but it to had been sitting on a shelf for 8yrs. It was in a higher end clean they pick it yard with parts indoor and in shelved warehouses. Well to make a short story long. I installed it. Put fluid and sea Foam in eight years later O problems.