My '92 XJ dilemma.

[Lthompson741]

Love the ZJ!    I don't think i've ever even seen one for sale.  I would probably jump on it if I did.

[gogmorgo]

On 11/9/2018 at 11:04 AM, Lthompson741 said:

Love the ZJ!    I don't think i've ever even seen one for sale.  I would probably jump on it if I did.

Yeah, I'm pretty glad I did. It's been a solid daily driver. I have had to fix a couple things on it, disuse and questionable repairs/modifications from the PO for the most part. But I've put just about 10,000 miles on it basically only changing the fluids and tightening some fasteners to get it there. I can't really complain about that for a 27-year-old Jeep that I got for less than the equivalent of US$1200. I just got back from a 2000-mile road trip with it. The Dana 35 is being a typical turdy5... pinion bearings are shot, but they do have over 170,000 miles on them, and I did pull a 5500lb trailer up some nasty grades over the Sunwapta pass with it, so there's that.

But overall I'm pretty happy with it. The lack of power options and the manual transmission really bring it back down to the rough utilitarian Jeep nature, in contrast to the semi-luxurious hockey-mom-mobile the Grand Cherokee turned into. And it's pretty nice cruising around in a fairly rare vehicle that just blends right into the crowd. My MJs are reasonably unique and afford me a certain amount of anonymity, but my Lada is definitely not anonymous. My previous daily driver was boring but attracted tons of attention. The opposite is nice.

[Lthompson741]

On 11/12/2018 at 11:22 PM, gogmorgo said:

Yeah, I'm pretty glad I did. It's been a solid daily driver. I have had to fix a couple things on it, disuse and questionable repairs/modifications from the PO for the most part. But I've put just about 10,000 miles on it basically only changing the fluids and tightening some fasteners to get it there. I can't really complain about that for a 27-year-old Jeep that I got for less than the equivalent of US$1200. I just got back from a 2000-mile road trip with it. The Dana 35 is being a typical turdy5... pinion bearings are shot, but they do have over 170,000 miles on them, and I did pull a 5500lb trailer up some nasty grades over the Sunwapta pass with it, so there's that.

But overall I'm pretty happy with it. The lack of power options and the manual transmission really bring it back down to the rough utilitarian Jeep nature, in contrast to the semi-luxurious hockey-mom-mobile the Grand Cherokee turned into. And it's pretty nice cruising around in a fairly rare vehicle that just blends right into the crowd. My MJs are reasonably unique and afford me a certain amount of anonymity, but my Lada is definitely not anonymous. My previous daily driver was boring but attracted tons of attention. The opposite is nice.

I had to go back and look at the pictures, I didn't catch that it was all manual, non power anything.   That makes me like it even more!