HI-CNTRD - 1990 XJ Project

[Drahcir495]

8 minutes ago, buxmj said:

Rich, I thought you already had one in your possession! That is really cool and will definitely reimburse you! Thanks for grabbing it, especially on Christmas eve, wow! 

 

Buck.

I do! It is in the truck which is an hour and twenty minutes away . I have no idea when I will be able to bring it home with the two CJ projects here. I got the alert that they had a country edition in the yard. This was probably the only day I could get away in the near future. Merry Christmas my friend 

[buxmj]

Merry Christmas to you and your family also, that is an awesome age for your son to experience Christmas morning!  When ours was about that age I put a toy kitchen together in the late night, Santa dropped it off of course.  

 

Buck. 

[Drahcir495]

It really is a great age for Christmas. It is going to be magical in the morning!

[Drahcir495]

Man, this just sucks. Driving home I hear a horrible noise that I thought was coming from the passenger side wheel well. It quickly stopped, so now I think I blew a belt out. Or worse the harmonic balancer. Pull in and looked at the wheel well and all good there. Now I was dreading what I was going to find under the hood. Apparently, a bolt came out of the fan shroud holding it in. It bit it quick->

 

The fan blades are tweaked ->

 

 

Going over to tech to see if they can just be put back close to where they were, or do I have to get new. At least it didn’t further damage my leaking radiator. I just got the new shroud though

[Drahcir495]

One of our fellow CC’ers had an amazing under hood insulation pad. I need to go back and find out who replied to my comment but they let me know that they were available new . I went to team Cherokee as suggested and they had them for around $75. Heck yeah! Put it in my cart and went to check out and said 109. I thought that was a little steep to add 30 something dollars to ship it. I was not happy about it, but I would love with it. Almost pressed confirm until I looked at the total . They wanted $109 for shipping! Pack sand idiots. Ended up getting it for the same price at Team Grand Cherokee with free shipping->

 

It came with all the clips to hang it up too ->

 
My pad was in rough shape. Stains, zip ties holding spots together and separation of the pad itself->

 

I Began to carefully take the pad off the hood when I thought what was I doing? Just started to rip it out at this point->

 

Got the pad off and it was filthy underneath it->

Used a brush and some degreaser on it and it came out pretty good ->

 
Then I got it all in ->

 

I like it .

 

I realized that two of the holes in the pad did not the clip holes to hold down those sections of the pad. I drilled the holes, admittedly too large, and snapped one in. I lost the second clip but it showed up in the battery tray a day later. 

Buuut, in the process this happened->

The release rod broke at the weld . Now what?! I am going to the pick n pull at 8am to carefully pull one off either an 88 or 96 they have there.

[Pete M]

109 for shipping!!  ouch

[eaglescout526]

Yup. That was the price I paid for mine when I got it. It the size of it that kills the price.

[Drahcir495]

I looked everywhere online to find the hood latch release rod, but I couldn’t find anything, but what only looked like an expensive complete kit. I gave up and looked at the list of Jeeps they had in the lot at the LQK. They luckily had two Cherokee’s; 88 & 94. While there I was checking out the interior of the 88 when I noticed this ->

 

Wow! 808237 miles . It also had this gem in it ->

 

I ended up getting the rod off the 94 XJ because, in my mind, it had a heck less miles on it ->

 

Not happy with how much how much I paid for a small piece of rod; $8, but not much I could do with no other option and a hood  I can’t close. All good now.
 

[fiatslug87]

Did you get the phone? That was a $1,400 option in '88 (if that's the actual one).

[Drahcir495]

2 hours ago, fiatslug87 said:

Did you get the phone? That was a $1,400 option in '88 (if that's the actual one).

It wouldn’t fit in my pocket with the beeper in it, so I didn’t get it 

[Pete M]

I would have grabbed it just to see what the yard rings it up as.     (pun intended)

[Drahcir495]

[neohic]

10 hours ago, Drahcir495 said:

...While there I was checking out the interior of the 88 when I noticed this ->

 

Wow! 808237 miles ...

 

WOW! So many times I’ve been in salvage yards and actually said out loud, “good job, little buddy!” 

[Pete M]

those are 8s?!  I saw them as 3s and was mildly impressed.  808k is insane!  

 

also, I want that phone  

[Minuit]

2 hours ago, Pete M said:

 just to see what the yard rings it up as.

[fiatslug87]

14 minutes ago, Pete M said:

also, I want that phone  

I think it would go great in one of Red Mistress's Jeeps

[Drahcir495]

47 minutes ago, neohic said:

 

WOW! So many times I’ve been in salvage yards and actually said out loud, “good job, little buddy!” 

I did the same thing. Gives me hope!

 

So much interest in that phone lol. I can go back and get it for you 👍🏻

[eaglescout526]

We all have never seen an OEM accessory phone before so yes we are highly intrigued. Hell I'm intrigued! I think it would be hilarious to have in my truck. Non functioning of course.

[fiatslug87]

Here's a phone in one of the catalogs 

[Pete M]

I want to have it pinned bewteeen my head and shoulder as I drive around in georgia.   we're a "hands-free" state. 

 

also want it in my new truck because, well, it's awesome. 

[Drahcir495]

I guess I will have to go back and get it - if it’s not over $50 lol. I am going to the LQK this Saturday, but not the same one. I will keep ya all posted! 
It will be up for sale  - cost and shipping my friends. 

[Pete M]

try to get as much as you can please.  

[Drahcir495]

14 minutes ago, Pete M said:

try to get as much as you can please.  

You mean with the phone? I plan on getting the mount and anything else that goes with it. I can get the instrument cluster too, if you want to impress your friends  

[Pete M]

well, it IS pretty impressive.    that one depends a lot on how much they want.  too many junkyards just lump a tired old cluster with the hi-tech new ones in price.

[Drahcir495]

I made it to one LQK and the 2nd one locked the door in my face . I was just going in for the phone and possibly the rear view mirror. The half hour left would have been more than enough time to get the two items. I guess I understand. Found an 88 MJ in just horrible shape. Found a relay cover without the hold down clips, but I am sure someone will need it -> 

 

Picked that up along with a few other things. Found this thing ->

 

I grabbed it. Looks like it is going to be helpful holding wire looms or hoses. Mounted it in the same location in the Jeep. The hole was already there .

 

A few weeks back my mechanical fan took out my fan shroud because the wimpy clips let the mounting bolt back out ->

 

I found a really stout clip nut (have no idea what they are called) in my MJ/XJ bolt collection. I just need three more of them. Problem was that I had no idea where it came from . I found a 2000 XJ in the yard and it had exactly the same thing on the top radiator support. You can see how much better these will be ->

 

Got those on and then the electric fan & fan shroud bolted down ->

 

I am confident that the will not be backing out.