Up Country Suspension Group

[mark corbitt]

My VIN decode includes AWE- Up Countyr Suspension Group, anyone know what that included in 87?

[eaglescout526]

I can't say for certain. I have looked at the suspension group of the parts catalogue and there are about 5 different front coil springs to choose from. My guess is that it depends on which coil spring set up it has. There is no way to confirm it as the coils may or may not be marked. I have yet to see them marked as mine are still factory coils. 

 

I try to make this known as much as I can because there are a crap load of inconsistencies with the build sheets. 89 and up is perfect as those are the Chrysler years. 88 and down are the AMC years and a lot of the data is missing due to a flood at Chrysler.

[mark corbitt]

37 minutes ago, eaglescout526 said:

I can't say for certain. I have looked at the suspension group of the parts catalogue and there are about 5 different front coil springs to choose from. My guess is that it depends on which coil spring set up it has. There is no way to confirm it as the coils may or may not be marked. I have yet to see them marked as mine are still factory coils. 

 

I try to make this known as much as I can because there are a crap load of inconsistencies with the build sheets. 89 and up is perfect as those are the Chrysler years. 88 and down are the AMC years and a lot of the data is missing due to a flood at Chrysler.

Thanks for the response, my decode also says I have the cluster with tach, but I do not, PO put an old school mini Sun tach on the steering column, and it is so 70-80's style that I decided not to replace the cluster.

[eaglescout526]

Its possible it could have come with one and someone could have swapped it out. Like there could've been a PO to your PO that could have had an XJ or another MJ that they loved that could've gotten the tach treatment. 

[mark corbitt]

51 minutes ago, eaglescout526 said:

Its possible it could have come with one and someone could have swapped it out. Like there could've been a PO to your PO that could have had an XJ or another MJ that they loved that could've gotten the tach treatment. 

10-4 

[Eagle]

5 hours ago, mark corbitt said:

My VIN decode includes AWE- Up Countyr Suspension Group, anyone know what that included in 87?

 

I'm about 98.732 percent certain that there was no such thing as an "Up Country" suspension code in 1987. I think that's one of the option codes the Jeep has recycled since the early days of the XJ and MJ.

 

[time out]

 

I just looked up the build sheet my dealer ran for me on my '88 4.0L MJ Chief. Build code 'AWE' is described as "Off Highway Package." The truck has a gas tank skid plate. It also has front tow hooks. It probably also came with the front skid plate, but the kid who owned it before me had butchered it and there's no front skid now. (But there's also no hint of the heavy rubberized fabric splash shield that was used on vehicles that didn't have the front skid plate.) The Off Highway Package would also have includes the 15x7 white "wagon wheel" style wheels, and probably 215/75-15 OWL tires (Goodyear Wranglers).

 

My build sheet also says I have a cluster with tach, and I don't. I have gauges (standard on the Chief), but no tach. In fact, I strapped a Sun Super Tach to the steering column, too. But my build sheet also says I have a driver's side airbag, and those weren't introduced until the 1995 XJ model year. But ... my build sheet was printed in 1999, so there had already been some code recycling by then.

 

[mark corbitt]

5 hours ago, Eagle said:

 

I'm about 98.732 percent certain that there was no such thing as an "Up Country" suspension code in 1987. I think that's one of the option codes the Jeep has recycled since the early days of the XJ and MJ.

 

[time out]

 

I just looked up the build sheet my dealer ran for me on my '88 4.0L MJ Chief. Build code 'AWE' is described as "Off Highway Package." The truck has a gas tank skid plate. It also has front tow hooks. It probably also came with the front skid plate, but the kid who owned it before me had butchered it and there's no front skid now. (But there's also no hint of the heavy rubberized fabric splash shield that was used on vehicles that didn't have the front skid plate.) The Off Highway Package would also have includes the 15x7 white "wagon wheel" style wheels, and probably 215/75-15 OWL tires (Goodyear Wranglers).

 

My build sheet also says I have a cluster with tach, and I don't. I have gauges (standard on the Chief), but no tach. In fact, I strapped a Sun Super Tach to the steering column, too. But my build sheet also says I have a driver's side airbag, and those weren't introduced until the 1995 XJ model year. But ... my build sheet was printed in 1999, so there had already been some code recycling by then.

 

Mine still has the full skid plate package and the  tow hook brackets, but the hooks are gone. I guess i'll have to find some. Thank you so much for the info.