Operation 'Basket Case MJ'

[Gojira94]

Been a while. Had some stuff happen in early August and just lost all interest... in everything. Then last week a couple of XJs showed up in my local yard. I figured I'd try to make a go of motivating myself to find some missing pieces of the puzzle and clean up some odds and ends in the 'keep' pile.

 

A pair of AX-15s showed up in 94 2-dr, 4WD XJ and a 96 2WD 4-dr. I hoped maybe an OE transfer case skid on the 94, no dice. I grabbed the crossmember from the 96 and cleaned it up. My original AX-4/ AX5/ Auto on the left, AX-15 on the right.

 

 

Got all the rust off the tank straps and painted them. Ordered some strap liner today from Tanks, Inc. They come in 24" strips, 1.5" wide, 1/16" thick (part # SL24, sold individually). I figure it'll help preserve the tank and bed mounting surfaces.

 

 

I cleaned up the charcoal canister and painted its mounting bracket. I temporarily mounted it so I could get some idea of where to mount a coolant expansion tank. I painted the home-made bracket for the Wilwood valve and test fitted it for steering shaft clearance and fitment. Looks good. Also mocked up the booster/ master with the rear line and passenger side line. 

 

 

 

And here's the next dreaded job- clean all this up and undercoat it...

 

 

[Gojira94]

95-96 XJ booster clearance with foam pad and spacer from the boneyard... no trimming or bending needed.

 

 

 

[Eagle_SX4]

Keep up the good work the engine bay looks amazing. 

[Gojira94]

21 hours ago, Eagle_SX4 said:

Keep up the good work the engine bay looks amazing. 

 

Thank you!

[Gojira94]

Couple more bits and pieces. Battery tray, new filter in canister and buttoned up, coil and module, front lower supports.

 

 

 

[Gojira94]

So... how to use an HO overflow bottle with the Renix relay and solenoid bracket? Easy. Cut up the HO bottle/ fuse center bracket and drill a couple new holes. I separated the HO fuse bracket into its 2 pieces (drilled out the rivets) and then cut out another section to keep just the bottle bracket and clear the Renix bracket. Then move the Renix bracket up the pinch rail thing on the wheelhouse panel about 2 1/2" - 3"and drill new holes for it.

 

 

 

 

[Gojira94]

Then, what about the coil and module? There's the fuse block half of the bottle mount to work with, and bolt to the passenger side engine mount bracket:

 

I can see I'll need to put a small rubber cup under the bottle's locator... nipple...

and the coil/ module will sit kind of like this:

 

 

Except flip it the other way and trim it first and then drill some holes for the module to mount to:

 

 

Drill holes where it sits here, and bolt it to this plate, something like this:

 

 

Then the other end can be drilled to fit onto these existing holes in the engine mount bracket, which I think are for the Renix coil/ module bracket anyway. I'll keep that original piece in a drawer...

 

 

If I have to pull the coil/ module wiring out of the harness and split it off into its own loom I'm fine with that. Won't know until it's pretty much all in there. I think the wiring around the solenoid/ relays will be 100% fine without modification.