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The wife and I were blessed to have our first child, a son :wings:, in late March of this year. We've been into off-roading and camping for quite sometime now but with the new addition to our growing family I'm excited to start back off of crawling so many rocks and start building more of a family style rig....
With the inspiration of many rigs/owners on this forum we bought a '98 XJ Limited from a good friend back in April with the goal of building it into a vehicle not unlike most on here. The goal is to have a super reliable rig that has a moderate amount of modifications done to it to be practical off road yet remain comfortable enough to drive to and from work a few days a week or several hours on the hwy for weekend trips.
The PO had added few things to the Jeep already like a budget boost, 31" tires, and a few interior items, but I hope to take it much further.
Over the past few months I've been doing mainly maintenance to the Jeep as it has 133K on it and needed including, unit bearings, ujoints, water pump, theromstat, belts, hoses, all fluids changed, new tie rod ends (up graded to ZJ V8 tie rod) etc...I still plan to change out the ball joints, put a new oil pan gasket and rear main seal in and possibly rebuild/replace the rear Dana 35 as it's making some noise.
Now that "most" of the up front maintenance is complete its time to start on the good stuff!
Vehicle Specs
1998 Jeep Cherokee Limited
Moss Green with Spice Interior
4.0L, AW4 Auto, NP242
HP 30 and Dana 35 both with 3.55s
Current Mods to date:
4.5" Rough Country Coils
RC LCAs
RC Adj. Tbar
RC Discos
New Moog Steering (ZJ V8)
OME SD-40 Steering Damper
YJ Monroe Sensatrac Gas Shocks front
MJ Monroe Sensatrac Gas Shocks rear
Relocated/Extended front brake lines
Pro-Comp 3.5" Replacement leaf packs w/additional leaf
1" Daystar Lift Shackles
H/T SYE and XJ Front Driveshaft
5 New 265/75/16 Falken Rocky Mountain ATS tires mounted on Jeep Ultrastar 16x7s
Wet Okole Seat Covers
Husky Liners
Pioneer head unit with all new MTX speakers
Hardwired TomTom GPS unit
APN Header flowing through a Magna Flow Cat and Flowmaster Muffler
K&N Drop-in filter
Hella 500s
Silverstar headlights and fogs
Hardwired TomTom GPS
Pioneer Head unit with new MTX speakers all around
I feel like we've got a good start but as stated above I still hope to add a LOT more over the coming months. At the top of the list will be bumpers ft/rr and a set of rock sliders, then I'd like to change the gearing out to 4.10s and possibly add a set of Detroit TruTracs along with "beefing" the rear Dana 35 a bit more.
A few updated pics from this afternoon with the new rubber and suspension.
With the inspiration of many rigs/owners on this forum we bought a '98 XJ Limited from a good friend back in April with the goal of building it into a vehicle not unlike most on here. The goal is to have a super reliable rig that has a moderate amount of modifications done to it to be practical off road yet remain comfortable enough to drive to and from work a few days a week or several hours on the hwy for weekend trips.
The PO had added few things to the Jeep already like a budget boost, 31" tires, and a few interior items, but I hope to take it much further.
Over the past few months I've been doing mainly maintenance to the Jeep as it has 133K on it and needed including, unit bearings, ujoints, water pump, theromstat, belts, hoses, all fluids changed, new tie rod ends (up graded to ZJ V8 tie rod) etc...I still plan to change out the ball joints, put a new oil pan gasket and rear main seal in and possibly rebuild/replace the rear Dana 35 as it's making some noise.
Now that "most" of the up front maintenance is complete its time to start on the good stuff!
Vehicle Specs
1998 Jeep Cherokee Limited
Moss Green with Spice Interior
4.0L, AW4 Auto, NP242
HP 30 and Dana 35 both with 3.55s
Current Mods to date:
4.5" Rough Country Coils
RC LCAs
RC Adj. Tbar
RC Discos
New Moog Steering (ZJ V8)
OME SD-40 Steering Damper
YJ Monroe Sensatrac Gas Shocks front
MJ Monroe Sensatrac Gas Shocks rear
Relocated/Extended front brake lines
Pro-Comp 3.5" Replacement leaf packs w/additional leaf
1" Daystar Lift Shackles
H/T SYE and XJ Front Driveshaft
5 New 265/75/16 Falken Rocky Mountain ATS tires mounted on Jeep Ultrastar 16x7s
Wet Okole Seat Covers
Husky Liners
Pioneer head unit with all new MTX speakers
Hardwired TomTom GPS unit
APN Header flowing through a Magna Flow Cat and Flowmaster Muffler
K&N Drop-in filter
Hella 500s
Silverstar headlights and fogs
Hardwired TomTom GPS
Pioneer Head unit with new MTX speakers all around
I feel like we've got a good start but as stated above I still hope to add a LOT more over the coming months. At the top of the list will be bumpers ft/rr and a set of rock sliders, then I'd like to change the gearing out to 4.10s and possibly add a set of Detroit TruTracs along with "beefing" the rear Dana 35 a bit more.
A few updated pics from this afternoon with the new rubber and suspension.
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